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Devastating. The oldest crown group scorpion fossil, Protoischnurus axelrodurum, was the only arachnid we could not get a photo for my 2016 paper. Now it is presumably gone. So much knowledge destroyed.https://twitter.com/marinamaral2/status/1036407582955642880 …
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Thanks for creating this. As I have noted, there are paratypes at AMNH for this species, but the holotype was (as far as I know) in Rio. Holotype was full body, paratypes claws-only :(
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remember when I told you how fucked up is brazilian science funding lately?
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If this happened at say AMNH or MCZ, we wouldn't have everything digitized either
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this was an accident waiting to happen, the museum barely had money for the most simples fixes!
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Early word from a colleage there is that the palaeo and biology collections *may* be mostly OK as they were in another building. The anthro / archaeo / art collection is gone though.
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I have seen conflicting reports about the palaeo collection. Here's hoping.
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Ditto and ditto.
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This is a world-wide tragedy for history and science. Horrible, disturbing news.
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Won't fossils be some of the things least affected? being made of stone
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Fossils can be crushed by falling debris. Or cracked by high enough heat.
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This is so sad. Thanks, Obama!
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Terrible, seeing these artifacts destroyed is just too much.
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