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Posted On: August 7th 2026, 03:51 pm
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Ever went ammonite fossil hunting? 🐙
Deep underwater, 80 million years ago, a shell the size of a minivan was drifting through the dark sea.
Parapuzosia seppenradensis is the absolute heavyweight champion of ammonites.
The original specimen was dug up near Seppenrade back in 1895 and ended up right in Münster at the @lwlnaturkundemuseum . Fast forward 130 years: the team built a full-scale 1:1 model based on the latest research. Since soft parts don’t fossilize, they used living cephalopods as a blueprint giving it giant eyes, ten tentacles, and a dark shell built to survive the crushing pressure 100 meters down.
Swipe to the second slide: that’s me posing next to the actual fossil back in 2024. Seeing those massive, rock-solid chambers in person puts into perspective just how alien ocean life used to be.
#paleontology #ammonite #lwlnaturkundemuseum #fossils #dinosaur
Deep underwater, 80 million years ago, a shell the size of a minivan was drifting through the dark sea.
Parapuzosia seppenradensis is the absolute heavyweight champion of ammonites.
The original specimen was dug up near Seppenrade back in 1895 and ended up right in Münster at the @lwlnaturkundemuseum . Fast forward 130 years: the team built a full-scale 1:1 model based on the latest research. Since soft parts don’t fossilize, they used living cephalopods as a blueprint giving it giant eyes, ten tentacles, and a dark shell built to survive the crushing pressure 100 meters down.
Swipe to the second slide: that’s me posing next to the actual fossil back in 2024. Seeing those massive, rock-solid chambers in person puts into perspective just how alien ocean life used to be.
#paleontology #ammonite #lwlnaturkundemuseum #fossils #dinosaur
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2 months agolwlnaturkundemuseum
Schaut euch die Königin der Meere gerne bei uns im Museum an. Dort schwimmt sie mit vielen anderen spannenden Exemparen durch unser Paläoaquarium ✌️
2 months agogonna_live_whilst_im_alive
It’s amazing how massive animals were back then, yet the Blue Whale still remains the biggest animals that has EVER lived!
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