Ferwen
@ferwen.bsky.social
A future paleontologist. Sport fan, comic books and movies. Campeona del mundo ⭐️⭐️⭐️🇦🇷
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Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of the oceans https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00533-5
Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of the oceans
Gutarra et al. use computer simulations of water flow to investigate the hydrodynamics
of Ediacaran marine animal forests. The results reveal that some Ediacaran communities
generated strong patterns ...
Paleoneurology of stem palaeognaths clarifies the plesiomorphic condition of the crown bird central nervous system 🧪⚒️https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmor.21710
Paleoneurology of stem palaeognaths clarifies the plesiomorphic condition of the crown bird central nervous system
The Journal of Morphology publishes research in cytology, protozoology, embryology, and general animal morphology in vertebrates and invertebrates.
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How saber-toothed tigers acquired their long upper canine teeth
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-saber-toothed-tigers-upper-canine.html
How saber-toothed tigers acquired their long upper canine teeth
An international team led by scientists from the University of Liège has investigated the evolutionary patterns behind the development of saber teeth, with some unexpected results along the way. Their...
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#FossilFriday The legend of a Patagonian Monster wp.me/p3ihHu-3xF
Halloween Special X: The legend of a Patagonian Monster
On December 10, 1823, Mary Anning discovered the first complete Plesiosaur skeleton at Lyme Regis in Dorset. Noticed about the oddity of the specimen, George Cuvier wrote to William Conybeare suggesti...
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Halloween Special X: The legend of a Patagonian Monster
On December 10, 1823, Mary Anning discovered the first complete Plesiosaur skeleton at Lyme Regis in Dorset. Noticed about the oddity of the specimen, George Cuvier wrote to William Conybeare suggesti...
wp.meThe legend of a Patagonian monster 🧪⚒️https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2022/10/31/halloween-special-x-the-legend-of-a-patagonian-monster/ https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/plesiosaur-joke.jpg?w=768&h=432
#FossilFriday 🧪⚒️https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2022/10/31/halloween-special-x-the-legend-of-a-patagonian-monster/
#FossilFriday 🧪⚒️https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2022/10/31/halloween-special-x-the-legend-of-a-patagonian-monster/
Early Jurassic origin of avian endothermy and thermophysiological diversity in dinosaurs: Current Biology 🧪 ⚒️
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00525-6
Early Jurassic origin of avian endothermy and thermophysiological diversity in dinosaurs
Dinosaur acclimatization and the evolution of bird-like, independent thermoregulation
are heavily debated. Chiarenza et al. quantify the evolution of dinosaur thermal strategies,
showing trends toward...
First evidence of marine turtle gastroliths in a fossil specimen: Paleobiological implications in comparison to modern analogues https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0302889
First evidence of marine turtle gastroliths in a fossil specimen: Paleobiological implications in comparison to modern analogues
Semi-articulated remains of a large chelonioid turtle from the Turonian strata (Upper Cretaceous; ca. 93.9–89.8 Myr) near Sant’Anna d’Alfaedo (Verona province, northeastern Italy) are described for th...
journals.plos.orgA new sauropod species from north-western Brazil: biomechanics and the radiation of Titanosauria (Sauropoda: Somphospondyli) 🧪⚒️https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae054/7670994
A new sauropod species from north-western Brazil: biomechanics and the radiation of Titanosauria (Sauropoda: Somphospondyli)
Abstract. Titanosaurs were the most diverse sauropod group during the Cretaceous period, with most of its diversity being found during the Late Cretaceous.
academic.oup.comThe first mention of a plesiosaur was made in 1821 by Conybeare & de la Beche. But this is the first detailed study of the creature.
Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann, who discovered the Earth has a solid inner core, was born on May 13, 1888. #WomenInSTEM wp.me/p3ihHu-6z 🧪⚒️#histsci
Inge Lehmann
Inge Lehmann was born on Copenhagen, Denmark on May 13, 1888. She attended at Copenhagen University where studied maths, physics, chemistry and astronomy. After pass her exams, Lehmann spent a year at...
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‘Birds’ of two feathers: Avicranium renestoi and the paraphyly of bird-headed reptiles (Diapsida: ‘Avicephala’)
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae050/7670585
‘Birds’ of two feathers: Avicranium renestoi and the paraphyly of bird-headed reptiles (Diapsida: ‘Avicephala’)
Abstract. The anatomy of Late Triassic drepanosauromorphs is re-examined, with a focus on the previously published surface models of the holotype of Avicra
academic.oup.comCorrelated evolution of beak and braincase morphology is present only in select bird clades https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.21703
Correlated evolution of beak and braincase morphology is present only in select bird clades
The Journal of Morphology publishes research in cytology, protozoology, embryology, and general animal morphology in vertebrates and invertebrates.
