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Sven Sachs<p>I wrote a little contribution about Microcleidus macropterus, a plesiosauroid plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Yorkshire (United Kingdom) The specimen is on display at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences in Cambridge. I had the pleasure to examine the fossil last year.<br><a href="https://www.sachspal.de/microcleidus-macropterus" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sachspal.de/microcleidus-macro</span><span class="invisible">pterus</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/jurassic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jurassic</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plesiosaur</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>museum</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/cambridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cambridge</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/england" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>england</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/yorkshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yorkshire</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a></p>
Sven Sachs<p>Last week I had the opportunity to study the plesiosaur Lusonectes sauvagei at the Museu Geológico in Lisbon, and I just wrote this little contribution about the fossil: <a href="https://www.sachspal.de/lusonectes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">sachspal.de/lusonectes</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plesiosaur</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/portugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>portugal</span></a></p>
Adam S. Smith<p>A beautiful skull of the Oxford Clay pliosaur Simolestes in the Natural History Museum, London.</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plesiosaur</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/pliosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pliosaur</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/skull" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skull</span></a></p>
Adam S. Smith<p>Big brother. </p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plesiosaur</span></a></p>
Adam S. Smith<p>New toy. I’ve been hunting for this little one for years.</p><p> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plesiosaur</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a></p>
Bob Nicholls Art<p>My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...</p><p>Here's the full packaging art and plesiosaur pop-up for my Plesiosaurus coin design. This was for the 2021 Mary Anning Coin Collection, from The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum.</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaleoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalaeoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reptiles</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/MaryAnning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaryAnning</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plesiosaur</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Plesiosaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plesiosaurus</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/MarineReptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarineReptiles</span></a></p>
Blogorgonopsid<p>Zcela poprvé byly fosilizované měkké tkáně plesiosaura prostudovány do hloubky. Jakou měl plesiosaur z Holzmadenu kůži?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plesiosaur</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mesozoic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mesozoic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prehistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ancient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ancient</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/2025/02/plesiosauri-byli-supinati-prvni-studie.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">25/02/plesiosauri-byli-supinati-prvni-studie.html</span></a></p>
Blogorgonopsid<p>For the first time, fossilized soft tissues of a plesiosaur have been subjected to an in-depth study. What was the Holzmaden plesiosaur's skin like?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plesiosaur</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mesozoic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mesozoic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prehistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ancient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ancient</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/2025/02/plesiosauri-byli-supinati-prvni-studie.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">25/02/plesiosauri-byli-supinati-prvni-studie.html</span></a></p>
Bob Nicholls Art<p>My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...</p><p>In 2021 I teamed up with The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum again to create the Mary Anning Coin Collection, the second collection from the Tales of the Earth series. Here's some of the Plesiosaurus packaging . . .</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaleoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalaeoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reptiles</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/MaryAnning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaryAnning</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Plesiosaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plesiosaurus</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plesiosaur</span></a></p>
Bob Nicholls Art<p>My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...</p><p>In 2021 I teamed up with The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum again to create the Mary Anning Coin Collection, the second collection from the Tales of the Earth series. Here's the Plesiosaurus coin art . . .</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaleoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalaeoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reptiles</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/MaryAnning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaryAnning</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plesiosaur</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Plesiosaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plesiosaurus</span></a></p>
TheDinolass 🦖<p>Soft tissue in a Jurassic plesiosaur:<br><a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2900001-6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cell.com/current-biology/fullt</span><span class="invisible">ext/S0960-9822%2825%2900001-6</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossilfriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossilfriday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plesiosaur</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a></p>
