CHAMPION⛵ #2026MMM EMOJI BATTLE: 🐋🆚🐊: 🪄🪸/🌕🌊🆗/🐋🩹🗡️/ 🐊🤨🏊🏾‍♂️/🦈🔁🤱🏼🙂‍↔️/🦈🐊💀🙂‍↕️/ 🐋🤨👉🏼💀/🐊🙅🏾‍♂️🍽️🥶/👶🏼🔁🐊/ 👶🏼👉🏼👃🏼🐊/🐊💥👶🏼🐳/🐋👶🏼😡/ 🐋🔜🐊⤵️/🐋🫧🐊😵‍💫/🐋💥🐊/ 🐊🏊🏾‍♂️👋🏼/🏆🐋

Who's this year's Worstest #WorstMod? In this corner, Katie, with 3 crowns, 1 bracket bust (Badger). In this corner, Brian, with 2 crowns, 2 bracket busts (Hutia & Sea Cow). Given the number of busts & gore (Biting! Crushing!) as opposed to flees, the crown & keys to the castle go to Brian! #2026MMM

The Championship Battle of #2026MMM: Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) vs. Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)! #2026MMM

I 💕 the #2026MMM genetics facts! I learned & made so many connections to AP Bio curriculum. After the battles, we would share & discuss these facts in our class

Librarians are absolute heroes in my book! HEROES I SAY!! #2026MMM

Are you ready? #2026MMM

It’s April 1 AND it’s the #2026MMM Championship? MMM Narrator Meeting:

#InspirationalIntermission #2026MMM

#2026MMM FINAL R😮AR EMOJI BATTLE 🐊🆚🦡: 🪄🌳/🦡👃🏼🦎/🦡🧗🏾‍♂️🌳/ 🐊🐊🍽️💀/🐊😑🔊🐊/🦡🦷🦎/ 🦡🦎⤵️💀/🐊👄🐊/🐊 💀💥🦡/ 🇦🇺🐊🤷🏻👋🏻/🦡🍽️🐛/🐊🍽️💀/🏆🐊 🐋🆚🐂: 🪄🇺🇸/🐋🤏🌊/👶🏼🚫🍼/ 🐋🤰🏼🔴😩/🐂🏊🏾‍♂️📐🐋/🐋🔄🐂/ 🐂🗡️🐋🩻/🐋⬇️🐂/🛘🕳️🔜🌅/ 🐋👶🏼🐂🏊🏼‍♀️/🐂🏊🏾‍♂️🏖️/🐋🍼👶🏼/🏆🐋

Last Up: #1-seed Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) from the Money Mammals Division vs. #3-seed Aurochs (Bos primigenius) from the Extinction is Forever Division #2026MMM

Man, time to re-check the Erminea site, there are so many great #2026MMM illustrations!!! (And I got paid! 🚊🏤➗️🟧🔛) #MMMArt ermineainc.org

These Erminea #2026MMM Cicada Killer Wasp t-shirts are gnarly. 🤟 ermineainc.org/shop/cicada-...

FIRST BATTLE of the FINAL ROAR: #1-seed Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) from the Library Legends vs. #1-seed Honey Badger from That's So Metal! (Mellivora capensis) #2026MMM

TONIGHT IS THE CLASH OF THE DIVISION CHAMPIONS! #2026MMM

FINAL BATTLE OF THE NIGHT: 1-seed Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) vs. 2-seed Lions (Panthera Leo) #2026MMM

NEXT UP: 1-seed Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) vs. 3-seed Common Hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) #2026MMM

FIRST UP: 1-seed Honey Badger (Mellivora capensis) vs. 3-seed Gila Monster (Heloderma suspectum). Tonight's battle is a collaboration with @mammalssuck.bsky.social #2026MMM

UV casque biofluorescence occurs in living #birds and even 100-year-old #museum specimens (big thanks to @nhm.org & @amnh.org for samples). This may be useful for censusing wild individuals 🇵🇬 🇦🇺 (similar to whale fluke “fingerprinting”) and identifying incomplete #cassowary specimens in collections.

