Riddhi’s cub. Mud-streaked, steady-eyed, moving with intent. May 2024. 📍Ranthambore, Rajasthan. #lensonwildlife #ThePhotoHour #Nature #Photography #Mammals

Darwin wrote in his 1859 On the Origin of Species "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one... from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." #2026MMM

All individuals of a species come from the complex interactions of their genes and their environment, & the rich developmental endowment epigentically inherited from the parent. Nothing can replace or recreate that. In this Anthropocene, once lost, the species is lost forever. #2026MMM

These words celebrate that each living species is a treasure, the result of an incredible evolutionary journey through mutation, drift, and selection. A species is a miracle of existence. #2026MMM

Since Groundhog's Day we have announced the #2026MMM theme: March Mammal Madness Celebrates LIBRARIES! We've released the calendar, opened the Educator MMMaterials request form, & crafted a sheet of combatant Valentines! All available at the LibGuide: libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...

You get so used to hearing from professional opinion-havers that "everyone hates and distrusts academics and they fail to demonstrate their value" that sometimes you forget it's not true.

Oops I accidentally spent three hours making a powerpoint presentation on phylogenetics and legless gecko diversity/appreciation. Look at how cute Aprasia inaurita is! 📷 Nick Volpe @nvolpe.bsky.social

There’s a wolf in LA for the first time in 100 years. A collared gray wolf entered the mountains of north Los Angeles County yesterday. Known as “BEY03F” she traveled hundreds of miles from her pack in Plumas County crossing highways, mountains, creeks and valleys. www.latimes.com/environment/...

❝I take it you're here to talk some sort of deal? Better make it worth my time.❞ character: corbeau ポケモンZA / カラスバ cos: meeee #lemcos photographer: @amiephotos.bsky.social

🌘 "Starchild" 🌟 Commission for @franzanth.bsky.social & at last another of my Golden Orbits.

If you’re not sold on When the Earth Was Green, you can check out at sample at Smithsonian all about the goopiest time in Earth’s history. 🦟

Critters! 🌱

Glacier the skunk is chowing down on an apple in her home at the Cincinnati Zoo. Until 1993, Glacier would have been in Family Mustelidae with weasels & badgers. But molecular evidence showed that her ancestors diverged 60 MYA, so she gets her own family: Mephitidae which means, roughly, "stinky."

If you like Pokémon, may I suggest “trading various plants and invertebrates with likeminded individuals”

Ages ago, while out in the Triassic of New Mexico, paleontologist Kevin Padian told me - apropos of nothing - “You’re a good writer, Riley. Not great. But good.” And to this day I think Fuck You Kevin.

Elga Mark-Kurik, Estonian fish palaeontologist, is responsible for making these charming memable jawless fish museum models.

Alice Woodward (1862–1951), a prolific illustrators known for her work in children's literature, and scientific illustrations. One of the few, prolific 19th century women credited in palaeoart.

Sarah B. Landry, her illustration of a feathered dinosaur(s) for the landmark publication "Dinosaur Renaissance" in the Scientific American, were the very first to be published.

It is International Day of Women in Science! For this ocassion, a thread on influential women that illustrate prehistoric life🧵 Marta Szubert. Creator of one of the first to-scale feathered dinosar models (1997). If you've been to Poland or Slovakia, you've probably seen her models on display.

Bees 🐝

Recent DSLC.io club meetings: 🔵 Cookbook: Animal shelter intakes: making gauge charts with ggforce youtu.be/Fkav5oxt0c0 Support the Data Science Learning Community at patreon.com/DSLC #dataBS #TidyTuesday #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Glad to see you are liking my Anatomy moth series so much. Did you know you can get prints of them too? Framed on the wall they look like little taxidermied weirdness! Get them here: ko-fi.com/anatomoth/sh...

people often don't know what's relevant to doctors, and a good doctor's job is to know what follow up questions to ask to get to a correct diagnosis and course of action. chatbots just can't do that www.404media.co/chatbots-hea...

Test paint on my Arctops sculpt! It’s probly getting a little more work on it but one session in and the vibes are there :) #paleoart #gorgonopsid #permian

I'm sure there are other victims who know more about the other scientists listed, who also have these sorts of known histories We need a journalist with integrity who believes women to do a proper investigation of Epstein's scientific connections

@nature.com you claim that Krauss had "no knowledge" of Epstein's crimes until after 2018, but there is absolute proof that he was defending Epstein as early as 2011, after he had already been convicted in 2008 This is documented in the Epstein files and here: www.patreon.com/posts/143888...

Brambleclaw - Tiger's last strike

Small box. Big roar. Impressive floof. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

Pinky kitty doodle

Look, all you need to know about the situation is that Green Day sang "American Idiot" at the opening and explicitly told ICE to quit their jobs at their show on Saturday and Bad Bunny said a bunch of stuff in Spanish and alllll the headlines and angry posts are about Bad Bunny. You know why.

I found this fossil vertebra on the floor of a hotel spa in Egypt! #urbangeology

A strange and confusing tale from the bowels of (where else) the New York Times. Has the American Medical Association changed position on trans youth care? A New York Times headline says they "endorsed restrictions" on youth surgeries. Other outlets, including NPR, report they did no such thing.

Ohtori was on my shoulder being restless and warking a bunch, I kept asking him if he wanted ___ and he wasn't responding to anything-until I asked if he wanted to go do the dishes. Instantly went quiet, booped my nose ("yes"), and turned to aim towards the sink So we did the dishes #parrotsky

For #SuperbOwl Sunday, an owl-themed painting that is hands down one of my favorite artworks of all time: Singing Cats Led by an Owl, by an unidentified Lombard artist from circa 1700. Looks closely at the mice used as musical notes (and the butt trumpet as well)

Thylacine

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

You will never get the sense of accomplishment from writing with AI that you will get from actually writing with just yourself

This is as Toronto as it gets

Please no one ask me to do any more projects I will say yes and then rue the day I was born

Ornithopod dinosaurs are often ignored or derided as boring, lacking cool ornamentation or defenses. Haolong is a look at what we couldn’t see before, and makes me wonder about Camptosaurus, Tenontosaurus, Thescelosaurus, and friends.

Part1 #ExhibitionSneakPeek #Wildcat #WhenBeastsSpoke

It bums me out that there isn't more Paleolithic rock art of cave hyenas, especially considering they were all over the place. So I made some myself.

🦇 Little Brown Bats are widespread across North America. "Myotis" is the genus they belong to (Myotis lucifugus) and it means "mouse-eared". It is still correct to call them a Little Brown Bat - using "Myotis" is just a little more descriptive.

Why do I not have a little brown bat being a little brown finger ring

A happy red panda

I set up my first trail cam a few weeks ago and got this. I don't think I'll ever top this video. I could just retire it now and be happy.

Hot take, but no one should be using ChatGPT and any AI products in general.

Hot take: folks are too focused on the AI emphasis of the PRFB & missing the most concerning part of the solicitation. The heavy emphasis on bio-AI integration for “technological advances” is a concerning degradation of NSFs mission to fund basic biological research.

A mother Brown-throated sloth and her baby 🦥 🥹 #mammals #sloths #CostaRica