I read a paper, Oxygen and animal evolution: Did a rise of atmospheric oxygen trigger the origin of animals? by Daniel B. Mills and Donald E. Canfield, BioEssays, Volume 36 (12) - Dec 1, 2014
I can’t find a good, free, PDF of this one, mateys.
The Morrison Museum of Natural History makes a good pair with a visit to Denver area Dinosaur Ridge.
If you’re in the Denver, CO, area, you really should head out to the western end of Alameda Boulevard, where you’ll find Dinosaur Ridge. You can see Apatosaurus footprints, and just possibly, the remains of Tyrannosaur Rex courtship rituals.
I read a paper, Skeletal pathologies track body plan evolution in ichthyosaurs, by Judith M Pardo-Pérez, Benjamin P Kear, Erin E Maxwell
I read a couple of papers dealing with Ordovician period geology and paleontology.
Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring during the Ordovician, Andrew G Tomkins, Erin L Martin, Peter A Cawood, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 646 (2024)118991
Understanding the Great Ordovician Biodiversity Event (GOBE): Influences of paleogeography, paleoclimate, or paleoecology?, Thomas Servais, David A.T. Harper, Jun Li, Axel Munnecke, Alan W Owen, Peter M Sheehan, GSA Today, April/May 2009
Even though the abstract includes the word “iconic”, I recommend an article from Nature, Uniquely preserved gut contents illuminate trilobite palaeophysiology,
I read a pre-print of a paper, The origin and early evolution of arthropods,
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
Richard Fortey, 2001, ISBN 978-0375706219
If you’ve driven the long way across Kansas on I-70, there are two things that you’ve seen and wondered about.
First and foremost, Wheat Jesus on a billboard in Colby, Kansas. I have no insights, artistic, theological or sociological, on Wheat Jesus, or “Wheatus” as some folks know him.
There’s also the big beige dome on the south side of I-70 in Hays, Kansas. That’s the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. You really should take an hour or two to visit it. Well worth your time.
