75 million years later….what a behemoth . . . #paleontology #paleo #fossils #fossil #geology #geoscience
Nothing is more humbling than witnessing the eclipse of enormous celestial bodies millions of miles away while you walk over fossils millions of years old. To be so small and sentient is such a privilege . . . #paleontology #palaeontology #fossils #fossilhunting #geology #geoscience
Exploring the Cretaceous creeks of Texas with the powerful Blue Lizard sport sunscreen! It's my go-to because it's mineral-based and made without Oxybenzone or Octinoxate, so it's safer for life in these aquatic environments and also safer for my skin. Visit the link in my bio to find @Blue Lizard Sunscreen near you! 🤙 #bluelizardpartner #paleontology #geology
This video took 104 million years to make . . . #paleontology #geology #fossils #prehistoricplanet #fossilhunting
I wonder what long forgotten life forms climbed these branches . . . #paleontology #palaeontology #geology #fossils #fossilhunting
The world is such a beautiful place #paleontology #fossilhunting #fossils
Exploring the fossilized reefs of the Texas Eocene with @Blue Lizard Sunscreen who has committed to helping protect our coral reefs, with their mineral-based, reef friendly ingredients (no oxybenzone or octinoxate). Find them in my bio! #bluelizardpartner #paleontology #geology
This and the two videos before it all come from just two days at this 94 million year old site. It’s spectacular . . . #paleontology #palaeontology #geology #fossils #fossilhunting
These little cephalopods had no idea that 90 million years later, an animal unlike anything that lived in their world would find their remains and marvel at them. . . . #paleontology #palaeontology #geology #adventure #discovery #fossils #fossil #ammonite
Ammonites went extinct with the dinosaurs, but the Nautiloids didn’t. Why? They look the same?? During the Cretaceous period, ammonites were dominant, diverse surface dwellers- and the lesser nautiloids tended towards deeper water to avoid competing with their dominant cousins. One of the effects of the asteroid impact that ended the Mesozoic was ocean acidification. Ammonites and their thin-shelled young bobbed around in the gentle sunlit currents of the time, so acid rains and extinction of planktons they relied on ate away their shells and starved them. Some ammonites survived as long as 100,000 years after the impact, but ultimately, their specialized surface dwelling lifestyles killed them. On the other hand, the nautiloids, inhabitants of deeper waters, had less reliance on planktons and felt a softer blow from acidification. Thus, they expanded and thrived, until our furry antagonists evolved in the Oligocene, around 30 million years ago. . . . #paleontology #palaeontology #fossils #fossil #geology #fossilhunting #fieldwork #paleontologist #geoscience #paleontologytiktok
“The fossil is not the animal. The fossil is not the bones of the animal. The fossil is the stone’s memory of the bones of the animal. And that’s a poetry older than words” -Cryptonature . . . #paleontology #palaeontology #geology #geoscience #fossils #fossilhunting
After 76 million years, the goblin shark body plan persists. . . . #paleontology #geology #fossils #fossilhunting #lagerstätten
Each of these little crabs are seeing sunlight for the first time in 41.8 million years. To just be here, under the same sun that they once saw, is humbling. #paleontology #palaeontology #geology #fossils #fossil #discovery
Reply to @garrettghg keep it secret, keep it safe- and work with researchers every chance you get! #paleontology #fossil #adventure #LearnOnTikTok
Initially discovered from an edge of a single vertebra, it now looks like this large, mysterious plesiosaur will continue into the outcrop… #paleontology #fossil #discovery #adventure
