Reposted by James 🏴🦖Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic 47837220
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 27/09/2026When Mantellisaurus was standing up 15511
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 27/08/2026News | Call for ‘national treasure’ protections to cover natural history specimens Concern in museum sector after world-class fossil collection is sold overseasmuseumsassociation.orgCall for 'national treasure’ protections to cover natural history specimens - Museums AssociationConcern in museum sector after world-class fossil collection is sold overseas 0135
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Geology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026🎶Dinosaur theme tune🎶 😞 071
James 🏴🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Two full days into my Lyme Regis adventure and, after an embarrassing fault start, found my first ever ichthyosaurus bone! 🐬 I’m on cloud nine - and still got a week of my trip to go! 081
James 🏴🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Anyone attending Lyme Regis Fossil Festival next weekend? 🦖 000
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines 615288309435
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Scottish Geology Trust @scottishgeology.bsky.social · 17/05/2026 Follow in the footsteps of Cromarty’s most famous historic figure. 🔍️ Examine the latest findings from scientific research conducted on Cromarty beach by modern scientists. 👩🔬 Discover the expeditions exploring Cromarty's deep time that took place after Hugh Miller made this shoreline famous! 🗺️ 131
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Scottish Geology Trust @scottishgeology.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Join us for a guided walk along Cromarty beach 🌊 with an experienced guide to discover the rocks, fossils, and geological formations that captivated Hugh Miller. Have your name go alongside any new discoveries made and displayed at Hugh Miller's Birthplace Museum! 🦴 111
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Scottish Geology Trust @scottishgeology.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Inspire the young geologists in your life with a fun and engaging kid's trail! 💡 This year marks the 300th birthday of James Hutton. As we celebrate this milestone, help Hugh Miller track down the perfect birthday present from objects housed at the museum. 🎁 163
Reposted by James 🏴🦖The Geological Society of Glasgow @geolsocglasgow.bsky.social · 14/05/2026🏡 Did you know you could visit the birthplace of Hugh Miller? Well you can! And they have a variety of events on this year! ⬇️ See below for details. #geology #hughmiller #fossils 131
Reposted by James 🏴🦖The Onion @theonion.com · 06/04/2026NASA Announces Plan To Put Moon On Mars By 2040 theonion.com/nasa-announces-plan-to… 371804204
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen comments on the crew surpassing the Apollo 13 record for humans to fly farthest from Earth. 🌔 Read more: www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa... 622952
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 05/04/2026New look at crescent Earth 🌎 📷 Artemis II 191448264
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 02/04/2026Naturally, the comment section of this post has attracted those who believe otherwise. 575104401342
Reposted by James 🏴🦖ev9 @ev9999.bsky.social · 26/02/2026🧪⚒️ A big eruption occurred at a mud volcano in Colombia on the night of the 25th February 2026. Thread… Video from @fluxfolio_ 37936
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Say hello to Galahadosuchus! 👋🏻 This new species of crocodile, which looked like a 'reptilian greyhound', would once have roamed southern Wales and southwest England on the hunt for anything it could fit in its snappy little mouth 🐊🦴 Find out more about it 👇🏻 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...nhm.ac.ukNew species of ancient crocodile named in honour of Welsh school teacher | Natural History MuseumIt has been called Galahadosuchus jonesi in recognition of David Rhys Jones. 616441
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 15/02/2026I am ABSOLUTELY reading this as HARD PROOF that Romans farmed ichthyosaurs. It is fact now. Sorry. 33945219
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · 13/02/2026A favorite for #FossilFriday: this exquisite skull of the late Permian therocephalian Ictidosuchoides from the upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation of #Zambia 🇿🇲 Check out those post dentary bones! 👂🏻? @burkemuseum.bsky.social 29731
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Guess who’s turning 217 today? It’s Charles Darwin! 🥳 Born in 1809, he transformed the way we understand the natural world. He developed the theory of evolution by natural selection in his 1859 best-seller, ‘On the Origins of Species’. Send him your birthday wishes in the comments! 👇 39230
James 🏴🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 09/02/2026My new favourite information panels featuring in any museum is this one in the “Giants” exhibit at National Museum of Scotland featuring an elderly man who is so happy to see sloths he wants to give them a hug 🦥 120
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026HELLO?? Unbelievably cool critter here!! My paleoart plans for the weekend have changed dramatically 2568
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Jeffrey Epstein was a monster who ruined the lives of many young women. It's maddening how many scientists & universities were chasing after his money, even after his crimes were known. Were I in that generation of scientists, I pray I would have had the fortitude to avoid this psycho. 1466
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 01/02/2026We’re obsessed with this Tylosaurus from the Saint-Vrain Zoological Park, South of Paris, that opened in the mid-1970s and closed in 1999. The site has remained in an abandoned state, and it seems that this and various other prehistoric statues are still there! 213137
