Hot-blooded Tyrannosaurus rex in the news: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Dinosaur operated at near human body temp. 📸: Trix the #Tyrannosaurusrex @ T. rex in Town, Glasgow, 2019, on loan from & now back @naturalis.bsky.social. #Trex #TrixTheTrex #dinosaur #dinosaurs #paleontology #palaeontology 🦖

Hot-blooded Tyrannosaurus rex in the news: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... That means T. rex could run faster & live across wider suite of environments (i.e. cooler habitats). Making it even scarier to more prey. #Tyrannosaurusrex #Trex #TrixTheTrex #dinosaur #dinosaurs #paleontology #palaeontology

With publication of 1st evidence of Diplodocus outwith North America [in Spain]*, 📸 from archives: Dippy the Diplodocus cast at Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, Scotland, 2019. * : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #dinosaur #sauropod #Jurassic #Dippy #DippyTheDinosaur #DippyTheDiplodocus #Diplodocus

GIANTS! Exhibition at National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, ended today. Art-science display of the biggest animals to live after the dinosaurs Created by Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social #museum #animals #GIANTS 👀: nms.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

Last chance to see (in Edinburgh). GIANTS! Exhibition: National Museum of Scotland. Ends 14th September. Who are the biggest animals after the dinosaurs? Created by Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social #museum #animals #GIANTS 👀: www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

GIANTS! Exhibition at National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. Ends 14th September. What are the biggest animals that you can think of post-dinosaurs? Created by Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social #museum #animals #GIANTS 👀: www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

GIANTS! Exhibition at National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. Ends 14th September. What are the biggest animals that you can think of post-dinosaurs? Created by Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social #museum #animals #GIANTS 👀: www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

Last known thylacine, Thylacinus cynocephalus, died Beaumaris Zoo, Tasmania, Australia #OTD 1936. #thylacine granted protected status just 59 days prior. Last wild thylacine shot 1930. 📸: Hunterian Glasgow. #extinct #TasmanianTiger #TasmanianWolf #Thylacinuscynocephalus 👀: nma.gov.au/defining-mom...

GIANTS! Exhibition at National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. From Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Showcasing the colossal prehistoric creatures that came after the dinosaurs! Ends 14th September. #museum #animals #GIANTS @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social 👀: www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

GIANTS! Exhibition at National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. From Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Showcasing the colossal prehistoric creatures that came after the dinosaurs. Ends 14th September. #museum #animals #GIANTS @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social 👀: www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

Common tenrec. [tailless tenrec]. Tenrec ecaudatus. Kirindy Forest. Madagascar. The family Tenrecidae = mammals endemic to #Madagascar. #CommonTenrec #TaillessTenrec #Tenrececaudatus #Afrotheria #MammalWatching #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #KirindyForest #Kirindy #Africa

#OTD September 1st 1914. The last Passenger Pigeon died. At Cincinnati Zoo. In the year 1850 there were 3 billion #PassengerPigeon. It was most abundant bird in North America possibly the world. Ectopistes migratoria 📷: Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow. #extinct #extinction #pigeon #Ectopistesmigratoria

#InternationalPrimateDay From the archives, a bit of ecology, climate science & fossils: Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold – not the tropics. Via @uk.theconversation.com. #primates #ClimateChange #ecology #evolution #fossils #paleontology #palaeontology theconversation.com/our-primate-...

Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold – not the tropics

New research overturns decades of assumptions about how – and where – our lineage began.

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#InternationalPrimateDay From the archives, a bit of ecology, climate science & fossils: Primates colonised the Arctic during a period of ancient global warming. Via @uk.theconversation.com. #primates #Ignacius #ClimateChange #ecology #fossils #palaeontology theconversation.com/primates-col...

Primates colonised the Arctic during a period of ancient global warming – their fate offers a lesson as climate change speeds up

Close relatives of primates adapted to life in the High Arctic 52 million years ago – this may offer insight into future changes in the Arctic.

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#InternationalPrimateDay From the archives, a bit of politics, some ecology, & wonder: Dawn of ‘Trumpocene’ era spells disaster for world’s primates. Much holds relevance today. Via @uk.theconversation.com. #primates #ecology #conservation theconversation.com/dawn-of-trum...

Dawn of ‘Trumpocene’ era spells disaster for world’s primates

As Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House, there may be dark days ahead for some of the world’s rarest and most beautiful primates.

