Sixty-two million years ago, four million years after the sky fell, a stretch of Egyptian seafloor filled with fish — and held them, perfectly, in stone. Five hundred specimens. More than twenty kinds. A petrified aquarium pulled from blistering sand at a site called Qreiya 3. The asteroid gutted the ocean's food webs, and into that emptied water the percomorphs exploded into needle-toothed predators and the ancestors of tuna and seahorses.
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#Fossils #Paleontology #Science #Egypt #Ocean #Nature #Extinction #DeepTime #NatGeo #EarthHistory #ThistleAndMoss #TheGathering
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org
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Jun 04, 2026
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Science / the fossils
62 million years ago, 4 million years after the asteroid, a stretch of Egyptian seafloor filled with fish — and held them in stone. 500 specimens. Paleontologist Sanaa El-Sayed pulled them from blistering desert, closing a ten-million-year hole in how life rebuilds after catastrophe.
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#Science #Paleontology #Fossils #Egypt #Extinction #Ocean #Climate #NatGeo #ThistleAndMoss #TheGathering
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@alberta_palaeo_society@sauropods.win
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May 22, 2026
Alberta Palaeo Society
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This is the official account for the Alberta Palaeontological Society. We are a volunteer organization dedicated to connecting professional and avocational palaeontologists and promoting the study of palaeontolgy in Alberta.
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This week’s Fossil Friday is a Late Cretaceous sea star from Alberta (APS 1987.038). It was found in the Cardium Formation, which formed along the shallow margin of the Western Interior Seaway. This seaway bisected North America, connecting the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. This sea star would have lived in the warm, shallow waters along that margin.
It was found by Harvey Negrich and Don Sabo. Photo credit Howard Allen.
#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #seastar #fossilfriday
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@ScienceDesk__dup_11408@flipboard.social
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Feb 11, 2026
Flipboard Science Desk
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Flipboard's page for news about science including space, climate change and more — from trusted sources. All posts written by human editors, especially for Mastodon. For more science coverage, follow Flipboard's federated Science Desk (@science). Get the Flipboard app to explore all your interests in one place: https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard/ Header photo: Warming stripes for New York City, 1869-2023. Source: Climate Central.
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Even paleontology can't escape the Jeffrey Epstein mess.
From The Daily Beast: "DinoCon banned experts named in the files, as well as executives at organizations who had not protected their members.'”
Gift link: https://flip.it/BdDiIJ
#Dinosaurs #Paleontology #JeffreyEpstein #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #DinoCon
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