Extinct life is like a box of chocolates
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By , on January 31st, 2012 5 comments   Organisms, Paleobiology   , , , ,  

I celebrated another lap around the sun this weekend, and in honour of that my friend Betty, who lives in Arizona, sent me a rather awesome gift. It wasn’t elegantly wrapped; in fact, its contents were variously contained in a decidedly pedestrian mix of old bubble wrap, styrofoam noodles and plastic bags from Target AND . . . → Read More: Extinct life is like a box of chocolates

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The Last Refuge
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By , on June 4th, 2010 11 comments   Art, Organisms, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , , ,  

The Last Refuge – Original Art by Glendon Mellow http://glendonmellow.com UPDATE: Glendon is now offering this beautiful piece of deep-sea art as prints on his website! Products range from cards to full size poster prints and are quite affordably priced! Earlier this year I approached Glendon Mellow who writes the Flying Trilobite blog, a fabulous . . . → Read More: The Last Refuge

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Trilobites Ride the Crazy Train
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By , on May 21st, 2009 3 comments   Mating & Reproduction, Organisms, Paleobiology   , , , , , , ,  

A new paper published recently in the journal Geology reports on peculiar conga party lines of our paleo-friend, the Trilobite. Gutierrez-Marco and colleagues discovered a quarry replete with marine invertebrate fossil, including potentially some of the largest trilobite specimens ever found. Curiously though, these capricious little critters were found exhibiting some rather gregarious behavior! They . . . → Read More: Trilobites Ride the Crazy Train

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