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Found in a wooded area in central Connecticut.

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Just forwarding along a two-toot thread from @[email protected] post with some Mastodon accounts related to paleontology. Copy-pasted and edited the relevant text here for y'all's convenience:

➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Featuring lots of well-preserved fossils, run by Kansas Geological Survey
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] (main) & https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] (museum) - Exec Director at Western Science Center, Calif. Expert on #mastodons
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Evolutionary #palaeobiologist, senior lecturer in #zoology at Univ. of Lincoln, UK
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Archaeologist & criminologist at Maastricht Univ, studying #fossil smuggling
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - #Palaeontologist & #plesiosaur expert, curator at Nottingham Natural History Museum in UK
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Fossil illustrator & science educator
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - In #palaeobiology dept at Univ. of Toronto, researching cat fossils
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Palaeontology student & makes Lego dinos
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Comics set in Earth's distant past
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Works with fossils & x-rays at Univ. of Manchester

If you have a Mastodon account, you can just plop these links in the search bar on your own instance and find them!

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@paleontology If anyone on this community is looking to move Mastodon instance, there are quite a few of us palaeontologists on sauropod.win, hosted by noted palaeoartist John Conway.

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Paleontology

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Everything paleontology!

"Paleontology is the study of the history of life on Earth as based on fossils. Fossils are the remains of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and single-celled living things that have been replaced by rock material or impressions of organisms preserved in rock."

-- As described by wikipedia


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