Wooly mammoths inherited at least 1.2 million nucleotide changes from their last common ancestor with Asian elephants! Each makes mammoths mammoths, not Asian elephants #MammothMonday 🧪 🦣 ≠ 🐘 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An Eastern Chipmunk for #MammalMonday!

Concept sketches of extinct rhinos in time for #WorldRhinoDay Coelodonta antiquitatis (Woolly Rhino, extinct 14,000 years ago) with some magpies resting on its horns Paraceratherium transouralicum, one of the largest mammals to ever exist that lived during the Oligocene in Asia #paleoart #art

This is mind-blowing. Norway has gone from essentially ZERO sales of non-emitting Battery Electric Vehicles to *94%* of new passenger vehicles sales. In about 13 years! Incredible. How are they doing it @robbieandrew.bsky.social?

Good foraging day! Sweetfern (for tea) and about a pound of honey mushrooms (for sauteeing)

A checklist of things Buster is afraid of: The vaccuum, any person outside, his leash when it makes a clicky sound, bicycles, cars, sticks, the crunching of leaves, his tennis ball, the sound of a cough or sneeze, unexpected noises, expected noises, people, places, things--generally all the nouns.

Millions of years ago, California had a familiar yet alien landscape from what it sees today. This painting highlights the animals that may have passed through Death Valley long ago. This painting features as a 4ft mural hung in the Copper Canyon Visitor Center in southern Cali.

Instead of #FossilFriday here's a #FungiFriday: I got about half a pound of Shrimp of the Woods!

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

This how you preserve avian biodiversity, not by some pretend de-extinction.

what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people

Trey Reed was lynched in plain sight this week and police are not even looking for a suspect. Whole everyone is talking about imaginary "left-wing violence", this is yet another day of racist hate coming from a country founded on suppression and anti-Black terrorism www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Museums matter, folks! Really thrilled to have been featured in a recent newsletter from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's education department. They really fostered my love for science and I wouldn't be here without them :)

Education is the enemy of fascism.

Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker. West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University #Archaeology

This is my life now

Ya'll, we've hit the mainstream. Turns out that folks like the idea of prioritizing people over profits. Who knew? (I mean, besides us Democratic Socialists.)

#SciArtSeptember 16 - Rift The Great Rift Valley of Eastern Africa forms a chain of deep lakes, famous for their numerous endemic fish and other animals. One of them is Lake Turkana. It's better known for the ancient human remains found around it, but it also has a unique fauna.

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Oh my

Not a bad foraging day! Now it's time to dehydrate these for winter soups

“Charlie Kirk in His Own Words” 17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.

It is against United States law to provide weapons to forces that commit war crimes. Yet our government in Democratic and Republican administrations have continued sending American made bombs to an Israeli government carrying out a genocide. It is time to Block the Bombs.

Hello mammalogists! A reminder that the Black and Indigenous Scholars Award in Mammalogy is now accepting applications for awards of up to $1500 to support the further development of mammalogy by Black/African American, African, and Indigenous individuals.

Fired for acknowledging that trans people exist.

#SciArtSeptember 10 - Tawny Not all gazelles live in Africa! Goitered gazelle is native to a vast area from Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan through central Asia all the way to northwestern China and Mongolia. Though widespread, its' population is in steep decline due to poaching and habitat loss.

The child of Gran Dolina, Homo antecessor #sciart

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age out later this year... such a thrill to put this series together, oh my goodness are you in for a treat :) Hopefully news on events and publicity coming soon! Sloths, cats, rhinos, glyptodonts AND SOOOO MUCH MORE!!

Military agents at polls. Disarming efforts to combat foreign interference. ICE agents demanding proof of citizenship at the ballot. @ariberman.bsky.social counts the ways President Trump is already working to cook the 2026 midterms.

A cute little campus fawn for #MammalMonday

Newts! (89 newts to be precise)

Goblin creature

happy #fossilfriday! this is embolotherium, a brontothere from late eocene mongolia. the bony protuberance on its skull resembles a battering ram, and theories on its function range from social signalling to combat to it acting as a resonating chamber (art by @mariolanzas.bsky.social)

#Terns variations are seen around the world, but this unique #IncaTern is only spotted on the west coast of #SouthAmerica. The Inca Terns is known for their mustache-like white feathers near their striking reddish-orange beak. #birdsoftheworld #southamericanbirds #birdphotography #birdnerd #birds 🪶

In 30 years, relentless poaching, fueled by the insatiable demand for ivory in east Asia, has plunged African forest elephant numbers by 86%, pushing them towards extinction. And without the elephants as seed dispersers, many trees and plants can't regenerate. share.google/3oqKiOtvq4tc...

Afrotheres will never cease to be amazing

50% of the arguments about locomotion in fossil apes would end if everyone recognized that upright≠bipedal

Finally finished updating our Nariokotome Boy exhibit at @suny.oneonta.edu, welcoming guests as they pass by our department #FossilFriday

Hominins are just an obscure primate in the background of bovid diversification

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#SciArtSeptember 1: Islet Somewhere in the waves of Barents Sea, a rocky islet acts as a perch for seabirds. Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and skuas are still here, though threatened by heating oceans and spreading disease. With them sits a lonely ghost of a great auk that once roamed these seas.

A different type of post today for #MammalMonday: everyone meet Buster!

"If we are looking for models of self-sustaining communities, we need look no further than an old-growth forest. Or the old-growth cultures they raised in symbiosis with them." -Robin Wall Kimmerer

This is exactly why I prefer spending my weekends in Kenya hiking through the forest than doing the typical savanna safaris--African tropical forests might be the most underappreciated ecoregion on the planet--and home to their OWN antelopes, buffalo, elephants, cats, etc.

Mushroom foraging! Beech rooter (food--tastes like portabella) and turkey tail (medicine--makes decent tea with some possible immune and anti-inflammatory benefits)

#ToucanoftheDay Yellow-throated Toucan posing for me at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature #toucans

The assumption that humanity can only survive through massive technological progress or space travel fundamentally misunderstands that the only way to live on this planet is NOT how Americans and Europeans live in the 20th-21st centuries. We can continue to live--here--how we did for 300,000 years.