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Kane Coxon FRAS
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🌍 Geology student with a background in psychology and mental health.

I write evidence-based essays on geology, palaeontology, and sometimes a bit of interdisciplinary thinking across psychology and the Earth sciences over at kanecoxon.substack.com 🌍📚
The second part of The Story of Earth, Cooling a molten world, is now live

Read here: open.substack.com/pub/kanecoxo...

#geoscience #earthscience #geology #science #planetaryscience
Cooling a Molten World
The Story of Earth #2
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Reposted by Kane Coxon FRAS
So we're slightly late to the party given that the big news dropped a month ago, but here's a full hour of the #TerribleLizards #Podcast where @iszi.com and I talk about #Nanotyrannus and what it all means for T. rex and tyrannosaur research going forwards. terriblelizards.libsyn.com/nanotyrannus
Terrible Lizards: Nanotyrannus or not?
The biggest news in palaeontology this year dropped just in time for us to miss it with last month’s episode but we’re giving it the full hour this time. The idea that there’s a miniature tyrannosaur ...
terriblelizards.libsyn.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Reposted by Kane Coxon FRAS
Ice shell thinning on small icy satellites in the outer Solar System can cause subsurface oceans to boil, according to a study in Nature Astronomy. This process may help to explain surface features and geological activity on moons such as Saturn’s Mimas and Enceladus. go.nature.com/3JVCJ2p 🔭 🧪
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
On 24 November 1859, ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection’ by Charles Darwin was published, introducing the idea that species evolve through natural selection. It reshaped biology, palaeontology, and our understanding of Earth’s deep history.

Thanks ol’ Charlie boy! 💚👏
a man holding a book that says origin species
ALT: a man holding a book that says origin species
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Reposted by Kane Coxon FRAS
Just a few million years after the end-Permian mass extinction event, aquatic reptiles and other vertebrates had recovered to form thriving and diverse oceanic ecosystems, according to a Science study of an Early Triassic-age fossil site in the Arctic.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4r0k0U1
Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem reveals rapid complexification of Triassic marine communities
Tetrapods invaded oceanic environments after the cataclysmic end-Permian mass extinction (EPME), with temnospondyl amphibian to reptile-dominated assemblages succeeding across the Early Triassic [~251...
scim.ag
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
c.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
New paper out today assesses the potential for in-situ CO₂ mineralisation in UK onshore igneous rocks. The findings suggest a far larger storage capacity than previously thought, with major implications for decarbonisation planning.

🔗 www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....

#geology #climate
Lyell Collection
www.lyellcollection.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I wrote a piece of Substack on the rising hostility toward scientific expertise and evidence. If this interests you, the full article is below ⬇️

#science #politics #evidence
The Erosion of Evidence: Why Attacks on Science Put Us All at Risk
What happens when powerful interests twist science into doubt and distrust?
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A new study by Sereno et al. (2025), published in #Science, reveals astonishing details from two “mummified” #Edmontosaurus #fossils found in Wyoming, including fleshy midline crests, tail spikes, and incredibly, hoof-like toes!

You can read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template “mummification”
Two “mummies” of the end-Cretaceous, duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens preserve a fleshy crest over the neck and trunk, an interdigitating spike row over the hips and tail, and hooves cappi...
www.science.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Reposted by Kane Coxon FRAS
Is this same Labour Government expanding airports,

refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field

Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature?

Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Seems sensible to me… Earth scientists are planetary scientists after all! 🤷🏻‍♂️🌍
To find answers about exoplanets, the authors of a Comment article in Nature argue there needs to be closer collaborations between exoplanet researchers and those who work on Earth’s and other planetary atmospheres and stronger links between experimentalists, modellers and astronomers. 🔭 🧪
How to understand exoplanets — space scientists call on lab-based chemists to help
Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, modelling and observational communities, will help to interpret the astronomical data now at our fingertips.
go.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Imagine compressing Earth’s 4.6 billion year history into a single day. Humans appear in the final second, and in that instant, we alter the atmosphere more than all biogeochemical processes did for millions of years.

#Geology #Climate #DeepTime #EarthScience
November 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I write evidence-based essays on #geology, #palaeontology, and sometimes a bit of interdisciplinary thinking across #psychology and the #EarthSciences over at kanecoxon.substack.com 🌍📚

Do have a look if you’re interested in our planet’s 4.6 billion year journey from stardust to the #Anthropocene.
Kane Coxon | Substack
Unearthing my path: from a career in psychology and mental health to geology student. Click to read Kane Coxon, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.
kanecoxon.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Earth has a story 4.6 billion years long. I’m exploring it through a 10-part Substack series tracing how our planet formed, evolved and gave rise to life.
🌍 Part one is out now: kanecoxon.substack.com/p/the-story-of-earth-1

#Science #Geology #DeepTime #Earth
The Story of Earth #1
The Story of Earth #1
kanecoxon.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM