While bovines have not spread far beyond the known world, within its confines, there are numerous species that are quite successful. Perhaps chief among these are the buffalos, with the Seridic wetlands being home to a massive population of water buffalo. Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLr5...

Have had this Graphic Novel for a few weeks now and i can only recommend it. The beautyful illusstrations by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social and Information given about the animals and environment just make it worth the cost.

The #DorsetMuseum is really great. They have original notebooks from Mary Anning and several famous holotypes from the area out for people to see.

Sarcosaurus woodi, an early diverging averostran-line theropod from the Early Jurassic of Warwickshire, in the Warwickshire Museum offsite collections. #2025SVP

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

A new Early Triassic cyclidan crustacean from the Guiyang biota onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... - ecosystem recovery after mass extinction @morphobank.bsky.social #PapersinPalaeontology

To everyone on SM wondering why Starmer hasn't cleared out all the far-right headcases like Gibb on the BBC board: It's because Keith's mission is to keep the left well away from power + maintain the status quo until the CON/REF arm-wrestle is sorted + the winner can take power. Hope this helps.

To mark the 85th Annual SVP Meeting 2025, we've assembled an open access collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers. Our next study highlight is a taxonomic and phylogenetic re-evaluation of Therizinosauria (Dinosauria: Maniraptora) by Zanno (2010) buff.ly/IJMpY0c #PaleoSky #2025SVP

Jupiter says trans rights

🚨Another new paper alert!! 🚨 We present the first histological analysis of an ornithocheirid pterosaur tooth from Brazil’s Crato Formation, revealing exceptionally rapid tooth growth and thin enamel adapted for efficient replacement. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Are you attending #2025SVP #SVP2025? Come see my talk on Thursday at 2pm in the Synapsida technical session on tail length evolution in across stem mammals, and find out why this long-neglected part of the skeleton has a much more complicated story to tell than we previously thought!

NEW: Firings of LGBTQ staff at NBC and Condé Nast have worsened an already dire picture for legacy news media when it comes to covering the trans community. From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy (and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)

drives me batshit that they're quoting oh-so-reliable farage instead of simply stating that trump has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against the bbc. no one cares to hear farage opine on this crap

“Content” is a corpo-brain term, makes me cringe when I hear it in the wild. You don’t make “content”, you make ART! You write STORIES. Its your WORK (and often play too)! “Content” is the noise you flick through when trying to find a SHOW you like, don’t cheapen your work comparing it to SLOP. 😤

The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.

So spouting off about theoretical scenarios you made up like a “Black Lives Matter” tshirt didn’t work for you Tim. Who would have thought?’

The Democrats voting to open the government as long as Trump promises to abide by the law from now on like me leaving my tasty chicken dinner on the table while I go and get something from upstairs as long as my cat promises not to start scoffing it down the second I leave the room.

labour haven't found a fascist yet that they won't gleefully bend over for. remember stuff like this whenever you see @darrenpjones.bsky.social and co trashing the greens and claiming that labour are the party to fight fascism. they haven't fought against *any* far right bullshit. they cave.

Another one for #dinovember Not exactly a dinosaur this time, but a yawning Inostrancevia. It's tiring being top predator.

Guy's Cliffe - Middle Triassic Helsby Sandstone Formation in Warwickshire. #2025SVP

People are very squeamish when it comes to criticising the BBC, because it’s been very successful in presenting itself as this rock in a storm, bastion of integrity and non bias. But it’s all marketing. “What replaces the bbc could be worse” but what replaces it will be the same.

Panorama made a stupid editing mistake. But compare this to the deliberate and systemic attempt, sustained across years, to ensure that BBC output aligns ever more closely to the demands of economic power. Against your straw of bias, I raise you a haystack.

Our recent azhdarchoid phylogeny paper has gotten a David Peters blogpost. I am now officially a pterosaurologist

夫氏の手の中ででろ～んとなるレイたん🫠 #ウロコインコ #ウロコのレイ

'eepy chonkers #birds #conures #parrot 🦜

once a week a labour politician is dumb enough to come on to bluesky, the tranny app, and claim brianna ghey was murdered by social media usage.

Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.

bcos it was unjustified. unfortunately labour are ideological about this shit. they don't listen to sense on anything.

Several injured after Israeli football fans attack Palestinians dining at a restaurant with knives, sticks and bottles

we’re about to start seeing a lot of “here’s a cost effective meal your grandparents made during the great depression”

when are labour gonna realise that until they get rid of starmer this shit just comes off as gaslighting?

me when the AI bubble bursts

Thanatotheristes is a late Cretaceous tyrannosaur whose name means 'Reaper of death.' I couldn't help this image of it in Grim Reaper guise popping into my head. Brown pencil on plain notebook paper, 125 × 190 mm, 2020. #Halloween #Samhain

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Repost of some recent #paleoart! Kunpengopterus, Arsinoitherium, and Centrosaurus! #dinosaurs #pterosaurs #mammals #sciart #art #digitalart #prehistory

Today we were lucky enough to encounter a superpod while on the water in Puget Sound with the @whaleresearch.bsky.social ! For now, we wanted to share an update on 2 of the Southern Resident orcas we get asked about the most: both L25 Ocean Sun and L87 Onyx were there! #whalesky #killerwhales

Don’t fall for this shit. Primary every single one of them

I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity

Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot. Vote in your local elections! www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...

Me after a bowl of soup and a loaf of bread...

Happy Cute Mildred Monday 💚

humbly proposing that vape pens are quietly one of the most evil inventions in the past 25 years and that everyone involved should be tried at the hague

I returned to Mt Tomah yesterday. The wattlebirds left the Puya flowers unguarded for a few minutes and this Eastern Spinebill managed to slip in under the RADAR. #birds

Cute day of superb parrot babies 😍

I don't know if anyone ever considered this before but I think we should have a left wing party in the United States. Just my opinion

Close-up with an American Coot #birds

guillermo del toro's movies r all primarily cute and sort of sad/melancholy. like. people r always trying to call him stuff like "master of horror" but it's not true. he's master of cute monsters. cutie sympathetic little guys.