Reflections of a Lifelong Paleonerd

Tag: Carboniferous

Carboniferous Paleozoic

To Put a Face with a Name: The Newfound Head of Arthropleura, Prehistory’s Largest Millipede

Post author By maxsblogosaurus
Post date October 12, 2024
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A new specimen has given a face to the largest creepy-crawly that has ever walked the earth.

Tags Arthropleura, Arthropods, Carboniferous, Centipedes, Insects, Millipedes, Myriapoda, science

Carboniferous Miscellaneous Animals

The Swamp Monster Revisited: A New Face for an Ancient Tetrapod

Post author By maxsblogosaurus
Post date May 3, 2023
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Modern technology has helped give a face to one of Scotland’s oldest killers

Tags Carboniferous, Crassigyrinus, fossils, Nature, Paleontology, prehistory, Stem Tetrapods

Museums!

A Review of the Royal Ontario Museum’s Dawn of Life Exhibit

Post author By maxsblogosaurus
Post date December 5, 2021
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After four years, the wait is finally over. Check out my thoughts about the Royal Ontario Museum’s latest exhibit, the Dawn of Life Gallery

Tags Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Carboniferous, Devonian, Dinosaurs, fossils, Nature, palaeontology, Paleontology, Permian, prehistory, Triassic, Trilobite

Carboniferous The Frightening Fossils

Halloween Special: How the Carboniferous Was Bugging Out

Post author By maxsblogosaurus
Post date October 31, 2021
4 Comments on Halloween Special: How the Carboniferous Was Bugging Out

For those afraid of creepy-crawlies, you have it easy living today. Travel back 300 million years, and you’d find a whole host of terrifying arthropods awaiting you.

Tags Arthropleura, Carboniferous, fossils, Insects, Meganeura, Megarachne, Nature, Paleontology, prehistory, Scorpions