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Calling all artists, streamers, and citizens of the internet! #SavetheVaquita Week is Oct 11-17th, and you can help! With fewer than 20 left, these little porpoises are almost gone and hardly anyone knows about them. Let's change that by flooding the web with vaquita content! Share and read on! +

Save the Vaquita Week October 11-17th 2026
With fewer than 20 estimated remaining, the vaquita is the most endangered marine
mammal on the planet. Found only in Mexico's Gulf of California, this little porpoise
is a relative of whales & dolphins and is the smallest of the cetaceans.

Vaquita are accidentally caught in illegal gillnets set for the totoaba fish, and they
sadly drown as bycatch. Fishermen seek out the totoaba for it's swim bladder
which is valued at many thousands of dollars in illegal markets.

Without intervention, the vaquita will soon be gone.

But you can help!

For one week, the goal is to flood the internet
with vaquita content. Use #SaveTheVaquita to
share art, videos, streams, and more on any
platform. If we all do a little, it adds up to a lot!

Image of Vaquita and calf in lower right by CassWArt

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm back in it 💪🏽 🐑 Animal #1164 🐺 I figured it out in 5 guesses! 🟥🟥🟧🟧🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Metazooa

Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm (briefly!) back home from the field after a week-long dinosaur dig in Utah, so let's do some #paleontology Q&A before I leave again for a wedding tomorrow. Join us for the *only* stream this week @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Twitch screenshot of me in my office, surrounded by Utah paleontology miscellanea, from life-sized 3D prints of a Utahraptor and Gastonia skull and Gastonia armor to framed images of Utah geology and more

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's our LAST DAY digging at the ankylosaur bonebed with @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social so tune in LIVE, ask us questions, and watch us work to excavate the last of these bones for the year at twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Selfie photo of me, in field hat, standing in the ankylosaur quarry with fossil jackets and crew mates in the background

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is something I think about *all the time* as a science communicator. Twitch, where I do most of my online outreach, is geared toward long form explanations, and that's one of the reasons I like it so much. I want to help people *grow* those attention spans

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're a little overwhelmed by just how many ankylosaur bones and osteoderms we're finding out here at Lorrie's Site, and you can tune in and hang out as we work @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Selfie photo of me in front of the ankylosaur quarry out in the eastern Utah desert

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here's a freshly-found Gastonia osteoderm (with a visually helpful plastic Gastonia model) for #FossilFriday out here at Lorrie's Site in eastern Utah. This is the world's largest and most prolific ankylosaur bonebed, with all the specimens we're excavating going to @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social

Photo of ankylosaur armor plate and plastic Gastonia in my hand, with the quarry in the background

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You reach the Gates of Hades & find them guarded by this: (📷: USFWS)

Spooky Season has officially begun, and we’re kicking things off with a three-headed ferret.

OK, technically it’s three black-footed ferrets, but October calls for a little imagination.

Once thought to be extinct, black-footed ferrets are one of North America’s rarest mammals. At the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center, staff work to breed and recover these endangered little creatures and return them to the wild.

Cute? Absolutely. Three-headed monster? Only in October.

Photo by USFWS

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

YOU are so cool! Hope you're doing well, James

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's currently down to just three of us in the ankylosaur quarry today, so tune in for some cozy dinosaur excavation vibes @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Selfie photo of me, in field hat, in front of our ankylosaur quarry

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm back out in the field! Join me and the Prehistoric Museum crew as we excavate the bones and armor of *scads* of ankylosaurs out here in eastern Utah Tune in @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Science is a part of your brain you just don't turn off. In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life 🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/s...

Sciencing the shit out of this motel room

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This animal is in the wrong clade. Still got it in 4, tho 🙃 🐧 Animal #1151 🐔 I figured it out in 4 guesses! 🟧🟨🟩🟩 🔥 18 | Avg. Guesses: 5 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Metazooa

Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're celebrating my birthday on today's broadcast, as well as getting the audience ready for live paleontological fieldwork streams next week! Join us and hang out @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Twitch screenshot of me in my office, surrounded by various Cedar Mountain Formation fossil 3D prints, from a Gastonia skull, spike, and armor osteoderms to a Utahraptor skull -- along with various fieldwork accoutrements and some birthday stuff too

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sometimes those strategies just work 💪🏽 🦓 Animal #1150 🐎 I figured it out in 2 guesses! 🟧🟩 🔥 17 | Avg. Guesses: 5 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Metazooa

Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We've got a brand-new therizinosaur to discuss (introducing KAYRASAURUS!) and the first recorded sea turtle nest in California, plus whatever folks in the chat are curious about Join us at the link below 👇🏽

Twitch screenshot of me in my office, being upstaged by my landlord Sweetie Pie (a longhair domestic cat with tuxedo attributes) with most of my paleontological stuff on the wall behind us obscured by her fuzzy countenance

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You bet! It seems like YouTube's search function just gets worse and worse -- you really have to wrestle with it nowadays

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lukewarm: Insights on Tauntaun thermophysiology and implications for the ecology of ice planets

