Rainbow Lorikeet checking out the real estate. Seen in Melbourne's SE suburbs.🪶

Much-needed good news. As 2025 draws to a close, PRI's wonderful life continues: www.priweb.org/blog-post/pr...

New bird for the new year! A new species of vireo from Bolivia, the Beni greenlet (Hylophilus moxensis): www.avespress.com/uploads/down... 🪶🧪 (📷Tini Wijpkema)

Reply with a piece of palaeoart that deeply influenced you as a child. Luis Rey's "New Chinese Revolution". 🐡🧪

I don't think I ever mentioned it (oops) but I brought the old blog back. Enjoy a cursory review of the past year's literature: diplotomodon.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/f...

Happy almost 2026 🎉! We've had a GREAT year thanks to this year's DINO-MITE 🧨 podcast guests 🎙 and to close out the year...Kate Andrezejewski! The episode will drop soooooon - December 31st! Who would you like to see featured on paleo nerds? ⬇️ Drop your suggestions in the comments below!

Oh look at that I made a daily dinosaur art/creativity/what have you prompt list for 2026 because people on tumblr asked and we all know how much I love to give #DrawDinosDaily www.tumblr.com/a-dinosaur-a...

Agami Heron in full breeding splendor at Agami Island #CostaRica #birds #herons #nature

#mlp #twilightsparkle

At last, the dicyemid life cycle for #InverteFest! These absolute weirdos infect ONLY cephalopod kidneys; they are worms of discerning taste. 🦑🌊🐙🧪🐡

Happy jerboas 🐭

I'm not an expert in egg-snatching, but I've done a fair bit of investigating into the subject, and I'll say right now, most egg-eaters consume their food in situ (that is, in the nest). They don't take it somewhere else. Egg-carrying is highly inefficient, and adaptations for it are questionable.

New alvarezsaurian dinosaur Manipulonyx reshetovi: www.zin.ru/journals/tru... As if alvarezsaurid hands couldn't get any weirder, this one preserves several odd, spike-like elements, interpreted as adaptations for gripping eggs. I have thoughts but they'll have to wait... 🧪 (📷Averianov et al.)

New @jexpbiol.bsky.social paper alert! The grips of hawks and owls on their often struggling prey are strong! Check out our new paper led by Alex Clark and with @linnealungstrom.bsky.social. Alex with the cover photo 🧪🌿🦉 #Biomechanics #AerialFishes journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

In the new year I want to do a series on HanksChannel called “find the papers” where I take a fun science fact and then actually find the papers that established that knowledge. Anything you want me to dig up? I’ve already done “Male anglerfish are sexual parasites.”

IT'S HERE! We have a new video! This time around, we take a deep dive on Deinocheirus, the hunchbacked mega goose. youtu.be/Kye28-iEHpo

Sensory biology and evidence for nocturnality in the extinct Hawaiian ibis Apteribis: academic.oup.com/icb/advance-... 🪶🧪 (📷 @evolsara.bsky.social et al.)

My Natural History Museum book Ancient Sea Reptiles went to THIRD EDITION in 2025. So, what to expect... what's new? Come to Tetrapod Zoology to hear about news on tanysaurs, ichthyosaurs large and small, new mosasaur finds and more... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/12...

“The Lie of De-extinction!" 👀 When is a Dire Wolf not a Dire Wolf? When it’s a Grey Wolf with a tiny amount of something else thrown in. Join me as I chat with palaeontologist and expert in ancient DNA Dr Nic Ralwence. Subscribe via your preferred platform at... palaeojam.podbean.com

My professional artists peers! We got a survey request! Researchers at the University of Carnegie Mellon is doing a research to see how generative Al has (or has not) impacted your work and/or sentiments in the industry. Folks in creative fields only, please consider filling this out 👇

drew some ruddy turnstones in winter plumage :) #birdart #illustration #birds #vogels

Downy Woodpecker Cute little guys! It was a bit of a challenge to show form with their deep black color. Fun fact, woodpeckers use their tails to support themselves against trees. Watercolor and colored pencil, with a tiny bit of white gouache. WIP photos in reply 6x9" cotton paper #birds #sciart

"Forest Attendant" Black-Capped Chickadee 5"x7" Oil on panel Chickadees are wonderful in so many ways. They're often the first birds to investigate a new situation, and other birds watch & follow them to find food sources. The friendly local 'dees often bring other birds to my yard, to my delight.

