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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks!😄 I agree, they took so many weird forms. More fun to draw!😁

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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thanks!😄 Btw I just took a look at your gallery, very cool too!

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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#SundayFishSketch 🐠I completed the 2nd row quickly, so third page completed! Top row: Corusichthys megacephalus, Maraldichthys verticalis, Gladiopycnodus karani Bottom row: Monocerichthys scheuchzeri, Ichthyoceros spinosus, Stenoprotome hamata #paleoart

Drawings of pycnodonts, a group of prehistoric fish
Top row: Corusichthys megacephalus, Maraldichthys verticalis, Gladiopycnodus karani
Bottom row: Monocerichthys scheuchzeri, Ichthyoceros spinosus, Stenoprotome hamata

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 30/09/2026

A glimpse of Europe's future in low Earth orbit. We've selected two European industrial teams to study the feasibility of a future European-led orbital outpost, exploring how Europe could strengthen its role in low Earth orbit in the post-ISS

Artist's impression of a potential European-led orbital station

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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So shiny, looks beautiful!😄

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Print of Argyropelecus olfersii #sciart 🐡 🐟 3 prints are now available in my shop 👇🧵 #art #print #noAI

a carton print of a roundish fish fith a big mouth and eye and little fins. sideview.
the black lines are fine and the body is coloured silver

same fish photographed from the side showing the silver paint catching the light

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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Such attention to detail, mpressive research!😄

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 30/09/2026

One third of world population exposed to harmful air pollution. Heatwaves and wildfires combined with human-caused emissions this year exposed one third of the world's population to extremely high levels of ozone pollution, a European Union report says u.afp.com/S9hT

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Pedro @hjorvik.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Pues al final han cerrado el museo más antiguo de historia natural de todas las Américas porque la nueva uni a la que pertenece dice que no es rentable. El primer lugar donde se expuso un dinosaurio echa el cierre porque alguien con un MBA decidió que no valía la pena.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Please. If you see evidence of workplace harassment. Badmouthing of own junior staff, unreasonable expectations, removal or omission from authorship, hostile language, evidence of overworking or distress. Don't walk by. Academic safety nets can't rely on whisper networks set by marginalised people.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Beaky Camarasaurus. preprints.arphahub.com/articles.php... @dennish.bsky.social @fabiomanucci.bsky.social

Brown pencil sketch of the head of Camarasaurus, with a keratinous beak-like covering on the front of its snout, as proposed by the latest study.

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some of the studies I made of the extinct megatooth shark Otodus megalodon, for an upcoming commission I can hopefully share soon. Megalodon is known almost exclusively from fossil teeth, which have not been found articulated with jaws.

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Instituto de Geociencias (CSIC-UCM) @igeociencias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🌋 ¿Sabías que el manto que hay bajo las islas Canarias… NO es igual en todas partes? Una investigación reciente del IGEO ha encontrado diferencias claras entre unas islas y otras. ¿Y qué nos cuenta eso sobre el origen del archipiélago? 🧵👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Western–Eastern isotopic zonation of the Canary Archipelago reveals spatially organized mantle domains - Journal of Iberian Geology

The Canary Islands represent one of the most intensively studied intraplate volcanic systems in the eastern Atlantic. The origin of Canary Island magmatism remains a matter of debate. Nevertheless, is...

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🐠 Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, . A Amsterdam, Chez Reinier & Josué Ottens, 1754.. [Source]

Historical illustration showing five vibrantly colored fish with exaggerated features. The largest fish at top left has a bulky body with bold stripes in pink, yellow, and blue-green, sharp teeth, spiny dorsal fins, and rounded tail fins. Below it, a rounded angelfish with a prominent, bulbous head displays a pink body, green face, and yellow-striped fins with black dots on the chest fin. Other fish include a slender, striped fish with fin rays resembling spikes, a stout fish with vivid pink, green, and yellow markings, and the smallest, a yellow fish adorned with black diamond patterns and green fins. Each fish is labeled with number and French descriptions.

