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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We all know the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, but what did those foxes eat? Two sympatric species - the red fox and Tibetan fox - were studied to understand how these similar species can coexist. What did they find on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau...a short thread🧵(1/2)🧪

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We've probably all known a ssssnake in the grass...or rather nest cavity? Here, the impact of weather & temperature on snake predation, a major cause for avian breeding failure, was studied. What did it find? Under climate change, snake predation might vary....sssssssuper! 🧪🐍👇 buff.ly/FImqsbJ

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Climate and habitat influence nest predation by snakes on cavity-nesting birds

Abstract. Snake predation is a major cause of avian breeding failure, particularly for cavity breeders, for which snakes may be the primary predators. We a

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Call for Posters! 📣 Research orchids? Know someone who does? We're eager to showcase your work at our upcoming hybrid day event on 25 November 2026! Space is limited, so get your posters in soon! Deadline is 12 October 2026...👀 Learn more about our event: buff.ly/GM5IyNL 🧪

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Symposium | Orchidaceae | Taxonomy, Diversification, and Biogeography

Bringing together contributions that advance our understanding of orchid evolution across taxonomic, temporal, and geographical scales.

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New Blog 📣 Giant salamanders are revered around the world, but how did they evolve? Here, Juliet Maxted discusses how CT scans of three E. asiaticum skulls have uncovered new insights into the evolution of this family! Read the blog below 👇🧪 www.linnean.org/news/2026/08... It's serving face!

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Facial Reconstruction: Bringing New Life to a 66-Million-Year-Old…

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New research opposes previous views that reptiles never stop growing. Here, it's shown that around half of Lesser Antillean iguanas undergo both growth & degrowth to adapt to fluctuating temperatures or rainfall in the French Antilles! Read it below 🧪🌍👇

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Annual climate fluctuations can influence iguana growth and degrowth

Abstract. It has been proposed that some vertebrates can undergo a reduction in body size in response to harsh environmental conditions. However, there is

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Morphology, behaviour & habitat influence the diversity of foraging strategies in birds, with convergent evolution likely occurring across lineages. Flush-pursue techniques are known to drive plumage evolution, yet the diversity of species showing this behaviour is poorly understood...a 🧵 (1/3) 🧪

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

New Blog! 🚨 As one of Africa's most distinctive primates, over 20 species of bushbaby are recognised in science. But how, and why, did so many evolve? Here, guest blogger Katie Porter answers that question by breaking down a recent study in our Biological journal! Read it below 🧪👇

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How Did Bushbabies Become Different Species?

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New Blog! 📣 From a land down unda' Australian geckos have dispersed across Melanesia...and grown bigger in the process! Guest blogger T.W Fieldsend looks at how they managed to get there, and what made them grow. Read the full blog to find out: www.linnean.org/news/2026/07...

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From a Land Down Under: How Australian Geckos Colonised Melanesia

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Call for Writers! 📣 Are you a student or early career researcher? Science communicator? Know someone who is? We're looking for our next round of Guest Bloggers for our journal blog The Paper Trail! Check out our vacancies page to apply, and read some of our latest posts here: buff.ly/7JVQmSx 🧪 🌍

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Happy #VolunteersWeek! We're celebrating Catherine Sgorbati, an AI in Biosciences graduate & guest blogger for the Zoological Journal! She wrote about gender & geopolitical disparities in taxonomy - you can read her work below 🌍 🧪 👇 www.linnean.org/news/2026/03...

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Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Happy #VolunteersWeek! Rosie Ryland, graduate ecologist at Arbtech, is our spotlight today, having written a blog for The Paper Trail about anole adaptations in the Andes and featuring in our membership magazine The Linnean! You can read her blog below 👇 🧪 🌍 www.linnean.org/news/2025/06...

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy #VolunteersWeek! Today we're highlighting Katya, guest blogger for The Paper Trail! With an MSc in Biodiversity & Conservation, Katya's research interests lie in pterosaur evolution and entomology. Her blog looked at turtle mating behaviour which you can read below! 🌍 🧪 👇 buff.ly/FraLxQK

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Ahh inselbergs, the terrestrial iceberg. Ancient rock outcrops with unique microclimates, they often have unique floral diversity that differs from their surroundings. In Atlantic Forest lowland inselbergs, bromeliads dominate & differ along a coastal-inland gradient, but why? A short 🧵 (1/2) 🧪🌎

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Dung, dung, dungggggg! Did you know dung beetles could fly? Through a combination of wing shape, size & flight strategy, flying organisms (including the dung beetle) can move between and within habitats, but how do different flight strategies affect performance & habitat preference? (1/2) 🌍 🧪

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Do you look at species' adaptations to climate change? Do you want to submit to the same journal as Darwin & Wallace, adding your name to its history books? Submit your research to our Special Issue today - deadline extended to 20 June 2026! 🧪🌎👇 academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p...

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Single celled ciliates are typically found in aquatic environments, but some ciliates (more like silly-ates) have evolved to inhabit the land! But how did these habitat preferences evolve? Using a dated phylogeny, this paper answers just that question...🧪🌎👇 doi.org/10.1093/biol...

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Analysis of the impact of terrestrial habitats on the evolutionary dynamics in the phylum Ciliophora

Abstract. Ciliates inhabit a wide range of habitats, including terrestrial environments. However, macroevolutionary studies on the evolution of habitat pre

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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 10/05/2026

Submission deadline approaching: Organismal Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World. The @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social invites studies examining how organisms maintain function and adapt to environmental change, from genes to ecosystems. 📅 20 May 2026. Read more: oxford.ly/4ncg6Ws

Call for papers: Organismal Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World. Submit today. The Linnean Society of London. OUP.

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Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society @botjlinnsoc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Harsh conditions & challenges imposed by fragmented habitat often restrict gene flow & increase genetic structure in alpine plants. Here, the first population genetic study of the Notothlaspi plant ground in NZ revealed historical periods of contact & isolation amongst species! 🌍🧪 buff.ly/juytPxs

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

As it (galago)es, ecological niche conservatism & divergence are key indicators of diversification & speciation. In the nocturnal primate family Galagidae, diversification is thought to be the result of adaptation or climate-change induced allopatry, but that may not be the case...👇 buff.ly/QFgZbyk

Five boxes of area maps of sub saharan Africa are shown, with a small drawing of galagoes from and their distribution in each.

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Moa a thing or two about extinct species? Using ancient mitochondrial genetics & morphometric analyses of moa leg bones, the species diversity & variation of this once great bird were investigated, revealing the role of climate change on populations! 🌍🧪👇

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Multiproxy analysis of the extinct moa genus Euryapteryx reveals new phylogenetic structure and disparity with morphometrics

Abstract. The species diversity in the family Emeidae of the extinct New Zealand moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) remains problematic and unresolved because so

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Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society @botjlinnsoc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Biased sampling of Lauraceae, a family with over 3000 species, means its diversification history remains poorly understood despite its prevalence in the tropics. Here, plastome sequencing of 16 genera significantly improves our understanding, revealing divergent spatial patterns! 🌍🧪

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Differential plastome diversification of the Lauraceae between tropical regions of Asia and America

ABSTRACT. The Lauraceae, a diverse family with over 50 genera and 3000 species, exhibit exceptional species richness in tropical regions of Asia and Americ

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

What has a mouth but cannot speak, a bed but doesn't sleep & cuts a species in two before you can think? Okay yes, our Monday riddle game is bad...but nevertheless check out how two rivers in Argentine Patagonia have acted as physical barriers to rodents of the genus Ctenomys!🌍🧪👇 buff.ly/aSZAyKu

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Rivers as barriers to the subterranean rodent Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) in northern Patagonia, Argentina

Abstract. Geographical features can act as barriers to gene flow, promoting isolation, divergence, and ultimately speciation through vicariance. This proce

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Allopatry is often assumed as a necessity in population divergence & speciation in birds & mammals, but that may not always be the case! Here, the divergence-with-gene-flow of the Stripe-crowned Spinetail was assessed, providing evidence of divergence in shaping evolution! 🌍🧪 doi.org/10.1093/biol...

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Divergence-with-gene-flow leads to decoupled phenotypic evolution in a passerine (Cranioleuca pyrrhophia, Furnariidae) along a dry forest gradient

Abstract. Population divergence and speciation in birds and mammals is often assumed to require an allopatric phase. However, several studies provide evide

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Wild, fire, ant-action! 📸 Many plants have evolved extrafloral nectaries to build mutualistic relationships with ants, creating complex networks between species. Understanding how they react to environmental disturbance is key to predicting ecosystem dynamics, especially in today's climate...(1/2)

Two black ants (species unknown) are seen on a branch feeding from an extrafloral nectary. They look like little green puddles. In the bottom right hand corner, a second image is obvious in a green bordered box, of a small orange ant having a drink from a water droplet on a leaf. If you have seen the movie Ants, it is reminiscent of this. Its got nothing to do with extrafloral nectaries, but it's cute none the less (and the ant is much more ant-shaped than the black ants).