Roses are red But have you seen Cassowary casques fluoresce in bright green 🧪

#2026MMM ELITE TR8️⃣ EMOJI BATTLE 🦡🆚📿: 🪄🌳/🦡🙄🌳/🦡💥📿/ 📿🙂‍↔️🔊/📿🫦🦡/🦡🤷🏻‍♂️🍽️📿/🏆🦡 🐮🆚🐂: 🚣🏼🏹🐮/🪄🏜️/🐮🐂🥵/ 🏹🫀🩸/🐂➡️👥🐮/🐮☁️👀/🏆🐂 🐋🆚🦛: 🪄🪸/🦛🏊🏾🪨/🐟✂️🦛/ 🐋🔊👶🏻/🦈🔜🦛🩸/🦈🍽️🦛/🏆🐋 🐊🆚🦁: 🪄🇺🇬/🦁🦁🏊‍♂️/🐊👂🦁/ 🦁😱↩️/🐊🍽️🦵🏻🧫/🦁🦁👋🏻/🏆🐊

TONIGHT, we have HALF THE BATTLES but TWICE THE ACTION in the #2026MMM ELITE TRAIT!!

Congratulations on your honorary Durgaviched prize! Dehydration and bone crushing gravity is pretty metal! #2026MMM #Durgaviched

Better messaging is how cats being allowed outside increases INJURY, ILLNESS & EARLY DEATH OF THE CAT; that means higher vet bills & more heartbreak. ALSO well-managed #IndoorLife can improve cat well-being AND human-cat bonds! (Calver et al. 2026) #2026MMM

Cats are marvelous and adorable, but keep them INSIIIIDE #2026MMM

Lions #2026MMM

i'm ALWAYS exhaused after doing <waves hands> "something" #2026MMM

#2026MMM #TeamHippo

Sweet 1️⃣6️⃣ EMOJI BATTLES: #2026MMM 💀 Is Forever: 🐮🆚🐬: 🐬🦦🤸🏼‍♀️/🐬🧂😕/🏆🐮 🐪🆚🐂: 🐪🐂🌳/🐂🗡️🐪/🏆🐂 📚 Legends: 🐊🆚🦊: 🦊🌅🥤/🐊🍽️🦊/🏆🐊 🦁🆚🐈: 🦁🍽️🐆/🧫🙀👋🏼/🏆🦁 💲Mammals: 🐋🆚🦏: 🦏💥🐋/🦏🏊🏾‍♂️🏖️/🏆🐋 🐘🆚🦛: 🦛🦷🐘/🔙🐘👋🏽/🏆🦛 That's So 🤘🏻: 🦡🆚👄: 🐟👄😰/🦡🍽️👄/🏆🦡 🥸🆚📿: 🚁📿🪺/🥸😫🛫/🏆📿

OH IT'S TERRIBLE! POTENTIAL TO BE THE WORST DURGAVICHING EVER! #2026MMM

UP NEXT: 1-seed HONEY BADGER (Mellivora capensis) vs. 4-seed PACIFIC LAMPREY (Entosphenus tridentatus) #2026MMM

Want to know more about Steller's Sea Cow? Or rather... Want your students to learn more?! Check out our #2026MMM Lesson Plan in the LibGuide! It features 3 different species from Extinction is Forever!

UP NEXT: 1-seed Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) vs. 5-seed Baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) #2026MMM #Sweet16 #ExtinctionIsForever

UP NEXT: 1-seed Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) vs. 4-seed Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) #2026MMM

You've met the combatants. You've learned some of their traits. They have made it through the first two rounds. NOW ALL DIVISIONS UNDER "ONE ROOF" TONIGHT! THE SWEET SIXTEEN!!!! #2026MMM

At the NAI Great Lakes Region workshop but my heart is still in #2026MMM

UP NEXT: 3-seed Aurochs (Bos primigenius) vs. 6-seed Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus)! #2026MMM

#InspirationalIntermission #2026MMM

NEXT UP: #4-seed PACIFIC LAMPREY (Entosphenus tridentatus) vs. #5-seed COMMON CHUCKWALLA (Sauromalus ater) #2026MMM

