I have finished my first stained glass piece that I designed! I’m excited to work on some more projects soon (next month)!
Ambrox
@ambrox.bsky.social
She/they. A paleontologist who makes paleoart and overshares on the internet. All opinions are my own. My shop: https://ambroxrocks.etsy.com My kofi: https://ko-fi.com/ambrox
Leave the leaves. They're essential to relationships that have been evolving for hundreds of millions of years. My latest, for @sierramagazine.bsky.social! 🧪 🍂
Why You Should Leave the Leaves This Fall
Leaf litter nourishes soil, protects ecosystems, and houses small creatures
sierraclub.org
Just returned from a daytrip to a Cretaceous site in Tennessee! We have some exciting finds to work on at the museum soon! We found isolated pieces of shark, sea turtle, plesiosaur, mosasaur, fish, crab, and even crocodile!
A thoughtful, excellent write up by @richardconniff.bsky.social on the very sad situation @sternbergpaleo.bsky.social museum #paleontology #palaeontology #naturalhistory richardconniff.substack.com/p/another-na...
Another Nature Museum Faces Death
Kansas is killing a centerpiece of state and world history. Follow the money.
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Oh to my surprise when someone comes in asking about bones and pulls out a bunch of Pleistocene beaver remains! I hope there’s the rest of the skeleton still in the riverbank!
One of my favorite things about mammals having to have exactly 7 neck vertebrae, no more, no less, is that to make your neck a different length, you have to change the length of your vertebrae. This has gotten very silly in dolphins. 📷Tursiops truncatus: macroscopic solutions, earth. com
Therapist: so, how have you been doing? Me: oh, pretty good; I have a new bully now! T: huh?
And another one!! A Primobucco has been finished after 5 collective months of scraping! I’m so happy how this one turned out, I’m sincerely hoping I can work on more of these Green River birds in the future, given we can get ahold of any. Also pictured is a modern relative of Primobucco.
No, Colossal's resurrected nothing. They made designer dogs to look like Game of Thrones animal actors. And Colossal co-founder George Church? Friend of Epstein who kept the predator's genetic samples in his Harvard Medical School lab, which were pushed as priority for sequencing. Do. Not. Trust.
Jeffrey Epstein’s tissue samples ignited a furor in the Harvard lab of George Church
Exclusive: Harvard geneticist George Church knew more about Jeffrey Epstein's activities than he has previously said, before accepting new donations from the sex offender.
statnews.com
Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · 6mo agoThe science start-up Colossal is making sci-fi real! After resurrecting the dire wolf in 2025 using 72k-year-old DNA, they're eyeing the woolly mammoth for 2028. The goal: "rewilding" to restore and stabilize modern ecosystems. Read: bit.ly/4tIXAqo
"Scientists don't want you to know-" Buddy there are so many things I, as a scientist, want you to know and the only thing stopping me from writing more papers and posts about it and then starting a podcast to tell you even MORE things is that I am limited by hours in the day
I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6mo agoI knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
Today’s been great for pictures of migratory birds here in my backyard! I’ve seen indigo buntings, a rose-breasted grosbeak, and a scarlet tanager so far!
Sorting microfossils comes with so many little joys, including making a category solely for “turtle toes”
![Comic. [Small panel overlaying large panel.] PERSON 1: What’s up with this weird landscape? PERSON 2 with ponytail: Oh, it was caused by… [Large panel is map of the United States with with red overlays denoting landscape phenomena. Mega-floods in the northwest, a plate tectonics speedrun on the west coast, volcanoes next to the west coast, water and time in the southwest, geology in the west, a supervolcano within the west, glaciers in the north, farming in the middle, rivers in the mideast, geology in between rivers and farming, ??? toward the northeast, farming on the east coast, continents colliding next to the east coast, ongoing disputes between limestone and water in the south of Florida, volcanoes in Hawaii, geology in Alaska with volcanoes and glaciers below.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihzjireqyhyztitogqi7khxntfzmhzmyqdfvycvl2qcf5yik4z5zm)
A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell
Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish
A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell
scientificamerican.com
Coon creek dig this past weekend was quite nice! These shells are approximately 76 million years old, but retain their original shell material!
"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females." @carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.
He Studied Why Some Female Birds Look Like Males
nytimes.com
Pachycephalosaurus sold at auction donated to NMNH, will be on display next week www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...
Smithsonian Acquires Exceptionally Complete Skull of Iconic Dome-Headed Dinosaur
si.edu
Megacerops was a large ungulate from the White River Formation (38-33 million years ago) of the Midwest in the US. They resembled Rhinoceros, but had bony nasal horns that were covered by skin, not a keratin horn! #paleoart #fossilart
Mega Dragonite Done in procreate as an unintentional 1hr speed paint #pokemon #dragonite #megaevolution #pokemonAZ
Here are some of the fossil finds from this year’s dig season: the crown jewel being a Tyrannosaurid tooth. Also shown are a Metasequoia cone, a fossil tendon, a crocodilian tooth, and some freshwater ray crushing teeth, plus some amber!
My first big bird project is done! I’m excited to show you all this bird that took me so long - at least a few months! This guy comes from the green river formation and is the most common bird found there: Primobucco mcgrewi.
