"Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning to diversify and spread around the world."

@AssociatedPress reports: flip.it/PZgHMh

#Amber #Science #Insects #Paleontology

The Creature met an ancestor! 🦣 🦴 🏛️

#TheLaBreaTarPits #LosAngeles #California #Fossils #Merchtodon #Paleontology #Photo #Photography #Plushtodon #LetyDoesSelfies

I've turned one of my teaching modules in #Paleontology into an #OER. It's only one single lab, but many more are waiting to be OER-ised... therefore I really need your input to avoid future mistakes.
github.com/EmiliaJarochowska/Y…

Thanks to the feedback (shoutout to @leouieda and @JMMaok) I knew this:
✅ Must be editable
✅ Must include rubric
✅ Must include an example: I included a possible solution but without an essay, just the code. Now in #Rlanguage but #Python and #JuliaLang will follow.

The most watershed decision was to use #Quarto for everything to make it editable and renderable using Open Source tools and to make it version control-compatible. For people not familiar with #Quarto this may be a barrier?
Not sure what a good alternative would be. #OpenPedagogy

GitHub - EmiliaJarochowska/Yankovich_cave: Reconstruction of Pleistocene climate based on assemblages of mammal microfossils from a cave in Hungary

Reconstruction of Pleistocene climate based on assemblages of mammal microfossils from a cave in Hungary - GitHub - EmiliaJarochowska/Yankovich_cave: Reconstruction of Pleistocene climate based on ...

^GitHub

Quite specific, but a very interesting article about #ants and their early evolution. The authors propose a 3 step scenario based on fossils and their interpretation. Really fascinating !

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…

#insects #nature #ecology #fossil #paleontology #entomology