come on, 4 inches is quite large for a scorpion. You didn't expect something the size of Xingjangtitan, did you?

https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/125-million-year-old-fossil-of-giant-venomous-scorpion-that-lived-alongside-dinosaurs-discovered-in-china

#fossils
#scorpions
#arthropod
#mesozoic

Zcela poprvé byly fosilizované měkké tkáně plesiosaura prostudovány do hloubky. Jakou měl plesiosaur z Holzmadenu kůži?

#paleontology #plesiosaur #mesozoic #fossil #prehistory #ancient #life #animals #science

https://blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/2025/02/plesiosauri-byli-supinati-prvni-studie.html

For the first time, fossilized soft tissues of a plesiosaur have been subjected to an in-depth study. What was the Holzmaden plesiosaur's skin like?

#paleontology #plesiosaur #mesozoic #fossil #prehistory #ancient #life #animals #science

https://blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/2025/02/plesiosauri-byli-supinati-prvni-studie.html

there are still 6 days left to apply to join my group at Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt as a PhD Student in #Paleobiology! Are you interested in how the rock record shapes our undersanding of macroevolutionary dynamics of #plants in the #Mesozoic?

@SenckenbergWorld

https://www.senckenberg.de/en/career/scientists/#content-0002_2

The Ocean - Jurassic | Cretaceous (Drum Play-through by Paul Seidel) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_dNh352RE0

#metal #blade #records #official #channel #metal blade records #the ocean #the ocean collective #Phanerozoic I #phanerozic II #mesozoic #Cenozoic #the ocean jurassic #the ocean cretaceous #new the ocean song #new the ocean album #sludge metal #doom metal #katatonia #jonas renkse #post metal #drummer #drum playthrough #play-through #learning drums

Working my way through some #Mesozoic marine reptile #palaeoart I have drawn. After yesterday's #ichthyosaurs, here are two #plesiosaurs - the extremely long necked #Albertonectes, and the huge predatory pliosaur #Kronosaurus.