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Dr. Anna Krahl @paleokrahl.bsky.social · 9h

this skull looks so bonkers

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Dane Pavitt 🦕🌍 @danepavitt.bsky.social · 9h

Recently found an Earthworm in our museum's wet collections which had been bottled in formalin since the 90s. The stank lingered through both time & space

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Verónica Díez Díaz, PhD @daniajinn.bsky.social · Aug 13

📣Our last work on the ranges of motion of the tail of the sauropod dinosaur Giraffatitan brancai is finally published!🦕
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Centres of rotation and osteological constraints on caudal ranges of motion in the sauropod dinosaur Giraffatitan brancai | Royal Society Open Science

Archosaur tails are important appendages, not only for their biomechanical function but also for being behavioural tools that help the animal communicate and interact with its environment. Until recen...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Call Me Spider Gwen @mrsparkerrogers.aldea.social · 15d

Se ha publicado un estudio en la revista Science Avances liderado por mujeres que demuestra que, al contrario de lo que se creía, los óvulos no pierden calidad cuanto mayor es la madre. Al contrario, las mutaciones genéticas causantes de esos problemas, están en el esperma del hombre.

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 1d

I know you are curious about replacement teeth. Seven replacements on each side of the rhinoceros viper. Whoa!!

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 12h

Formalin is my least favorite scientific invention.

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 2d

I'm on the BBC talking about (how we won't be) evolving into crabs 🧪🦀

Also features Matt Wills (my academic older brother) and Ned Suesat-Williams (of the crab museum!). Unfortunately they were in London and I on zoom, so there was no time to tell Ned to join here

BBC Audio | The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry | To Crab, or Not to Crab?

Hannah and Dara investigate why nature has evolved the humble crabs so many times.

www.bbc.com

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Anthony Tackles Dead Cows @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 11h

It's Sunday and I'm just having my first cup of coffee so OF COURSE I'm giggling to myself there is a snake named "Bitis"

Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 1d

Workshops give me a chance to play with other people's data. In this case Kate Jackson's snake heads. This is Bitis nasicornis.

Storing bones in formalin is bad for mineralization.
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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 1d

Workshops give me a chance to play with other people's data. In this case Kate Jackson's snake heads. This is Bitis nasicornis.

Storing bones in formalin is bad for mineralization.
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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 1d

Just wrapped up a week of SlicerMorph/MorphoDepot/MorphoCloud work with @jaimiagray.bsky.social, @cmdonatelli.bsky.social and a great team of folks.

This is Enophrys taurina with a damaged preopercular spine. Fighting or defense?
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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 1d

I know you are curious about replacement teeth. Seven replacements on each side of the rhinoceros viper. Whoa!!

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely! True in most macrostomatan snakes, and especially true in vipers.

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🏳️‍🌈CloudyPetrel @macronecteshalli.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, do their mouths seriously go past their neck vertebrae that far!?!?

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 1d

Workshops give me a chance to play with other people's data. In this case Kate Jackson's snake heads. This is Bitis nasicornis.

Storing bones in formalin is bad for mineralization.
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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 1d

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow
Sharing a handful of my 🐙 sculptures with vibrant glowing features ✨ ⭐

🐙 All are hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨🌟

#ArtYear #Art #Artist #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #Astronomy #MarineLife #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

A coconut octopus sculpture with bright blue glow in the dark suckers.

A pink and yellow Nebula themed octopus with vibrantly glowing white stars.

A green octopus sculpture with a white pattern that glows in the dark.

A royal blue octopus sculpture with vibrant white glowing stars.

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Linnea Lungstrom @linnealungstrom.bsky.social · 1d

No better reason to join Bluesky then to say the first chapter of my PhD is out as a preprint! New surgeonfish phylogeny, ecomorphological relationships, evolutionary shape correlations-with NEW method to accurately account for phylogenetic covariation among shapes!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Phylogenetic relationships and the evolution of fin and body shape in the surgeonfishes

Patterns of evolutionary change in the fin and body shapes of fishes are strongly related to dietary ecology and locomotor mechanisms, and associations between shapes affects ecomorphological relation...

www.biorxiv.org

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 1d

Just wrapped up a week of SlicerMorph/MorphoDepot/MorphoCloud work with @jaimiagray.bsky.social, @cmdonatelli.bsky.social and a great team of folks.

This is Enophrys taurina with a damaged preopercular spine. Fighting or defense?
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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social · 4d

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 4d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 4d

Ana amazing beach seining crew caught lots of critters. Spiny lump suckers, silver spotted sculpins, 2 species of surface, pipefish and many more!

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Johann Mourier @sharkmourier.bsky.social · Aug 22

‼️ New important shark paper 🦈
We demonstrate that all critical life stages (resting, feeding, being cleaned, mating & giving birth) can occur in the small Fakarava channel & we define it as a “super habitat”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 7d

Foureye Butterflyfish (Chaetodon capistratus). Illustration for a new book project.
🧪🐡🌿🌎 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #fish #CoralReefs #TropicalFish

Illustration of a colorful Caribbean reef fish, drawn in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.

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Anthony Tackles Dead Cows @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 12d

Oooh I gotta check out the one I have in ziplock baggies in the garage

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 12d

I like cat software/dog hardware to describe foxes. This is Urocyon, the gray fox. The skull has a u shaped cranial crest, while Vulpes, the red fox, has a v shaped crest.

I do not know how that was arranged.

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Josh Millwood @jmillwood.bsky.social · 13d

I’m thinking a fox. Not sure which one. The long snout makes me think Red, but it could definitely be a Gray. The crests make me think predator.

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 13d

In today's #DeskDetritus yet another North American mammal skull. Sly devils will get it.

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