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We're finally listening to women! Our latest #ThePaperTrail blog delves into the hidden world of beetle bioacoustics, attempting to understand why a special species of scarab beetle screams at predators (say that 10x fast)! You can read it here 🌍🧪👇🪲 (1/2) www.linnean.org/news/2026/03...

A beautifully drawn scarab beetle holds a tiny trumpet with its front legs, with the word toot written at the end to show it is in fact playing the instrument, we just can't hear it. Drawn by Scarlet Forrester.

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Hatsonomy is a field we'd love to publish papers on

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Your palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy, come write a blog, our journals are ready You better lose yourself in the writing the journals, you know it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to show This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

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Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Processes of evolution can change over time, resulting in compositional & exchange rate tree heterogeneity...curious to know what the means for phylogenetics? Check out this paper 👇🌍🧪 doi.org/10.1093/evol...

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

📣 Call for Volunteers! Are you an early career researcher? University student? Science communicator? Know someone who is? We're always looking for new Guest Bloggers to contribute to our journal blog The Paper Trail! Find out more about it & apply below 👇🌍🧪

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Explore the wealth of content available within The Linnean Society of London's website.

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Sea slugs, see slugs, on the sea floor. Sea slugs, see slugs, cryptic no more! By integrating host use & dispersal ability with species delimitation, the radiation of an unusual group of photosynthetic (you read that right) sea slugs is revealed! 🌍🧪🌊

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Integrating host use and dispersal ability with species delimitation to unravel a cryptic radiation of photosynthetic sea slugs

Abstract. Species delimitation models are important quantitative tools for facilitating the discovery of cryptic species and clarifying the boundaries betw

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Sam Fenton @thefentagon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Very excited to have my latest paper published in @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social We explored the colonisation history and genetic differentiation of Arctic charr in Scotland identifying cross-catchment patterns facilitated by ice-dammed lakes at the end of the last ice age academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

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The historical patterns that have shaped contemporary genetic differentiation across populations of Arctic charr in Scotland

Abstract. Glacial history is an important contributor to contemporary biogeographical patterns because it has resulted in population fragmentation and cons

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Why not publish your research with a Society Journal? 🧪🌍 The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and ground-breaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience. 🧵(1/4)

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

As a Society Journal, it's not just the work that we publish that's important, but what that work goes on to support. This blog post sums up our role as a place for research perfectly: we help to shape the very systems through which people access knowledge...a 🧵(1/3) 🧪🌍 buff.ly/OymWe9o

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Guest Post — Societies 2030: The Community Advantage in an AI-First World - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today's guest bloggers call for society publishers to recognize their unique role in shaping the systems researchers use to discover and evaluate knowledge.

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

If history is written by the victors, who are the victors in science? Our latest #ThePaperTrail blog delves into who was holding the pen in taxonomy - a historically male-dominated field - using spiders as a case study. The answer probably won't shock you...🧪🌍 www.linnean.org/news/2026/03...

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The Politics of Taxonomy - Tangled in a Web of Inequalities

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

What can spider names tell us about the tangled web of author inequalities? A recent paper in @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social by Montana et al. looked at every spider described from the Americas in 1946-2021, analysing over 9,000 species and nearly 600 researchers. Read more:

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The Politics of Taxonomy - Tangled in a Web of Inequalities

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The original cuckold, cuckoos are known for their brood parasitism, but do their unwilling hosts ever catch on? Using red-vented bulbuls as a case study (the host of the Jacobin cuckoo), the role off egg size & nestling discrimination were investigated, but what did it show? A (tiny) 🧵🧪(1/2)

Twelve pictures of Bulbul nest are ordered A-L, showing differing clutches of eggs (A-F) and nestlings (G-L).

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Call for Papers! 📣 Following on from our fantastic symposium last year, we're running a #SpecialIssue on "Organismal Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World"! Does your work look at #ClimateChange impacts on species? Submit with us! Deadline 20 May 2026 👇🌍🧪 academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p...

Two birds - a crested tit to the left and a coal tit to the right - sit atop a snowy branch against a grey background.

