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Mariah Howell

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M.Sc. Organismic Biology | University of Bonn Ph.D. student exploring sauropod herbivory 🦕 and conifer cone phyllotaxis 🌲 | American in Germany | 🏳️‍🌈 | she/her | mariahmhowell.com

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The press coverage of the Academy of Natural Sciences has gone from "Oh how sad" to sounding like a hostage negotiation. Which maybe sounds bad, but elected leaders, the press, the people online, all saying "You don't have to do this, man" is better than mourning. share.inquirer.com/YTQg0s
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Philadelphia shouldn’t give up on the Academy of Natural Sciences’ historic museum | Editorial
The Academy's 150-year-old building faces roughly $150 million in deferred maintenance costs. While that may seem daunting, it is not insurmountable.
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I became a biologist because of a museum exhibit. Real artifacts tell stories that are more powerful than anything we can get from scrolling. They are part of our engine for training the next generation of scientists. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/the-awesomen...
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The awesomeness of museums
Genuine artifacts tell the richest stories that fill our souls. And they fuel the scientific enterprise.
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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Our paper is now published🌲⛏️🇦🇶 #paleobotany #fossil #botany
Sections of fossil wood showing small rings
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Mariah Howell @mariahmhowell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Carole Gee, (the late) Dick Dayvault, and I named a new fossil seed cone species, Pararacauria utahensis, and reconstructed it in 3D!
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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
The Mississippian aged Edwardsville Fm. near Crawfordsville, IN is famous for crinoids. This piece is special because the anal tube (think waste chimney) was damaged and regenerated twice! The first time it split. The second is just starting to regrow. #FossilFriday #Fossil
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Museum of Natural and Cultural History @uomnch.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
It's another beautiful fall weekend in Eugene and these leaf fossils are right in season. Found in Goshen, Oregon, these laurel leaves fell over 34 million years ago but still look fresh enough to crunch. #FossilFriday #paleosky #paleontology
A long rectangular drawer is pulled out from a cabinet. In that drawer is a rectangle slab of what looks like concrete, about 2 feet long and 1 1/2 feet wide. The surface of the slab is peppered with about 30 red and brown prints of oblong leaves. A close up of a red leaf pressed into the concrete slab. The brownish red is vibrant. The edges of the leave are clear, and the black veins are crisp and visible.
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Hello new followers, I'm Darren and I write about #animals (natural history in general, but also extinct #dinosaurs, speculative evolution, #cryptozoology and more); I blog at Tetrapod Zoology. I also write books and do actual research when I can, see pubs at darrennaish.wordpress.com/publications/
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HOW ‘INTELLIGENT’ WERE NON-BIRD DINOSAURS? A 2023 study argued that brain size in non-bird dinosaurs had been underestimated, and that these animals likely also possessed billions of ne…
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
ICYMI, here is a lesson plan I use when teaching my students how to find jobs in marine biology and conservation. I encourage early career folks in this field to check it out. 🦑 🧪 🌏
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Here’s what I teach my students about finding jobs in marine biology and conservation – Southern Fried Science
Southern Fried Science
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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
A review of the NHMU paleontology exhibit, which is *so good* extinctmonsters.net/2024/10/10/p...
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Past Worlds at NHMU is breathtaking
Gryposaurus makes an impression amidst other dinosaurs in Past Worlds, the NHMU paleontology exhibition. Photo by the author. I visited the Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU) earlier this week, …
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
A new regime of herbivory from diverse plant–arthropod interactions from the Middle Jurassic of northeastern #China Lifang Xiao, Yuekun Wu et al 🧪⚒️ #ichnology #paleobotany #palaeobotany www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Diverse pictures of fossil plants and insect traces
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
An enigmatic tropical #conifer from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana 🌲 Maria Edenilce P. Batista, Antônio Álamo F. Saraiva, Flaviana J. De Lima, Renan A.M. Bantim, Allysson P. Pinheiro, Daniel B. Silva, Lutz Kunzmann 🧪⚒️ #paleobotany #palaeobotany www.app.pan.pl/article/item...
Fig. 3. Conifer Leliacladus castilhoi (Duarte, 1985) Batista & L.Kunzmann gen. nov. et comb. nov., from Aptian, Lower Cretaceous, Crato Formation, Araripe Basin, Ceará State, NE Brazil. A. MMG PB SAK 59 showing the general morphology (A1), claviform branches (arrows) and fish skeleton partially superimposed on one of the branches (A2), detail of the leaves (arrow pointing to the leaf apex) (A3) , frilled leaf margin (arrow)
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