UP NEXT: 5th-seeded Baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) vs. 13th-seeded Yallara (Macrotis leucura) from the Extinction is Forever Division #2026MMM #2026mmm

NEXT UP: #2-seed OSSIFRAGE (Gypaetus barbatus) vs #10-seed GREAT GREY SHRIKE (Lanius excubitor) #2026MMM

First Up: #1-seed Honey Badger (Mellivora capensis) vs. #8-seed Least Shrew (Cryptotis parva) #2026MMM

TONIGHT Round 2 of Extinction is Forever & That's So Metal Divisions!!! Who will win!? Who will be carnaged? Who will wander off the field of battle accidentally? AND WHAT INCIDENTAL ORGANISM WILL WRECK YOUR BRACKET?!? #2026MMM

HEY HEY HEY, we are SO back! Who's ready for MMM? #2026mmm #2026MMM #bcvammm

Round 2 EMOJI BATTLES #2026MMM 💲MAMMALS 🐋🆚🦍: 🐋👶🏻🆙/🐋🌊🦍/🏆🐋 🐘🆚⚔️: 🐘🪓🌳/⚔️😨🏃🏻‍➡️/🏆🐘 🦏🆚🦒: 🦏😤🔊/🦒😳🏃🏼‍➡️/🏆🦏 🦛🆚🦧: 🦛😡😮/🦧😬🧗🏽/🏆🦛 📚 LEGENDS 🐊🆚🐁: 🐊😮🪤/🐊🍽️🐁/🏆🐊 🦉🆚🦊: 🦉🍽️😵/🦉🐰🛫/🏆🦊 🦁🆚🪹: 🦁🦷🪹/🦁🖐🏽🧫/🏆🦁 🐕🆚🐈: 🪄🐈🙀/🐈🤜🏻🐕/🏆🐈

TONIGHT!! ROUND 2 of MONEY MAMMALS & LIBRARY LEGENDS #2026MMM

THAT'S SO 🤘 EMOJI BATTLE #2026MMM #2026mmm Round 1 🦡🆚💉: 🦡👃💉/💉⛓️‍💥👚/🏆🦡 🪏🆚🤏: 🪏🤏🦗/🤏🛫🦗/🏆🪏 🦎🆚🦇: 🦎🎈🫁/🦇🛫🔚/🏆🦎 👄🆚🦴: 👄🐟🏊‍♂️/🦴💀🧹/🏆👄 🐁🆚🦂: 🦂🧯🐁/🐁🍽️🦂/🏆🐁 📿🆚🥶: 📿🫦🥶/📿🍽️🥶/🏆📿 🪱🆚🐦‍⬛: 🪱🦷🦵/🐦‍⬛🔪🪱/🏆🐦‍⬛ 🥸🆚🐛: 🥸🦴🆙/🦴⬇️🐛/🏆🥸

TONIGHT it's Round 1 of the THAT'S SO METAL Division! #2026MMM #2026mmm All that running away from night one of the Money Mammals Division that had folks griping... well well well...

💀 IS FOREVER EMOJI BATTLE #2026MMM Round 1 🐮🆚🐭:🐭🍽️👶🏼/🐮🌊🐭/🏆🐮 🐐🆚🦦:🏜️💨🦦/🦦➡️🪨/🏆🐐 🐬🆚🐀:🌋🐕🐀/🐀🏊‍♂️🪨/🏆🐬 🦭🆚🦘:🏌️‍♂️🦭😴/🦘🏖️😬/🏆🦘 🐯🆚🐹:🪄🐹🙂/🐯🍽️🐹/🏆🐯 🐂🆚🐁:🐁🍽️🌾/🦶🐁😰/🏆🐂 🐺🆚🧥:🐺🧥🐧/🧥😡🐺/🏆🧥 🐪🆚🦇:〽️🦇🐀/🦇🆙👋/🏆🐪

Given tonight's #2026MMM, you might wonder how do we recover DNA from ancient animals or humans? To find out see www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp_y...!