#2026MMM #Championship #LibraryDivision #TeamNileCrocodile Art by Mary C. Freisner @maryfreisner.bsky.social and Charon Henning @oddangel.bsky.social

Sales‑Oliveira et al. (2023) found that croc chromosomes are conservative maintaining similar karyotype structures & diploid chrom numbers for ~100 MY! Most Crocodylinae (including Nile Crocodile) maintain the ancestral number of 2n = 32 (16 pairs) #2026MMM doi.org/10.1007/s004...

#2026MMM #Championship #MoneyDivision #TeamHumpbackWhale Art by Olivia Pellicer @opellisms.bsky.social and Valeria Pellicer @veppart.bsky.social

There are many ways to get animal DNA! In a preprint (not yet peer-reviewed), scientists have shown that instead of invasive biopsies, they can generate whole genomes for humpback whales by non-invasively sampling their exhaled respiratory vapor or ‘blow’! #2026MMM doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.08.710374

I 💕 the #2026MMM genetics facts! I learned & made so many connections to AP Bio curriculum. After the battles, we would share & discuss these facts in our class

Are you ready? #2026MMM

PhyloPic now has 12,197 free silhouettes! The latest batch includes geckos, prehistoric mammals, early archosauromorphs, marine turtles, snakes, early flying insects, and more! #sciart www.phylopic.org/images

118 people at my school picked Whale and 105 picked Croc, the 2 most popular. 30.1% (223/740) still have their champion, coincidence? #2026MMM

🏆🐊🐋 #2026mmm Championship So what’s the difference between crocodiles & alligators? Though both are crocodilians but belong to different families! Alligators: U-shaped snouts & generally less aggressive Crocodiles: V-shaped snouts & are more territorial #AUMNH #AuburnUniversity #TeamCroc

We can't believe it is the last #animordle ! It has been a lot of fun and we hope you have enjoyed it. No worries about www.animordle.com going away though. The website will remain live and all the puzzles will stay archived through the end of April. #2026MMM

I will join this pledge! No horrors only Moon for 24 hrs! (Except i will also be participating in the goofpostfest that is the #2026MMM #MarchMammalMadness Championship Battle of Humpback #Whale vs Nile #Crocodile) wondermark.com/c/1582/

Happy April 1st. Can't wait to share this "official announcement" with my classes today 😁😁😁. #2026mmm #ragebaiting students is my jam @mmmletsgo.bsky.social

Looking forward to finishing out #2026MMM and #bcvaMMM with the @creativesatbc.bsky.social and the rest of the MMMasters!

Come ON people! “Wolf takes bite out of Hamburger” was RIGHT THERE

I will fulfill my 2 hour old post promise. I will not repost the Horrors. I will love the moon and only the moon for 24 fucking hours because we deserve to believe in the beauty of our dreams and have hope for the future.

It’s April 1 AND it’s the #2026MMM Championship? MMM Narrator Meeting:

In many/most normal democracies, the failure of the government to pass a budget brings down the government & triggers new elections. In American "democracy," you can control both houses of Congress & fail to pass a budget indefinitely. We are a very serious polity. Please clap.

#2026MMM #bcvammm

Checks some key science details for #2026MMM... well hello there gorgeous FACTS.

🌊Warming oceans are quietly changing what phytoplankton are made of... Their “nutritional makeup” shifts with the environment. Protein-rich in cold waters, but more carbs and lipids in warm, nutrient-poor seas. ..and the very base of the marine food web is evolving www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emoji trash talk is amazing #2026MMM

Nooooo. #2026MMM

Is the auroch DNA truly gone from the world? Pereira et al found that modern Anatolian, Levant, Irani, and Balkans cattle share DNA to various degrees with extinct Armenian, British, and Moroccan ancient aurochs. A small amount of auroch DNA still lives today doi.org/10.1126/scie... #2026MMM #RIP

Well well well. A cetacean made it to the championship for #2026MMM. Surely this time it'll bring the gold home. For 2025 Narwhal. For 2024 Cachalot. For 2022 pod of Orcas. For 2014 Orca.

