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Charlène Gaillard
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🐾⚒️Paleontologist and geologist
🐈Let's unearth some wonders of vertebrate paleontology together🦴🕵🏻‍♀️
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Si vous cherchez à bâtir un monde meilleur, vous pouvez toujours jouer à « A Better World », le nouveau jeu vidéo co-produit par ARTE 🕹️
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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🌍 The VCWAP was born to address a stark reality:
Women remain underrepresented in archaeology and paleontology — despite their crucial contributions 🙌🥳

For more details 🔍 ⬇️
awap-science.org/en/the-confe...

#conference #paleontology #archaeology #online #science
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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⚡️Solar storm incoming! We are actively monitoring severe space weather events, occurring on 11-12 November. Severely disturbed geomagnetic conditions are expected to persist for at least 24 to 48 hours.

🔗 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

@operations.esa.int @science.esa.int
November 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Call for abstracts still open! We welcome contributions in archaeology, paleontology & related fields.
First/presenting author must be an early-career woman.
Talks/Posters: Dec 1
Paleoart: Dec 20
Info: awap-science.org/en/vcwap-cur...
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Reposted by Charlène Gaillard
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Guy Parmelin et la commissaire européenne à la recherche Ekaterina Zaharieva ont signé à Berne l’accord sur les programmes Suisse-UE (#EUPA). La Suisse est ainsi à nouveau définitivement associée au plus grand programme de recherche du monde, #HorizonEurope.

➡️ sohub.io/0w6h

📷 WBF/DEFR
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Meet the flat-headed cat. This species is at home in water & can often be spotted on river banks. It feeds on crustaceans, frogs, & fish. Sharp molars help it grip slippery prey & partially webbed feet help it navigate its environment.
Photo: Jim Sanderson, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Head on shot of a flat-headed cat sitting at the water's edge. It looks as if it's tucking its limbs close to its body. The cat has brownish-red fur and a flat head and is staring toward the viewer.
November 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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On National Fossil Day, we celebrate the scientific and educational importance of paleontology and our responsibility to conserve fossils for future generations. Today, October 15th, 2025, is the 16th Anniversary of National Fossil Day!

#NationalFossilDay

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National Fossil Day (U.S. National Park Service)
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October 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The little pygmy possum is the smallest possum in the world! Weighing ~0.4 oz (10 g), it's about the weight of 10 almonds. This omnivore has a taste for the nectar & pollen of flowering plants: It can consume up to 7% of its body weight in a single day!
Photo: Tom Hunt, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
A photo of a little pygmy gray possum held in a human hand. The animal is tiny and gray in color, with pink hands and feet. It is about the size of a human thumb.
September 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Lots of people like a long nail - but there’s something slightly spooky about the sloth’s full set… 🦥

Long, curved and strong enough to help them hang from branches. Discover the secret behind a sloth’s tough talons in this week’s #SurprisingScience 💅🏽
August 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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New species found in the Colombian Andes, in the Parque Forestal Embalse del Neusa, Cundinamarca.
August 29, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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🚨🚨🚨Latest news on Neotropical Staphylinidae from Colombia! A new species of Scydmaeninae 🪲🪲🪲
@etoolm.bsky.social

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August 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Fungi and plants have something to teach humans about global trade and cooperation.
How plants and fungi trade resources without a brain
Fungi and plants have something to teach humans about global trade and cooperation
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August 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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🤠Conoce al marsupial dientes de sable! 🦁🍖
➡️ Mañana, domingo 24 de agosto a las 2 de la tarde (hora de Colombia)
💻📱Conéctate en vivo a las Jornadas Latinoamericanas de Divulgación de la Paleontología
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I Jornadas Latinoamericanas de Divulgación de la Paleontología
Event by Red Colombiana para el Fomento de la Paleontología - Copal on Saturday, August 23 2025
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August 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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🌋 Impressionnante éruption du Volcan Krasheninnikov en Russie (lien de la BBC News avec vidéo). Cet évènement peut être en lien avec le fort séisme et les répliques enregistrées ces derniers jours dans la région.
#geologicalforces #eruption #plaquetectonique
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Russian volcano erupts for first time in centuries
The eruption of a volcano in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula may be linked to a massive earthquake last week, experts say.
www.bbc.com
August 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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🚨🚨🚨Latest news on Neotropical Philonthina (Staphylinidae)!

Systematics and phylogeny of the Andean genera Konradus Chani-Posse & Ramírez-Salamanca and Yuracarus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) arthropod-systematics.arphahub.com/articles.php...
Systematics and phylogeny of the Andean genera Konradus Chani-Posse & Ramírez-Salamanca and Yuracarus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
Abstract Konradus Chani-Posse & Ramírez-Salamanca, 2020 was originally described as a monotypic genus from the tropical Andes of Ecuador. However, a re-examination of type material ...
arthropod-systematics.arphahub.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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📢 ¡Vuelve la aventura!
En San Miguel de Tucumán
El museo de Ciencia Naturales de Tucumán abre las puertas a la experiencia "Tocar para Aprender: un viaje al mundo de la paleontología", una exposión adapta para personas con discapacidad. El 28 de julio de 2025 habra 4 turnos disponibles de visitas. ¡Preparate para un viaje fascinante al pasado!
July 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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📢 Latest research on the braincase endocasts of sparassodonts just published!
➡️ Follow this link to read it: 🔗 rdcu.be/eq1qc
The braincase endocast of Sparassodonta (Mammalia, Metatheria) reveals that some of today’s morphological characters of marsupial brains were already present in stem Marsupialia
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June 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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📣Next week! 🔸June 11th at 20h Swiss time.

Join us to discover what's inside the head of some South American predaceous fossils 🦴🧠🐻

🔗https://discord.gg/NFSGpZQc?event=1362537194413363311
June 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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🤠🦴 You want to be a paleontologist? ⚒
Contact us! 😊
We are looking for PhD students to join a dynamic team of researchers in Argentina to work on the evolution of mammalian faunas of the Neogene 🦙 the paleoecology of mammalian predators 🐻 and the phylogeny of fossil carnivorans 🦊 from South America
We are looking for paleontologists of biologists! If you are interested in the evolution of mammalian faunas of the Neogene of South America, contact rbonini@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar to join a dynamic team of researchers in Argentina We are looking for paleontologists of biologists! If you are interested in the paleoecology of mammalian predators or the phylogeny of fossil carnivorans from South America, contact protocyon@hotmail.com to join a dynamic team of researchers in Argentina
May 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Did you notice our new Gather Town map? 🎉 We hope you loved it! Huge thanks to Imola Benkö for this custom design that turned VCWAP into a real excavation site. Want a unique map for your event? Check out her work here: imola.notion.site/Banburu-1b33... ✨ #VCWAP #GatherTown
March 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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amnh.org
Meet the masked palm civet! Weighing ~11 lbs (5 kg), this house cat-sized critter is an omnivore with a taste for fruit. It also feeds on small vertebrates, insects, & birds. When threatened, it can discharge a potent scent from its anal glands.

Photo: andrewhardacre, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, iNaturalist
A photo of a masked palm civet. A vertical white stripe runs down the animal's face. It is light brown with black and white markings.
March 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM