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Thursday, 14 September 2023

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Fósiles, fósiles y más fósiles 

Investigación GeoPaleoBiológica en Somosaguas [21:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (124 visits) info
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 ¡Tercer día de excavación! El yacimiento ya parece un campo de minas y tienes que tener mucho cuidado de no ir pisando fósiles cuando te mueves por las cuadrículas. Si hay que elegir el gran protagonista del día es, sin duda, la bandeja con el kit de localización, no ha tenido un respiro en todo el día. ¡Ya vamos por más de 70 fósiles en sólo tres días! La carpeta para apuntar fósiles iba de

Morocco earthquake a devastating 'blind thrust' 

Ontario-geofish [21:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info
You’ll find an old post from when I had to the energy to make diagrams.  These are the most devastating of all earthquakes because the pgv (velocity) is higher for magitude of any other mechanism.  These earthquakes happen around the world, whenever there is compression on a mountain range.  For this, the compression is Africa jamming up against Europe.  You can count on one of these at a

Tahiti trip a total sog 

Ontario-geofish [21:25:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (76 visits) info
Ha, I lent my cheapo action camera to the divers.  It’s snorkel-proof but not dive-proof.  Sad.  But I’ll get a new one, just the base, since I have all the stuff.  The unstable streamers have given us [...]

Was the PETM Linked to Hydrothermal Venting? 

Geology in the West Country [20:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (95 visits) info
Was the PETM Linked to Hydrothermal Venting?  The PETM (Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum) was a period of rapid global warming. Sea surface temperatures rose 6°C within 10 to 20 thousand years. This rate [...]

Other Projects 

BEYONDbones [20:39:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (93 visits) info
Other Urban Wildlife Projects in the Bayou City Hidden Life of Houston CBC Citizen Science Garden The post Other Projects first appeared on

The untold story of the Carnegie Diplodocus 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [18:52:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info
My talk (Taylor et al. 2023) from this year’s SVPCA is up! The talks were not recorded live. But while it was fresh in my mind, I did a screencast of my own, and posted it on YouTube (CC By). For the [...]

El fin de Jurassic Park visto por Gustavo Dezen 

Koprolitos [10:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (912 visits) info
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Gustavo Dezen es un artista digital de São Paulo (Brasil) especializado en el diseño de imágenes y efectos visuales para cine y campañas de publicidad. Ha participado en diferentes películas del [...]

Sinum maculatum Snail 

Louisville Area Fossils [00:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (936 visits) info
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This shell appears to be a Brown Baby Ear Snail or Sinum maculatum (Say, 1831). It was found by a 17 year old Lucien Pearson Beckner in 1889 at Naples, Florida, USA. Mr. Beckner was a mentor to Professor [...]

Chiriqui display 

BEYONDbones [20:46:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info

Tinamou Aggression 

BEYONDbones [20:45:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info

News 

BEYONDbones [20:37:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
2004 – Tickled pink by a Flamingo’s visit 2008 – Ikester – what a mess of things you made! 2012 – Spider webs pose a danger for small birds  2015 – Elusive cardinals are beginning to show up [...]

Early Life and Stromatolites 

Geology in the West Country [17:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (93 visits) info
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 Early Life and Stromatolites I came across THIS PODCAST from GEOLOGY BITES and thought it was very interesting and very approachable. It concerns recent discoveries which prove (probably) that early [...]

Considerazioni (poco) paleontologiche sull'alieno messicano 

Theropoda [06:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (88 visits) info
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 Screenshot dalla homepage del sito di uno dei principali quotidiani nazionali [la scritta in rosso è mia, ovviamente]Sì, lo so, sono un paleontologo, quindi dovrei occuparmi di specie estinte, e non di UFO [...]
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