Monthly Archives: November 2025

A spotty Middle Ordovician trilobite from Estonia: A new paper describing an ancient parasitic infection

One of the many reasons we need natural history museums is that they can curate large collections of specimens that can be examined for interesting features decades after they were bagged in the field. Recently my Estonian colleagues Olev Vinn … Continue reading

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A new paper on James Parkinson’s neglected 19th century contributions to crinoid paleontology

About three years ago I became curious as to who the “Parkinson” was of Parkinson’s Disease. I found the Wikipedia entry for the man, and its first sentence is: “James Parkinson FGS (11 April 1755 – 21 December 1824) was … Continue reading

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A New Tree Ring Study from the Kashmir Valley, western Himalaya

The global tree-ring community is racking up the papers investigating the utility of the relatively new proxy using blue intensity of annually-dated tree rings. This latest effort is a blue intensity investigation followup of a recent study on ring widths … Continue reading

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