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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...

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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/2712447 (I meant to post here first but the alternate spellings of "pal(a)eontology" got me mixed up lol)

Just forwarding along a two-toot thread from @[email protected] post with some Mastodon accounts related to paleontology. Copy-pasted and edited the relevant text here for y'all's convenience:

➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Featuring lots of well-preserved fossils, run by Kansas Geological Survey
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] (main) & https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] (museum) - Exec Director at Western Science Center, Calif. Expert on #mastodons
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Evolutionary #palaeobiologist, senior lecturer in #zoology at Univ. of Lincoln, UK
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Archaeologist & criminologist at Maastricht Univ, studying #fossil smuggling
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - #Palaeontologist & #plesiosaur expert, curator at Nottingham Natural History Museum in UK
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Fossil illustrator & science educator
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - In #palaeobiology dept at Univ. of Toronto, researching cat fossils
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Palaeontology student & makes Lego dinos
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Comics set in Earth's distant past
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Works with fossils & x-rays at Univ. of Manchester

If you have a Mastodon account, you can just plop these links in the search bar on your own instance and find them!

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[–] TrojanHam 2 points 1 year ago

This may be the most awesome post I've seen in a decade!