Adam S. Smith<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/@dinosven" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dinosven</span></a></span> Nice artwork too! <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plesiosaur</span></a></p>
The Dinosaur Dave<p>This weeks <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Lego" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lego</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> is <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Penny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Penny</span></a> the <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Polycotylid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Polycotylid</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plesiosaur</span></a> </p><p>In 1989, Mr Ian Ievers was feeding cattle near his homestead on Marathon Station, near Richmond Queensland. He found a rostrum in a dried creek bank. He and his brother removed some soil and found the rest of the skull and some neck vertebra. </p><p>Later that year, a team from the Queensland Museum excavated the fossils. It turned out to be one of the most complete fossils of a polycotylid in Australia.</p>
Sven Sachs<p>Two short papers on plesiosaur finds from Gronau in Westfalen by Achim Schwermann and me have recently been published.</p><p>Schwermann, A.H. &amp; Sachs, S. (2025) Paddelechsen aus Gronau. Jahrbuch des Kreises Borken 2025: 264-267.</p><p>Schwermann, A.H. &amp; Sachs, S. (2024) Die Suche nach den verschollenen Knochen von Plesiosaurus kanzleri. Archäologie in Westfalen-Lippe 2023: 31-33.</p><p>Pdfs are available on my website: <a href="https://www.sachspal.de/publications/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">sachspal.de/publications/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/fossilfriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossilfriday</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plesiosaur</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>germany</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. Here's my painting of a Polycotylus pod seeing off a Squalicorax, to keep the unusually large new born safe.</p><p>This book would make a great Christmas gift! <a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/locked-in-time/9780231197281" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaleoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalaeoArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Birds</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reptiles</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palaeontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Sharks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sharks</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plesiosaur</span></a></p>
Adam S. Smith<p>I'm starting to feel obliged to post something on my plesiosaur blog about the many fake Zarafasaura skulls that have started to appear on Ebay in recent months. I mean, they're as crude as hell and completely unconvincing, despite the real teeth and random bone fragments that have been smushed in, but I still hope nobody unsuspecting gets fooled by them. <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/plesiosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plesiosaurs</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plesiosaur</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/skull" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skull</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/ebay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ebay</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/fake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fake</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>in his book Studies of Fossil Fish, &amp; named two species in her honour).She corresponded with the foremost geologists of her day, Charles Lyell, &amp; Adam Sedgwick who taught Darwin. ⁠<br>⁠<br>She made her first significant find, the first <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ichthyosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ichthyosaur</span></a> skeleton to be correctly identified, with her brother when she was only 12 years old. She discovered &amp; excavated the the 1st 2 <a href="https://spore.social/tags/plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plesiosaur</span></a> skeletons ever found and the first pterosaur skeleton located outside Germany + many important fossil fish. 🧵4/5</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>On the bicentenary of Mary Anning’s Plesiosaurus<br><a href="https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/on-the-bicentenary-of-mary-annings-plesiosaurus/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">paleonerdish.wordpress.com/202</span><span class="invisible">4/03/29/on-the-bicentenary-of-mary-annings-plesiosaurus/</span></a> by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@Ferwen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Ferwen</span></a></span> </p><p>"On December 10, 1823, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MaryAnning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaryAnning</span></a> discovered the first complete <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plesiosaur</span></a> skeleton at the same cliff where she found the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Ichthyosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ichthyosaur</span></a>. The new creature had a tiny head and a remarkable long neck... In May 1824, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cuvier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cuvier</span></a> sent geologist Constant Prévost to England for an official geological trip... In June 1824 Prévost went to <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/LymeRegis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LymeRegis</span></a> and met Mary Anning. He bought a plesiosaur for £10 and sent it to <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Paris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paris</span></a>."</p>
just Naomi 🏳️‍⚧️<p>I was lucky enough to be part of the team that excavated this juvenile Cryptoclidus - a species of plesiosaur. </p><p>Deep time and the length of the Age of the Dinosaurs can be hard to imagine sometimes. <br> How about if I tell you that when T. rex was stomping around, this Jurassic plesiosaur had already been a fossil for about 100 million years?</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Plesiosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plesiosaur</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Jurassic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jurassic</span></a></p>
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