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CofCNatHistory
CofCNatHistory
What, if anything, does paleontology have to do with racial injustice? The 1st identified vertebrate fossils from North America, mammoth teeth - were identified as elephant teeth by enslaved Africans
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Jackie Friman 🇸🇪
jackiefriman_
Trees that grew higher than the clouds once existedWhat happened to them and who cut them down? See full thread for more pictures of these trees as well as pictures
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Hodari en Invierno ☃️❄️🐅
HodariNundu
While speedpainting Gigantophis last night I kept thinking about how Ardea bennuides was possibly the inspiration behind the ancient Egyptian "phoenix", and how fossils of long gone creatures have often
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Dr. Advait M. Jukar
amjukar
I was really lucky to be able to examine Darwin's type of Toxodon platensis (housed at the @NHM_London @NHMFossilMammal), which he purchased from a farmer in Uruguay when we was
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Kate Wong
katewong
Suuuper excited about these genomes from mammoth fossils that are more than a million years old.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mammoth-genomes-shatter-record-for-oldest-dna-sequences/ One of the first pieces I wrote for @SciAm w
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Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
AmgueddfaCymru
We can’t give visitors tours of our collections in person at the moment, but perhaps you can join us for a #TwitterTour?Today we are virtually opening our doors to the
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Devayani
Geo_Sophist
Fossils are the dead remains/evidence of past organisms. Burrows, footprints & poo can also be preserved as #fossils.#India has a legacy of ancient marine creatures, dinosaur bones/eggs & rare hominin
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Natural History Museum⁷
NHM_London
For #FossilFriday we're looking at all things invertebrate for #InverteFest, starting with this dragonfly from the Jurassic limestone of Germany. Inverts were the first group of animals to evolve powered
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Kim Tommy
KimTommy92
Celebrating Dr Gaokgatlhe Mirriam Tawane- the FIRST Black Woman to receive her PhD in #palaeoanthropology in South Africa in 2012! She is currently the Curator of Plio-Pleistocene palaeontology at @DitsongMuseumSA#DiversityInFieldWork
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André Fonseca
Andre_O_Fonseca
I did not wish to manifest my opinion on this case as I don't like to use social media that much and others with longer reach have done it better
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Dr Elsa Panciroli
gsciencelady
New species of #Jurassic mammal from the #Scotland! My co-authors and I have just published on Borealestes cuillinensis, from #IsleofSkye. With a stunning #palaeoart reconstruction by @Matt_Humpage. (Video in thread
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NHMdinolab
NHMdinolab
One of my Christmas pressies this year was an original copy of Walter Keeping’s (1883) classic work on the Cretaceous fossils of Upware & Brickhill (1/n) Keeping wrote this as
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Jackie Friman 🇸🇪
jackiefriman_
The Rocks Were Alive - mud fossils from the ancient times Back then the world looked a lot differently than it does today. See full thread for more pictures and
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Luke Weaver
lukenweaver
It's #MammalMonday #MesozoicMammalMonday and I'm thrilled to share my paper on #multituberculates from #EggMountain, published today @NatureEcoEvo! These incredible fossils provide the earliest evidence of mammalian social behaviorh
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Aris Katzourakis 💙 (for UCU NEC)
ArisKatzourakis
SMALL THREAD: I have seen concerns going round about the theoretical possibility that vaccine mRNA could end up altering our own genomes, and that could cause long term consequences. I
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Elizabeth V
geolizzy
If I made a list of basic geology I wish everyone knew it would include:1) floodplains and why you shouldn’t build there2) the amount and types of mined materials everyone
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