The Tenth Anniversary Edition of Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved is out and on (some of) the shelves... tetzoo.com/blog/2026/5/... #dinosaurs #books @nhm-london.bsky.social

Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)

The Tropical Royal Flycatcher is a bird that nests in tropical riparian zones and they have an incredible crest that can be difficult to see. They display their crests during courtship, but they also spend a lot of time preening after catching insects and they'll often throw their crest then.

friendship is tiny

May 23, 2006 is the hatch date of the world's most famous lance-tailed manakin. PXVm has starred in Netflix's 'Dancing with the Birds', and been highlighted for years by the Cornell Lab Manakin Cam. How do you celebrate such a momentous day? By dancing! Here he is today, with his current beta GSGm:

Went to the UK to see an orchestral performance of the score from Frieren. I had tears in my eyes for most of it and the crowd was really respectful and into it. Got to hear my fave songs from both S1 (and to great surprise) season 2, with Evan Call conducting the final piece. My heart is so full.

a story in three panels of tonight's little garden visitor be sure to leave some water outside for the little bug friends during this heatwave 💧🪰

Vulture culture, old world edition!

Frieren live with composer Evan Call and the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was incredible. What a night.

The Frieren Concert was fantastic. Loved how they had blue confetti for the scene where Frieren finds Himmel’s blue flowers.

Would never have expected a #Frieren concert to be held in England, but I’m glad I came. Having flower petals (okay, blue confetti) actually rain from the ceiling was incredible. (Please forgive the subpar photo.) #葬送のフリーレン

It's time for the big 49! We talk to Sean Hennessy, him of the Speed Thief comics, and discuss some very nostalgic dinosaur animatronics!

Yup, out and on the shelves - the 10th anniversary edition of Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved, Naish and Barrett 2026 :)

Drivers and mechanisms of convergent forelimb reduction in non-avian theropod dinosaurs royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Reminder: If generative AI platforms & data centres were erased from the Earth…we’d be fine. They prop up nothing of essential value we can’t do ourselves.

Drably colored cuckoos retain the complex melanosome types of their more brightly colored relatives: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article... A cause for caution in inferences of feather color in extinct dinosaurs based on melanosomes... 🪶🧪 (📷Nordén et al.)

New Pleistocene peafowl Pavo miejue ([a] in image): royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... The first fossil bird named from Taiwan! 🪶🧪 (📷Lan et al.)

Rose, K.D., Rabenstein, R., Habersetzer, J. et al. Micro-computed tomography indicates Eurotamandua, putative anteater from the Eocene of Messel, Germany, is related to pangolins, not xenarthrans. Sci Rep (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

One of a whole series of shots taken of a 4th year bald eagle who gave me a flyby along the beach this afternoon. While the adult pattern is there, the body feathers and tail are mottled and the beak hasn't gone pure yellow. #birds 🌿

This was such a lovely experience this morning at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica The Buff-rumped Warblers are nesting everywhere right now and I found this little sweetheart looking out at me. A few hours later when I walked past this nest, they were fledged. #birds #nature

If you like #dinosaurs and can get to Birmingham in England during late July you MUST attend #DinoConUK 2026. Tickets are on sale now! Here's my long review of our inaugural, 2025 DinoCon... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/8/... #FossilFriday #fossils Follow @dinoconuk.bsky.social

A male Rose-breasted Grosbeak launches from his cattail perch.

Excited to share our new paper out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! Here, we investigated how sex and age shape mitochondrial function under natural conditions in a long-lived seabird, the Common tern. Read the paper here for more information👇 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

SCHEDULE NOW LIVE!! www.dinocon.co.uk/events-sched... #DinoConUK #DinoCon @dinoconuk.bsky.social

OK so there's just 24 hours left to back my latest campaign so now would be a good time to share all the things you can get! 1st up a triptych of bird tea towels, we have ourselves the ever impressive Cassowary, a kestrel and swooping barn owl. #SciArt #Birds #bsnm www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

Woohoo! New paper!! Nightjars bang their wings together to make sound! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Cock-of-the-rock

