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"Paleontology is the study of the history of life on Earth as based on fossils. Fossils are the remains of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and single-celled living things that have been replaced by rock material or impressions of organisms preserved in rock."

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FediFollows - paleontology accounts on Mastodon (social.growyourown.services)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz to c/paleontology@lemmy.ml

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Just forwarding along a two-toot thread from @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services post with some Mastodon accounts related to paleontology. Copy-pasted and edited the relevant text here for y'all's convenience:

➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@Fossilbonanza@sciencemastodon.com - Featuring lots of well-preserved fossils, run by Kansas Geological Survey
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@AltonDooley@mstdn.social (main) & https://scicomm.xyz/@westernsciencecenter@mstdn.social (museum) - Exec Director at Western Science Center, Calif. Expert on #mastodons
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@drmambobob@ecoevo.social - Evolutionary #palaeobiologist, senior lecturer in #zoology at Univ. of Lincoln, UK
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@Drdonnayates@archaeo.social - Archaeologist & criminologist at Maastricht Univ, studying #fossil smuggling
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@AdamStuartSmith@sauropods.win - #Palaeontologist & #plesiosaur expert, curator at Nottingham Natural History Museum in UK
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@punkpaleo@sauropods.win - Fossil illustrator & science educator
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@ashinonyx@scholar.social - In #palaeobiology dept at Univ. of Toronto, researching cat fossils
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@TheDinosaurDave@sauropods.win - Palaeontology student & makes Lego dinos
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@keeseycomics@sauropods.win - Comics set in Earth's distant past
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@russell@ecoevo.social - Works with fossils & x-rays at Univ. of Manchester

If you have a Mastodon account, you can just plop these links in the search bar on your own instance and find them!

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