Lady aurora blew up the sky last week in Churchill. I'm so glad my guests got to experience this amazing evening. #NorthernLights #aurora

Luuuuuuuuuunaaaaaa 💚 Few local creatures stop me in my tracks like this, just the sheer size and soft colors and markings. Like, welp, day instantly better.

I'm celebrating half a century on this planet today and it's also #WorldWildlifeDay. I know there's a lot of darkness, but the world is still full of so much beauty. Let's celebrate it by sharing our favourite wildlife photos.

Model and mimic: a clever longhorn beetle (Euderces reichei, at right) tries its best to look like a local carpenter ant, Campontous decipiens, as they both feed on a spring dogwood flower. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.

Professional musician and heavy construction equipment operator. Both of them made things for a living. That fits.

Scientists just found Purgatorius, the world’s oldest primate, lived much farther south than previously known. The data suggest the tiny critter spread quickly after the asteroid that killed the dinos, migrating southward across the US. #Paleontology 🧪🧪 New for #NatGeo

Spent an incredible day #hiking Aravaipa Canyon, one of Arizona's true wonders, yesterday. This is the OTHER place we are working to save from copper #mining in the lower San Pedro watershed. This ♥️ rock (left in the canyon) completely encapsulates how I feel about this area.

This Monument Is the Latest Casualty in Trump’s War on Public Lands | Sierra Club

Looking for a fun spring project? Join me for a 4-session online course drawing a raccoon in coloured pencil starting April 1. I will walk you through all the steps from drawing the initial image to bringing it to life in colour. You can register at: www.mcnallyrobinson.com/classes #SciArt

Female #kakapo Kohengi on her nest with a newly-hatched chick and an egg (unseen). We removed the egg from underneath her and gave it to another female (Phoenix) who had infertile eggs. We're trying to ensure each female on Anchor Island has 1-2 fertile eggs to hatch. #kakapo2026 #conservation

A red-tailed hawk eats a rodent while a Northern mockingbird gets territorial. Happy 💙 #SkySunday! There is a #BlueSky in the background. 😉 #Birds #Nature

Band-tailed Pigeons are named after a literal light band on their tails - not because they band together... ...but they do also band together! A lot. AKA "Why I have mostly caged feeders now" 😂 #BirdOfTheDay #FourOrMore #birds #becurious 🪶

Cliff Swallows gathering mud to make nests! #BirdOfTheDay #FourOrMore Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, OR

The grace and ease with which a Great Grey Owl moves is a sight to behold. Here a Great Grey uses her wings to slow down as she approaches a post to land on. And check out those talons! #wildlife #birds #owls

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #PrimaryColors or #Colours, if you prefer Masked Flowerpiercer, Ecuador

the shrimp 🍤

Snowman making some abstract art for #Caturday

Bears vs. Trail cameras

Stunning moss mimicry on this harvestman

White-mouth moray - Gymnothorax meleagris #gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #morayeel #eel #moray

Y’all need some goats. 🐐 🐐🐐

My wife read GRIZZLED to the kids tonight for bedtime. There were oo’s and aww’s and I-didn’t-know-that’s! My oldest is 11 now. He was 2 when I sent my first email about this idea. 🥹 GRIZZLED comes out in 21 days!!!!!!! (Oh, and it’s technically for adults, but tweens/teens are welcome, too. 🧪)

Huge win for California mountain lions: Today they were granted protection under the state #EndangeredSpeciesAct 🙌🐾 Now, six populations within Southern #California and the Central Coast will receive much-needed protections under the Act. More info on this win for the wild ➡️ bit.ly/4tzC4FI

Here’s the @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social GAR question based on our team’s living fossil study (led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social @dmacguig.bsky.social)!

trundle, trundle, trundle 😍 🌿

Image taken in Lofoten, Norway 🇳🇴 just few days ago.

it's cold out, please remember to winterize your greyhounds

Pyrrhuloxia singing under gray skies 🪶

#Bobcat video no. 4 for the week. The "sniff and spray" caught on #cameratrap.

White-throated Sparrow #BirdOfTheDay #EyeContact #birds #snow #photography

This might be my favorite shot of that night. #aurora

Coates is great here, as always. He provides history and context to better understand our present moment.

For every screenshot of a donation you make in honor of our upcoming wedding, I’ll share a marine biology fun fact!

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Paddling, birds standing in water Bristle-thighed Curlew: Look at the base of the legs and you can even see the bristles of this very local bird. Anchor River, #Alaska 🪶

As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪

Timeline cleans with snowflake-sized baby lagoon jellyfish. . 🎥 jelliesfarm www.instagram.com/jelliesfarm?...

OG angry bird probably wondering when the white stuff will stop falling and temps will warm up. Northern Cardinal, PA 🪶

Some fun snowflakes from the #winterstorm today.

Well I was not expecting to see one of these guys today. What are you doing here now?? Cape May Warbler. 🪶

Sorry not sorry. Gars and Minnesotans WILL outlast ICE👍 *sound, on NSFW 🎥remixed from TJ Jaskowski

Sagebrush, Snow & Sunrise

Folks, I'm getting married! Next weekend! I'd love to spead the good news around. Here's a list of science, conservation, and education charities I love, and instructions on how to donate in our honor if you're so moved. Please share!

Frosty faces on the chickadees today. These tiny birds maintain a body temperature of 40C - that's a 70C gradient across only a few centimeters from the outside air to the bird's core! These little guys blow my mind. #birds 🌿

Hi! 👋 I'm Shayne, an amateur bird/wildlife photographer based in Washington state. Here's a Pacific wren actively listening for the call of its people in between bouts of singing. One of the very first bird photos I took that turned out well! #addBirder #birds

Bearing up under the difficult conditions found on the 403 trail above Crested Butte #nativeplants #Botanizing #Colorado #RockyMountains #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to July 22 🌿

I fucking did it

I’ll take that wasp slot machine.

#Aurora in El Centro, California tonight. It was not visible to the naked eye at all.

This morning I went for a walk with the flamingos of Lake Nantron, #Tanzania.