#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

#2026MMM #FinalRoar #MoneyDivision #TeamHumpbackWhale Art by Charon Henning @oddangel.bsky.social

Oooooo I really like this #InspirationalIntermission #2026mmm a very good reminder for us all. The smallest of efforts can move mountains if we all do our part.

Every year, humpback whales make long treks btwn where they breed & where they feed. Maternally-inherited mtDNA from >1,800 humpback whales suggest that animals annually return to where they were born to breed themselves & where they fed w/their moms early in life #2026MMM doi.org/10.3354/meps10508

"Tell Katie it was me." - Baby #2026MMM

#InspirationalIntermission #2026MMM

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

A chromosome-scale genome for the honey badger doesn't yet exist. Only available genome is in 2,068,312 pieces. Honey badger don't care. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen... #2026MMM #RIP

Although honey badgers have a dominant male, genetic analysis revealed that subordinate males fathered about half of cubs. journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.1... #2026MMM

#2026MMM #FinalRoar #BoneyardDivision #TeamHoneyBadger Art by Olivia Pellicer @opellisms.bsky.social

#2026MMM #FinalRoar #LibraryDivision #TeamNileCrocodile Art by Mary C. Freisner @maryfreisner.bsky.social

How related are Nile crocodiles across Southern Africa? Van Asch et al. (2019) used STRs & mtDNA to examine phylogeography & genetic diversity. Primary differentiation across east/west & secondarily across major river systems #2026MMM doi.org/10.1371/jour...

FIRST BATTLE of the FINAL ROAR: #1-seed Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) from the Library Legends vs. #1-seed Honey Badger from That's So Metal! (Mellivora capensis) #2026MMM

Print a hankie up with “No, not THAT kind of carnage!” #2026MMM

TONIGHT IS THE CLASH OF THE DIVISION CHAMPIONS! #2026MMM

One crocodile down, one to go. #TeamHoneyBadger #2026MMM 🦝⚔️🐊 youtu.be/whUa6vfv6Jo