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Caption this. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

A wolf spider’s passport photo—up close and personal at 20X magnification! 🕷️

📸 Credit: Medienbunker Produktion

 
 
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Me too, they're so pretty. They basically fall out of the wall in Dorset.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

You can see what happens when the wood gets exposed on the little black one. The big guy is clay.

One that's mostly polished up:

I am saving these for teaching tools. They were collected with help from a good friend of mine that does palaeontology. My research is only Holocene lol.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I posted some snaps here when I first pulled them out of the ground of this batch. I haven't polished the resin yet on most of the encased ones, but I'll post a snap after my phone charges a little bit. I have some fossils that turned into clay, ancient wood fragments and belemnites in there too. All are from the Jurassic Coast in Dorset.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 days ago (9 children)

They will decay within 2 years after hitting oxygen. Solution: Encase them in resin. Source: What I did with these pyrite fossils on my desk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Aberdeen and Glasgow too tbh.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

If it were a just world, nearly all US presidents would be tried at the Hauge.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You guys are gutting funding, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Good thing we just got a giant influx of users. ;) Play with how you sort things on the main page. Top 1 and 6 hour post are great for new content.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Drives are only getting cheaper. ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I live better and more cheaply here than I did in the US, to each their own.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Alive and well!

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