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Two vertebrae bone blocks from the Yorkshire Jurassic coast from two extinct marine reptiles that hunted in our Oceans around 180 million years ago. One on the right is from a big Ichthyosaur and on the left is a marine Crocodile… 🐬🐊
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A variety of material found during a Yorkshire coast fossil hunt, culminating in a nearly complete Ichthyosaur paddle.
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Find a fossil with a lot of long bones, how do you reassemble them? People started believing this Triassic-aged animal had long bones that supported wings, then it was realized that they were neckbones, and new work has now shown that this animal lived in the oceans and grew a several meter long neck to hunt with.
Fossil hunting on the beaches of New Zealand. Original caption: "I head out early in the morning to go explore a beach that has some really good Miocene era fossils. My first find of the day is amazing, a large concretion containing some articulated vertebrae. I suspect it's cetacean, possible a large dolphin or juvenile whale. I try my hand at some acid prepping, I still have much to learn! It's a slow, careful process and I am waiting for my PH meter to arrive so I can be a bit more confident that I have the right strength acid at any time. The nice crab I found is now in the collection of a young fossil hunter I met on the beach, hopefully it's the first of many cool fossils he will collect."
walkingwithwood
I am constantly being inspired by my raw materials to create art. Colors, patterns, shapes, all of these design elements are buried inside the raw materials. Where my art work starts is seeing what's already inside, then finding a way to celebrate it through my craft.
This subtle, yet detailed stone has a story to tell, and I wish I knew it. It's fossilised dinosaur bone!
Feel free to lay claim, it'll be made into a stone-topped walking stick. .
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What is this? Found on a dried up island in the middle of the delaware
yorkshire.fossils
This huge tooth is not from a Dinosaur, but from a huge extinct Marine Reptile known as a Temnondontosaurus, a species of Ichthyosaur 🐬🐋 We also found the majority of the skull to this immense beast (most of the jaws and possible the eye, as well as lots and lots more teeth!!!) 🦷😍 I’m back at uni at the moment but still have plenty of brand new content to post 🙌🏻
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palaeoart
Today I started prep work on a large section of limb bone from a large Cretaceous dinosaur from the Wealden group of the Isle of Wight. Despite being 125 million years old, the preservation of the bone is lovely and although this is only one section, there are four other sections making up the entire 2ft long bone. The hollow interior of the bone (clear in this video) makes this most likely a Theropod limb bone but more investigation will need to be done once this is fully prepped and the sections secured back together
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Bought a fossilized whale ear bone at Earthly Elements in Fredrick, cant say I've seen these at any of the other gem stores in the area
Zombie Worms The Zombie worm is a colloquial name for Osedax, which is a species of worms that eats bones. These worms are a finger length long, found worldwide at 4000m depth in the ocean, and interestingly enough all adults are female. These adults have no mouth or digestive system so instead penetrate bone by using ‘roots’ to absorb collagen and lipids from the bone. The collagen and lipids are then converted to energy by a bacteria living in their roots. They then use feathery plumes at the opposite end to the roots to absorb nutrients. Males of this species do exist, however never mature past a microscopic larva. Between 50-100 of these undeveloped males live inside the female at any one time.
We’ve briefly mentioned before (http://on.fb.me/1yOVedv) that Osedax eats whale carcasses, however new evidence suggests it evolved up to 100 million years ago. Researchers have found marks on plesiosaur fossil suggesting Osedax was alive and bone-eating far earlier than we’d previously believed. These worms would have then fed on giant marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs and sea turtles. This may mean that it prevented many fossils of these marine reptiles fossilising.
~SA
Picture: http://bit.ly/1DyYg10 by Nick Higgs Paper: http://bit.ly/1Fc716w by Robert C Vrijenhoek , Shannon B Johnson and Greg W Rouse Paper: http://bit.ly/1OCBQSJ by S.Danise and N.D.Higgs
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jurassicrann
4 perfectly preserved articulated large Ichthyosaur verts with a jaw attached 😮... plus a beautiful large rib, paddle bone, neural etc with some stunning Belemnite's included which was a nice surprise !Articulated material is very rare down at the Yorkshire coast and @speedymark0 brought the best out of this piece which sits proudly in our collection... we have a very special piece to be prepared next... 🐊 👌
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