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ToddRockford @toddrockford.bsky.social · 6h

What a tribute

Queen & Annie Lennox & David Bowie - Under Pressure - HD

YouTube video by derci luiza Gobbi

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ToddRockford @toddrockford.bsky.social · 7h

Toothy

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ToddRockford @toddrockford.bsky.social · 7h

That fire so close makes me nervous . Good luck with the potatoes though.

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Andrea @jkpolk.bsky.social · 9h

Biblically accurate birthday cake

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ToddRockford @toddrockford.bsky.social · 8h

The only one who can get away with doing this.

Anthony vs dead turtles @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 10h

QRP with your skull art! 💀

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ToddRockford @toddrockford.bsky.social · 10h

Bird Flu moving on to killing all the mammals as well as all the birds, scares the hell out of me.
I hope someone is still preparing for the inevitable major outbreak with humans, because we sure don't seem to be in the USA.

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ToddRockford @toddrockford.bsky.social · 11h

What's on your October playlist?

What a YOU listening to?
The zombie likes "slow jams", the creature from the Black Lagoon likes "surf", the mad scientist listens to "experimental" and Jason Voorhees prefers "deep cuts".

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 14h

Kevin Bylund wins the very deserved Strimple Award for scientific contributions by an amateur from the Paleontological Society at the Annual Geological Society of America meeting. He is Utah's top cephalopod biostratigraphy expert! @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @utah.edu @jeremybroberts.bsky.social

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ToddRockford @toddrockford.bsky.social · 15h

Forgot the Alt.
Young, fluffy, tabby cat laying in a floral delivery cart under a purple, lavender, and white fresh flower arrangement.

ToddRockford @toddrockford.bsky.social · 15h

Shop cat getting up where he doesn't belong, but looks damn good doing it.
#Caturday #ShopCat

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Ausarchosaur @ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 19h

Found a very interesting piece of artwork featuring a pterosaur (dimorphodontid?) and a Teleosaurus preying on...platypuses?

No seriously, that's what the caption says. This is from the 1910 book "The Book of the Animal Kingdom: Mammals" by William Percival Westell.

https://archive.org/details/cu31924024782587/page/n335/mode/2up

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 19h

SVPers, come see my work on pterosaurs from Appalachia: several new morphotypes of pteranodontians and azhdarchoids.
Thursday Poster Session B199 #2025SVP

Regular Poster Session II (Thursday, November
13, 2025, 4:30 - 6:30 PM)
Flying reptiles of the forgotten
paleocontinent: revision of the pterosaurs of
Appalachia and Eastern North America
McDavid, Skye N.1
, Thomas, Henry N.2
Pterosaurs are known from every continent,
though in North America, enormous attention
has been paid to the pterosaurs of the Western
half of the continent, whereas the pterosaurs
from the Eastern part of the continent
(corresponding to the paleocontinent of
Appalachia in the Late Cretaceous) have
received comparatively little attention. Pterosaur
body fossils are known from New Jersey
(Navesink and New Egypt Formations),
Delaware (Merchantville Formation), North
Carolina (Peedee Formation), Georgia (Eutaw
and Blufftown Formations), Alabama
(Mooreville Chalk), Mississippi (Coffee
Formation), and Tennessee (Ripley and Sardis
Formations). A review of what fragmentary
material is known from Appalachia in the
context of modern knowledge of pterosaurs
allows for a better understanding of these rare
specimens. Much of the pterosaur record of
Appalachia consists of poorly preserved
fragments that are not phylogenetically
informative, but the better preserved specimens
can be assigned to either Azhdarchomorpha or
Pteranodontia. The pterosaur taxon from the
Merchantville Formation, which has been
variously treated as Pteranodon, an
‘ornithocheirid’, or azhdarchid, represents a
pteranodontid distinct from Pteranodon with a
unique cervical morphotype, though the
previously reported pterosaur humerus is
actually non-pterosaurian. A cervical vertebra
from the Ripley Formation has been likened to
Arambourgiania from Jordan, though it is subtly
different from the type species. It represents a
unique morphotype belonging to the
Arambourgiania-Infernodrakon clade.

Additional azhdarchomorph material includes a
Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni-like ulna (previously
misidentified as a cervical) from the Navesink
Formation, morphologically distinct azhdarchid
femora from the Peedee and Coffee Formations,
and a jaw fragment from the Sardis Formation.

