Dr Thomas Clements

@Thomas_Clements

Palaeontologist who studies the dark arts of taphonomy: how squishy animals become fossils. Loves Cephalopods 🐙🦑and invertebrates🦞🐌🐝♥️ (he/him).

Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2009.

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    When I was a kid I was obsessed with this toy T.rex. It sparked an obsession of mine to collect them all & probably got me into palaeo Here's a short thread on the fascinating history and mysteries of the most iconic line of dinosaur toys of all time for 🦖👇

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  2. Whizzing down to London for my first meeting as a council member. Thick and creepy mist on the way down - not a bad omen I hope 😂😂😂

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    I'm so excited to have been invited to give an introduction to taphonomy! I will be talking about the best way to turn your beloved pet into a fossil - but so I don't upset any pet lovers, I have taken great care in choosing a 'participant' to become a fossil in my talk...

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    29. sij

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    31. sij

    Kom je onze nieuwste aanwinsten bewonderen in Dinomakers? Met dank aan de deelnemers van en de Vrienden van Teylers kochten we twee imposante (2m x 1.4m!) aquarellen van prehistorische dieren: een Megatherium en een Ichtyosaurus. 

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  7. 31. sij

    Enjoyed a few beverages at the Victoria pub in Birmingham last night. They have art on all the walls in the style of Sailor Jerry tattoos and I was very enamoured by this Kraken fighting a Sperm Whale. The sailing ship is just collateral damage to the behemoths of the deep! 🦑🐳

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    I love my energy company 🦕🦕

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    28. sij

    Here is your regular reminder that there is a fish called Boops boops. Thank you, wiki editors. Thank you:

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  10. 28. sij

    Cool paper - but calling this animal a squid is like calling a pterosaur a dinosaur 😂 This animal is a stem octopus. This is important because there are *zero* soft-tissue fossil squids known in the fossil record.

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  11. 24. sij

    If any students want to do learn some taphonomy/work on cephalopods/or have their own neat idea they want to try send me a message and we can come up with a project or I can direct to the best person to contact. 🦖🐙

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  12. 22. sij

    More Japanese art - this time with my true love, cephalopods! ♥️🐙

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  14. 22. sij

    There are lots of this aspect of these painting I am still learning about. But from a taphonomic perspective, these drawings are incredible and very accurate in the stages of decay.

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  15. 22. sij

    However, a paper in 2005 by Fusae Kanda suggested it's a lot darker than that. She suggested that these works were aimed at women as part of a social movement regarding female morality...

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  16. 22. sij

    One comment on this stated: "meditation is to remind the monks that this body, however noble by birth, or beautiful in physical form, is highly temporary and that all attachment to this body should be abandoned to experience peace and tranquility."

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  17. 22. sij

    One thing I have noticed is that many of these drawings are of beautiful or wealthy women (I havent seen any of decaying males). Here is another example of a decaying woman called "the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body"

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  18. 22. sij

    So this art is fascinating. But why? Why draw pictures of people rotting? Well it is based on a Buddhist teaching that "promotes meditation on the impurity of a decaying corpse as an aid to ardent devotees who wish to liberate themselves from sensual desires and affections"

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  19. 22. sij

    ... like in this picture! We call this skeletal disarticulation. If this skeleton was buried now it might make a nice fossil, but if not then bacteria and fungi will break down the bones. In a dry environment this may take years but in a damp environment days!

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  20. 22. sij

    Our next picture shows a skeleton without any soft-tissues. This is a little surprising because normally the scavengers will rip arms or legs off and cause the skeleton to fall apart...

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  21. 22. sij

    The body is starting to jellify now and is in 'advanced decay'. Importantly in this picture shows a taphonomists worst nightmare: scavengers. These animals will rip apart a carcass and speed up its decay.

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