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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Big heart, acute senses key to explosive radiation of early fishes <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-08-big-heart-acute-key-explosive.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-08-big-heart-acute-key-explosive.html</a>Novel assembly of a head–trunk interface in the sister group of jawed vertebrates <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09329-9" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09329-9</a>"The standard theory holds that jaws evolved first, and other body parts underwent changes to sustain a new predatory lifestyle... The new study flips this idea on its head... This <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fossil</a> from the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a>, > 400 million years ago, shows that acute senses, powerful heart evolved well before jaws"

Bob Downie<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/standingstonesunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#standingstonesunday</a> Cycling on <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Bute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bute</a> this Thursday and came across the Kingarth Standing Stones which had previously been hidden by forestry plantation. Two are made of the local <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> conglomerate, the third looks like a sandstone. One of the conglomerate stones is an amazing bulbous shape. Erected & then shaped? Who knows?

Garrett LatimerGuess who found his red-cyan <a href="https://meow.social/tags/3D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#3D</a> glasses and some old photo experiments. (Photographed the feesh at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, May 2011.)<a href="https://meow.social/tags/dunkleosteus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dunkleosteus</a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/anaglyph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anaglyph</a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/placoderm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#placoderm</a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#devonian</a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fish</a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/cmnh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cmnh</a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/cleveland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cleveland</a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/naturalhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#naturalhistory</a>

Fossil FriendThings that seem fragile can endure. Trilobites dominated the oceans for millions of years and not a single one still exists.This is Devonian coral. From a coral reef 400 million years ago, now part of the rocky mountains in BC. A delicate thing whose descendants stood the test of time<a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fossils</a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFriday</a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/DevonianFossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DevonianFossil</a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/coral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coral</a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/BC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BC</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Early evidence of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/symbiosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#symbiosis</a> found in ancient coral <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-10-early-evidence-symbiosis-ancient-coral.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-10-early-evidence-symbiosis-ancient-coral.html</a><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Coral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coral</a> photosymbiosis on Mid-<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> reefs <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08101-9" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08101-9</a> "The symbiotic relationship between <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/corals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#corals</a> and their photosynthetic algal partners goes back at least to the Devonian (385 million years ago)"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Protists</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Algae</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Microbes</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/CoralReefs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CoralReefs</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDThe <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InsertAnInvert2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InsertAnInvert2024</a> prompt lens eyes made me think of trilobites. Not only do they have the earliest complex eyes we know of with their compound eyes with separate clusters of photo receptors (or ommatidia) each with its own lens to make mosaic-like pictures in their brains, but their lenses were hard and made of the mineral calcite! 🧵1/n<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/collage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#collage</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/washi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#washi</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paleontology</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/trilobite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trilobite</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cambrian</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺New seed <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fossil</a> sheds light on wind dispersal in plants <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-10-seed-fossil-dispersal.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-10-seed-fossil-dispersal.html</a>Alasemenia, the earliest ovule with three wings and without cupule <a href="https://elifesciences.org/articles/92962" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://elifesciences.org/articles/92962</a>"The earliest-known plant seeds date back to the Late <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> epoch. This period marks a significant evolutionary milestone in plant history, as they transitioned from spore-based reproduction, as with ferns and mosses, to seed-based reproduction... However, little is known about wind dispersal in seeds during this time"

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Ancient reef-building <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/stromatoporoids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stromatoporoids</a> dodged <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extinction</a>—at least temporarily <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-09-ancient-reef-stromatoporoids-dodged-extinction.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-09-ancient-reef-stromatoporoids-dodged-extinction.html</a>Post-Devonian re-emergence and demise of stromatoporoids as major reef-builders on a <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Carboniferous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Carboniferous</a> Panthalassan seamount <a href="https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/doi/10.1130/G52420.1/646596/Post-Devonian-re-emergence-and-demise-of" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/doi/10.1130/G52420.1/646596/Post-Devonian-re-emergence-and-demise-of</a> "ancient reef-building sponge-like organisms called <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/stromatoporoids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stromatoporoids</a> survived the Late <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MassExtinction</a> event and continued to thrive as major reef-builders long after their presumed extinction"

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺New fossil <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fish</a> species scales up evidence of Earth's evolutionary march <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-09-fossil-fish-species-scales-evidence.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-09-fossil-fish-species-scales-evidence.html</a>A Late <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> coelacanth reconfigures actinistian <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/phylogeny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#phylogeny</a>, disparity, and evolutionary dynamics: Alice Clement et al. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51238-4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51238-4</a> "The discovery of an exceptionally well preserved ancient primitive Devonian <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/coelacanth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coelacanth</a> fish in remote Western <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Australia</a> has been linked to a period of heightened tectonic activity, or movement in the Earth's crust"

Daniel DvorkinThere’s been no doubt for some time that we’re in the middle of a sixth <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/mass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mass</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extinction</a>. Here are some numbers.If we’re very lucky, we’ll stop at the level of the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> extinction, the least severe of the Big Five. More likely we’re headed for something on the scale of the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Ordovician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ordovician</a> or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Triassic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Triassic</a>. The <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> is in sight, and the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Permian</a> is not out of reach. From an evolutionary time perspective it will look like the Cretaceous, practically as instantaneous as the Big Rock.I confess, I really like the idea of <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/corvid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#corvid</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/paleontologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paleontologists</a> digging up the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Anthropocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anthropocene</a>. Feathers gleaming under badlands dust, exciting cawing as dextrous claws scrape rock away from a flat-faced skull … But I’m very much not okay with what we’re doing right now to make that happen.Pop-sci coverage: <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/07/19/modern-sixth-mass-extinction-event-will-be-worse-than-first-predicted/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/07/19/modern-sixth-mass-extinction-event-will-be-worse-than-first-predicted/</a>Journal article, open access: <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.12974" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.12974</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Early <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/JawlessFish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JawlessFish</a> was Filter-Feeder, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Paleontologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Paleontologists</a> Find <a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/rhinopteraspis-dunensis-12846.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sci.news/paleontology/rhinopteraspis-dunensis-12846.html</a>The three-dimensionally articulated oral apparatus of a <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> heterostracan sheds light on feeding in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Palaeozoic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Palaeozoic</a> jawless fishes <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2258" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2258</a>"The images revealed the structure and arrangement of finger-like bones that project from the lower lip of the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#animal</a>’s mouth, which the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scientists</a> believe acted to control the mouth’s size and shape as it captured food particles from surrounding water"

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Earth's earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-03-earth-earliest-forest-revealed-somerset.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-03-earth-earliest-forest-revealed-somerset.html</a>Earth's earliest <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/forest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#forest</a>: fossilized <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trees</a> and vegetation-induced sedimentary structures from the Middle <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> (Eifelian) Hangman Sandstone Formation, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Somerset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Somerset</a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Devon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devon</a>, SW England <a href="https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/abs/10.1144/jgs2023-204" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/abs/10.1144/jgs2023-204</a> "The trees, which are about 390 million years old, are thought to have grown as part of an extensive forest covering the east coast of the Old Red Sandstone continent—part of Europe at that time."

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺380-Million-Year-Old <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fossils</a> of Air-Breathing Tetrapod <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fish</a> Found in Australia <a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/harajicadectes-zhumini-12661.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sci.news/paleontology/harajicadectes-zhumini-12661.html</a>A new stem-tetrapod fish from the Middle–Late Devonian of central Australia <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2285000" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2285000</a>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Tetrapodomorpha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tetrapodomorpha</a> comprises the limbed tetrapods and their closest fish relatives.. The group diversified greatly in both marine and freshwater habitats during the Middle-to-Late <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> while giving rise to several distinct lineages, including the earliest limbed <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/tetrapods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tetrapods</a>."

Chris WhiteWhen (micro)continents collide<a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/Silurian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Silurian</a> or <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/metasediments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#metasediments</a> / pellitic <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/schists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#schists</a> / sulfidic schists North Pack Monadnock, south central New Hampshire USAIntensely folded rocksMerrimack / Central Maine Trough smashed as <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/Avalonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Avalonia</a> joined Laurasia to start assembling Pangea in the <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/Acadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Acadian</a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/Orogeny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Orogeny</a>, about 375 million years ago.Knowing some <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geology</a> makes hiking more fun!Normally proportioned geochemist forelimb for scale My <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#photo</a> Fujifilm X-H1 16 mm f/1.4 @ f/4 ⅛ s ISO 200 (IBIS)

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Study reshapes understanding of mass <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extinction</a> in Late Devonian era <a href="https://phys.org/news/2023-12-reshapes-mass-extinction-late-devonian.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2023-12-reshapes-mass-extinction-late-devonian.html</a>The expansion of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/LandPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LandPlants</a> during the Late <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> contributed to the marine <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MassExtinction</a> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01087-8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01087-8</a>"Diverse and full of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SeaLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SeaLife</a>, the Earth's Devonian era—taking place more than 370 million years ago—saw the emergence of the first seed-bearing <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plants</a>, which spread as large <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#forests</a> across the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/continents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#continents</a> of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Gondwana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gondwana</a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Laurussia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Laurussia</a>."

Bob Nicholls ArtToday's not-so-random portfolio artwork (following on from <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Arthropleura" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arthropleura</a>) is a life-size model of a <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Pneumodesmus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pneumodesmus</a> (15cm long), which I built for MUSE – the Science Museum of Trento, in 2014.<a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Art</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Painting</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaleoArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PalaeoArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciComm</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Illustration</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dinosaurs</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Birds</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Reptiles</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Paleontology</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Unveiling Earth's Ancient Mysteries: The Astonishing Rhynie Chert <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fossils</a> <a href="https://communities.springernature.com/posts/unveiling-earth-s-ancient-mysteries-the-astonishing-rhynie-chert-fossils" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://communities.springernature.com/posts/unveiling-earth-s-ancient-mysteries-the-astonishing-rhynie-chert-fossils</a>A fungal plant pathogen discovered in the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> Rhynie Chert: Christine Strullu-Derrien et al. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43276-1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43276-1</a>"One <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fungal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fungal</a> resident of the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/RhynieChert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RhynieChert</a>, Paleopyrenomycites devonicus, stands out. Described as <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Ascomycota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ascomycota</a>, it colonized the ancient plant Asteroxylon mackiei. Yet, the precise role it played – as a saprotroph, parasite, or pathogen – remains a tantalizing mystery."

Ele Willoughby, PhDGood morning Trilobite! This is one of a series of prints of one of the ubiquitous and wildly successful trilobites, prehistoric creatures which lived for hundreds of millions of years, carved by hand in linoleum, printed onto lovely Japanese washi papers and collaged with papers in different colours. 🧵1/2<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/collage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#collage</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/washi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#washi</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sciArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/trilobite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trilobite</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paleontology</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cambrian</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invertebrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#invertebrate</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Matt PotterI had to walk some blues off, and found myself at the Valley of Rocks on a windy day. The rocks are Devonian, full of fossils from deep time; as Julian Cope would say, its magic is deep & severe. Wild goats were on top of the outcrops, giving the whole scene a perfect folk-horror vibe. You can see the silhouette of the biggest goat on the cliff in pic 1. Very Dennis Wheatley/Rodney Matthews.<a href="https://c.im/tags/folkhorror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#folkhorror</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/devon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#devon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/goats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#goats</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/baphomet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#baphomet</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/juliancope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#juliancope</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#devonian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fossils</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/valleyofrocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#valleyofrocks</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dark</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/walkitoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#walkitoff</a>

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬The armor of armored <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fish</a> started out as part of the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/nervoussystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nervoussystem</a> It turns out that in early branches of the fish family tree, like the sturgeon, the neural crest forms the bony armor that covers them, suggesting an ancient role in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/bone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bone</a> formation that goes back to the armored fish of the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Devonian</a>. Cells from the developing <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/spinalcord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spinalcord</a> make the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/sturgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sturgeon</a>'s bony, armored plates. <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/the-armor-of-armored-fish-started-out-as-part-of-the-nervous-system/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/the-armor-of-armored-fish-started-out-as-part-of-the-nervous-system/</a>

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