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You are a primate. Celebrating the diversity of primates on INTERNATIONAL PRIMATE DAY! 📸: Meet the relatives - Monkeys: Our Primate Family @ National Museum Scotland (2025 exhibition). #primates #YouAreAPrimate #MonkeysOurPrimateFamily #InternationalPrimateDay

INTERNATIONAL PRIMATE DAY! Celebrating primates from the smallest... Madame Berthe's mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae) ~ 30g, to the largest... Eastern Gorilla (Gorilla beringei) ~ 200kg. 📸: Monkeys: Our Primate Family, National Museum of Scotland (2025 exhibition). #primates #InternationalPrimateDay

Spider in the bath. Eratigena atrica. Bathgate. West Lothian. Scotland. Relocated with love & consideration. #Eratigenaatrica #Eratigena #spider #HouseSpider #Scotland #macro #MacroHour #MacroPhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #BlackAndWhite #ILoveSpiders#LoveSpiders @britishspiders.bsky.social

Fascinating new paper on fosa, Carnivora, Eupleridae, Madagascar. By @magratnj.bsky.social et al. cf Cryptoprocta ferox, spelea, bevatabe 📸: size & colour adjusts to my C. ferox photo, based on paper. #FossilFriday #fosa #Cryptoprocta #paleontology #palaeontology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cinnabar moth caterpillars Tyria jacobaeae. On ragwort Jacobaea vulgaris. Kirkliston. Scotland. #CinnabarMoth #caterpillars #ragwort #Tyriajacobaeae #Jacobaeavulgaris #Kirkliston #Scotland #ScottishWildlife #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #macro #MacroHour #MacroPhotography

Greater flamingo. Phoenicopterus roseus. Northern Cape. South Africa. #GreaterFlamingo #Phoenicopterusroseus #flamingo #bird #BirdPhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #NorthernCape #SouthAfrica #Africa

Catching last rays of sunlight. Welsh poppy. Meconopsis cambrica. Coming up between cracks in between neighouring buildings/gardens. #WildflowerHour #wildflower #flower #YellowFlower #LetItGrow #LeaveItWild #sunset #nature #NaturePhotography #PlantLife #ScottishNature #Kirkliston #Scotland

The Rise And Fall Of The Dinosaurs/The Story Of Birds. 2 science books on #dinosaurs! By Professor Steve Brusatte. 📸: The Science Of Jurassic Park @glasgowscience.bsky.social for @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social. #SteveBrusatte #science #dinosaur #birds #BirdsAreDinosaurs @stevebrusatte.bsky.social

Ragwort. Jacobaea vulgaris. Growing out a wall. Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland. #ragwort #Jacobaeavulgaris #Portobello #Edinburgh #Scotland #wildflower #WildFlowerHour #WildFlowerPhotography #NaturePhotography #ScottishNature

Fossa face. Up close and personal with Madagascar's largest carnivore, Cryptoprocta ferox, of the family Eupleridae. ~5.5-8.6kg. Photographed in the wild. Kirindy Forest, Madagascar, Africa. #KirindyForest #Madagascar #Africa #MadagascarWildlife #MammalWatching #Eupleridae #fossa #Cryptoproctaferox

Foxgloves. Digitalis purpurea. Faucheldean Bing. West Lothian. Scotland. #foxgloves #foxglove #Digitalispurpurea #FaucheldeanBing #ShaleBings #WestLothian #Scotland #wildflower #WildFlowerHour #WildFlowerPhotography #NaturePhotography #ScottishNature

The Science Of Jurassic Park with Prof Steve Brusatte, @stevebrusatte.bsky.social, paleontology/palaeontology consultant - Jurassic World film series. #dinosaurs #dinosaur #Glasgow #IMAX #SteveBrusatte #JurassicWorld #JurassicPark 🦖 For: @glasgowscience.bsky.social @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social

Raven. Corvus corax. West Lothian, Scotland. #raven #Corvuscorax #bird #BirdWatching #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #BlackAndWhite #WestLothian #Scotland #ScottishWildlife

Quiver trees/kokerboom. Aloidendron dichotomum. Northern Cape. South Africa. #QuiverTrees #QuiverTree #kokerboom #Aloidendrondichotomum #trees #landscape #NorthernCape #SouthAfrica #Africa

Rooks. Corvus frugilegus. Winchburgh, West Lothian, Scotland. #rooks #rook #Corvusfrugilegus #birds #BirdWatching #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #BlackAndWhite #WestLothian #Scotland