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ferrutxoart.bsky.social @ferrutxoart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5The Concavenator's carcass floats due to the buildup of gases; soon its rib cage will burst, and it will sink, giving rise to what, 125 million years later, will become “Pepito,” one of the most incredible fossils ever found in Spain

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Sternberg Museum has been an essential institution for more than a century that's let us understand the Western US's Cretaceous Interior Seaway. What's the Cretaceous Interior Seaway? Well, you can visualize it as a vast ocean from Texas to northern Canada where scenes like this played out:

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Prehistoric Planet 2 [2023] - Xiphactinus Screen Time

YouTube video by Francesco Dangerio

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🦎Some other creatures found on my walk: an earwig climbing a traffic signal, some wall lizards and a big (and seemingly abandoned) wasp nest #naturephotography #france

Wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) climbing a wall, decorated with (I believe) some shell fossils

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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

☀️Although autumn has already started, the warm temperatures have continued until the end of the month. On a morning walk I saw several swans, many of them young, as well as multiple corvids #naturephotography #birdphotography #france

Small fishing lake near the town of Manon

Juvenile mute swan (Cygnus olor) in flight

Carrion crow (Corvus corone) perched on a wooden post

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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🌄By the end of summer the starlings gather in big groups at sunset. They choose the highest points in the area to meet, and then they fly to the trees to spend the night. At twilight they are also joined by flocks of corvids #naturephotography #birdphotography #france

Flock of common starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) flying over a rooftop at sunset

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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Photos taken during September, a small thread 🌳Some weeks ago I visited the woods of Guentrange, close to Thionville. While the trees were still green, I found the forest relatively devoid of life, except for a few birds and insects #naturephotography #france

Beech leaf with galls, possibly caused by the beech gall midge

Syrphid fly feeding on some flowers at the end of the forest

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a fascinating #openaccess preprint by gobbo et al. suggests that the famous morrison formation sauropod camarasaurus had a beak! (art by fabio manucci) preprints.arphahub.com/article/2164...

Life reconstruction by Fabio Manucci depicting two Camarasaurus individuals in their natural environment.

In vivo reconstructions and morphological characterization of the odontoscutum in Camarasaurus in lateral and frontal views, depicting both open- and closed-mouth configurations.

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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Time to bring out one of my favorites! I photographed this harlequin duck in Yellowstone National Park in summer 2025. It was on the ebird homepage for a while!

A harlequin duck in the moment before he dives under water. There is beautiful bokeh formed by the water in front of him because I took this with my camera actually touching the water

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When Elton wrote the statement quoted below, Japanese, European and American eels were extraordinarily abundant species When Elton died (1991) all three had collapsed Everything has gone nothing but worse since then, and other eel species are now following that same extinction path (see post below)

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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Xenorhinotherium & Macrauchenia my beloveds This was mostly an exercise in achieving different fur textures in Blender, as well as an excuse to make an infographic since I haven't made one of those in a while. #SciArt #artbyjulio

A simple infographic showing a mostly tan, short-haired Xenorhinotherium and a dark brown, long-haired Macrauchenia against a solid background, with a human silhouette for scale. Each animal has a lineart of South America besides it showing an estimated range, and its scientific name below it.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 28/09/2026

A successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter Earlier today, Juice flew just 8640 km above the Indian Ocean and snapped these images with its onboard monitoring cameras. 1️⃣Africa, by Juice monitoring camera 2️⃣Madagascar, by Juice NavCam 3️⃣Moon, by Juice NavCam 🔭 🧪 #planetsci

Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left.

Part of the island of Madagascar in black and white.

A crescent Moon, with about a quarter of the Moon showing. Many craters are visible.

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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So a sort of successful mission for Starship Mission 14. They didn't check all the boxes because of Raptor engine failures, but they deployed the 26 Starlink Satellites and achieved orbit, though not for as long as planned. It's clear that the Raptor engine is still a thorn in the company's side.

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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 25/09/2026

A small push for @esa.int & #JAXA #BepiColombo, a giant leap towards #Mercury! 🛰️➡️🌑 Without MTM, the Mercury Planetary Orbiter is preparing for orbit insertion. Yesterday's successful thruster burn tested the propulsion system & delivered a planned 11.4 m/s trajectory correction ✅ @science.esa.int

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026

This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026

These are what the clouds on Jupiter look up close. The small patches of white are cloud tops, soaring above the main, colourful cloud layer. Image from NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 38th close approach to Jupiter on 29 November 2021, processed by Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)

A complex, swirling pattern of lighter and darker clouds. One large system, angled to the upper left in this scene, is a tawny brown colour and is elongate. Another, more circular storm system is at lower centre, and is a grey–greenish colour. The background swirls are various shades of grey to blue; small, white features dot the scene.

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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thanks!😊 These are all very funny to look at, I also like Gladiopycnodus especially :)

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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ah I see, just looked for some photos on the Internet. Very interesting anyways!😁

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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Very pretty art!😄 So the bees create these shapes in the leaves? If so, that's impressive!

