Oldest known fossil evidence of lepidopterans (butterflies & moths), from the Triassic (~236 mya) of Argentina! Scales from the wings of these insects were preserved in dicynodont coprolites, & were likely on plants eaten by the dicynodonts. www.science.org/content/arti... #PoopScience 🧪💩🪨🦋

Womersleymeria bicornis (Womersley, H, 1940:137) Stach, J, 1949, an springtail endemic to Australia. #NAMEITTOSAVEIT

Hi, had a bit of a rough end to my week of chemo so have been offline for a while. Thank you to all our supporters. Here is a quoll I found in a sketchbook. Please feel free to donate to this worthy cause or you never know what that quoll might do. citytocasino25.grassrootz.com/canteen/jon-...

epigram engraved on a dog collar, Alexander Pope, 1736

I'm finding bluesky rather dull. And what's with the enormous number of busty babes trying to be my friend? I'm a 74-year-old gay man and their tits are the very last thing I want to be besieged by.

This can’t be right, surely. Tony Abbott says Pell was a truly great Australian…

Headline on a news release which came to my in-tray today and attracted my entire attention for far too long: "New fungal species named in honour of Sir David Attenborough making zombies of cave spiders on the island of Ireland" 🧪 www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, everything that led to the Holocaust is in danger of being forgotten. The Nazis channeled the demands of oligarchs, scapegoated minorities and replaced democracy with a new imperium. Those politics are returning. #NeverForget #NeverAgain

Morning everyone, I took a couple of months off over Christmas as I have not been particularly well and have been waiting on seeing the results of my next scan, which if not good would be not good at all. Having given it a lot of thought, I’ve decided that even if the result is good, eventually, one

Thieves have stolen several key artifacts from an exhibition of gold from the ancient kingdom of Dacia at the Drents Museum in Assen, after setting of explosives outside the building. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/01/inte...

there is no taming Grace Deadset legend

What an incredible, brave woman.

Kirsti Miller for President

An entertaining thought, from the podcast ‘The Rest is Politics’: in two years Trump will be of no futther use to the Republican Party. They’ll be busy looking for his replacement. What will become of him then?

A beautiful day out here in the bush

Huh. There are flowers in Ethiopia that native nectar-foraging wolves pollinate! 🦊😋🌻🍊 🧪 "Canids as pollinators? Nectar foraging by Ethiopian wolves may contribute to the pollination of Kniphofia foliosa" by Lai et al. (2024, Ecology) esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Season's greetings from everyone at the New Phytologist Foundation! https://www.newphytologist.org/

Very very very quick and dirty sketch. Diamantinasaurus + cf. Wollemia sp.

Water Dragon hanging out to dry after the showers in Brisbane this morning. #brisbane #wildoz #herps

The pond is full

South Lambeth

Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields

Pogona barbata, bearded dragon, basking on an ironbark tree trunk near our pond. 8/2005

Huge hairy buds on Selenicereus pteranthus, a night blooming epiphytic cactus.

Yet more extinct Australian mammal species. We discovered three new species of marsupial. Unfortunately, they're already extinct theconversation.com/we-discovere...

colour and confusion in the garden

The 2023 state of the climate report: it's fucked academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Lake Borumba

Agrioglypta excelsalis (Walker, [1866]) (Spilomelinae). 'The larvae feed on the leaves of Ficus species, including Ficus coronata, Ficus macrophylla and Ficus opposita. They feed from within a shelter made of leaves joined by silk.' - wikipedia Imbil, Queensland.

Krefft's turtle, Emydura macquarii ssp. krefftii, in our pond. Imbil, Queensland. 10/2010

The huge woody pod of Castanospermum australe, the black bean tree (Fabaceae).

Podargus strigoides (Podargidae), tawny frogmouth youngsters sitting together on a branch near the house. Imbil, SE QLD. 12/2010

Dendrophthoe vitellina, the Long-flower Mistletoe (Loranthaceae). Imbil, Queensland.

sundown parrots have the most gorgeous colours - that little white eye ring and pink belly is too much 😍🪶

Tanya Plibersek's plan fails to address the single most important factor in the impending extinction of the swift parrot: habitat destruction in native forests by logging. Plibersek's main function in the Albanese government seems to be providing endless, shiny, meaningless spin.

Comostola laesaria (Walker, 1861) is a small moth of the family Geometridae. Its larvae probably feed on Melaleucas, many species of which are growing here.

The endangered greater glider, whose habitat is under threat from logging in NSW

A whole bunch of people defending Aus PM Albanese wearing this Rio Tinto shirt bc they 'they don't mine coal anymore'. 2nd highest corp emitter in Aus. Emissions have risen since 2020, when you include scope 3. They are deeply invested in the fossil economy.

Usnea sp., beard lichen

Gizmo is the coolest person in our household

I am elsewhere.

Happiness. Getting the farm dam wall repaired today.

I now have more social media accounts than I know what to do with.