Avian cranial evolution influenced by shape interactions between hard and soft tissue traits: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... 🪶🧪 (📷 @knapprew.bsky.social et al.)

This is the Variegated squirrel (Sciurus variegatoides), an extant and highly variable species that occurs from southern Mexico to Panama in forest and woodlands of many sorts. 15 subspecies have been named. It features in #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge as >both< a CG asset and a real filmed animal :)

Papa Resplendent Quetzal taking food to the kids. #BirdoftheDay #naturespantry #birds #CostaRica

Moving Waters – Tufted Ducks Acrylics on board 15.7″ x 19.7″ (40 x 50 cm) www.esthervanhulsen.com

Tufted Titmice are perfection with their big dark eyes and sassy tuft.

"Primed" Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5" x 7" Oil on panel Doing a series of stretches (right wing over leg, left wing over leg, up and back wing stretch) before he zooms off to swear at other hummingbirds.

An American Tree Sparrow (left) and a Dark-eyed Junco (right) having a discussion about who gets to look for food in this patch of snow.

Sandhill Cranes typically fly with their long legs trailing behind them. On very cold mornings, like this morning when it was in the single digits, they will tuck their legs in while in flight.

The complete #Geol104Playlist 2025 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A male Downy Woodpecker perches on a snowy branch. Males tend to forage more on small branches and plant stems, while females are more often found foraging on larger branches and tree trunks. This is due to the males chasing off the females from the better food spots

I was taking the bins out today when I noticed a juvenile Eastern Spinebill in the garden. I rushed back inside to grab my camera and was happy to find the bird still there when I returned. #birds

Yes, there were early plans to feature the Dodo (and the Solitaire) in Prehistoric Planet Ice Age.... What do we know about the life appearance of this remarkable bird? Actually a surprising amount, check this out... tetzoo.com/blog/2020/7/... #dodo #birds #ornithology

🥳 New paper in Emu - Austral Ornithology! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... In this study, I review the available evidence for hybridization in ratites. Most cases are linked to human activities, suggesting that natural hybridization among ratites is exceptionally rare. #ornithology

Famed elephant expert Iain Douglas-Hamilton has died, aged 83. Founder of Save the Elephants and accomplished author, researcher and mentor... savetheelephants.org/news/world-r...

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# penguin species by latitude (°S) 0°🐧 5°🐧 10°🐧 15°🐧 20°🐧 25°🐧🐧🐧 30°🐧🐧🐧 35°🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧 40°🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧 45°🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧 50°🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧 55°🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧 60°🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧 65°🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧 70°🐧🐧 75°🐧🐧 80°🐧 85°🚫 90°🚫

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Applications to volunteer at DinoCon 2026 are now OPEN! If you would like to help us make DinoCon the best it can be, apply now! www.dinocon.co.uk/volunteer

"Morning Light on a Carolina Wren" 5" x 7" Oil on panel I just think they're neat

I just bet you have questions about #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge, right? Reddit is doing an AMA on the series tomorrow, in which I'm joined by my excellent colleagues Dorothy Ballarini and Russell Dodgson from @Framestore See you there! www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

A Winter Wren bopping along the edge of a fallen log. I find these birds to be the cutest of the wrens we have here in Michigan due to their spherical shape.

The people in charge of beating you down will say art is frivolous, cut budgets for the arts, replace artists with AI, but art keeps people GOING. You never know when a piece will touch someone’s heart at just the right time.

New enantiornithean ("opposite bird") Chromeornis funkyi: palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025... Seems to be a close relative of Longipteryx, preserved with an unusual cluster of stones near its neck. 🪶🧪 (📷O'Connor et al.)

Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.