mastodon.world is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Generic Mastodon server for anyone to use.

Server stats:

9K
active users

#microfossils

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

Another successful microfossil sorting session! This one included a lot more unusual finds.

1 - Fish barb with spines (ouch!)
2 - Multituberculate molar - rare!
3 - Ungual phalanx

If you're interested in joining the illustrious group of volunteers that finds these fossils, our next event is Sunday, March 2, from 1 - 3:30pm at Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB. Everyone is welcome!

albertapaleo.org/events

Beat the winter blues with microfossil sorting! Join members of the APS this Sunday, January 12 from 1 - 3:30pm in rm. B140 at Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, to sort through fossil matrix from the Eocene of Sakatchewan. We'll be looking for mammal teeth, fish bones, and anything else we can find.

Anyone is welcome to attend, and we'll have people ready to get you started and show you how everything works.

Another year of microfossil sorting is at an end! Some highlights this session included a grastropod, many mammal teeth, a tiny crocodile tooth, and some amber!

Since this summer, volunteers for the APS have spent collectively 158 person-hours and sorted through a very auspicious 2024g of sediment!

Our next session will be January 12. For more details, see albertapaleo.org/events/. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Thanks to everyone who came out on Sunday to help sort fossils! We found lots of teeth, fish scales, some vertebrae, and a selection of odds and ends. Pictured are a rodent incisor and molar (probably) from the Eocene of Saskatchewan.

Our next fossil sorting session is Sunday, December 1, and everyone is welcome! See the events page albertapaleo.org/events/ for more details.

We have a new room for our microfossil sorting this coming Sunday, October 20! If you're interested in going fossil hunting while comfortably sitting down with others who are as passionate as you, please join us in Mount Royal University room B140 from 1 - 3:30pm to look for microfossils!

This event is open to everyone age 12 and up, so we hope to see you there!

For more details, see the APS events page at albertapaleo.org/events/.

Have you ever wanted to go fossil hunting while sitting down in a climate-controlled room?

Aid the research of Dr. Theodor and Dr. Dutchak of the University of Calgary by searching the soil from the Cypress Hills Formation of Saskatchewan to find tiny fossils. We will be using microscopes in room B114 at Mount Royal University.

This event is open to anyone aged 12 and older.

For more details, see albertapaleo.org/events/

How NASA Can Avoid A False Positive Mars Microfossil Detection

✍️ by Bruce Dorminey for Forbes, including insights by Sandra Siljestrom, astrobiologist and geochemist, and ‘sample shepherd’ on Perseverance

forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey

Forbes · How NASA Can Avoid A False Positive Mars Microfossil DetectionBy Bruce Dorminey

Phun with phytos!

A few thousand years ago, there was a little flowering plant near a small tell site in Iraq, and it left this really cool clue behind - evidence that it once lived :)) This is a multi-branched trichome phytolith, basically hair cells. This one may come from the Asteraceae (daisy) family (maybe maybe, still researching this one!), so one of some 32,000+ species 😳

Stacked image; 400x magnification #microfossils #science #archaeology