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Water pickle, tolerance to dehydration potentially enables invasive anuran species to survive in new environments! Here, the impact of dehydration on locomotor performance & aerobic capacity in the whistling frog, an established species in SE Brazil, was investigated...a 🧵 (1/2)

A red eyed tree frog sits on a bright green leaf looking to its left. What is it thinking, we don't know, but we do know it is green with orange feet.

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Click click click...is that your manager angrily typing on a keyboard? No! It's the clattering of stork bills, giving a voice to these voiceless birds! Important for courtship, did you know longer bills produce faster clicks? Turns out size does matter...🧪🌍 doi.org/10.1093/biol... #Conservation

Two storks sit atop a large nest of sticks backlit by a bright blue sky.

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

We had a wonderful time yesterday at Exploring Queerness in Natural History. We're writing up it up to share in a future blog post, but for now here are some pictures of our fantastic curators @aquadan1.bsky.social and Connor Butler, the lunchtime zine-making, and our afternoon panellists.

Dani and Connor presenting at the Linnean Society, they are both smiling. In the backround is a historic chair and portrait of Carl Linnaeus.

Close up of someone cutting out a picture of a bird for a zine page. In the background are a colourful array of pens and materials to make a collage

A group of people, all smiling, on the stage together at the Linnean Society

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Why grandma, what a big brain you have...all the better to...what? This is a sabre-toothed tiger, not a wolf? Nevertheless, MicroCT scans revealed the brain volume of Smilodon fatalis, placing them in the same range as modern lions! 🌍🧪👇 academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a... #FossilFriday

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Determination of Smilodon fatalis (Carnivora: Felidae) brain volume and its place among extant felids by use of MicroCT scans

ABSTRACT. After Leidy discovered Smilodon fatalis in 1869, Merriam and Stock became interested in this felid. They made the first endocast. Since then, the

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Whilst you're unlikely to see knights in chainmail wondering the streets of London, squamate lizards pack a secret body armour millions of years in the making...but like the band Hot Chip, over and over and over and over... 🧵(1/2) #FossilFriday @linneansociety.bsky.social

A reconstruction of a lizards skull has been divided in half, with the left showing the placement of millions of bony armour plates (osteoderms) under the skin of lizards, and the right showing the scaly skin.

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Accelerating #BiodiversityLoss, environmental degradation & social instability affect tropical & subtropical regions in South America. Museum collections are critical for documenting & preserving biodiversity, yet often get overlooked. Introducing: INALI snake collection (1/2) 🧪🌍 buff.ly/DbvmLsf

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Fighting biodiversity loss in the Anthropocene: the INALI snake collection as a key resource for natural history in the Global South

Abstract. In the Anthropocene, accelerating biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and social instability are profoundly affecting tropical and subt

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Ever wondered how males 'roos increase their reproductive success? While they might look like they fight it out in the ring, larger males actually show less investment in sperm competitive traits, though that doesn't mean they're not successful...🧪🌍 doi.org/10.1093/biol... #AustraliaDay

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

New Blog Alert! 🚨 🐘 Elephants are known to be Ecosystem Engineers, but did you know they are also the largest gardeners on Earth? Our latest blog, written by guest blogger Jin-Gyu Chang, reveals their pollinator role...but it's less green thumb and more elephant dung...(1/6) 🧪🌍 buff.ly/GSCUM4R

A large African elephant stands amongst trees in the savannah, dappled in golden sunlight.

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Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society @botjlinnsoc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

With the diversity of flowers comes the diversity of ways to analyse them, but which is best & how are they linked? Here, combining flower morphology characters of 951 species revealed that the most common characters are rarely found together in 1 flower! 🌍🧪 doi.org/10.1093/botl... #Conservation

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

What do you call a reptile that looks like a lizard but isn't? I'm Nothosaurus... Helping to understand ecosystem recovery after the PT-extinction, a large new nothosaurian is described, adding to the evidence of large predators in the Tethys shallow seas! 🧪👇 doi.org/10.1093/zool... #FossilFriday

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

This year, why not publish your research with a Society Journal? The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and groundbreaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience.

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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 08/01/2026

📢 Call for Papers: @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social invites submissions on Organismal Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World – from molecular mechanisms to ecosystem-level responses. Submit by 20 May 2026: oxford.ly/3MPUtgr

Submit to BIOLIN Special Issue on Organismal Resilience.

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