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A mineralized red blood cell from Aratasaurus — art by Victor O. Leshyk

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Ancient microbial slime preserves dinosaur blood

Victor O. Leshyk’s reconstructions illustrate a new study led by Kliti Grice (Curtin University) that found heme — the iron-bearing molecule of blood — in mineralized red blood cells inside the leg bone of Aratasaurus, a 115-million-year-old dinosaur from Brazil.

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From bioengineering to paleontology — more than a hundred works laid out as six journeys you can walk through. The past becomes the future, under your fingertips.

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An earlier draft of my #sciart illustration of microbial carbon use efficiency, with the central cell's metabolic strategy striking a balance between burning off carbon as CO2 or tipping the scales toward sequestration as necromass in soil, with a "pulp sci-fi cover art" feel
What's happening in this #sciart...? Carbon Use Efficiency is efficiency of converting C to biomass rather than energy; microbes are shown shunting glucose either to glowing vectors of escaping CO2 or cagelike forms representing new daughter cells...
And, of course, a warmed Arctic is bad for everyone: thawed permafrost immediately starts to release thousands of years of stored carbon (since the Ice Age!) as greenhouse gases, leading to more warming...
Glad to be part of @NAU contributions to the new 5th National Climate Assessment http://nca2023.globalchange.gov. My #sciart depicts warming-driven changes to the Arctic studied by @EcossNau researchers: more wildfires, infrastructure damage, vegetation shifts, permafrost thaw...
Glad to be part of @NAU contributions to the new 5th National Climate Assessment http://nca2023.globalchange.gov. My #sciart depicts warming-driven changes to the Arctic studied by @EcossNau researchers: more wildfires, infrastructure damage, vegetation shifts, permafrost thaw...
Glad to be part of @NAU contributions to the new 5th National Climate Assessment http://nca2023.globalchange.gov. My #sciart depicts warming-driven changes to the Arctic studied by @EcossNau researchers: more wildfires, infrastructure damage, vegetation shifts, permafrost thaw...
.which flow into periurban wetlands, murky with waste. Antibiotics (orange asterisks) used in feed on hog farms create antibiotic-resistant bacteria which escape into wetlands when concentrated fecal waste leaks out into the landscape..
The story shown in my graphic depicts sudden thaw of permafrost creating low inundated areas where meltwater seeps to the surface, suppressing plant cover and carbon uptake..but eventually that water can find an "escape route" and leave a drained, drier landscape
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