My goodness this is cute. Short & Harasti (2026) named a new pipefish species after Snuffleupagus (the giant elephant muppet) Image of Solenostomus snuffleupagus sp. nov. by David Harasti. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great review paper by Maria Gandolfo: "the fossil record provides essential and irreplaceable insights into plant evolution by documenting extinct lineages, transitional morphologies, developmental stages, and past ecosystems that cannot be inferred from extant taxa alone." #paleobotany 🌏⚒🌱🌿🔬

My new paper with @gdarlim.bsky.social and @hoehna.bsky.social is now out in Proceedings B! We set out to compare two different approaches to time-calibrate a molecular phylogeny: traditional node calibrations, and unresolved FBD... @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

次にくるマンガ大賞2026 エントリー受付が始まりましたよ〜 ふたりバスの応援、よろしくお願いします🚌💨 tsugimanga.jp

my @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social master's research on alvarezsaur arms is finally out today! we used range of motion and moment arms analysis to show that these weird little dinosaurs probably did use their teeny tiny arms to dig 🦴

Biomechanics and muscular reconstruction of alvarezsaur forelimbs support a digging function: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... Very excited to see this out! 🧪 (📷 @sidneyleedham.bsky.social et al.)

Results from tonights #paleostream! You might notice a slight parental theme ;) Apteribis, Parachoerodon, Lavanttalornis and Maiacetus.

Not sure how much i can say beyond this yet but, gettin the band back together

Just spotted this on the post box opposite @nhm-london.bsky.social - very wholesome content and possibly one of the most heartfelt tributes I’ve seen to the great man

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! To celebrate all of our Cenozoic mothers, here is the newly-done back cover of PALEOCENE #6, entitled “Mamma’s Children”. More about the image (and who’s in it) here: www.patreon.com/posts/mammas...

Domestic birds play major roles in our lives - so it's weird that we often lack basic knowledge of their wild forms, e.g. Red Junglefowl 🐓 / Rock Doves 🕊️! Eben Gering, @jenteo.bsky.social 🪿, Philip Lavretsky 🦆, and I discuss research + conservation priorities #Ornithology. doi.org/10.1093/orni...

Phylogenomic study of gentoo penguins suggests splitting into four species, including the newly described southeastern gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis kerguelensis): www.nature.com/articles/s42... 🪶🧪 (📷Antoine Lamielle)

Probably my favorite Attenborough clip 🪶

Congratulations Sir David Attenborough on your 100th b’day 🎂 Life on Earth was a seminal moment for 8-year old me: captivating & a major reason I am where I am now. I still can’t hear that theme tune without getting goosebumps at the scope of life’s grandeur. It’s been a joy to meet & work with you

Join us in wishing a massive happy 100th birthday to the man who has inspired millions of people around the world to care about nature and look after our planet - the incredible Sir David Attenborough! 🎉

The Entire #Geol204Playlist 2026 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#Geol204playlist For course wrap up youtu.be/VUb1p8fm7Ag?...

Clade‐wide morphological and functional variation of the sauropsid columella - Peacock - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A Sandhill Crane colt goes for a piggyback ride with mama crane

This Sandhill Crane colt still has the whitish egg tooth on the tip of the beak. They use this pointy bit to help break free from their egg shell. The egg tooth is temporary and will fall off within two weeks. Photo is heavily cropped.

New specimens of the "bony-toothed" seabird Pelagornis, including a braincase from the Miocene Astoria Formation: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🪶🧪 (📷Goedert et al.)

In memory of Liberace the Northern red-necked cassowary, who (thanks to Dr Todd Green @thecassowarykid.bsky.social) I got to meet and hear doing his incredible vocal displays back in 2023. We all learnt a lot about cassowaries from this remarkable bird.

Sad news today. Liberace, the northern #cassowary I have studied since 2013 passed away this weekend. Liberace was a curious, dynamic, and wonderful bird. I am quite saddened by his death, but feel fortunate to have spent time in his presence and experience his unique personality. He will be missed.