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I recently had a great chat with Ben Francischelli, a paleontologist from Melbourne, Australia, doing an amazing job finding fossils and very involved in scientific outreach. He talked about the fossils he and some citizen scientists found in 2022 across a number of sites. Sooooo many shark teeth, whale teeth, cetacean ear bones and crazy giant marsupials! He is on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/a_fools_experiment/ Check out his LinkTree for other cool links (YouTube, Patreon, papers etc) https://linktr.ee/a_fools_experiment- 2 replies
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Out with my most frequent hunting partner. With the cold weather turning warmer, and the river dropping, we have been prospecting sites that proved productive in previous seasons. It does not always pay off.. sometimes the locations have been covered by feet of sand or the gravel we were digging in last year has been carried downstream to parts unknown. Today was sunny and warm, we checked one location for 90 minutes followed by another and both were good (lots of small shark teeth) but not great.. We moved to a third location that we had hunted extensively in previous years and once ag
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Hey all, Part 2 of my blog series on whale and dolphin earbones is here - my guide to identifying isolated dolphin/toothed whale (Odontoceti) periotic bones. Check it out here: https://coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2023/01/bobbys-guide-to-whale-dolphin-earbones.html Sample image:-
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New blog post! A guide to whale and dolphin earbones - part 1
Boesse posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hi all - it's been a while, since I started on twitter and started teaching much of the itch I scratched through blog writing was taken care of by twitter - but now I've thought about returning to more long-format science communication. The blog format is certainly more informative for most fossil collectors anyway. The new post is just the first in a series on whale and dolphin earbones - the first is an introduction to the basic anatomy and function of earbones, along with basic differences between baleen whale (Mysticeti) and dolphin (Odontoceti) earbones, with comments on their
