Was this giant, mysterious collection of holes arranged in a snake-like pattern on Monte Sierpe in Peru the world's first spreadsheet? Evidence suggests it could have been a monumental Inca accounting device for trade and tax. 🧪 #history #archaeology www.newscientist.com/article/2503...

Ape discovered from offerings in the tomb of Lady Xia, the grandmother of the first Chinese emperor, turn out to be a kind of crested gibbon.

Exciting! Endangered, cryptic eastern ground parrot found well outside known areas of occurrence in Narawntapu National Park

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Red-footed Booby carrying nesting material at Christmas Island. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

The path toward a unified trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity - Carmona - 2025 - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

So stoked for the bird representation in this! Pleistocene documentaries tend to be very mammal-focused (because Pleistocene mammals were super cool), so I'm excited to see some variety.

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It's Australian Pollinator Week! 8-16 November Our native pollinators provide key ecosystem services, which contributes to maintaining our unique biodiversity. I photographed this little pollinator, a male 𝘏𝘺𝘭𝘢𝘦𝘶𝘴 𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘴, this week on Wangal Land. #australianpollinatorweek #ozpollinators

Xolo One. Xolo two.

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The premier, the poet and the fight to save an extraordinary Australian frog

I’ve seen more snakes in jars than I’ve had hot breakfasts, but these Bulgarian bad boys are far and away the fanciest dern snakes in jars I ever did see.

All subject areas are of interest (so long as the focus is #ornithology & #conservation); however, we’re particularly keen to hear from folks with expertise in: - climate change - bushfire - habitat loss - species distribution models - invasive species - ecotox - quantitative & movement ecology

Are you an #ECR working with #birds and looking to put your critical writing skills to use? Consider joining our team at ‘Avian Conservation & Ecology’ as a Subject Editor ace-eco.org/our-editors/

This little bird survived a volcanic eruption! Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago! Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology

Phylogeny of tinamous based on whole-genomes and fossils: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🪶🧪 (📷Musher et al.)

Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I love that you can just casually stroll along a path and discover the homes of sea creatures that lived & strived on Earth before Saturn had its rings. Deep time is even more intriguing (in some ways) than deep space.

tropical baby birds do the darnedest things check out these fuzzy weird little nestlings that hide their heads and sit there motionless. potentially trying to convince predators they are a nasty fungus rather than a tasty helpless baby bird v cool new paper: www.scielo.br/j/zool/a/MtT...

07-Nov: On this day in 1913, Alfred Russel Wallace died. Wallace famously came up with a near-identical explanation for how evolution occurs independently of Charles Darwin. You can read about their friendship here: friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar... #histsci

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Would you like a new wallpaper for your phone 😊

Even when you avoid them by catching your own fish the Tasmanian salmon industry is still hell bent on ruining it for everyone. Wonder if we'll be able to swim at the beach this summer or if we'll get treated to another round of oily balls of rot www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

In today's @theguardian.com country diary, I'm hunting for the county's first ever recorded wild plant along the same the road where it was spotted by the father of British botany, William Turner, in 1548. #naturewriting #countrydiary

The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

Striated Thornbill at the Australian National Botanic Gardens (from the archives) #birds #WildOz

I remember reading up on Greg Graffin’s published research describing new species of fossil fish and shouting out their names between songs to see if I could get a reaction. He chuckled and said it was great to know someone had actually read his papers!

I was excited to share a write-up about my friend @nickantonson.bsky.social’s recent paper regardless, but especially once I saw this title! www.popsci.com/environment/...

Today we described three new toad species that give birth to fully formed toadlets, from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania! 🇹🇿🧪🐸 vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1670...

www.abc.net.au/news/science... Crazy loopholes in the law. Let's make #protection a priority not extinction! @ipbes.net @ipbesfr.bsky.social @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social

Morning all. #FriYay

A new special collection, released in the journal Wildlife Research @wildliferesearchj.bsky.social, published by @csiropublishing.bsky.social, showcases some of the amazing Indigenous-led and cross-cultural wildlife research occurring in Australia 🧪 Watch the full interview in the link below.

Effects of habitat structure on spatiotemporal dynamics of bird acoustic communities in the urban forest | www.sciencedirect.co... | Global Ecology and Conservation | #ornithology 🪶

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Over five years after cameras were set up within a sprawling Western Australian landscape, an elusive “chuditch” has been filmed for the first time. au.news.yahoo.com/camera-captu...

Why track waders? This blog has two aims – to share important scientific and conservation stories revealed through shorebird tracking work and to encourage scientists to make their data available via the Global Wader platform. wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/m... #ornithology Whimbrel tracks 👇

A black-fronted dotterel at Lake Hattah.

Large old trees sustain avian communities and critical plant-bird interactions in highly urbanised environments | www.sciencedirect.co... | Biological Conservation | #ornithology 🪶

Are you presenting your first talk or poster at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social Conference 2025? Don't miss this upcoming webinar on designing clear, engaging and informative graphics! ✍ Register via the QR code or visit: lnkd.in/gPu77TrY #ESA2025 #EarlyCareer #SciComm #Graphics #Webinar

Looking for a different gift idea this year? How about a #kakapo adoption? Adoptions are open again until 25th Nov, with postage or email options. These fund a significant proportion of our programme and make a real difference to the #conservation work we do. Thanks! www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...

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You don't often see a #taxidermy echidna that is actually shaped like a live #echidna. ✅️ Correctly backwards-pointing feet. ✅️ Belly correctly not flattened on the ground. ✅️ Smoothly graded neck. @nhmwien.bsky.social

👍AI to help identify the species in a cameratrap 👎AI to change the pose and posture of your animal www.eco-business.com/news/ai-edit...

An absolutely stunning #thylacine at @nhmwien.bsky.social, which hasn't been posed to convey the impression that #thylacines were dangerous or threatening in the way that so many other #taxidermy specimens do. That idea was central to the false claim that they threatened #Tasmania's sheep industry.