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qurlyjoe<p>Apparently, some 530 million years ago (give or take) in the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> age, after about 2.5 billion years of rather plodding <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a>, bi-lateral symmetry appeared in animals (after some dabbling in tri-lateral and penta-lateral symmetry) and when brains showed up they were bi-lateral. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Vertebrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vertebrate</span></a>, but still <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/jawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jawless</span></a>, fishes were swimming after each other for lunch. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Eyes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eyes</span></a>, which had already existed for a long while, started showing up in pairs, at the head end of the fishes. (1/3)</p>
Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐<p>El Lochmanolenellus trapezoidalis fue un trilobite, encontrado en Nevada, Estados Unidos y en las montañas Cassiar, Canadá, que vivió en el Cámbrico (524-512 MdA). Se distingue por su ancho cefalón con prominentes espinas genales, pero ni de lejos las más grandes. 📷Orm <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trilobite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trilobite</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cambrico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cambrico</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cambrian</span></a></p>
Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐<p>El Vetulicola rectangulata era un pequeño deuteróstomo del Cámbrico temprano compuesto por un cuerpo rectangular cubierto con placas, que dejaban un hueco para una pequeña boca plana, con una cola en la zona posterior que usaba para nadar.📷PaleoNeolitic <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cambrico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cambrico</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cambrian</span></a></p>
Bob Nicholls Art<p>My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...</p><p>Last post from 2020. Here's "The Early Worm Catches the . . . ", showing a monster Ottoia ambushing some Cambrian critters. This fossil is discussed in Locked in Time, by Dr Dean Lomax.</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaleoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalaeoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reptiles</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Ottoia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ottoia</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Trilobite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trilobite</span></a></p>
Cailean MeredithCambrian age fossils are cool as heck! These are from the Burgess Shale, a 508 million year old fossil site with soft tissue preservation of a bunch of incredible critters! Also, the shirt I’m wearing is merch from the Common Descent Podcast and I love them. If you have any interest in fossils and/or life history, give them a listen <br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cambrian?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cambrian</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fossils?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fossils</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/palaeontology?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#palaeontology</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/burgessshale?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#burgessshale</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/walcottquarry?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#walcottquarry</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bc?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bc</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/britishcolumbia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#britishcolumbia</a>
Emilia Jarochowska 🇺🇦🌱<p>This will be a challenge to the fediverse connecting abilities: I need to make a costume of a <a href="https://circumstances.run/tags/trilobite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trilobite</span></a> and of <a href="https://circumstances.run/tags/Anomalocaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anomalocaris</span></a>. I am looking for any help: someone has made one already and is happy to share the details, a costume designed willing to take up the challenge, a handwork hobbyist with a knack for sewing/cardboard magic who always want to launch their skills onto a bigger stage. We are making a <a href="https://circumstances.run/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> show for kids as part of my <a href="https://circumstances.run/tags/ERC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ERC</span></a> project MindTheGap and we will be explaining <a href="https://circumstances.run/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> using <a href="https://circumstances.run/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a>. <a href="https://circumstances.run/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> fossils 😄 If you have any hints, contacts, old costumes, please get in touch. We are located in NL so we probably cannot commission costumes from overseas (too much risk of delay due to customs). <a href="https://circumstances.run/tags/Outreach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Outreach</span></a> <a href="https://circumstances.run/tags/ScienceCommunication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceCommunication</span></a> <a href="https://circumstances.run/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a></p>
Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐<p>El Isoxys fue un artrópodo depredador del Cámbrico (520-495 MdA) con un caparazón bivalvo en forma de empanadilla o taco. Con las patas que sobresalen habría atrapado a sus presas. 📷Holly Sullivan <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cambrico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cambrico</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cambrian</span></a></p>
📡 Flight Radar Mechelen 🇧🇪<p>Flight: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CBM77" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CBM77</span></a><br>Registration: G-OLIV<br>ICAO code: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/400A86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>400A86</span></a><br>Callsign: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CAMBRIAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CAMBRIAN</span></a><br>Operator: Dragonfly Aviation Services Limited<br>Type: BEECH KING AIR 200<br>Country: 🇬🇧<br>Speed: 423 kmh<br>Altitude: 1173 m<br>Distance: 2.9 km<br>Angle ∆: 22.1°<br>Direction -&gt;: E<br>Track:<br><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2yg38x7p" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/2yg38x7p</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>History:<br><a href="https://www.radarbox.com/data/mode-s/400A86" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">radarbox.com/data/mode-s/400A86</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/G-OLIV" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">flightradar24.com/data/aircraf</span><span class="invisible">t/G-OLIV</span></a><br>Photos:<br><a href="https://jetphotos.com/photo/keyword/G-OLIV" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jetphotos.com/photo/keyword/G-</span><span class="invisible">OLIV</span></a><br>Seen: 1st x</p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Thinking about fossil marine invertebrates that Keilan-Jaworowska studied at the beginning of her career, made me think of this pattern made from my linocut animal prints with collaged washi papers from the Cambrian Period (from 538.8 million to 485.4 million years ago). 🧵</p><p><a href="https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/16990670-cambrian-sea-by-minouette" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">spoonflower.com/en/fabric/1699</span><span class="invisible">0670-cambrian-sea-by-minouette</span></a></p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/pattern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pattern</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/surfaceDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surfaceDesign</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BurgessShale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BurgessShale</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/trilobite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trilobite</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/wiwaxia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wiwaxia</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Opabinia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Opabinia</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InverteFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InverteFest</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invertebrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>invertebrate</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Bob Nicholls Art<p>My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...</p><p>The draft images and some photos of my finished Timorbestia (stem-group chaetognath/arrow worms) model. I was commissioned in 2020 to reconstruct the 520 million year old, Cambrian fossil.</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaleoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalaeoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reptiles</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a></p>
