We introduced you to many #Genuinerockstars in 2022 and in 2023 we will bring you many more!
On this last #FossilFriday before Christmas I'd like to give you all something to watch!
On this last #FossilFriday before Christmas I'd like to give you all something to watch!
The first #GenuineRockstar of the year was @WryCritic, a brilliant palaeontologists and illustrator who introduced us to a new #Pterosaur from #IsleofSkye
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#FossilFriday
The second pair of #GenuineRockstars of the year were @azerkle and @chrisjunium who explained the aftermath of the impact that killed the dinosaur by studying sulfur that got into the #Stratosphere
The third #GenuineRockstar of the year was @Geoceanic who had reconstructed the tectonic dance of the African plate in the #Cretaceous period and how it collided with Europe
The fourth #GenuineRockstar of the year was Lorenzo Marchetti who studies trace fossils. When an animal dies it leaves one body, but it cal leave thousands of footprints and poops, and these can fossilize too!
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#FossilFriday
The fifth #GenuineRockstar of the year was @SarahLosso1 who studies #Trilobites! In this video she explains how the claspers she founds on a trilobite tells us something about they way they had sex!
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#FossilFriday
The sixth #GenuineRockstar of the year was @WangaMulaudzi8 who took us to space! She studies #Blackholes and #Jets! And explained how black holes are photographed from Earth!
The seventh #GenuineRockstar of the year was @DoubleBeam who studied the first case of a repiratory infection in a #Sauropod #Dinosaur!
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#FossilFriday
The eighth #GenuineRockstar of the year was @JasperPonstein who showed us that mammal fur can glow in the dark!
The ninth #genuinerockstar was @paleokrahl who reconstructed a #Plesiosaurus in her office, including all of its muscles to reconstruct how it flew underwater!
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#FossilFriday
The tenth #GenuineRockstar of the year was @vinfernand who nukes fossils at the @esrfsynchrotron and found a burrow with an unexpected fossil pair inside
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#FossilFriday
The 11th #GenuineRockstar of the year was @MartinSuttle who studies meteorites and micrometeorites and explains how you can find your own!
The 12th #GenuineRockstars of the year was @HM_Byrne, also known as the lady who studies fossil poop. She managed to reconstruct an ecosystem by looking at the fossil droppings!
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#FossilFriday
The 13th #GenuineRockstar of the year was @MelinaJobbins who studied a placoderm from #Morocco that had their body outlines preserved!
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#FossilFriday
And the first #GenuineRockstar of 2023 will be @Tessasaurus_rex who studies #Diplodocus skin! We will release this on January 4th at 8:30 pm CET.
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#FossilFriday
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