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm going to be the first Godzilla to have sex on screen, Liz

jane krakowski as jenna maroney on 30 rock

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

*Grandpa Simpson typing on typewriter* This clade has too many species. 🐭 Animal #1149 🐅 I figured it out in 7 guesses! 🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 16 | Avg. Guesses: 5.1 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Metazooa

Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🦏 Happy #WorldRhinoDay! 🦏 We're talking all about the fossil history, evolution, diversity, and ecology of rhinos, both living and extinct -- and you're welcome to join us, hang out, and chat LIVE at the link below 👇🏽

Twitch screenshot of me in my office, surrounded by framed scientific figures of fossil rhinos, plus a 3D-printed Palaeotherium skull and one of an extinct tapir, too

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Keeping that average depressed 💪🏽 🦉 Animal #1148 🐌 I figured it out in 5 guesses! 🟧🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 15 | Avg. Guesses: 5 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Metazooa

Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm live on #Twitch right now, answering viewer questions about #paleontology and getting excited for more fieldwork livestreams in Utah next week at the world's largest ankylosaur bonebed. Anyway, feel free to tune in and join us for some fossil #scicomm at the link below 👇🏽

Twitch screenshot of me in my office. On the wall behind me is a life-sized Diabloceratops 3D-printed skull (it's HUGE), a 3D-printed trilobite (much larger than life-sized, but still smaller than the ceratopsid), the book Dinosaur Frontier by Christa Sadler (which features me!) and some scientific figures in frames, too

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Attention Philadelphia! We need your help saving the Academy of Natural Sciences! The Save the Academy Coalition needs volunteers to help hand out organizing flyers in front of the museum this weekend, Sept 25-27. Please sign up here if you can take a shift! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

docs.google.com

Help Save the Academy: Volunteer to talk with visitors and hand out flyers at the Academy.

Sign up for a shift outside the Academy of Natural Sciences during its last open days: Fridays to Sundays, Sept 18 to 20 and 25 to 27, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Volunteers will be on the ground outside the Ac...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Reposting this would be very helpful. We're having a tough month at Skype a Scientist between much of my energy being devoted to Academy of Natural Sciences stuff. I need help!!

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Karen Poole @renpoole.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People reeeeeally need to brush up on their history and learn what was destroyed in the first Nazi book burning. We hold the line at trans rights. If we don’t, we have failed to uphold human rights and dignity for everyone.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lucky guess 🎯 🦧 Animal #1147 🪼 I figured it out in 3 guesses! 🟧🟩🟩 🔥 14 | Avg. Guesses: 5 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Metazooa

Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I kind of despise Instagram, but I'm thinking about getting back on there for science outreach. Plus I've got *hundreds* of paleontological 3D prints at this point, and not enough places to show 'em off

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here's my interview with leatherback turtle expert Scott Benson (recently retired from NOAA) We discuss what's going on with leatherback turtle numbers in the Pacific, answer some questions from the live audience, and talk about what viewers can do to help protect these animals. Check it out!

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Leatherback Turtle Conservation UPDATE 🌊 Follow-up interview w/ Scott Benson, 9 Sept 2026

YouTube video by Paleontologizing

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oooh, interesting setup! I'm excited to see how it goes 🫡

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It was a 50/50 shot on Guess #2 and I guessed wrong 🙃 🦧 Animal #1145 🐻 I figured it out in 3 guesses! 🟨🟩🟩 🔥 12 | Avg. Guesses: 5 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Metazooa

Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We're currently experiencing another partial feline eclipse on #Twitch right now, but once it clears we'll start discussing that new T. rex 'warm-bloodedness' paper, and then later we'll get into Friday's variation of Thursday BIRDSday Link below 👇🏽

Twitch screenshot of me in my office. There are a bunch of bird origins and Tyrannosaurus-related 3D prints and framed figures on the wall behind me, but you'll have to take my word for it (or just tune into the stream) because domestic longhair cat (and landlord) Sweetie Pie is blocking most of the camera

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No stream today! Doin' Berkeley stuff instead Back to streaming tomorrow

Selfie photo of me and the "Wankel Rex" Tyrannosaurus cast at UCMP

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📣 REMINDER 📣 Today's the deadline for SVP early registration vertpaleo.org/2026-registr...

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2026 Registration Information – Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm not streaming today, but I didn't forget! 🦓 Animal #1144 🦆 I figured it out in 6 guesses! 🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩 🔥 11 | Avg. Guesses: 5.1 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Metazooa

Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is a terrible idea. "A.I." is prone to errors; it's an inherent flaw of LLMs. You know where I learned this? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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AI hallucinations are a feature of LLM design, not a bug

Letter to the Editor

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Clearly it "died from its injuries," like having its ischium melted

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

UGGGHHHH, I MISCLICKED 😭 Right at the end, my finger slipped. Should have been one less guess than this 🦭 Animal #1143 🐼 I figured it out in 7 guesses! 🟥🟧🟨🟨🟨🟥🟩 🔥 10 | Avg. Guesses: 5.1 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Metazooa

Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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