#dickensonia

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Do you have a favourite precambrian creature?

I think mine's dickensonia, maybe stromatalites (thanks for the oxygen).

I am a hipster and I rank the entirety of the Francevillian Biota as #1

[argentsunshine]

Top 10 animals of all time

10. blackbirds

9. dickensonia

8. tiktaalik roseae

7. pigeons

6. cat (generic)

5.magpies

4. the cats that live along my route home specifically

3. archaeopteryx

2. @dragonsbutter 's dog henry (gray i shall let you choose what images to show the people)

1. carrion crow

[whattolearntoday]

A bit of September 21st history...

1765 - Antoine de Beauterne announces he has killed the Beast of Gevaudan 

1792 - French Revolution:The National Convention passes a proclamation announcing the formal abolishment of the French monarchy

1827 - According to Joseph Smith Jr, the angel Moroni, gave him a record of gold plates, 1/3 of which he translated into the Book of Mormon

1895 - America’s 1st automotive producer, the Duryea Motor Wagon company, is founded (pictured)

1937 - J.R.R Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” is published

2016 - 3 genetic studies published in Nature conclude a non - Africans descended from 1 migration out of Africa 50-80,000 years ago

2016 - Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pledge $3 billion to medical research to “cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of the century

2016 - Genomic study finding Australian Aboriginal oldest known civilization on earth

2018 -Fossil of Dickinsonia, “The Holy Grail of Paleontology”, proven to be oldest known animal fossil, 558 million years old, from White Sea, Russia

[bunjywunjy]

Ooh any favorite fauna from the Ediacaran?

Dickensonia!

[sugarysweetsprites]

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[fromthedust]

Dickinsonia  - fossil sea creature - 558 million years ago - Ediacaran Period 

First discovered in 1946 (described 1947) in Australia, the segmented, pancake-shaped fossils  can run up to one meter in length, but there was no evidence to suggest that this Pre-Cambrian fossil was an animal or something else. The creature, called Dickinsonia, has been described as looking a bit like a jellyfish, a worm, a fungus and a lichen. Scientific debate raged for over 70 years as to exactly how to classify the fossil as it was not much like anything now living.

Although Dickinsonia fossils have now been found at dozens of sites across the world, they are typically found solely as two-dimensional imprints in sandstone. Then in 2016, Ilya Bobrovskiy, a graduate student at Australian National University, made a startling discovery of Dickinsonia fossils in Russia that were essentially mummified in a mixture of clay and sandstone. The resulting study allowed scientists to determine conclusively that the fossil is of a multi-cellular animal.  This early animal was flat — perhaps only two or three cells thick, with the bottom most layer of cells serving as its stomach. The shallow areas of the Ediacarian seafloor were covered with a gooey carpet of single-celled microbes and algae. Dickensonia would have crept atop this 'microbial mat' digesting the microbes and algae beneath it.    

Dickinsonia now holds the record as the oldest macroscopic creature in the fossil record from the end of the Ediacaran (Pre-Cambrian) Period — and is now considered to be our oldest ancestor.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/say-hello-to-dickinsonia-the-animal-kingdoms-newest-and-oldest-member/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4900142/Strange-segmented-Dickinsonia-organism-animal.html

https://www.inverse.com/article/49169-dickinsonia-lived-before-cambrian-explosion

[embyrr922]

Fuck typos. Peach and** strawberry?

peach: do you have any piercings or tattoos? I just have my ears pierced. I have cute trilobite earrings that my husband gave me when we were first dating, and I’ve been wearing them pretty much nonstop for the past seven years. (The last time I wore anything else was at our wedding.)

I kind of want a tattoo, but I’m really not sure I could get anything permanently inked on my body that I wouldn’t end up regretting. If I did get a tattoo, it would probably be a scientific illustration of one of the Ediacaran biota (either Dickensonia, because they’re super cool and I’ve seen some of the original fossils collected by Reg Sprigg, or Tribrachidium, because tri-radial symmetry and extinct phyla are awesome).

…it seems I will make things about how much I wish I were a paleontologist whenever I can.

strawberry: favorite desserts? Bread pudding, pumpkin pie, and pretty much any kind of custard.