🦴🎸 Scientists at Memorial University of #Newfoundland renamed ancient seafloor #fossils "Lydonia jiggamintia" after punk rocker Johnny Rotten, identifying them as 560-million-year-old filter-feeding #animals rather than decomposed organic matter. The spiky, tube-covered creatures may be ancestors of modern sponges and represent some of #Earth's earliest animals from the #Precambrian period.

👉 https://www.newsbeep.com/au/178471/

#paleontology #evolution #sponges #science

🦴🎸 Scientists at Memorial University of #Newfoundland renamed ancient seafloor #fossils "Lydonia jiggamintia" after punk rocker Johnny Rotten, identifying them as 560-million-year-old filter-feeding #animals rather than decomposed organic matter. The spiky, tube-covered creatures may be ancestors of modern sponges and represent some of #Earth's earliest animals from the #Precambrian period.

👉 https://www.newsbeep.com/au/178471/

#paleontology #evolution #sponges #science

#NewSpecies!
New river snail from #china just crawled in:

Bakyietaia avisvenatoris

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/064787F3-751A-8442-FE10-795E297AF93D
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1005.2985
#ejtaxonomy #BakyietaiaAvisvenatoris

#FAIRdata
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#NewSpecies!
New river snail from #china just crawled in:

Bakyietaia avisvenatoris

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/064787F3-751A-8442-FE10-795E297AF93D
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1005.2985
#ejtaxonomy #BakyietaiaAvisvenatoris

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #gastropods #snails #freshwater #river

#NewSpecies!
New shore fly from #czechrepublic just landed:

Scatophila hirsovae

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C51867-FFEC-B626-3331-2DC16419FB22
Publication: https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2025.012
#ActaEntomologica #ScatophilaHirsovae

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#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #diptera #fly

#NewSpecies!
New green pit viper from #china just sidled in:

Trimeresurus nujiang

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0001EEF2-3D1A-56B5-8F16-857DCEC2258D
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.162424
#ZoosystematicsAndEvolution #TrimeresurusNujiang

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #reptilia #snake #viper #pitviper