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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#SundayFishSketch #paleoart Starting the 3rd page with these funny looking Lebanese pycnodonts: Corusichthys, Maraldichthys and Gladiopycnodus

Drawing of 3 prehistoric fish: Corusichthys, Maraldichthys and Gladiopycnodus

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Stefan’s Lens on the North @sts63.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Glacial river creating nature art. Smaller arms of the river flowing into the bigger stream. Even at grey sky the blue color shines through. Nature creates the best art. Aerial view of a river bed near Öxarfjörður. #Iceland #Landscape #Photography #DJI #Aerial #drone #river #Öxarfjörður

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I finished my little bee \o/ . Art of a bee and by a bee 🐝🌿 It's now available on my Ko-fi. (End of the month and next month is vet month, so I will try to put other art up too. Commissions for small paintings are open 🙏) ko-fi.com/s/4515f07e50 #sciart #traditionalart #bee

2 passepartous with round cutouts.
One is showing a leaf cutter bee gripping a green stem on turquoise background.
the other is showing a glued down leaf which was symmetrical cut out by a bee. The background is red with little dots of gold.

watercolour of a leaf cutter bee gripping a green stem on turquoise background with a little golden signature underneath

a glued down leaf which was symmetrical cut out by a bee. The background is red with little dots of gold.

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Joubin's squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) is a funky, little squid that looks like one of those head massagers. It has a max mantle length of 9 cm and a long tail which is thought to mimic sinophores. They are also the closest relatives to the even more lanky bigfin squids (Magnapinna) #SQUIDtember

Joubin's Squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) floating in the ocean. The squid is very thin and has a orange colour. It has a long tail extending from its mantle and is waving in the water. Its arms are long and thin, and are extending out and curling back in. The arms are a slightly orange off white.

Joubin's Squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) floating in the ocean, with the camera centred on its head. It has black beady eyes. Its arms are long and thin, and are extending out and curling back in. The arms are a slightly orange off white. Its body is thin and is orange. Its tail is outside of the frame.

Joubin's Squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) floating in the ocean. The squid is very thin. Its mantle is off white and the rest of it is reddish orange. It has a long tail extending from its mantle and is waving in the water. Its arms are long and thin, and are loosely spread out.

A close up of a Joubin's Squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) floating in the ocean and reacting to the ROV. It has black beady eyes. It has long, thin arms that are mostly white but they have orange chromatophores on them. The chromatophores are more visible near its head. Its orange body is quite thin. Its head is in the ROV's shadow.

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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nice display of your own work!😄 Your drawings and studies are really good :)

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well well well, after years of being looked at funny for having queries and doubts over SpaceX’s vision, arguments, plans, business models and the commercial hype train…

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SpaceX pivots away from space

Starbase, we have a problem

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Diego Ortega @diegooa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🛰️The situation of space debris keeps getting more dangerous every year, as told by this year's @esa.int Space Environment Report. You can find the link in Jonathan's 2nd post

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Wren @satanicwren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Drexel University in Philadelphia is trying to shut down the oldest Natural History Museum in the western hemisphere, privatizing its vast collection. If you care about natural history PLEASE watch this video that tells you how you can help. youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...

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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

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Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's #FossilFriday, and indeed the final scheduled Friday that the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia is open to the public, potentially forever. So it's finally time to, once again, talk about Haddy — and bring it all full circle. Strap in, it's a big one.

A heavily retouched photograph (c. 1870?) of the mounted skeleton of Hadrosaurus foulkii inside the Academy's old building at the corner of Broad & Sansom Sts (in fact, the only known photograph of this building's interior). A man stands under the skeleton, identity unknown

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At the beginning of the month Drexel University made public that they want to close the Academy of Natural Sciences at the end of the month. The academy is the oldest natural history museum in the Americas and this would end more than 200 years of research and outreach.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This extraordinary image was created by reprocessing & merging 16 frames from Voyager 1's flyby of Jupiter in 1979. Just right of center, you can see the Great Red Spot, a huge storm system. ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20062... Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/A. Tranchandon 🔭🧪⚛️ #histsci #planetsci

Voyager 1 view of Jupiter. Banded clouds wrap the planet in beige, cream & pale brown. Just right of center sits the Great Red Spot, an oval storm flushed orange-red. Lower left, the bright disk of Europa is visible. Upper right, a round dark patch marks Io’s shadow on the cloud tops.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's #fossilfriday! Here's a guy from HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY: Arthropleura, a (probably!) herbivorous millipede relative that roams the coal forests of Carboniferous Scotland. Survival Verdict: YES. It's got a nasty nip, but we feel if you get bit, you have it coming.

A large, flat green millipede of unusual size crawls through a Carboniferous swamp forest, with some tiny tetrapods crawling on its back. Art by Stieven Van Der Poorten, from HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dinosaurs in watercolor #sciart

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