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Jeope! @jeope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I visited Oak Hammock Marsh this early today to watch the sunrise and morning goose flyout, and later visited the final bird banding session of the season there. And what luck – they caught a merlin! #birds

A medium-sized brown-and-beige falcon with imposing yellow feet and big sharp claws is held in the grip of a bird bander. The falcon has big black eyes and looks mildly perturbed.

A medium-sized beige falcon is cradled in the arms of a bird bander. A metal band is being attached to the falcon’s leg.

A medium-sized brown and beige falcon, held in the grip of a bird bander, is now fully perturbed, with its bill wide open.

Ye gads, the falcon is now biting the bander’s hand!

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Ausarchosaur @ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Didn’t know they also had these mosasaur and plesiosaur sculptures

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Tyrannosaurus rex was named 120 years ago today on 4th October, 1905. I would do things a little differently now, but this drawing is from 2020.

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Ivan Kay @ivan23.bsky.social · 18h

Wow this takes me back. Used to play this bad boy on Windows... 95? 98? Can't recall, but it was incredible

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Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Are there any Eyewitness Virtual Reality Dinosaur Hunter fans in the audience tonight

A screenshot of Eyewitness Dinosaur Hunter. It shows a gloomy museum hallway designed to look like it's made of stone. Images of dinosaurs are on the walls; here you can see Barosaurus, Diplodocus, Stegosaurus, and Apatosaurus. There's a fern on the ground. A timeline on the floor is labeled "155 MYA". It leads into a room which is labeled "Cretaceous. 144-95 MYA". This is all rendered in juicy 16-bit color with the best 3D rendering 1996 can offer

Another screenshot of the game. It shows the inside of another gloomily lit room in the museum. Exhibits on the walls show dinosaur heads and skulls, plus things like dinosaur skin and a model of an Edmontonia. Now this is a liminal space

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kdaea.bsky.social @kdaea.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Old art (2017) one of the first pieces I attempted to draw a background on. :'D Miss these boys 🧡

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Mrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I recognise that both October 7th and the subsequent shit show by Bibi in Gaza has been horrendous, but you didn't need to let it make you go literally insane.

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Mrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not to be all "I didn't get more right wing, the left just became more insane", but... I swear to god the Two-State Solution was the normal and sane one mere years ago.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 22h

Evergreen headline. 100 years old today…

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There are some pieces of paleoart that to my eye are so fantastic that I regularly come back to them to just stare and marvel them. Peter Trusler has made many such pictures but these 3 particular ones are just of such exquisite quality that they take my breath away every time.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Adam Yates @reddirtpalaeo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This got me thinking about heterodox ideas. Not outright crank-level stuff but opinions in the field of palaeontology that are in the minority. I definitely have some, e.g. I still think Palorchestes had a trunk, or that thalattosuchians really aren't mesoeucrocodylians. Anyone care to share theirs?

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Ivan Kay @ivan23.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think you need DNA for high resolution cladistics, no matter how much palaeontologists might (understandably) not want that to be the case. Happy to hear evidence to the contrary though 3/3

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Ivan Kay @ivan23.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As it turns out, morphological characters just aren't good enough for anything more than very low resolution phylogenies. Can a morphology based analysis tell you that theropods are a natural group? Sure. Can it give you a reliable phylogeny of twenty very similar looking theropods? I doubt it. 2/n

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Ivan Kay @ivan23.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My big heterodox idea is that palaeontologists often badly over-estimate how precise we can be about phylogenies of extinct groups without DNA. Many old ideas about the relationships of living animals were completely overturned when genetics was brought into play. 1/n

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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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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Eyvind Earle (1916-2000), concept paintings of Maleficent as the Dragon produced for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

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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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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

What in the name of Beetlejuice ARE these things? They're zebra morphs of 'squat lobsters', likely in genus Allogalathea. They're not true lobsters & are more closely related to hermit crabs. Now which one is white with black stripes & which is black with white stripes? (📷: hoopderscotch)

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#FossilFriday The pachycephalosaur Stegoceras has an itch at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Mounted skeleton of the little pachycephalosaur Stegoceras, scratching its lower jaw with its tiny front paw

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

When I saw the Titanosaur exhibition at NHM London with friends, @dinomaster.bsky.social suggested I drew a Pudgy Patagotitan. I had a hard time pudgifying what is already _beyond_ pudgy, and could have pushed the exaggeration much further. I merely ended up with a short-legged titanosaur.

Ink drawing of a Patagotitan with, despite earnest attempts, only slightly exaggerated proportions, seen in side view, facing and walking towards the right. It has a gently silly expression at least.

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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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✮ 𝒥𝒶𝓃𝑒 ✮ @janesgallery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay #Raptors any bird of prey From a little Pygmy Falcon ❤️ to a huge CrownedHawk Eagle ❤️ #BirdPhotography #Birds #Nature #birdwatching #ECK

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Emily Higgs Art @emilyhiggs-art.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oviraptor ~ egg thief 🥚🍳 . This was a design I worked up a while ago when looking at famous fossil discoveries which included the oviraptor found sitting on top of a nest. . This design is part of a much bigger themed piece which I look forward to sharing soon

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If that's having "two brains", then why not call the spinal cord a brain and say we've got three? Why leave the forebrain out of this entirely? They have equally distinct developmental histories.

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

But again, we already knew the hindbrain was developmentally distinct from its two flanking tissues, the midbrain and spinal cord, that lots of interesting genes get activated at the boundary between two of them, etc. And that, because of this, these neural segments go on to do different things.

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The paper behind the PR shows the hindbrain lineage becomes distinct very early in embryonic development. If you want to make stem cells into hindbrain neurons, you have to send them through the hindbrain path first. It's solid work! From a quick skim, the researchers seem to have done a nice job.

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some of the same factors are used to pattern all of these, but because of differences in developmental history and the presence of distinct environments at different points in our body, the cells of these segments interpret even the common signals in different ways.

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For non-developmental biologists: we don't think of ourselves as segmented (that's for insects, after all), but our nervous system is segmented. The forebrain is set up different than the midbrain, which is set up differently than the hindbrain, which is set up differently than the spinal cord.

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream

A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank

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Jorge Ginés 🎃👻🇪🇺 🌍🛰️ @lithospheric.jorgegines.com · 18/09/2026

5,000 sols on Mars. Congrats, Curiosity! science.nasa.gov/photojournal... ⚒️🧪

While parked at a sand ridge nicknamed “Chocolatal,” NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times of day. The first was taken on Aug. 30, 2026, at 9:56 a.m. local Mars time; the second was taken on Sep. 2, 2026, at 5:39 p.m. local Mars time. Those dates correspond to the 5,000th and 5,003rd Martian days, or sols, of the mission.

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Jed Taylor @jedtaylorartist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Same again but just feet now.

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Heitoresco @heitoresco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ilustrações para meu video sobre Glândulas de Sal em Spinosauridae: Propostas de Hone & Witton + Comparação com Baryonychinae

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Heitoresco @heitoresco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Paleoambiente

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Joe Rogan suddenly acting like he was an innocent bystander for years and had no idea what Trump was all about until now and did nothing to help get him elected is pretty weak and pathetic. Just own it.

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Daeodon is a genuinely horrrifying animal. #FossilFriday

Two casts of big-headed, vaguely piglike beasts prowling across desert scene

Close up of cast skull with stupidly big teeth

Real mounted skeleton against a blue background

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BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the face of a man who knows he is about to become a meme.

The Pope looking bleak because someone has gifted him Rasputin's soul and is resigned to the fact that the photo of this moment is going to go viral.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/09/2026

Inside of it is a faith hugger

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Um, sorry IACUC, but WHAT?

"Species Info - List all species: please note here that chondrichthyans are not true vertebrates."

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Albert Dros @albertdros.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Different angles of the majestic Mount Fuji. Can't wait to be back again later this year.

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Anzu wyliei color sketch with Staedler Mars 780 red and blue leads, Faber-Castell Goldfaber Aqua watercolour pencils, and Tombow Dual Brush Pens. #anzu #dinosaur #sketch #paleoart #sciart

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