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Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost By Daniel Ackerman, The Washington Post, July 7, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/ancient-life-awakens-amid-thawing-ice-caps-and-permafrost/2019/07/05/335281f8-7108-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html Aulacomnium turgidum - Swollen Thread-moss PDF file - https://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/Activities/mosses/Aulacomnium turgidum.pdf Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aulacomnium_turgidum The papers are: Roads, E., Longton, R.E. and Convey, P., 2014. Millennial timescale regeneration in a moss from Antarctica. Current Biology, 24(6), pp.R222-R223. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214000864 La Farge, C., Williams, K.H. and England, J.H., 2013. Regeneration of Little Ice Age bryophytes emerging from a polar glacier with implications of totipotency in extreme environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(24), pp.9839-9844.s https://www.pnas.org/content/110/24/9839 Yours, Paul H.

A New ‘King’ — New, Gigantic, Ancient Armored Fish Discovered by Frank Otto, Drexel Now, October 11, 2016 http://drexel.edu/now/archive/2016/October/B_rex/ http://phys.org/news/2016-10-gigantic-ancient-armored-fish.html Gigantic, ancient armoured 'B rex' fish discovered Fossil bones from the skull of Bothriolepis rex. Scientists have discovered an ancient fish that dates back 370 million years. DNA, Washington , PTI, Oct. 12, 2016 http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-gigantic-ancient-armoured-b-rex-fish-discovered-2263499 The paper is: Downs, J. p., E. B. Daeschler, V. E. Garcia, and N. H. Shubin, 2016 A new large-bodied species of Bothriolepis (Antiarchi) from the Upper Devonian of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada Article: e1221833 Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Published, Received 09 Mar 2016, Accepted 05 Jul 2016, Published online: 07 Oct 2016 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2016.1221833 Yours, Paul H.

Hi All, This is my first post in the forums, but probably won't be my last... I'm trying to write a kids book on evolution and want to draw some nice pictures to go with the rhymes (it's aimed at younger kids). However for the page I have written about Tiktaalik roseae I would like to do a picture of it resting on the bank of a river, with some of the likely associated flora and fauna that lived in the margins of freshwater at the time hanging out in the background/foreground (probably foreground as I suspect they were all fairly small). Unfortunately there don't seem to be a lot of good fossils from the Famennian in Canada at this time and so I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me identify some likely candidates. There is a lot of information on the tetrapods that lived with it but it seems like nobody has covered the land living/marginal species that may have crossed paths with it. There is also some info about things like e.g. Archaeopteris, Gigantocharinus, Microdecemplex, etc. but none of them seem to occur in the same location/stratigraphy. Hopefully the way I have written this doesn't make me sound completely clueless (although chances are good), as it's been a while since I've dabbled in palaeontology, but if anyone wants further clarification then let me know. Thanks in advance, this is a great website, by the way! Cheers SpoonMan