James 🏴🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Good news: Fossil walks are back at Hugh Miller’s Birthplace! 🎉 Join us in Cromarty & travel back 385 million years to find the fossilised remains of animals that lived long before the dinosaurs! 🦖 Find out more & book tickets online - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fossil-walks-2026-tickets-1980371654930 020
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I think one of the most frustrating things for many neurodivergent people is that we cannot understand why people don’t give a fuck about things that could make the world a better and kinder place - that’s what happens when your emotional circuitry doesn’t work “effectively” 701666251
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Jurassic World: Rebirth. Now we can say: the Oscar-nominated Jurassic World: Rebirth! Huge congrats to everyone at @ilmvfx.bsky.social , especially pal David Vickery! The visual effects in the film are truly awesome. Just look at those titanosaurs. So well deserved! 0263
Reposted by James 🏴🦖The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 22/01/2026A fossil from a lifeform which once towered over the ancient landscape is to go on display at the National Museum of Scotlandthenational.scotFossil of dead-end branch of life which became extinct to go on display 142
James 🏴🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Always fun saying these things existed on our Hugh Miller museum fossil walks 010
James 🏴🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Casual reminder than Jaws 4 is a Christmas movie 🦈 010
James 🏴🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Some Christmas Eve stargazing whilst searching for Santa Claus 🪐 010
Reposted by James 🏴🦖History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Holiday greeting cards from ~ 1880 by London based publisher De La Rue based on the newest paleontological discoveries of the time 🦖🎄🐘 0115
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 23/12/2025British folk. If Farage gets his way, it's a guarantee, life for British immigrants will turn hellish. People like me and my family could get deported. This will destroy our lives, but also make your lives worse. Please, do not sit in silence. 26720
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History @smmnh.bsky.social · 22/12/2025This fossil is of a lobed-finned fish named Osteolepsis macrolepidotus and was found in Scotland. The Devonian Period (named after fossils first found in Devon, England), is known as "The age of fishes" and was fish transformed into three major groups: lobe-finned, ray-finned, and sharks. 016410
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented. 1011106752820
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Laura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Just listened to the 'eels' episode of @robinince.bsky.social's Infinite Monkey Cage, and I have to say that if I'd seen all this series' episode titles in advance, I would NOT have predicted that would end up being the most fascinating episode so far 🤯 share.google/RrijNuqRkYNQ...share.googleBBC Radio 4 - The Infinite Monkey Cage, Series 34, What’s the deal with eels? – Lucy Porter, David Righton and Caroline DurifBrian Cox and Robin Ince dive into the slippery science of the elusive eel. 4597
James 🏴🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 27/11/2025This is without question the most realistic cgi creature I have ever seen - absolute stellar job the animators on Prehistoric Planet Ice Age did, I was blown away by this Gigantopithecus 🦧 The segment itself was also absolutely heartbreaking on top of that… 011
James 🏴🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 24/11/2025I’ve just spent an hour watching Saturn’s rings for the first time thanks to a new telescope lens - I’m speechless! 🪐 Admittedly it’s a fuzzy line, but given Saturn is 740 million miles away and the ring is about a metre deep that’s not bad! 🔭 Even saw some of its moons for the first time too! 🌒 030
James 🏴🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Ever wondered what a water bottle rocket looks like from launch pad POV? Wonder no more! 🚀 010
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Witch 🎃🎃 Raak @raakcdi.bsky.social · 22/11/2025My reaction to this information: 08824
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Quite Interesting @qi.com · 20/11/2025The Voyager probe, launched in 1977 to explore beyond our Solar System, contains this picture of a balding man eating a slice of toast. 912819
James 🏴🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 20/11/2025How to get kids interested in space science with zero budget? Pinweheel galaxy paper windmills! 🌌 Our first after school astronomy activity at Hugh Miller's Birthplace Museum is tomorrow at 3:30pm! 030
Reposted by James 🏴🦖National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 20/11/2025Nature isn’t a “blocker” – it makes our lives better. Our coast, countryside, heritage and wildlife underpin our food, water and health and put millions of pounds into the economy. The Government must not weaken the laws that protect them. 324275
Reposted by James 🏴🦖Dr Elsa Panciroli @elsa-panciroli.bsky.social · 19/11/2025This scale image of Westlothiana makes me laugh - looks like the tetrapod is about to get splatted 😄 0344
James 🏴🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Rock identification workshop with the best teacher - Luisa “Scottish Geologist” Hendry! 110
Reposted by James 🏴🦖David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Finally some good news!gizmodo.comSomehow, 'Sharknado' Will Return With an Origin MovieIf you've found yourself wondering if 'Sharknado' would come back, it is! And if you didn't, well, it still is, so...surprise? 26910