And a collection of quick sketches based off animal facts presented during tonight's event! - Creative Amir #2026mmm #2026MMM #bcvammm

Creative Lillian presents her MMM-sona fighter, the mighty beaver! #2026mmm #2026MMM #bcvammm

And the night is not over until Creative Zander presents her fighters recap! We'll miss her for Championship but she's excited for next year's MMM! See you all on Wednesday! - Creative Amir #2026mmm #2026MMM #bcvammm

#2026MMM #FinalRoar #MoneyDivision #TeamHumpbackWhale Art by Olivia Pellicer @opellisms.bsky.social and Valeria Pellicer @veppart.bsky.social

An unfortunate predicament, so long! - Creative Amir #2026MMM #2026mmm #bcvammm

FINAL ROAR #2026MMM WINNERS: NILE CROCODILE and HUMPBACK WHALE! Please join us WEDNESDAY April 1st at 8PM EST for the CHAMPIONSHIP BATTLE!!!

#2026MMM FINAL R😮AR EMOJI BATTLE 🐊🆚🦡: 🪄🌳/🦡👃🏼🦎/🦡🧗🏾‍♂️🌳/ 🐊🐊🍽️💀/🐊😑🔊🐊/🦡🦷🦎/ 🦡🦎⤵️💀/🐊👄🐊/🐊 💀💥🦡/ 🇦🇺🐊🤷🏻👋🏻/🦡🍽️🐛/🐊🍽️💀/🏆🐊 🐋🆚🐂: 🪄🇺🇸/🐋🤏🌊/👶🏼🚫🍼/ 🐋🤰🏼🔴😩/🐂🏊🏾‍♂️📐🐋/🐋🔄🐂/ 🐂🗡️🐋🩻/🐋⬇️🐂/🛘🕳️🔜🌅/ 🐋👶🏼🐂🏊🏼‍♀️/🐂🏊🏾‍♂️🏖️/🐋🍼👶🏼/🏆🐋

NILE CROCODILE with take on HUMPBACK WHALE in the #2026MMM CHAMPIONSHIP BATTLE on WEDNESDAY!!!! Until then, be well! Good night, & good luck!

LIKE SO #2026MMM

LIKE SO #2026MMM

SWOOSHING INTO DEEP LAKE, the mullet of lakes- freshwater on top, saltwater down below, formed by a HUGE catastrophic sink hole collapse (Upchurch et al. 2018)! #2026MMM

that's the crumbling of aurochs horns and the whoosh of guts out the fissure in its belly #2026MMM

The karst limestone formations has a catastrophic cover collapse OPENING A SINKHOLE #GeologyTwist #2026MMM

Arch-rearing against the whale, Aurochs begins to gore his 3.5foot long horns (van Vuure 2014) into the Humpback Whale puncturing her skin... her blubber... into her rib... (Struthers 1888) #2026MMM

WHEN 20-TON HUMPBACK WHALE STARTS ROLLING ONTO AUROCHS!!! #2026MMM

FLORIDA MAN ALERT #2026MMM

Drawn before a live audience, I bring you the winner! - Creative Amir #2026mmm #2026MMM #bcvammm

INDEED, THEY ARE OPEN! #2026MMM

Behavioral adaptations to seek shallow coastal waters though, bring Humpback Whale & calves into proximity to ship traffic, increase risk of ship strikes & other stresses (Bejder et al. 2019) #2026MMM

COMMISIONS OPEN!! #2026MMM

Look at this fabulous #MoneyMammal art!!! The #MMM art team, being amazing as usual!! #2026MMM

Aurochs benefitted from the dam-building activities of beavers- flooding forest areas, transforming landscapes into meadows of grasses & sedges #AnotherKindOfFieldWork. Aurochs would have lived in marshy areas along freshwater rivers & lakes and coastal salt marshes ( (van Vuure 2014) #2026MMM

#2026MMM #FinalRoar #ExtinctionDivision #TeamAurochs Art by Valeria Pellicer @veppart.bsky.social

The extinct auroch had at least three subspecies, and all three contributed some ancestry to modern cattle. For example, Cai et al found East Asian cattle descend from West Eurasian cattle originally but then later admixture with the extinct East Asian auroch doi.org/10.1038/hdy.... #2026MMM

Last Up: #1-seed Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) from the Money Mammals Division vs. #3-seed Aurochs (Bos primigenius) from the Extinction is Forever Division #2026MMM