Happy 100th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough! He has visited the Museum a few times, but here he is posing with Wallace’s Giant Bee, the largest bee ever discovered. This specimen was collected by Alfred Russel Wallace.
Gemma Benevento
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Macroevolutionary Palaeobiology Postdoc | Fritz Lab (BinA), German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) | Fossil Mammals ❤
Countless ecologists, evolutionary biologists and conservation biologists will have been inspired to follow their careers by David Attenborough (including all of us here at NEE) Here's wishing him a very happy 100th Birthday 🥳 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
A life in pictures: Celebrating Attenborough at 100
As the British naturalist celebrates a milestone birthday, we take a look at how his work has shaped science.
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Join us in wishing a massive happy 100th birthday to the man who has inspired millions of people around the world to care about nature and look after our planet - the incredible Sir David Attenborough! 🎉
I am so unbelievably proud to present 8 years of hard work: the worlds oldest octopus is not an octopus... Pohlsepia is actually a really rotten Nautiloid (but oldest soft tissue nautiloid ever found!). 🐙❌ royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
The world’s oldest octopus isn’t actually an octopus at all! 🐙 New research reveals that Pohlsepia mazonensis is actually a relative of the nautilus, revealing more about what these animals were like. Dive into the history of this mysterious fossil 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
‘World’s oldest octopus’ fossil isn’t an octopus after all | Natural History Museum
Pohlsepia mazonensis is still a landmark fossil – but not in the way it was first thought.
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One of the craziest discoveries of a new 'living fossil' and Lazarus taxon - Laotian rock rat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian... the last member of Diatomyidae. Survived in the isolated mountain pockets. And here is fun video about it: youtube.com/shorts/sZI3Z... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th - Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to postdoc-botany@smns-bw.de + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF
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Rose, K.D., Rabenstein, R., Habersetzer, J. et al. Anatomy of Eurotamandua joresi (Mammalia) from Grube Messel, Germany, based on computed tomography, and implications for its relationships. Part I: Background and forelimb. Palaeobio Palaeoenv (2026). doi.org/10.1007/s125...
Anatomy of Eurotamandua joresi (Mammalia) from Grube Messel, Germany, based on computed tomography, and implications for its relationships. Part I: Background and forelimb - Palaeobiodiversity and Pal...
Micro-computed tomography of the unique skeleton of Eurotamandua joresi Storch, 1981 (middle Eocene, Grube Messel)—initially described as the oldest myrmecophagid and the only known Old World xenarthr...
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While fossils of baby enantiornithines, a group of abundant and diverse early-branching birds, are already well-known, our Alaskan fossils are the first Mesozoic remains of baby euornithines, the clade that includes modern birds and their closest Cretaceous relatives!
What are those tiny fossils? They're birds. That just hatched. That lived in the Arctic. 73 million years ago. And thus: polar bird nesting colonies are not new, but a long-term norm of Earth history. My take @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Birds were nesting in the Arctic during age of dinosaurs, scientists discover
Minuscule fossils from 73m years ago are oldest evidence yet for birds nesting in polar regions
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Hi guys. On world bee day today, don't forget that honey bees are actually doing ok! It's solitary and subsocial native bees like mason bees and bumblebees that need our help. I'll post some resources in this thread on how you could help them, even if you don't have a yard to plant native flowers!
Happy Birthday, Mary Anning! This 195-million-year-old marine reptile was discovered in Lyme Regis at some time before 1836 by the British palaeontologist Mary Anning (1799–1847).
Early Cretaceous fossil of a humerus from a monotreme indicates semiaquatic burrowing lifestyle as in platypus (and echidna): www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Bone microstructure supports a Mesozoic origin for a semiaquatic burrowing lifestyle in monotremes (Mammalia) | PNAS
The platypus and four echidna species are the only living egg-laying mammals and the sole extant representatives of Order Monotremata. The platypus...
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Happy to have had the opportunity to write a short article discussing the findings of an exciting recent paper on the diversification of burrowing behaviour in mammals by Pinkert et al. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzR93QW8S... (Full access via link until 10.06.25)
