Markus Bühler (Bestiarium-Blog)
@markusbuehler.bsky.social
Zoology and Paleontology Blogger on "Bestiarium", Wildlife- and Paleoartists, Author, Nature Aficionado, Archeology- and History-Enthusiast www.bestiarium.kryptozoologie.net
Faszinierende Art von der ich noch niemals gehört habe! Vielen Dank @thoerren.bsky.social
Verborgen unter der Erdoberfläche findet sich bei uns sehr weit verbreitet die augen- und pigmentlose Ameisenassel (Plathyarthrus hoffmannseggi). Sie lebt in den Nestern von verschiedensten Ameisenarten und kann etwa beim Wenden von Steinen und Totholz entdeckt werden. Typisch ist der breite Körper.
July 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Faszinierende Art von der ich noch niemals gehört habe! Vielen Dank @thoerren.bsky.social
Sadly you can't see the beaver which is right at the moment sitting and eating in the grass in front of me.
July 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Sadly you can't see the beaver which is right at the moment sitting and eating in the grass in front of me.
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🔬 Phenotypic plasticity drives the development of laterality in the scale-eating cichlid fish 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑠.🐟🧪
🔒 academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
🔒 academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Phenotypic plasticity drives the development of laterality in the scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis
The scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis, from Lake Tanganyika in Africa, is an excellent model for studying animal lateralization. However, how
academic.oup.com
July 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🔬 Phenotypic plasticity drives the development of laterality in the scale-eating cichlid fish 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑠.🐟🧪
🔒 academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
🔒 academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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The Phenomenon of Piebaldism in Sharks: A Review of Global Sightings and Patterns.🐟🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Phenomenon of Piebaldism in Sharks: A Review of Global Sightings and Patterns
Chromatic disorders like piebaldism—a rare form of leucism causing partial pigment loss—have been documented in 25 wild shark cases across 17 species and 11 families, with varying anatomical distribu...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The Phenomenon of Piebaldism in Sharks: A Review of Global Sightings and Patterns.🐟🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Risso's Dolphins from Berry Head this afternoon.
May seems to be a good month to see them as they are probably coming in close to shore to feed on adult Cuttlefish which have come into the shallows to lay eggs and die at this time of year.
May seems to be a good month to see them as they are probably coming in close to shore to feed on adult Cuttlefish which have come into the shallows to lay eggs and die at this time of year.
May 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Risso's Dolphins from Berry Head this afternoon.
May seems to be a good month to see them as they are probably coming in close to shore to feed on adult Cuttlefish which have come into the shallows to lay eggs and die at this time of year.
May seems to be a good month to see them as they are probably coming in close to shore to feed on adult Cuttlefish which have come into the shallows to lay eggs and die at this time of year.
Find the error.
May 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Find the error.
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An old-ish drawing of a Chinese Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡
May 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
An old-ish drawing of a Chinese Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡
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Imagine you went out to the forest for a sunday walk & saw an elephant herd. Wait, there would certainly be trees, but no forest.
Interesting new paper:
Europe’s lost landscape sculptors: Today’s potential range of the extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus
biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1350...
Interesting new paper:
Europe’s lost landscape sculptors: Today’s potential range of the extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus
biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1350...
April 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Imagine you went out to the forest for a sunday walk & saw an elephant herd. Wait, there would certainly be trees, but no forest.
Interesting new paper:
Europe’s lost landscape sculptors: Today’s potential range of the extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus
biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1350...
Interesting new paper:
Europe’s lost landscape sculptors: Today’s potential range of the extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus
biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1350...
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Noch gar nicht gesehen: Ein Video über die Wasserbüffelweide Burglehen bei Rottenburg am Neckar. Dank an @markusbuehler.bsky.social für den Hinweis. Der Regierungsbezirk Tübingen könnte deutscher Büffelweidenmeister sein. Wir inventarisieren gerade.
youtu.be/4Y4Fbvh1FAw?...
youtu.be/4Y4Fbvh1FAw?...
🐃Auf Wasserbüffel-Safari im Naturschutzgebiet Burglehen (Landkreis Tübingen)
YouTube video by Regierungspräsidium Tübingen
youtu.be
April 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Noch gar nicht gesehen: Ein Video über die Wasserbüffelweide Burglehen bei Rottenburg am Neckar. Dank an @markusbuehler.bsky.social für den Hinweis. Der Regierungsbezirk Tübingen könnte deutscher Büffelweidenmeister sein. Wir inventarisieren gerade.
youtu.be/4Y4Fbvh1FAw?...
youtu.be/4Y4Fbvh1FAw?...
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Voay robustus! a recently extinct species of crocodile from Madagascar, most of its remains were found in a "sub-fossil" state, where not enough time has passed for them to fossilize
suggested by @convictclaude.bsky.social! who surely apreciates me calling it a 𝙃𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙮 𝘾𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙡𝙚
suggested by @convictclaude.bsky.social! who surely apreciates me calling it a 𝙃𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙮 𝘾𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙡𝙚
April 20, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Voay robustus! a recently extinct species of crocodile from Madagascar, most of its remains were found in a "sub-fossil" state, where not enough time has passed for them to fossilize
suggested by @convictclaude.bsky.social! who surely apreciates me calling it a 𝙃𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙮 𝘾𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙡𝙚
suggested by @convictclaude.bsky.social! who surely apreciates me calling it a 𝙃𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙮 𝘾𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙡𝙚
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#paleoart commission:
the bulkiest, heaviest and possibly even longest crocodilian with the strongest biteforce in animal kingdom:
the giant miocene caiman Purussaurus!
the bulkiest, heaviest and possibly even longest crocodilian with the strongest biteforce in animal kingdom:
the giant miocene caiman Purussaurus!
