I had a lot of fun writing my first guest blog for @linneansociety.bsky.social! Check it out here: www.linnean.org/news/2026/06...
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Isabelle
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🇮🇩🇸🇬 | MSc Palaeontology @helsinki.fi 🇫🇮🎓 | surfer 🌊 diver 🤿 snowboarder 🏂🏻 | paleoart dabbler 🎨 | (she/her)
Today, David Attenborough has turned 100! Happy birthday to a truly legendary and one-of-a-kind naturalist 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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happy #fossilfriday! this is pezosiren, a sirenian from early eocene jamaica. a basal relative of manatees and dugongs, pezosiren was able to walk on land, and may have had an amphibious lifestyle like a hippopotamus (art by joschua knuppe)
Wrapped up an incredible palaeo trip in Italy collecting cetacean morphological data. Had the chance to see fantastic and very underrated collections at the MSN @unipisa.bsky.social, MSN Uni Firenze and GAMPS Scandicci! Grateful to the respective curators for access to these amazing specimens! 🐋🦴
New research uncovers the massive squid diet of Hawaiian pilot whales | ScienceDaily 🧪🌎🦑
New research uncovers the massive squid diet of Hawaiian pilot whales
Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales are surprisingly voracious hunters, diving hundreds of meters beneath the Pacific to snatch squid in the dark. By tagging and tracking eight whales, researchers…
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An early Triassic bone bed excavated at 78°N changes the story about how marine life recovered after the most cataclysmic extinction in Earth history ~252 million years ago. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/48bLsGI
🚨New Website blog 🚨 🧵 Did you watch Shark Whisperer on Netflix? I did & it was pseudoscientific rubbish. In this blog, I do a deep dive into the documentary; its subject, Ocean Ramsey; & the harmful effects of “shark influencers” on shark conservation (1/9) www.drjackacooper.com/writing/shar...
Stoked to finally get my hands on @deanrlomax.bsky.social 's new book and meet him at his #SVP2025 signing! 📖✍🏻🦕🦖✨
I’m at the annual paleontology conference. Here’s how people today have described their work: “I basically study swamp monsters” “I’m a dinosaur orthodontist” “Dead bird bird watcher” #2025SVP