onlinelibrary.wiley.comThis 🧪⚒️
How was our modern view of dinosaurs assembled? What events, discoveries and publications were involved in the building of what we think is correct right now? This is what I explore in Dinopedia from Princeton Uni Press. Small, compact and cheap, please buy it :)
La increíble historia del ‘Megalosaurus’, 200 años después de su publicación científica | Ciencia | EL PAÍS (featuring me) https://elpais.com/ciencia/2024-05-10/la-increible-historia-del-megalosaurus-200-anos-despues-de-su-publicacion-cientifica.html #histsci 🧪⚒️
La increíble historia del ‘Megalosaurus’, 200 años después de su publicación científica
El descubrimiento del fósil del primer dinosaurio descrito por la ciencia trajo consigo mitos, zoofagia y la primera gran campaña de marketing científico
elpais.comMystery of where Mona Lisa was painted has been solved, geologist claims https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/11/where-mona-lisa-was-painted-mystery-solved-geologist-claims?CMP=share_btn_url
Mystery of where Mona Lisa was painted has been solved, geologist claims
Ann Pizzorusso says she has tracked down the background landscape of the world’s most famous painting
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Reconstruction of Patagonia’s glacial history informs key global climate drivers
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01437-x
Reconstruction of Patagonia’s glacial history informs key global climate drivers - Nature Geoscience
The causes of symmetrical changes in climate between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere are poorly understood. A geological reconstruction of Patagonian glacial extent reveals that changes in Pacifi...
www.nature.comEarly warning signals of the termination of the African Humid Period(s) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47921-1
Early warning signals of the termination of the African Humid Period(s) - Nature Communications
The end of the green Sahara in the mid-Holocene was gradual, but punctuated by rapidly changing episodes of extreme drought and wetness, to which human societies were exposed and had to adapt to, as a...
www.nature.comLa increíble historia del ‘Megalosaurus’, 200 años después de su publicación científica | Ciencia | EL PAÍS (featuring me) https://elpais.com/ciencia/2024-05-10/la-increible-historia-del-megalosaurus-200-anos-despues-de-su-publicacion-cientifica.html
La increíble historia del ‘Megalosaurus’, 200 años después de su publicación científica
El descubrimiento del fósil del primer dinosaurio descrito por la ciencia trajo consigo mitos, zoofagia y la primera gran campaña de marketing científico
elpais.com#histsci
#FossilFriday A sketch of a Plesiosaur by Mary Anning, 1824. From original manuscripts held at the Natural History Museum, London
wp.me/p3ihHu-5b7 #womeninSTEM 🧪⚒️
#FossilFriday A sketch of a Plesiosaur by Mary Anning, 1824. From original manuscripts held at the Natural History Museum, London
wp.me/p3ihHu-5b7 #womeninSTEM 🧪⚒️
Pathological fish vertebrae peerj.com/articles/17353/ via @PeerJLife ⚒️🧪
Pathological caudal skeleton of an ichthyodectiform fish from the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation of western Kansas, USA
A series of 12 contiguous caudal vertebrae of an ichthyodectiform fish from the Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Formation is described. The vertebral centra exhibit extensive overgrowth of pat...
peerj.comChitinozoan response to the ‘Kellwasser events’: population dynamics and morphological deformities across the Frasnian–Famennian mass extinction 🧪⚒️https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1557
Chitinozoan response to the ‘Kellwasser events’: population dynamics and morphological deformities across the Frasnian–Famennian mass extinction
Fossil (zoo)plankton dynamics during Devonian ocean-anoxic and extinction events can shed light on the palaeoceanographic and geochemical processes that shaped the middle Palaeozoic biosphere. Howeve...
onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe edge is not like the centre: founder effects in expanding populations https://communities.springernature.com/posts/the-edge-is-not-like-the-centre-founder-effects-in-expanding-populations-d6da87a2-9465-4e78-bbf3-f890a3cb88ce
From Greek mythology to African folklore, spiders gained a reputation for causing irrational fear in humans:
Atlach-Nacha and the Spiders of Leng. https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/halloween-special-iv-atlach-nacha-and-the-spiders-of-leng/
Halloween special IV: Atlach-Nacha and the Spiders of Leng.
Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He was one of the big three of Weird Ta...
