# Time Scavengers Scavenging the fossil record for clues to Earth's climate and life Page: Feed: --- ## [Pyrite Disease: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?](https://timescavengers.org/2026/03/09/pyrite-disease-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pyrite-disease-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter) _2026-03-09 · jenebauer_ Pyrite disease is also called pyrite rot or pyrite decay but is most accurately called pyrite oxidation. How Do Fossils and Pyrite Interact? Pyrite, commonly called ‘fool’s gold’, is the most abundant sulfide mineral (a mineral with sulfide, S2-, or… Continue reading → ## [Discovery of a new-found four-legged fish from the Devonian Period (419–359MYA) of central Australia](https://timescavengers.org/2026/02/25/discovery-of-a-new-found-four-legged-fish-from-the-devonian-period-419-359mya-of-central-australia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=discovery-of-a-new-found-four-legged-fish-from-the-devonian-period-419-359mya-of-central-australia) _2026-02-25 · jenebauer_ A new stem-tetrapod fish from the Middle–Late Devonian of central Australia By: Choo, B., Holland, T., Clement, A.M., King, B., Challands, T., Young, G., Long, J.A. Summarized by: Allison Votteler. Allison Votteler is a senior at Binghamton University, majoring in… Continue reading → ## [Using Megatherium (Giant Sloth) bones to infer the past climate conditions in the Atacama Desert, Chile.](https://timescavengers.org/2026/02/11/using-megatherium-giant-sloth-bones-to-infer-the-past-climate-conditions-in-the-atacama-desert-chile/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=using-megatherium-giant-sloth-bones-to-infer-the-past-climate-conditions-in-the-atacama-desert-chile) _2026-02-11 · jenebauer_ Written in bones: palaeoclimate histotaphonomic history inferred from a complete Megatherium skeleton preserved in the Atacama Desert Luisa Straulino Mainou, Jacqueline Correa-Lau, Rafael Labarca, Natalia A. Villavicencio, Vivien G. Standen, Susana Monsalve, Paula C. Ugalde, Sergey Sedov, Teresa Pi Puig,… Continue reading → ## [How Biogeographic Trends Influenced Ecological Adaptations in Mesozoic Dinosaurs](https://timescavengers.org/2026/02/09/how-biogeographic-trends-influenced-ecological-adaptations-in-mesozoic-dinosaurs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-biogeographic-trends-influenced-ecological-adaptations-in-mesozoic-dinosaurs) _2026-02-09 · jenebauer_ The macroecology of Mesozoic dinosaurs By: Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza Summarized by: Olive Drury is a Biology and English undergraduate at Binghamton University. She spends most of her days typing stories and sewing dresses. She is generally a fan of ocean… Continue reading → ## [Crustaceous fossils, relatives of shrimp, from 359 –299 million years ago found in glacial rock deposits of Argentinian basins](https://timescavengers.org/2026/02/06/crustaceous-fossils-relatives-of-shrimp-from-359-299-million-years-ago-found-in-glacial-rock-deposits-of-argentinian-basins/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crustaceous-fossils-relatives-of-shrimp-from-359-299-million-years-ago-found-in-glacial-rock-deposits-of-argentinian-basins) _2026-02-06 · jenebauer_ Ostracod faunas from the Late Mississippian–Early Pennsylvanian, Calingasta–Uspallata Basin, central west Argentina: new records from glacial–postglacial successions by: María José Salas, Andrea Fabiana Sterren and Gabriela Adriana Cisterna Summarized by: Max Schwartzman; a senior geology major at Binghamton University. He… Continue reading → ## [Revisiting the previously misunderstood Late Triassic (~205 million years ago) marine reptile, Pachystropheus rhaeticus](https://timescavengers.org/2026/02/04/revisiting-the-previously-misunderstood-late-triassic-205-million-years-ago-marine-reptile-pachystropheus-rhaeticus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=revisiting-the-previously-misunderstood-late-triassic-205-million-years-ago-marine-reptile-pachystropheus-rhaeticus) _2026-02-04 · jenebauer_ The relationships and paleoecology of Pachystropheus rhaeticus, an enigmatic latest Triassic marine reptile (Diapsida: Thalattosauria) By: Jacob G. Quinn, Evangelos R. Matheau-Raven, David I. Whiteside, John E. A. Marshall, Deborah J. Hutchinson & Michael J. Benton Summarized by: Kodi Biscardi,… Continue reading → ## [How an extinct group of shelled animals expanded, thrived, and collapsed, after a mass extinction](https://timescavengers.org/2026/02/02/how-an-extinct-group-of-shelled-animals-expanded-thrived-and-collapsed-after-a-mass-extinction/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-an-extinct-group-of-shelled-animals-expanded-thrived-and-collapsed-after-a-mass-extinction) _2026-02-02 · jenebauer_ Diversification and disparity in a major Palaeozoic clade of Brachiopoda: the rise and fall of the Plectambonitoidea By: Yves Candela, Zhen Guo, and David A.T. Harper Summarized by Logan Mullin, an undergraduate student studying biological sciences at Binghamton University. Outside… Continue reading → ## [A new change in heart: a new species of heart urchins found in South Korea](https://timescavengers.org/2026/01/30/a-new-change-in-heart-a-new-species-of-heart-urchins-found-in-south-korea/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-new-change-in-heart-a-new-species-of-heart-urchins-found-in-south-korea) _2026-01-30 · jenebauer_ Brissopsis pohangensis sp. nov., a New Echinoid Species (Spatangoida) from the Middle Miocene Duho Formation, Pohang Basin, Korea By : Bong Jin Lee and Dal-Yong Kong Summarized by: Joshua Rivera. Joshua Rivera is a geology major and an Asian studies… Continue reading → ## [Taking a look at an ancient crinoid (relative of seastars) lineage that nearly died out](https://timescavengers.org/2026/01/28/taking-a-look-at-an-ancient-crinoid-relative-of-seastars-lineage-that-nearly-died-out/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taking-a-look-at-an-ancient-crinoid-relative-of-seastars-lineage-that-nearly-died-out) _2026-01-28 · jenebauer_ Phylogeny and macroevolution of a “dead clade walking”: a systematic revision of the Paragaricocrinidae (Crinoidea) by Richard G. Keyes, David F. Wright, and William I. Ausich Summarized by Alberto Farfan, Alberto lives in the Bronx, New York, and is a… Continue reading → ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/s9XVP9GhfJdP) _2026-01-28 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [The Glypheid Lobsters: The Living Fossils that Escaped Extinction](https://timescavengers.org/2026/01/26/the-glypheid-lobsters-the-living-fossils-that-escaped-extinction/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-glypheid-lobsters-the-living-fossils-that-escaped-extinction) _2026-01-26 · jenebauer_ An overview of the stratigraphic and paleobiogeographic occurrences of the lobster family Glypheidae, including a reappraisal of Early Jurassic Paraglyphea eureka from Argentina By: Susana E. Damborenea, Miguel O. Manceñido, Javier Echevarría, Francisco M. Harguindeguy Summarized by: Kayla Said. Kayla… Continue reading →