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Ants: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives has closed but my family is still all in on enjoying ants. My niece found this beautiful chestnut carpenter ant queen on the Bruce Museum Grounds this weekend. Thanks to @alexwild.bsky.social for identifying it for us!

Three more days until Six Extinctions opens at the Bruce Museum! Check out this amazing life reconstruction of Tiktaalik, the Devonian “fishapod” that Sean Murtha created as a special addition to the exhibition.

Six Extinctions opens at the Bruce Museum in 5 days. We will display a few of our own extinct birds, which perished in the ongoing extinction event caused by humans. These include our beautiful Passenger Pigeons. The last captive bird, Martham died in the Cincinnati Zoo 1914.

Imagine if you stepped on a carpet and it started wriggling away? Arthropleura was an 8 foot long millipede with a weird flattened shape that roamed Permian swamps over 250 million years ago. Encounter this delightful beast and many more at Six Extinctions, opening at the Bruce Museum in 9 days!

Happy to report that our 35x life size Dinoponera ant Buckley has been adopted by the Greenwich Audubon Center! We will miss her, but now that Ants: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives has closed it is great to know she will still be educating people about the miraculous world of natures tiny architects.

Only 10 days until T. rex comes to the Bruce Museum! We are the first North American host of Gondwana Studios' traveling exhibition Six Extinctions, opening June 6. The dinos will be joined by giant millipedes, armored fish, saber-toothed tigers and more! Photo: Richard Harmey

Sunday is the last day of our exhibition Ants: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives. I’ll miss these little guys. One last weekend to see (and smell) the world of natures miniature architects.

Happy #WorldPenguinDay!

We've learned so much about penguins in the past few years! Read about warm-weather cousins of emperor penguins, 60 million year old "proto-penguins" and 300lb giants. My piece in American Scientist is live, with great art by @simone-giovanni.bsky.social www.americanscientist.org/article/dive...

Diversity from Isolation

Fossils of early penguin species reveal the myriad paths these birds took from the sky to the sea, and from temperate New Zealand to the frozen Antarctic.

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Some little guys pack a BUG punch! Our exhibition Ants: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives showcases weapons like stingers, venom, and formic acid that ants use to defend themselves and then see how species stack up on the STING METER. Bruce Museum: Ant Battle youtube.com/shorts/-p5C6...

Bruce Museum: Ant Battle #science #insects #ants #brucemuseum #museum

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My life is greatly improved by finding out that you can turn off the horrible system in Word that forces you to activate every comment and go on the scavenger hunt when "Another comment is in progress". Preferences / General /uncheck Enable modern comments.

BHL is such an amazing resource. And reading these papers can be so entertaining as well as informative. Perfect image for this post too!

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🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

Happy #InternationalPolarBearDay from my favorite bear, Charlie! He was the centerpiece of our exhibition On Thin Ice: Alaska's Warming Wilderness. Can't wait for the next time we can display this beautiful bear at the Bruce Museum.

Just in time for #FossilFriday, meet Rhynchaeites mcfaddeni, a little fossil ibis from the Green River Formation. The holotype looks delightfully like a hieroglyph! Published today in Journal of Paleontology shorturl.at/qTUVi

Don't forgot your fossil friends on Penguin Awareness Day. Here's the skull of Eudyptes warhami, an extinct crested penguin from the Chatham Islands. Its such an interesting species that it's features on a NZ coin! Read more here: fossilpenguins.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/a...

Happy Penguin Awareness Day! Here's a throwback to our 2023 exhibition Penguins, Past and Present. We are celebrating at the Bruce Museum today with a special 10 question Penguin Round at tonight's Bruce Museum Trivia. Meet us at 6pm for pizza, drinks, and prizes!

Our little buddy Eudyptula wilsonae made BBC's Wildlife Magazine's 10 Cutest Prehistoric Animals Ever list! shorturl.at/svdjo Reconstruction of this fossil fluffball by Simone Giovanardi. Here's the original paper by Daniel Thomas, @atennyson.bsky.social, Felix Marx & myself: shorturl.at/BSGYF

For #MineralMonday, take a peek at our lovely canvasite. This is one of my favorite pieces in our Tiny Treasures case. The blue coloring comes from vanadium, but what makes this mineral so special to me is have the clusters look soft like fluffy little cotton balls!

Happy Thanksgiving! I'm thankful for Centuriavis lioae, a 10 million year old fossil relative of turkeys. It was a lot of fun describing this stunning specimen with Catherine Early, Kate Dzikiewicz, and Amy Balanoff. The fossil is named after our amazing museum colleague Suzanne Lio.

Come at me bro! Did you know ants can ward off elephants that attack their acacia tree homes? Learn how ants and plants work form mutualistic relationships in Ants: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives at the Bruce Museum. On view through May 17th. @brucemuseum.bsky.social

Our little birdy made the cover of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Amazing how a bird sank to the bottom of Fossil Lake 51 million years ago and ended up entombed in sediments that perfectly match the background color/texture of the journal. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ants: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives is officially open at the Bruce Museum! Enter the tunnel and you will meet "Buckley", our five foot long scaled-up Dinoponera ant. Buckley is named after her creator, the great Dan Buckley. The smaller ant is my daughter, dressed as an alate queen for the opener.

Wonderful tribute to Mark Norell by Peter Makovicky, Jim Clark, and Steve Brusatte: Mark Norell (1957–2025): Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Mark Norell (1957–2025)

Pete Makovicky, Jim Clark and Steve Brusatte remember dinosaur paleontologist par excellence and all-around cool dude Mark Norell.

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Get ready to enter the tunnel and explore the realm of natures tiny dynamos. Ants: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives opens November 13th at the Bruce Museum!

This weekend is the last chance to see Charlie the Polar Bear and all his Arctic pals in On Thin Ice: Alaska's Warming Wilderness at the Bruce Museum Saturday and Sunday we host our 43rd Annual Outdoor Arts Festival, so make it a double play Bruce weekend! @brucemuseum.bsky.social

Proud to share a new piece in Scientific American co-authored with the brilliant @lnwilson.bsky.social , edited by @katewong.bsky.social, and featuring this spectacular depiction of the endless daylight of the Cretaceous summer in Alaska by Chase Stone! www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Bird Migration Is One of Nature’s Greatest Spectacles. Paleontologists Just Found Clues to Its Origin

Tiny fossils hint at when birds began making their mind-blowing journey to the Arctic to breed

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October is here and nothing sets the Halloween mood like some spessartine on black quartz! On view in the Robert R. Wiener Mineral Gallery at the Bruce Museum. Happy #MineralMonday!

Often tempted to change the locality of this spectacular selenite specimen to Fortress of Solitude. On view in the Robert R. Wiener Mineral Gallery at the Bruce Museum. Happy belated #MineralMonday

On #FossilFriday I am proud to share a new discovery - a skull of a large extinct relative of king and emperor penguins. @atennyson.bsky.social, Daniel Thomas, Felix Marx, and I report this magnificent skull in Journal of Paleontology: https:// bit.ly/4ne3HQV