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#FossilFriday Baron Franz Nopcsa was born #OTD, 1877. He is considered the father of dinosaur paleobiology. In 1914, Nopcsa theorized that the “limited resources” found on islands have an effect of “reducing the size of animals” over the generations. wp.me/p3ihHu-3xL
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#FossilFriday Baron Franz Nopcsa was born #OTD, 1877. He is considered the father of dinosaur paleobiology. In 1914, Nopcsa theorized that the “limited resources” found on islands have an effect of “reducing the size of animals” over the generations. wp.me/p3ihHu-3xL
#histsci
#FossilFriday Darwin, Owen and the ‘London specimen’. wp.me/p3ihHu-1Bw
#Darwin #Archaeopteryx
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The evolution of femoral morphology in giant non-avian theropod dinosaurs
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/evolution-of-femoral-morphology-in-giant-nonavian-theropod-dinosaurs/2C41BA499BC30AE01060ACF71D2F6263
The evolution of femoral morphology in giant non-avian theropod dinosaurs | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
The evolution of femoral morphology in giant non-avian theropod dinosaurs
www.cambridge.orgLeonardo da Vinci died #OTD, 1519. Artist, architect, polymath, and #ichnology pioneer. He also provided the first organic observations on concepts such as actualism, taphonomy, and palaeocological inference. wp.me/p3ihHu-4rI #histsci 🧪⚒️
Leonardo and the Fossil Whale
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was the archetype of the Renaissance Man: artist, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, naturalist and geologist. A true polymath. He was bo...
wp.meBiogeographic Origin of Squamata peerj.com/articles/17277/ via @PeerJLife
Fossil-informed biogeographic analysis suggests Eurasian regionalization in crown Squamata during the early Jurassic
Background Squamata (lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians) is a Triassic lineage with an extensive and complex biogeographic history, yet no large-scale study has reconstructed the ancestral range of e...
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Argentine scientists find speedy 90-million-year-old herbivore dinosaur 🧪⚒️🇦🇷 https://www.reuters.com/science/argentine-scientists-find-speedy-90-million-year-old-herbivore-dinosaur-2024-04-25/
Argentine scientists find speedy 90-million-year-old herbivore dinosaur
Paleontologists from Argentina announced the discovery of a new medium-sized herbivorous dinosaur, which was a fast runner and lived about 90 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period in present day Patagonia.
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Introducing Titanomachya gimenezi | Letters from Gondwana
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/04/26/introducing-titanomachya-gimenezi/
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Introducing Titanomachya gimenezi
Titanosaurian sauropods exhibit a remarkable body size disparity in the Late Cretaceous ecosystems of South America. Some of them, were the largest animals ever to walk the Earth. In central Patagonia...
paleonerdish.wordpress.comMary Wollstonecraft, Feminist writer and intellectual, was born on April 27, 1759, in London. She wrote “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects" (1792), one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy.
#FossilFriday Introducing Titanomachya gimenezi (Image credit: Gabriel Díaz Yantén)
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The positive impact of conservation action https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj6598
The positive impact of conservation action
Governments recently adopted new global targets to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity. It is therefore crucial to understand the outcomes of conservation actions. We conducted a global meta-ana...
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Deinonychosaur trackways in southeastern China record a possible giant troodont
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042%2824%2900820-4
Deinonychosaur trackways in southeastern China record a possible giant troodontid
Earth Sciences, Palaeontology, Evolutionary History, Palaeobiology
www.cell.comOn April 24, 1944, a British Royal Air Force raid bombed the The Alte Akademie Museum in Munich and incinerated its collections, along them was the #Spinosaur-type specimen collected by Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach in 1911 wp.me/p3ihHu-vk #histsci #OTD 🧪⚒️
A Unified Framework for Predatory Dinosaur Macroevolution. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 63 (-), 2024, i-xix.
https://www.paleoitalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Cau_2024_BSPI_ONLINE.pdf
Charles Darwin, English naturalist & geologist, died #OTD 1882. During the first two years aboard HMS Beagle, he collected several fossil mammals from South America that sparked the theory of evolution #FossilFriday 🧪⚒️ https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2016/04/06/darwins-fossil-mammals/
A new sympatric occurrence of lagerpetids (Pan-Aves, Pterosauromorpha) in the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil - ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981124001196
A new sympatric occurrence of lagerpetids (Pan-Aves, Pterosauromorpha) in the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil
Lagerpetids, traditionally considered precursors to dinosaurs, have recently been hypothesized as being the sister group to Pterosauria, providing clu…
www.sciencedirect.comCharlotte Murchison, British geologist and palaeontologist, was born #OTD 1788. The fossils collected by her were described in the “Mineral Conchology of Great Britain” wp.me/p3ihHu-3Eb ⚒️🧪#histsci #womeninstem
The last giants: New evidence for giant Late Triassic (Rhaetian) ichthyosaurs from the UK ⚒️🧪
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0300289
The last giants: New evidence for giant Late Triassic (Rhaetian) ichthyosaurs from the UK
Giant ichthyosaurs with body length estimates exceeding 20 m were present in the latest Triassic of the UK. Here we report on the discovery of a second surangular from the lower jaw of a giant ichthyo...
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Craniomandibular anatomy of a juvenile specimen of Edmontosaurus regalis Lambe, 1917 clarifies issues in ontogeny and biogeography 🧪⚒️
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2326644
Rosalind Franklin, English chemist and X-ray crystallographer, died #OTD, 1958. She is best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA, particularly Photo 51, which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix #womeninSTEM #histsci
