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Steve and I did a hot wings interview challenge run by the guys from our IT department. We answer various questions about dinosaurs, mainly off-the-beaten track stuff I think. If you're interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_3...
This Is What Happens in Museums After Dark
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Paleontology trivia with Andy: 1) Annually, the NFL hires more quarterbacks than US museums hire dinosaur paleontology curators. 2) We know more about the osteology of T. rex than we do about the osteology of the most common lizard in suburban southern California, the western fence lizard.
New research out today! Some animals have three eyes?! This eye isn't for "seeing" per se, but it's connected to a part of the brain responsible for regulating body temperature. So if you see a lizard basking out in the sun to get warm, oftentimes this eye plays a central role. But there's more...
not a moment too soon, here's the paper by citron et al. 🦤 academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
The sensory world of the Dodo and Solitaire revealed by endocast and skull anatomy
Abstract. The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) and its close relative, the Rodriguez Solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), are two of the most recognized symbols of hum
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Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus)@mmarcosaurus.bsky.social · 13h ago
explanatory power of energetic fitness models across living amniotes and extinct non-avian dinosaurs academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
The explanatory power of energetic fitness models across living amniotes and extinct non-avian dinosaurs
Abstract. Vertebrates have varied body size distributions. Among these, non-avian dinosaurs have uniquely large minimum and maximum sizes, but the reasons
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Years from now, everyone will remember where they were when Steve Kornacki got the first big numbers from Grand Rapids
All the people who are anti-The Precious, I have one question: If The Precious disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire day of catching fish so juicy sweet and guessing what a tricksy hobbit has got in its pocketses?
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 23h agoI have one answer.
Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
Just watched Steve Kornacki absolutely nuke his computer monitor with a stray bottle of water #ElectionNight
Probably my fave photo of the day. The spine is suspended using a series of metal cords and elastic bungie tendons which hold the alert posture of the neck in place without the need for excessive mounting frames. We're experimenting with novel materials and building methods.
Dr Matt Dempsey@sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · yesterdayToday I'm building life sized mecha Megalosaurus in the Future Fossils workshop - a mixture of 3D prints of my digital designs, carved foam, and machine parts, all produced under the direction of Jay Jay Burridge. More photos to come! And debuting at Blenheim Palace next week...
In case you are actually interested in non-Cthulu Antarctic fossils, the largest collection is at the Paleontological Research Institution in upstate NY. And they could definitely still use an infusion from a wealthy benefactor who fancies themselves an antarctic explorer.
Alison Robin@alisonrobin.com · 3d agoThe only people funding Antarctic expeditions anymore are private investors from old money who belong to weird social societies. These rich guys are just obsessed with recreating some expedition from the 30's that only found a couple fossils. I don't get it.
Enamel histology may provide insights into dental growth & life history traits, but its study in fossils is challenging due to increments identification. This standardized methodological framework helps identify enamel increments correctly, step by step @manonhullot.bsky.social @cr2p.bsky.social
Realistically that's actually a nine album run (2112 through Hold Your Fire), but sure
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
"Learn from the fossils. The fossils know, even though they're not alive anymore." - Khalib Townsend
NPR@npr.org · 4d agoNPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
Ink sketch of a waffle yaga. Seagull feet bc dumpstercore. Sketch w inks
Unsolicited opinion: the thing about Hank Green is that he is first and foremost a Business Owner, and it all makes sense within that context
I.J. Maniel, R. Almeida, D.L. Kimbrough, G.S. de la Puente, A.C. Garrido, F. Bellardini, J.B. Mahoney. 2026. Albian zircon U-Pb crystallization ages from tuff beds in the Candeleros and Huincul formations, Neuquén Basin, Argentina. Gondwana Research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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American vultures have long been reported to lack a syrinx (avian vocal organ); a new study suggests that they instead have a highly modified one: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🪶🧪 (📷Ibarra et al.)
If I had a nickel for every time a dinosaur documentary featured a shot of someone skateboarding up to the entrance of the Academy of Natural Sciences I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened tw—ah who am I kidding it was the 90s it's not that weird actually
Exhilarated to share a 2nd @science.org cover article this month from our lab @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! A collaboration with US & Mexico colleagues on the role of a Mexican biogeographic holding pen in shaping the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI)(1/11) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Geologist Marie Tharp was born #OTD in 1920. She built the first accurate map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, discovering the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that provided evidence for seafloor spreading and plate tectonics. 🧪 👩🔬 Image: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation iucn.org/news/202607/...
From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums
The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...
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Damn Amazon already dropped 4 billion on their prestige tv adaptation of William Blake’s “America a Prophecy”; Season 1 has already wrapped but Jared Leto was playing Orc and is prominent in all the PR materials so idk what they’re going to do,
Excited to share our new paper in Science Advances! Led by Dr Wei Wang at #IVPP in Beijing, it presents a complete skeleton of #Austronaga, the most marine of all archosauromorphs. To boot, this fossil preserves the oldest complete digestive tract of any reptile! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Yes! And I think it's important to differentiate this from the "Well, actually..." modes of sci-com, which nitpick details (e.g., "the model had 12 maxillary teeth, when we know it actually should have had 14!") rather than outright pseudoscience.
David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · last wk.Friends, if your response to concerns about pseudoscience on shark week is “if doesn’t matter if someone with a large audience says obviously wrong things because I personally know it’s not true,” I invite you to take a look at the world.
Continuing frog week with the crown jewel of the Pine Barrens, Hyla (Dryophytes) andersonii, the Pine Barrens Tree Frog. The highest population of which is in New Jersey but also scattered areas of Florida, the Carolinas, and Alabama wherever there are coastal pine forests
