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is it possible that the fossil mosses such fresh-looking
qinxingyuan posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
According to the author（https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0802501105） the fossils are persevering in moss peat, but not mention how to separate the mosses from the matrix
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Hey, I found this bone-looking fossil while on a hike on James Ross Island in Antarctica. As many other fossils have been found in the area, I’m wondering if anyone can help identify this? We had strict rules not to remove anything from Antarctica, so I’ve left the fossil where I found it. Sorry for the lack of measurement.
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Although rare, fossils from Antarctica do occasionally show up on the market, usually collected by old expeditions. I know of petrified wood, shark teeth and some invertebrate material in private collections, assuming the provenance is genuine. Does anyone else here know more about this?
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A new discovery in Antarctica, which shows some extraordinary capacity of polar trees http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/antarctica-fossil-forests-280-million-year-old-trees-erik-gulbranson-john-isbell-university-of-a8158441.html
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Cone shaped thing in matrix from Seymour Island, Antarctica
David Cothran posted a topic in Fossil ID
Near the K-T boundary there; below, I think. A solitary rugose coral? But the striations look wrong to me. Loose on surface.
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I do not have a large fossil/rock collection, but what I do have I am proud of. This is my rarest piece I have. It is a piece of petrified wood from The Allan Hills, Antarctica. During the 2001-02 summer I was fortunate enough to land a job as a janitor at McMurdo and was night janitor at Crary Science Lab. So a guy I know had went out to do work in the area and brought back samples. He was like, "you want some petrified wood?" I happily took it not knowing at the time how rare and hard this was to get. Also, this is a rather large piece, being about the size of the palm of my hand and while we moved it split along a weak plane falling into two pieces. It was ok, because I can display it better now. I have some other rocks from Antarctica I will show at some point. Since my collection is small I will spread it out over time.
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Flying Dinosaur (Avian) With 6.4 Meter Wingspan from Antarctica
Scylla posted a topic in Fossil News
Birds with 21 foot wingspan found in Antarctica https://phys.org/news/2020-10-antarctica-yields-oldest-fossils-giant.html- 2 replies
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Can Antarctic meteorite explain the mystery of life's weird asymmetry
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Astonishingly old Antarctic space rock could explain mystery of life's weird asymmetry By Meghan Bartels, SpaceCom, August 21, 2020 https://www.space.com/pristine-antarctic-meteorite-amino-acid-chirality.html Pristine Space Rock Offers NASA Scientists Peek at Evolution of Life’s Building Blocks By Lonnie Shekhtman, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., August 21, 2020 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/pristine-space-rock-offers-nasa-scientists-peek-at-evolution-of-life-s-building-blocks The paper is: Daniel P. Glavin Hannah L. McLain Jason P. Dworkin Eric T. Parker and others, 2020 Abundant extraterrestrial amino acids in the primitive CM carbonaceous chondrite Asuka 12236 First published: 20 August 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13560 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/maps.13560 Yours, Paul H.-
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I mean the fossil is frozen, not the frog. 40 million year old frog fossil found on the Antarctic Peninsula shows Antarctica was warm enough for frogs at that time. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencenews.org/article/first-frog-fossil-antarctica-found-ancient-climate/amp
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A new Antartica find! https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/science/1269192/antarctica-rainforest-dinosaur-CT-scan-below-ice-climate-change-south-pole-spt/amp.
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'Traces of ancient rainforest in Antarctica point to a warmer prehistoric world' https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196516/traces-ancient-rainforest-antarctica-point-warmer/
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All this fossil needs is Buffalo sauce! https://www.thejakartapost.com/amp/life/2020/03/15/fossil-of-43-million-year-old-penguin-skin-found-in-argentina.html
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McLoughlin, S., Bomfleur, B. and Thomas, M., 2016. The weird world of fossil worm cocoons. Deposits Magazine, 46, pp.399-406. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304285376_The_weird_world_of_fossil_worm_cocoons/link/5b83a324a6fdcc5f8b6a4506/download https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen_Mcloughlin http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1047133/FULLTEXT02 McLoughlin, S., Bomfleur, B., Mörs, T. and Reguero, M., 2016. Fossil clitellate annelid cocoons and their microbiological inclusions from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica. Palaeontologia Electronica, 19(1), pp.1-27. https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/in-press/1448-eocene-annelid-cocoons https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/607.pdf Yours, Paul H.
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Gelfo, J.N., Goin, F.J., Bauza, N., and Reguero, M., 2019. The fossil record of Antarctic land mammals: commented review and hypotheses for future research. Advances in Polar Science. 30(3): 251-273 doi: 10.13679/j.advps.2019.0021 (open access) http://www.aps-polar.org/paper/2019/30/03/A190814000002 PDF: http://www.aps-polar.org/paper/2019/30/03/A190814000002/full Gelfo, J.N., López, G.M. and Santillana, S.N., 2017. Eocene ungulate mammals from West Antarctica: implications from their fossil record and a new species. Antarctic Science, 29(5), pp.445-455. (open access) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318350360_Eocene_ungulate_mammals_from_West_Antarctica_implications_from_their_fossil_record_and_a_new_species https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Javier_N_Gelfo Yours, Paul H.
