#Carboniferous

there was a long period of time -- 300 million years -- when trees fell over but didn't rot. microbes that could ingest wood hadn't evolved yet. so the earth
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If I stare at beautiful Carboniferous fossils for long enough, it’ll make me forget what’s going on in the world just now... right? Alethopteris sp. and Renaultia (Sphenopteris) from
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May your 2021 be filled with hopeful new beginnings, just like this coontie plant regrowing after a prescribed fire in the park last year!Coonties, or Zamia integrifolia, are small shrubs.NPS
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Soooo... I arrived on campus and security came over and said: "You're just the man were looking for. We'd like you to come and look at something." Uhm... ominous, but
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Learning about Bitcoin? Here's a thread on #Bitcoin #wealth #inequality: 1/ 18.5 million of the 21 million Bitcoin that will ever exist have already been mined and distributed. In
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I was describing the creation of the universe as a series of penetrations impacts, exchanges of fluids, were born by a ho named Thea who hit us, allowing us to
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since the year is ending, here are my top discoveries in #paleobotany for 2020 (1/n) Herrera et al. described new details of the conifer cone Krassilovia mongolica from the Early
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Homo is the genus that all humans belong to. It began 2.3 million years ago and evolved from the genus australopithecus. Australopithecus possessed two of three duplicated genes derived from SRGAP2 roughly 3.4
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Welcome to another of my #LochNessMonster threads. This time we’re looking at the MOST FAMOUS #NESSIE PHOTO OF THEM ALL. Namely, the so-called Surgeon’s Photo, or Wilson Photo, of April
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