Markus Bühler (Bestiarium-Blog)
@markusbuehler.bsky.social
Zoology and Paleontology Blogger on "Bestiarium", Wildlife- and Paleoartists, Author, Nature Aficionado, Archeology- and History-Enthusiast www.bestiarium.kryptozoologie.net
It's about damn time. Finally a paper going into the postcranial anatomy of the hoofed-crocodile Boverisuchus vorax from the Eocene of North America onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... you wouldn't believe how long I waited for something like this
Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats Just published in @pnas.org, OA for all eyes Led by the one-and-only @romero-vidal.bsky.social, with the amazing @elena-tena.bsky.social and Sonia Sánchez-Navarro @ebdonana.bsky.social LINK: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I might have called this finished several thousand tiny brushstrokes ago, but as ever, I needled away at inconsequential intricacies probably nobody would notice or care about. It's always the process. Being lost in it is something all artists are keenly familiar with. Botlickers don't get it.
Natee (they/them)@himmapaan.bsky.social · last mo.Channeling my inner Lang Shining with all my might, painting with lapis pigment on silk. 😤
#SaveTheDate 24.06.2026 | 18:00 Uhr | Museum am Löwentor Vortrag: Neues vom Waldrapp mit Dipl.-Biol. Markus Unsöld, Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Veranstaltet vom Arbeitskreis für Vogelkunde und Vogelschutz e.V. 📷: Maggifix - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wiki Commons
Have you checked out our latest episode on #deepsea #anglerfish? We talk with a couple of their biggest fans and learn about odd jaws, mysterious corruncles and a sinister anus?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU5T...
The Anglerfish Files | The Deep-Sea Podcast | Episode 69
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This #Etruscan terracotta votive portrait head of a man is clearly modeled on a real individual. It was part of a votive deposit associated with the Manganello sanctuary in Caere, where people went to pray for healing or thank the gods for recovery. 🏺 1/ Late 2nd-early 1st c. BCE. 📸 me
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Frontiers | Use of tusks by narwhals, Monodon monoceros, in foraging, exploratory, and play behavior
Despite the universal fascination with the tusk of the narwhal, the function of this long, spiraled tooth is still debated, primarily because few people have...
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A stunning crocodile 🐊 mummy mask with traces of its original paint still visible and eyes inlaid with glass, which initially contributed to a lifelike gaze. From Egypt, Roman Period, 1st or 2nd century AD. Crocodile mummies are closely associated with the cult of Sobek, in which...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺
Just discovered some recent beaver activity and several beaver dams. There are only very few and very fresh bite marks, and a few very old ones, so I suppose this was a rather recently repopulated habitat.
Für alle die vielleicht noch für Weihnachten etwas Besonderes zum Verschenken oder auch für den eigenen Wunschzettel suchen, kürzlich erschien von mir und Tobias Möser "Unsere Exoten Pflanzen, Pilze und Tiere als Neubürger in Deutschland", 398 Seiten über heimische Neobiota youtu.be/Iq67Vpjkc_g?...
Unsere Exoten, der Blick ins Buch
YouTube video by Sequoia Verlag
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Was wenige engagierte Leute in einer BUND-Ortsgruppe alles erreichen können. Anekdote: Von der wiedergekommen Sibirischen Iris traut man sich gar nicht, sie auf die Beweidung zurückzuführen. Dabei ist es typisches, giftiges Weideunkraut. Aufzeichnung in Kürze hier: www.youtube.com/@naturnahewe...
Herbert Nickel@herbertnickel.bsky.social · 8mo agoReminder für heute Abend, 19:00 Uhr: Onlinevortrag über ein erfolgreiches Beweidungsprojekt am Bodensee. Einwahllink gibt es bei mir über DM oder E-Mail.
Faszinierende Art von der ich noch niemals gehört habe! Vielen Dank @thoerren.bsky.social
Thomas Hörren@thoerren.bsky.social · last yr.Verborgen unter der Erdoberfläche findet sich bei uns sehr weit verbreitet die augen- und pigmentlose Ameisenassel (Plathyarthrus hoffmannseggi). Sie lebt in den Nestern von verschiedensten Ameisenarten und kann etwa beim Wenden von Steinen und Totholz entdeckt werden. Typisch ist der breite Körper.
Sadly you can't see the beaver which is right at the moment sitting and eating in the grass in front of me.
🔬 Phenotypic plasticity drives the development of laterality in the scale-eating cichlid fish 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑠.🐟🧪 🔒 academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Phenotypic plasticity drives the development of laterality in the scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis
The scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis, from Lake Tanganyika in Africa, is an excellent model for studying animal lateralization. However, how
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The Phenomenon of Piebaldism in Sharks: A Review of Global Sightings and Patterns.🐟🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Phenomenon of Piebaldism in Sharks: A Review of Global Sightings and Patterns
Chromatic disorders like piebaldism—a rare form of leucism causing partial pigment loss—have been documented in 25 wild shark cases across 17 species and 11 families, with varying anatomical distribu...
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Risso's Dolphins from Berry Head this afternoon. May seems to be a good month to see them as they are probably coming in close to shore to feed on adult Cuttlefish which have come into the shallows to lay eggs and die at this time of year.
Imagine you went out to the forest for a sunday walk & saw an elephant herd. Wait, there would certainly be trees, but no forest. Interesting new paper: Europe’s lost landscape sculptors: Today’s potential range of the extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1350...
Noch gar nicht gesehen: Ein Video über die Wasserbüffelweide Burglehen bei Rottenburg am Neckar. Dank an @markusbuehler.bsky.social für den Hinweis. Der Regierungsbezirk Tübingen könnte deutscher Büffelweidenmeister sein. Wir inventarisieren gerade. youtu.be/4Y4Fbvh1FAw?...
🐃Auf Wasserbüffel-Safari im Naturschutzgebiet Burglehen (Landkreis Tübingen)
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Voay robustus! a recently extinct species of crocodile from Madagascar, most of its remains were found in a "sub-fossil" state, where not enough time has passed for them to fossilize suggested by @convictclaude.bsky.social! who surely apreciates me calling it a 𝙃𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙮 𝘾𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙡𝙚
#paleoart commission: the bulkiest, heaviest and possibly even longest crocodilian with the strongest biteforce in animal kingdom: the giant miocene caiman Purussaurus!
Yesterday I visited another fantastic place in the Chiemgau Alps, it must look even much more awesome when everything is green and flowers all around.
Today I visited this awesome lake in the Chiemgau Alps of Bavaria. The weather was rainy but the colours of the water still incredible. I could see a few rainbow trouts, some brown trouts and a single char of unknown species plus a lot of minnows, and as an ornithological surplus also a merganser.
Today I visited a very nice special exhibition in the Mammut-Museum Siegsdorf about the fossils from the Hammerschmiede Lagerstätte in Bavaria, illustrated by one of my favorite paleo-artists, Mauricio Anton.
I just hope we will also see anytime footage of a fully adult Mesonychoteuthis in its natural habitat.
Schmidt Ocean Institute@schmidtocean.bsky.social · last yr.🦑 This baby is COLOSSAL! 🦑 First confirmed live observation of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its natural habitat. Filmed at about 600m near the South Sandwich Islands during the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition. youtu.be/lzPoG9H8Hlo
The beavers in the bog area Inzeller Filzen are very active and their activities can be seen all around. The beavers themselves are very elusive however. Just saw this really nice artwork in honour of the local beavers.
Some impressions from lake Chiemsee. The weather was really great, and despite rather low overall number of waterfowl I have seen, I can add two pretty awesome new species on my list of first sights in the wild.
