You're looking at velvet malachite, Cu2CO3(OH)2. A few warnings: Please resist the urge to touch it to feel how soft it is. Absolutely /do not/ lick it. Keep far away from any Supermen. If a wingéd creature emerges, do not agree to any pacts. Let's talk about the science here.

free level design advice for creating an FPS arena that people will call the best multiplayer map ever made for generations.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil. It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

Finished Paraentelodon skull sculpture. 1/6th scale print, sculpted in #Blender. #paleoart #sciart #paleontology (1/2)

A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑

A sketch from tonight’s flocking-together #Paleostream, the Pliocene salamander Dynamognathus robertsoni! So happy that this little creature from Tennessee was finally chosen for a flocking, here depicted chomping on one of many contemporary shrew species. #paleoart #sciart #cenozoic #grayfossilsite

Everything is the absolute worst but I need y’all to know that an Eastern Black rhino at Lincoln Park Zoo named Kapuki had a baby and these pictures are here for you whenever you need them.

In 2019, scientists velcro'd 3D glasses to European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) They didn't do this just to make them look cool as fuck, but in order to study their vision. Using a 3D theatre made for the cuttlefish, they were able to test if cuttlefish have stereo vision (they do!)

Results from the #paleostream! Don Juan (still unnamed rat fish relative), Muttaburrasaurus, Lystrosaurus (baby) and Bakonydraco!

Vetulicolian studies. Cambrian weirdos #sciart

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

Life size velociraptor

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

The Artemis thing is depressing to me because it sort of feels like an inertial artefact from a US that used to fund science but no longer exists.

Cold spring in Liaoning. Two anchiornithids fighting. Tianyulong unbothered.

here's what we sketched during this week's #Paleostream flocking: Brachiosaurus, Centrosaurus, Rauisuchus, and Muttaburrasaurus #AusPalaeo

Made a rough sketch reconstructing the updated skull of Muttaburrasaurus. Repositioned some of the bones that were out of place, like the quadrate, maxilla and jaw.

Ordovician doodles

Re-description of the skull of Muttaburasaurus. And, uh, it's a lot weirder. Very thescelosaur/early ornithischian-like on a large animal. And I mean large: the authors estimate the biggest specimen is around 8.8 tons, making it among the largest terrestrial bipeds known. peerj.com/articles/207...

Pros And Cons Of U.S. Withdrawing From NATO https://theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-u-s-withdrawing-from-nato/

Emu prints at Froggy Dam, Gluepot Reserve, South Australia.

BERARDIUS ⭑ - Baird’s Beaked Whale (B. bairdii): N Pacific, 32-42’ long and 5-13 tons. - Sato’s BW (B. minimus): N Pacific, up to 23’ and 3+ tons. - Arnoux’s BW (B. arnuxii): S Hemisphere, including Antarctica, up to 31’ and 6-10 tons. #ocean #sea #cetacea #whales #dolphin #squid

Can we stop talking about impeachment and start talking about imprisonment

This might be a first in the world of #paleoart

Leedsichthys problematicus, a whale-sized filterfeedeer pachycormid fish from the late jurassic I dont know much about non-tetrapod anatomy, so below i'll thank everyone who coached me and helped me make this commission accurate within what we know of it !! ↓↓

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids https://theonion.com/once-adventurous-salmon-can-t-believe-she-ended-up-movi-1825827223/

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

RECONSTRUCTING A HELL PIG: This really big entelodont snout is possibly the biggest found in North Dakota! To reconstruct it, Amanda laser scanned a smaller skull, then we scaled it up, and 3D printed the missing back half #fossilfriday #scicomm #museums #mammals #fossil

Entelodonts were large omnivorous mammals that lived from 38-15 million years ago. Although they look a bit like a pig, they're more closely related to whales. We think this specimen belongs to Daeodon, although it could instead be a very large individual of Archaeotherium.

a demure loggerhead sea turtle in the bahamas 📸 by gianfranco carlino

The next tipping point in the energy transition is approaching. Overall, solar has already been cheaper than fossil power for a while, but upfront costs used to be higher. That's no longer the case. Solar is now competitive upfront AND has vastly lower operating costs (no fuel).

Spent the day with a few old friends, each of whom now sports a new (but also old, if we've done our research right) colour scheme.

At last! Ediacarans and Cambrian animals in the same site! Amazing! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The many realms of Kaimere are host to an abundance of creatures that seem born of our myth. Dragons and unicorns, merfolk and griffins. However, it is also home to many creatures of our own scientific discoveries: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucbd...

Then vs now. Such a shame.

Just a reminder that the senator who sponsored the bill which became law with broad bipartisan support that states a president cannot pull the US out of NATO without congressional approval was … Marco Rubio.

Your annual reminder that in this day and age, posting hoax paleontology (and other science) "discoveries" on April Fool's Day **will be misinterpreted by MANY people** unless the discovery is incredibly absurd.

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#marchofthemammals2026 Day 27: Eocoileus gentryorum Two Eocoileus bucks clash during the tail end of their rut. These tiny early deer were originally described in Florida, but recent reassessments of fossils at the GFS revealed that deer have had a hoof-hold in the Appalachians for a while.

#Marchofthemammals2026 day 22: Our first stop at the warm early Pliocene forests of Tennessee with Teleoceras aepysoma, one of North America’s last rhinos. Believe or not this is the "long legged" one #paleoart #scicomm

Whenever a news story about something Trump is doing declares that it's "a first for a sitting president" or "a change from tradition," replace it with "yet another authoritarian move from the president," and see if it sounds more accurate.

Trump's adding his signature to paper currency, according to Reuters.

"I Contain Multitudes" This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today. The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Junior Executive Model

I can tell you that I never ever want another sedan! Once you've gotten a hatchback, the limitations a sedan brings seem very silly. People lament the loss of hatchbacks on the market but what actually happened is they've been tricked! Look at a Chevy Trax and you'll see it's just a Civic hatch.

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/

Learning to fly. The dinosaur that changed everything: Archaeopteryx lithographica. #SciArt