Bob Nicholls Art<p>My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...</p><p>And it's FossilFriday! So here's a 520 million year old fossil of Timorbestia, a stem-group chaetognath (arrow worms). In 2020 I was commissioned to build a life-size model of this beauty.</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaleoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalaeoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reptiles</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a></p>
rdm<p>You know what? Sod this <a href="https://aus.social/tags/JurassicPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JurassicPark</span></a> rubbish. </p><p>I want a <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> Park, please. Bring back the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BurgessShale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BurgessShale</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/hallucigenia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hallucigenia</span></a> !</p>
Bob Nicholls Art<p>My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...</p><p>In 2020 I illustrated LOCKED IN TIME, written by Dr Dean Lomax - Palaeontologist. Here's my "Eonurture" painting, which depicts an adult Fuxianhuia caring for several babies (Cambrian arthropod parental care!).</p><p><a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/locked-in-time/9780231197281" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cup.columbia.edu/book/locked-i</span><span class="invisible">n-time/9780231197281</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaleoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalaeoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reptiles</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a></p>
Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐<p>En el Cámbrico, hace 500 millones de años, en los mares vivía el Balhuticaris voltae, un enorme artrópodo de 24,5 cm y 110 segmentos consecutivos con patas.📷Alejandro Izquierdo Lopez <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cambrico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cambrico</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cambrian</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Oldest-known evolutionary arms race <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-01-fossil-reveals-oldest-evolutionary-arms.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-01-fossil-r</span><span class="invisible">eveals-oldest-evolutionary-arms.html</span></a></p><p>Adaptive responses in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> predator and prey highlight the arms race during the rise of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> <a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)01647-6" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cell.com/current-biology/abstr</span><span class="invisible">act/S0960-9822(24)01647-6</span></a> </p><p>"These 517-million-year-old predator-prey interactions occurred between a small, shelled <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animal</span></a> distantly related to <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/brachiopods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brachiopods</span></a> and an unknown marine animal capable of piercing its shell... an increase in shell wall thickness coincides with an increase in the number of perforated shells"</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Rare <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> embryos show early <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Ecdysozoa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecdysozoa</span></a> development in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> era <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-12-rare-fossil-embryos-early-ecdysozoa.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-12-rare-fos</span><span class="invisible">sil-embryos-early-ecdysozoa.html</span></a> paper: <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018224006242" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/abs/pii/S0031018224006242</span></a> </p><p>"it suggests a bag-shaped body is likely primitive for <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ecdysozoans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecdysozoans</span></a> (a diverse group of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> including <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/roundworms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>roundworms</span></a>, velvet <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/worms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>worms</span></a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>insects</span></a>, and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/crabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crabs</span></a>), while a vermiform body, characteristic of crown-group ecdysozoans, evolved later."</p>
llewelly<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sauropods.win/@futurebird" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>futurebird</span></a></span> <br>interview with the person who showed some anomalocaridids were filter-feeders:<br><a href="https://www.palaeocast.com/episode-31-anomalocaridids/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">palaeocast.com/episode-31-anom</span><span class="invisible">alocaridids/</span></a></p><p>interview with the person who found the specimen that preserved the big goofy eyes:<br><a href="https://www.palaeocast.com/episode-36-emu-bay-shale/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">palaeocast.com/episode-36-emu-</span><span class="invisible">bay-shale/</span></a></p><p>good grief, both those interviews are over 10 years old!<br><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/arthopods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arthopods</span></a><br><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/anomalocaridids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anomalocaridids</span></a><br><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a><br><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Ordovician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ordovician</span></a><br><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fossil</span></a> of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> Long-Headed Chordate Unearthed in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a> <a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/nuucichthys-rhynchocephalus-13130.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sci.news/paleontology/nuucicht</span><span class="invisible">hys-rhynchocephalus-13130.html</span></a></p><p>A long-headed Cambrian soft-bodied vertebrate from the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/AmericanGreatBasin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanGreatBasin</span></a> region <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.240350" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">royalsocietypublishing.org/doi</span><span class="invisible">/10.1098/rsos.240350</span></a></p><p>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Nuucichthys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nuucichthys</span></a> rhynchocephalus swam in the Cambrian <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/oceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oceans</span></a> between 505 and 500 million years ago. It had a finless torpedo-shaped body that includes a number of markers characteristic of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/vertebrates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vertebrates</span></a>. It is one of only four species documenting the early evolutionary stage of vertebrate lineage."</p>
Chris Mills<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@vbuendiar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>vbuendiar</span></a></span> I am not academically trained, but I love hashtags and the more specific, the better. By field, and focus are great. </p><p>I like being hooked in by general hashtags like <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> but then it's great when I can find people who are into <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambrian</span></a> <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/Fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fossils</span></a> from the <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/BurgessShale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BurgessShale</span></a> and have theories on what <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/Hallucigenia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hallucigenia</span></a> would get up to. This is both fascinating and makes a great jumping off/in place and reveals other like minded folk to follow.</p><p>You get used to writing with <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/hashtags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hashtags</span></a></p>
Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐<p>El poliqueto Dannychaeta tucolus del Cámbrico, hace 514 millones de años, que vivía en tubos orgánicos en el fondo marino, donde se ocultaba para lanzarse cuando se acercaba una presa.📷Robert Nicholls <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cambrico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cambrico</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cambrian</span></a></p>