Thank you @iflscience.com and @rachaelhfunnell.bsky.social for featuring our research! By: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva and Shane Gero.

“Behold The GARLIATH!”: Enormous “Living Fossil” Hauled From Mississippi Floodplains Stuns Scientists www.iflscience.com/behold-the-g... By @rachaelhfunnell.bsky.social @iflscience.com on that big Alligator Gar tagged & released @garlab.bsky.social #GarWeek

British people:

Do you know where your cat is? It's like that 60s PSA, but seriously, a free-roaming Mr Crumbles could be cooking up some wildcat hybrids - and that's a big problem. @iflscience.com www.iflscience.com/domestic-cat...

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Introducing a crazy new look for Spicomellus, based on new osteoderms unlike anything we've ever seen before. I was brought in to produce a life reconstruction based on the new material, published today in Nature by Maidment et al:

Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!

OH GREAT NOW THE SWAMP IS WOKE www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...

Did you know that flies hate cocaine? These well-adapted creatures have evolved to avoid things that might do them harm by developing a distaste for bitter things. Not these ones though. 🧪 www.iflscience.com/scientists-h...

To my science and writer pals, we've got a great opportunity tomorrow to speak with #neuroscientist @docaustinlim.bsky.social, who recently wrote Horror On The Brain: The Neuroscience Behind Science Fiction. CURIOUS Live kicks off at 10amCST/4pmBST @iflscience.com www.iflscience.com/she-would-se...

We had a little sneak peek ahead of #WalkingwithDinosaurs starting this week and chatted to the folks behind the scenes who made the science and (VFX) magic happen. And of course, people stole things from set 😏🪺. More scoops here 👇

just discovered my new favourite word

Incredible Footage Shows Ultra Rare All-Black King Penguin On South Georgia Island via @rachaelhfunnell.bsky.social @iflscience.com www.iflscience.com/incredible-f...

it's got to be a high-scoring kind of spoonerism to accidentally call a spoonbill a spillboon

The jumping guabine is considered pretty common in its home of Trinidad, but it's secretly been pulling off one of nature's greatest expeditions using its tail to breathe. Check out the amazing sequence from #TheSecretLivesOfAnimals @iflscience.com www.iflscience.com/tail-breathi...

and we're gonna put it in the bin

haunted by the way that modern culture has warped what it means to spend time with family, my saturday plans are now building a christmas tree out of gherkins

When you see one chasing a human, the closest living relative of T. rex does kind of make sense #Paleontology @iflscience.bsky.social www.iflscience.com/what-is-the-...

Ever heard of the squirting cucumber? It's high time you got uncomfortably familiar with the mechanism that allows it to spew seeds 10m in a way that might be unique in the plant kingdom @iflscience.bsky.social www.iflscience.com/explosive-st...

Do #chimpanzees have culture? Simple and complex tool use is seen across different groups, and it seems the most sophisticated toolsets spread as females switch groups. As for whether her new community wants to learn? That's another thing @iflscience.bsky.social www.iflscience.com/groundbreaki...

has anyone given a name to the phenomenon of thinking things are AI when they probably aren't because I've been looking so closely at hands for so long that now they all look wrong

If you loved #JurassicPark III then you'll love this new research trying to work out what #dinosaurs sounded like with Parasaurolophus pipes, aka, the linophone @iflscience.bsky.social www.iflscience.com/what-did-din...

One of the world's largest #scorpions also has a nifty habit of fluorescing like a Halloween decoration under UV light: meet the emperor scorpion @iflscience.bsky.social www.iflscience.com/the-fluoresc...

In a discovery that's being described “like winning a million-dollar jackpot," scientists have retrieved 145-year-old seeds from a shipwreck in Michigan, and now they're going to make it into whiskey @iflscience.bsky.social www.iflscience.com/scientists-r...

initiating wotsits protocol

Some geese are poisonous, that's just a fact you have to roll with & we dive into more weird #science with Jack Baddams and Roddy Shaw, incredible hosts of comedy nature podcast How Many Geese - catch the full episode of #WeHaveQuestions now @iflscience.bsky.social www.iflscience.com/iflscience-w...

There’s a whole world out there that glows, we just don’t have the eyes to see it. #Biofluorescence is being reported in more and more species with a new preprint adding another 15, and you can help find more with 1 piece of kit @iflscience.bsky.social www.iflscience.com/15-species-t...

Romanticise your life, they said, so I’ve started looking forward to switching off the dehumidifier at the end of each day and guessing how much water it’s sucked out of my wet mushroom of a rental property

Something big has been lurking in the Solomon Islands, sitting unseen 12m below the surface for 300 years. This is a lovely tale of hope and really, really big coral. @iflscience.bsky.social www.iflscience.com/divers-thoug...

A really cool discovery that the skull of a tiny dino-era “opposite bird,” an extinct group that diverged from modern birds 130 million years ago, shows perfect midway brain evolution between bird-like dinos & the clever crows we see today @iflscience.bsky.social www.iflscience.com/dinosaur-era...

Some big news from the deep sea yesterday as @mbarinews.bsky.social finally unmasked the "mystery mollusk" that's been perplexing scientists for 20 years, revealing a sea slug "unlike all other nudibranchs" @iflscience.bsky.social www.iflscience.com/mystery-moll...