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I've said it before: everything giant pandas do makes more sense if you imagine they are six drinks in on a Friday night. But I feel like we haven't fully celebrated their triumphant return. See, the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is no longer Endangered. A conservation success story!

Two days in london.

Phylogeny of tinamous based on whole-genomes and fossils: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🪶🧪 (📷Musher et al.)

“We are in trouble for all the crimes”

It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat

CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: ‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’ Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...

Music, along with Theology and all modern languages now under threat at Nottingham Uni. More details in Hannah’s message below.

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New at Tetrapod Zoology, a brief look at what's surely the world's best known extinct proboscidean: that Ice Age superstar the Woolly mammoth .... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #mammoths #IceAge #Pleistocene #fossilmammals #elephants

ITS A COYOTE! CHASING A ROAD RUNNER!

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Looking for a different gift idea this year? How about a #kakapo adoption? Adoptions are open again until 25th Nov, with postage or email options. These fund a significant proportion of our programme and make a real difference to the #conservation work we do. Thanks! www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...

We’re further away from The Rolling Stones recording “Sympathy for the Devil” than they were from the murders of the Romanovs when they recorded it

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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Coming up on Thursday!

Review of Selected Older-than-Clovis Sites Containing Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) or Mastodon (Mammut americanum) Bones Possibly Fractured and Flaked by Humans in North America: Similarities, Differences, and Ambiguities [Paywall] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

‘If I’d known the skeletons were real I’d have been even more disgusted’: how we made Poltergeist

Woolly Mammoth microbiomes are a thing we can do now! #MammothMonday www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New awareness campaign

If you don't have space for a whole #mammoth, half a mammoth works just fine. 🦣 @nhmwien.bsky.social

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Normalize this reaction #art #artists

INCONCEIVABLE!

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What he said: 💯 🎯

Heidi Klum’s costume for her annual Halloween party was meant to be petrifying. On Friday, the model and host of “Project Runway” transformed into Medusa, the powerful monster from Greek mythology said to instantly turn onlookers into stone. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/s...

‘I try to make them feel as ignorant as possible’: German museum’s ‘grumpy guide’ is surprise hit

I went to LV-426 and all I got was this chest pain.

As someone who has an irrational fear of moomins, this resonates. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

If I had a pound for every James Joyce novel I'd read, I'd have 13 pence.

Hi bluesky I made you a giraph ok thanks