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2014-06-13

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FOSSIL PALM FROND WITH FISH

GREEN RIVER FORMATION, WYOMING, EARLY EOCINE, 50 MILLION YEARS B.P.

The present specimen was excavated from the Green River Formation, located predominantly in present day Wyoming. Today, the landscape is dry and windswept, with open plains and sparse vegetation stretching across an exposed terrain of layered limestone and shale that records ancient lake environments.

However, during the early Eocene, around 50 million years ago, this region was not arid but subtropical, with broad freshwater lakes surrounded by lush vegetation. The climate was warm and humid, supporting crocodiles, early mammals, insects, fish and dense forests along the lake margins, including palms such as Sabalites, whose fronds are preserved in exceptional detail within the fine sediments, contributing to a serene depiction of this ancient environment.

The lakes themselves teemed with life. Schooling fish such as Knightia eocaena, among the most abundant species in the formation, moved in vast numbers through the water, while larger predatory fish such as Diplomystus dentatus occupied a higher position in the food chain. Specimens preserving both flora and fauna together offer a rare glimpse into this balanced ecosystem, capturing a serene depiction of an ancient lakeside scene.

Lyon and Turnbull

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Ava Falco

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Carnivore. Robert Mickelsen. 1999. Lampworked, blown, sculpted, sandblasted, and oil painted glass.

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Thaddeus Holownia

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Gengoroh Tagame

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A Fulani woman.

The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe are a semi-nomadic people from across the Atlantic Coast to the Red Sea. Many living in West Africa.

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A still from Nitrate Kisses, produced by Barbara Hammer

source: The Wild Good: Lesbian Photographs & Writings on Love, edited by Beatrix Gates

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lucy qinnuayuak, “spirits with bears,” 1978, stonecut

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photographer: Cristina García Rodero

Haiti, 2002

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roadside diner

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"yellow" (2009), yosinfla

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12/8/22: decomposing vertebrae harboring algal growth.

[karinmartensson]

Brika, a Tunisian woman pictured above, described the symbolism of her tattoo in stunning detail. “I have the stars and the moon on my cheeks,” she said. “They’re the most beautiful things my eyes have seen. I don’t know how to read or write and I don’t have any devices like you, but I know my land and my Earth, the stars and moon help me navigate it. That’s why I’m here.” ::: Al-Arashi recalled a particularly affecting conversation with a cab driver, an Amazigh (Berber) man living in Morocco. When she asked how his people had survived after being conquered by the Romans, the Italians, the French and now the Arabs, he replied: “Because of women. When your world is run by women, it never dies.”

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Lucie Penaud