Skye, a woman with blue hair, holding an Azhdarchid ulna. She is carefully holding the fossil with both hands so that it is supported along its length. She is wearing a purple dress, and looks dead inside but is actually just exhausted from a long day of research

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Branka Marinkovic @bmfineart.bsky.social · 1d

Some warm autumn splendour from Canada, to brighten your weekend. (tariff-free)

#gouache on cotton paper, 9 x 12 inches

#painting #traditionalart #gouache #EastCoastKin #scape #ForestFriday
#31daysofHalloween #smArtist
#ArtYear

Autumn forest, 9x12 inches on cotton paper.

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ToddRockford @toddrockford.bsky.social · 20h

Surprised that farm foreclosures were a problem here even before the Constitution was written.

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 1d

#FossilFriday The immense titanosaur Patagotitan at the @amnh.org

Cast of the giant sauropod dinosaur Patagotitan

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 1d

#FossilFriday...So what to highlight. I know a few fossils from pond in Monitor Butte Mbr. of the Chinle Fm. near the head of Red Canyon, se Utah. Lacustrine sites deserve more love! A small crustacean, a possible beetle electra, coprolites (100s present at margin of site), with plants and fish.

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Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 1d

Some pretty harrowing scenes of bird flu hitting the Common Crane population coming out of Germany!

youtu.be/sRJeCLgzcKY

Avian flu “real disaster” as over 1K cranes found dead at key German roosting spot: experts

YouTube video by Global News

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Save Our Suffolk Swifts @sosswifts.bsky.social · 1d

A super bit of Swift conservation in Felixstowe where this building hosting multiple nests went under scaffolding. The builders listened, adapted the scaffolding to permit Swifts to access their nest sites, kept the nooks open & now added Swift bricks to help the colony expand.

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ToddRockford @toddrockford.bsky.social · 1d

The Jacqueline Kennedy garden (1965) is gone. The Warren G. Harding Magnolia tree (1947), the Franklin D. Roosevelt Magnolia tree (1942), the Laura Bush Silver Linden (2008), and the Jill Biden Yoshino Cherry tree (2023) all removed and perhaps gone.

ToddRockford @toddrockford.bsky.social · 1d

The Jacqueline Kennedy garden (1965) is gone. The Warren G. Harding Magnolia tree (1947), the Franklin D. Roosevelt Magnolia tree (1942), the Laura Bush Silver Linden (2008), and the Jill Biden Yoshino Cherry tree (2023) all removed and perhaps gone.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

East Wing of White House reduced to rubble as part of Trump’s ballroom construction

Despite president’s promise to preserve it, the eastern section of the building is now completely destroyed

www.theguardian.com

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ToddRockford @toddrockford.bsky.social · 1d

Great capture!

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Sarah Boessenecker, MSc. 🏛️🔭 @tetrameryx.bsky.social · 1d

🔭 #astronomy #astro #astrophoto #astrophotography

C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)
This comet was discovered in January 2025 by the Mount Lemmon Survey. It's a bright comet, visible through binoculars! It'll be back around and be visible from earth again in the year 3175, so make sure to mark your calendars 😂

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ToddRockford @toddrockford.bsky.social · 1d

The garden by the East Wing is gone now too.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 1d

Scenes from my Sea Monsters Past and Present talk being given this weekend (and at other venues later this year: talk dates at ...https://darrennaish.wordpress.com/). About ideas on 'sea monsters' and how fossil animals have influenced them.

Cover slide for Sea Monsters Past and Present talk, showing sea monster reconstructions by Darren Naish.

Coelacanth-themed montage from Darren Naish talk.

Sea monster montage on U-28 1915 account from Darren Naish talk.

Montage from Darren Naish talk showing books and articles on sea monsters.

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 1d

On @cnn.com Science, @uglyfossils.bsky.social & Yours Truly were quoted with our takes on newly interpreted clay "death mask" interpretation for preservation of Late Cretaceous dinosaur "mummies," reported in the news elsewhere yesterday. www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/s... 🧪🦖🦕🪨

66 million-year-old dinosaur ‘mummy’ skin was actually a perfect clay mask | CNN

New research in a North American “mummy zone” in eastern Wyoming reveals how giant duck-billed dinosaurs were preserved in striking detail.

www.cnn.com

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