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A team of paleontologists from the University of Alberta has found the fossilized tracks of a marine wood-boring organism that lived approximately 110 million years ago (Cretaceous period). Apectoichnus lignummasticans. Image credit: Melnyk et al, doi: 10.1017/jpa.2020.63. Trace fossils are biologically produced sedimentary structures that include tracks, trails, burrows, borings, …

Around the neighborhood they call me a few things. Stinky John is one and Old Rattlepants is another. But what they really love to call me is Johnny Standing Desk. You see I learned the joys of standing desks early and the folks at StällDesk want you to follow in …