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I know I post this a lot but it's so cool. At Rhynie Chert in Scotland, ancient volcanic springs almost instantly petrified the ecosystem giving us detail right down to the cellular level as seen in this plant stem cross-section. So wild!
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They died as they lived. One of the most bonkers fossil sites is Tanque Loma. A whole herd of giant ground sloths are buried in one spot. The sloths died from drinking in the same waters they pooped in!
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Like modern salamanders, the Jurassic-age Chunerpeton was able to regrow damaged limbs. Sometimes, the regrowth can go wrong giving us wild malformations like extra fingers or even extra limbs!
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Beecher's Trilobite Bed yields AMAZING trilobites with soft tissues thanks to pyrite. Its discovery in the 1890s confirmed they had antennae which changed how we reconstructed them as seen in these before and after diagrams. Science in action!!
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In some amber specimens, we can find parasitic nematodes erupting from their hosts! This creates radical displays of host-parasite interaction as seen in this inclusion. So cool!
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Because of pyritization, the crinoids in Germany's Hunsrück Slate are in AMAZING detail but are EXTREMELY fragile. However, we can use X-rays to peel back the layers and observe these echinoderms without disturbing them!
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I love how you can find fossils of Sinosauropteryx with fossilized feathers, internal eggs, and even stomach contents! It's so rad you can infer so much about its lifestyle from one fossil!!
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We're going radical and extreme this week! I'm going to gush and geek out on some of the best fossils I've stumbled upon; the kind that will blow your mind!! Get hype and get ready for TOTALLY RAD WEEK!
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