Two new species of African suckermouth catfishes just dropped! Say hello to #Chiloglanis kinsuka from the lower #Congo River at the Kinsuka rapids below Pool Malebo, and #Chiloglanis wagenia, from the Wagenia Falls at Kisangani, more than 1600 km upstream.🐟🧪 digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/3ad0dd...

Enjoy some fossil Slimeheads for #FossilFriday. 🐟🧪

Meet Alabama’s salamanders like you’ve never seen them before and fall for their undeniable charm. vimeo.com/1114098611/8...

From the Press Room | For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up as mostly pieces of lizard jaws and snake vertebrae. Exactly why these parts survive as fossils has been a mystery—until now: go.nhm.org/megafilters

Take a closer look at the science behind measuring Otodus megalodon and why we've been doing it wrong for hundreds of years. Join Emily Osterloff and Museum scientist Emma Bernard as they discuss how to measure a megalodon using just teeth and vertebrae. 🦈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCGL...

Using DNA analysis, scientists linked the same shark to two bites on people. Now, they want to find it, work they hope could help save other sharks' lives. Join us as we explore if it's possible To Catch a Killer Shark by @chrisbaraniuk.com www.biographic.com/to-catch-a-k...

Episode #90 is out 🎉! Ray shares morning coffee ☕️ in Ketchikan with Dr. Karin Claeson, exploring fish evolution 🐟, anatomy, development, and variability across deep time. 🔊 Listen now: www.paleonerds.com/podcast/keri...

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Dr. Harry "Bing" Blewitt has volunteered around 7,500 hours over the last 27 years with The University of Alabama Museums and helped to put more than 3000 records in the collections! WATCH: ➡️ bit.ly/46nn7go #UniversityOfAlabama #Museums #Paleontology #Fossils

The paleo version of dying with something stuck in your teeth.

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Question for animal researchers: if you have a small number of animals in your study, how do you refer to them in your pubs so as not to cause confusion? Would it be monkey 1, monkey 2, monkey 3? Alpha, beta, gamma? I know names are a no-no 🧪

I’ve been working in natural history museums since I was 16, in that time I’ve met very few researchers who look like me. AMNH opening an exhibit highlighting black scientists in natural history (esp in our current climate) is MONUMENTAL to say the least! This will be a must visit!

Spooky lil fish, the Chimaeras! #LetsChangeThat

Welcome back to #trilobitetuesday Here is another specimen of the trilobite Elrathia antiqauta. This comes from the Middle Cambrian (Drumian) Conasauga Formation in Floyd Co, Georgia.

We put out some social science research via preprint: "Natural history museums are missing an opportunity to present research and collections on YouTube" doi.org/10.1101/2025...

When does biology become geology? This is a fun paper for us (although I, myself, was just one more member of Band-Aid for this particular paper), and hopefully it helps clarify a lot of things that we sort of already knew but never really formally addressed. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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This morning, my wife spotted this juvenile Timber Rattlesnake beneath one of our backyard bird feeders. Fortunately, I was able to safely relocate it before our dogs discovered it. The second photo shows just how well the snake was camouflaged. 🌿 www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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Hidden Worlds In Shark Blood: How A Latina Scientist Is Leading In Marine Research

Join us for #SICB 's Oct zoom Icy #Invertebrates : #Biodiversity & #Systematics of #Polar #Marine Invertebrates with @kmkocot.bsky.social www.kocotlab.com & see Kevin's great #photos donated for use for our student #scholarship fund art account: fineartamerica.com/featured/cap... #science

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Nine out of ten fish doctors recommend you watch this video just for the halibut. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueym...

Out today in @commsearth.nature.com from some of my newest colleagues at UMMP: evidence that the extinction of dinosaurs led to fundamental shifts in terrestrial environments, and that this signal is recorded in facies shifts tied to the K-Pg boundary: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Need some motiv-ocean to leap into the weekend? 🐟 Leaping blennies are amazing amphibious fish who can launch themselves off rocks and into the air up to 50 times their body length. 🌊 These extraordinary terrestrial fish shore do know how to make a splash, both in and outside the water!

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

A new fossil of the Leatherback Turtle from Alabama just dropped! #FossilFriday bioone.org/journals/Pal...

How can anyone call themselves a Finfluncer without a Garubu?

...and AI-generated "artwork" drove the extinction of the vertebrate body plan.

A specimen of the fossil fish Norselaspis yields a wealth of information on the evolution of the head-trunk interface in vertebrates www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So excited to be attending the 13th annual Fossil Fest at the Alabama Museum of Natural History! If you're in Tuscaloosa, AL on 9/20/25, stop by and see us for all kinds of paleontology fun! Chat with paleontologists and fossil enthusiasts, and see the new museum exhibit unveiling... 👀🦴

The Bumpy Snailfish (Careproctus colliculi) is my new deep-sea crush.🐟🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwsl...

Good to know that AI image generation hasn't (yet) conquered my "draw a vertebrate phylogeny" assignment.

Make nature observations during this year's Marble Bowl competition on the Alabama Museum of Natural History's team! JOIN THE TEAM: ➡️ bit.ly/4671lw3 #UniversityOfAlabama #RollTide

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Freshwater mussel larvae in museum collections offer untapped insights for taxonomy and conservation: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...

Think you know shark teeth? Think again! 🦈🦷 Nathan Lujan (Curator of Fishes at ROM), and Kevin Seymour (Research Associate, Natural History) showed us many different types of shark jaws while they prepared for Sharks, opening October 11.

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Over the past 5 years some rare Pacific Footballfish have washed ashore in California. How rare? 41 individuals ever recorded, rare. So @realfishdoc.bsky.social, @frable.bsky.social, Michelle Horeczko, and I wrote a short note summarizing this species. Check it out here: doi.org/10.51492/cfw... 🐟🦑

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Scopes trial telling students in central Tennessee about their inner fish. I’m so grateful to the high school and middle school teachers who brought their students from small schools to the event (some from almost an hr away).

Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!

Our #3Dprinted 1/4 scale #humpback whale skeleton is finally complete and hung up in our teaching classroom! My #mammalogy students printed the individual bones, and the #MarineMammalogy class painted and articulated the #skeleton with Dr. Jim Dines! It's about 11 feet long and looks amazing!

Yesterday, the IBSG and Fair Seas unveiled a life size sculpture of a basking shark for Heritage Week in Galway! The sculpture created by well-known prop-maker Tommy Casby was part-funded by The Heritage Council and with support from Galway City Council.

I'm delighted that the first publication from a National Science Foundation-funded study I led studying the development and implementation of teaching resources on human and non-human evolution in Alabama high school biology classrooms was published a few days ago! (1/2)

Five Years of Minorities in Shark Sciences: Lessons Learned in Education and Outreach, Professional Development and Training, and Inclusive Research | Integrative and Comparative Biology | Oxford Academic

Croc Discovery Alert‼️🐊 Last month, Kelly Griffiths found an ~84 million-year-old fossil of a crocodile. It's an osteoderm or scute, a bony plate sitting primarily on the back of the animal. Found during the same @almnh.bsky.social trip for the public this hadrosaur tooth was found! 😀 #FossilFriday