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Antarctic Dinosaurs in Los Angeles Natural History Museum
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
LA Scientist Nathan Smith Went To Antarctica And Brought Back Dinosaurs https://laist.com/2019/04/02/these_scientists_went_to_antarctica_and_brought_back_dinosaurs_heres_how_to_see_them.php Yours, Paul H.-
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Only the second theropod described from Antarctica Imperobator antarcticus is a Dromaeosaurid and was found in 2003 and reported in 2007 in this paper 10.1.1.546.3890.pdf Blog http://theropoddatabase.blogspot.com/2019/04/imperobator-second-named-antarctic.html Paywalled Paper describing I. antarcticus (not really important since we have other publications and blogs) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667118300120
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Microfossils Retrace Antarctica’s Glacial Past (Ross Sea)
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Retracing Antarctica’s Glacial Past LSU geologist uncovers new data to inform future sea level rise https://www.lsu.edu/mediacenter/news/2018/09/25gg_bart_scireports.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180925140417.htm https://phys.org/news/2018-09-retracing-antarctica-glacial.html The open-access paper is: Bart, P.J., DeCesare, M., Rosenheim, B.E., Majewski, W. and McGlannan, A., 2018. A centuries-long delay between a paleo-ice-shelf collapse and grounding- line retreat in the Whales Deep Basin, eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica. Scientific reports, 8(1), article 12392. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-29911-8 Yours, Paul H. -
The era of sabre-toothed cats and giant sharks and climate change
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
What the era of sabre-toothed cats and giant sharks says about climate change by Simon Levey, Imperial College London, April 2019 https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/190795/what-sabretoothed-cats-giant-sharks-says/ The meeting is: The Pliocene: The Last Time Earth had >400 ppm of Atmospheric CO2 Royal Meteorological Society Meeting https://www.rmets.org/event/pliocene-last-time-earth-had-400-ppm-atmospheric-co2 The video of the talks is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmdJJEuwTrg Other articles are: Last time CO2 levels were this high, there were trees at the South Pole Pliocene beech fossils in Antarctica when CO2 was at similar level to today point to planet’s future, The Guardian, April 3, 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/03/south-pole-tree-fossils-indicate-impact-of-climate-change Dire future etched in the past: CO2 at 3-million year-old levels by Patrick Galey And Marlowe Hood, PhysOrg, April 5, 2019 https://phys.org/news/2019-04-dire-future-etched-co2-million.html Yours, Paul H.-
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I googled earth and took these pics of the rock formations in Antarctica. I thought they were very interesting, great formations, but didn't see any fossils.
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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/fm-idc012319.php http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2019/01/31/antarctanax/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A DiscoverBlogs (Discover Blogs)
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Five fossil plant species, new for the continent, found in Antarctica
Kasia posted a topic in Fossil News
https://www.novinite.com/articles/194887/Bulgarian+Researchers+Discover+Five+New+Plant+Fossils+on+Antarctica
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Scientists discover the first Antarctic ground beetle PhysOrg, November 28, 2016 http://phys.org/news/2016-11-scientists-antarctic-ground-beetle.html Ancient Bug Discovered in the Heart of Antarctica George Dvorsky, Gizmo http://gizmodo.com/ancient-bug-discovered-in-the-heart-of-antarctica-1789462820 Rare Antarctic beetle find delights BBC News, Science & Environment, November 29, 2016 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38145258 the paper is: Ashworth, A. C., and T. L. Erwin, 2016, Antarctotrechus balli sp. n. (Carabidae, Trechini): the first ground beetle from Antarctica. ZooKeys. vol. 635, pp. 109-122 (23 Nov 2016) https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.635.10535 http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=10535 Yours, Paul H.
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Fossil Leaves Document Why Antarctic Ice Sheet Melted 23 Million Years Ago
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Shrinking of Antarctic Ice Sheet linked to CO2 spike, Phys.Org, Oct 11, 2016 http://phys.org/news/2016-10-historic-antarctic-ice-sheet-linked.html Fossil leaves show how Antarctic ice melted 23 million years ago, Zee News, Oct 20, 2016 http://zeenews.india.com/environment/fossil-leaves-show-how-antarctic-ice-melted-23-million-years-ago_1941996.html Ancient crater lake in Central Otago offers clues for Antarctica, Matthew Backhouse, Oct. 20, 2016 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11732949 The paper is: Reichgelt, T., W. J. D'Andrea, and B. R. S. Fox, 2016 Abrupt plant physiological changes in southern New Zealand at the termination of the Mi-1 event reflect shifts in hydroclimate and pCO2, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 455, pp. 115-124. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.09.026 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308978197_Abrupt_plant_physiological_changes_in_southern_New_Zealand_at_the_termination_of_the_Mi-1_event_reflect_shifts_in_hydroclimate_and_pCO2 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tammo_Reichgelt Yours, Paul H. -
Antarctic mystery solved? Ocean fossils found in mountains are cause for concern over future sea levels, scientists say, Northern Illinois University , September 21, 2016 http://newsroom.niu.edu/2016/09/20/antarctic-mystery-solved-scientists-say-ocean-fossils-found-in-mountains-are-cause-for-concern-over-future-sea-levels/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160921103712.htm Scientists may have just solved a riddle about Antarctica - and the answer isn't comforting, Worcester Telegram, Sept. 21, 2016 http://www.telegram.com/news/20160921/scientists-may-have-just-solved-riddle-about-antarctica---and-answer-isnt-comforting Scientists may have solved a key riddle about Antarctica — and you’re not going to like the answer, Chris Mooney, Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/09/20/scientists-may-have-just-solved-a-riddle-about-antarctica-and-youre-not-going-to-like-the-answer/?utm_term=.aa8075574315 The paper is: Scherer, R. P., R. M. DeConto, D. Pollard, R. B. Alley, 2016, Windblown Pliocene diatoms and East Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat. Nature Communications, 2016; 7: 12957 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12957 http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12957 Yours, Paul H.
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From the album: Not Mine
Genus/spp unknown, found in Antarctica in the early 90's, appromimately 3 inches long