April 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
#paleoart commission:
the bulkiest, heaviest and possibly even longest crocodilian with the strongest biteforce in animal kingdom:
the giant miocene caiman Purussaurus!
the bulkiest, heaviest and possibly even longest crocodilian with the strongest biteforce in animal kingdom:
the giant miocene caiman Purussaurus!
Yesterday I visited another fantastic place in the Chiemgau Alps, it must look even much more awesome when everything is green and flowers all around.
April 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Yesterday I visited another fantastic place in the Chiemgau Alps, it must look even much more awesome when everything is green and flowers all around.
Today I visited this awesome lake in the Chiemgau Alps of Bavaria. The weather was rainy but the colours of the water still incredible. I could see a few rainbow trouts, some brown trouts and a single char of unknown species plus a lot of minnows, and as an ornithological surplus also a merganser.
April 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Today I visited this awesome lake in the Chiemgau Alps of Bavaria. The weather was rainy but the colours of the water still incredible. I could see a few rainbow trouts, some brown trouts and a single char of unknown species plus a lot of minnows, and as an ornithological surplus also a merganser.
Today I visited a very nice special exhibition in the Mammut-Museum Siegsdorf about the fossils from the Hammerschmiede Lagerstätte in Bavaria, illustrated by one of my favorite paleo-artists, Mauricio Anton.
April 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Today I visited a very nice special exhibition in the Mammut-Museum Siegsdorf about the fossils from the Hammerschmiede Lagerstätte in Bavaria, illustrated by one of my favorite paleo-artists, Mauricio Anton.
I just hope we will also see anytime footage of a fully adult Mesonychoteuthis in its natural habitat.
🦑 This baby is COLOSSAL! 🦑
First confirmed live observation of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its natural habitat. Filmed at about 600m near the South Sandwich Islands during the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition. youtu.be/lzPoG9H8Hlo
First confirmed live observation of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its natural habitat. Filmed at about 600m near the South Sandwich Islands during the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition. youtu.be/lzPoG9H8Hlo
Colossal Squid, 1st Live Observation | Searching for New Species in the South Sandwich Islands
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
youtu.be
April 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I just hope we will also see anytime footage of a fully adult Mesonychoteuthis in its natural habitat.
The beavers in the bog area Inzeller Filzen are very active and their activities can be seen all around. The beavers themselves are very elusive however. Just saw this really nice artwork in honour of the local beavers.
April 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The beavers in the bog area Inzeller Filzen are very active and their activities can be seen all around. The beavers themselves are very elusive however. Just saw this really nice artwork in honour of the local beavers.
Some impressions from lake Chiemsee. The weather was really great, and despite rather low overall number of waterfowl I have seen, I can add two pretty awesome new species on my list of first sights in the wild.
April 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Some impressions from lake Chiemsee. The weather was really great, and despite rather low overall number of waterfowl I have seen, I can add two pretty awesome new species on my list of first sights in the wild.
Great crested crebes from my tour to lake Constance. I have seen them even in "Jurassic Park Dilophosaurus"-style but also feeding on fish, like the stickleback on the last photo. Not really rare but really remarkable birds with fascinating behavior and intersting anatomy.
April 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Great crested crebes from my tour to lake Constance. I have seen them even in "Jurassic Park Dilophosaurus"-style but also feeding on fish, like the stickleback on the last photo. Not really rare but really remarkable birds with fascinating behavior and intersting anatomy.
Yesterday I was on a very awesome birding tour on Lake Constance. Besides many wonderful wild birds and other animals I came along a particularly flamboyant captive bird. Can you imagine what it was?
March 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Yesterday I was on a very awesome birding tour on Lake Constance. Besides many wonderful wild birds and other animals I came along a particularly flamboyant captive bird. Can you imagine what it was?
Another photo from my visit of Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, a white-naped crane (Gruß vipio). The texture of the skin is really remarkable, and photos like this are always great references for palaeoart.
March 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Another photo from my visit of Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, a white-naped crane (Gruß vipio). The texture of the skin is really remarkable, and photos like this are always great references for palaeoart.
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Since you asked so nicely
March 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Since you asked so nicely
This are my favourite photos from my recent trip to Wilhelma Zoo Stuttgart. Not even of a zoo animal, but a wild nile goose which was hanging around near the pelicans. Not exactly a particular popular and invasive bird, but I still really like their appearance.
March 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This are my favourite photos from my recent trip to Wilhelma Zoo Stuttgart. Not even of a zoo animal, but a wild nile goose which was hanging around near the pelicans. Not exactly a particular popular and invasive bird, but I still really like their appearance.
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Did you see the deep-sea anglerfish that bubbled up to the surface? Did you wonder WHAT IN THE DING DANG HECK it was doing there? I talked to some scientists to find out everything I could!
HT @sternarchella.bsky.social, @mbarinews.bsky.social 🧪🦑
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
HT @sternarchella.bsky.social, @mbarinews.bsky.social 🧪🦑
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Scientists capture extremely rare footage of a black seadevil
This is only the second time the species has been recorded while alive. “I thought it was A.I.,” says fish biologist Kory Evans.
www.nationalgeographic.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Did you see the deep-sea anglerfish that bubbled up to the surface? Did you wonder WHAT IN THE DING DANG HECK it was doing there? I talked to some scientists to find out everything I could!
HT @sternarchella.bsky.social, @mbarinews.bsky.social 🧪🦑
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
HT @sternarchella.bsky.social, @mbarinews.bsky.social 🧪🦑
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
A gryphon vulture which I´ve recently seen during my last visit to the #Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart. I had the great pleasure to see this awesome birds in the wild on Crete (Greece) and Cres (Croatia). But this was once a rather wide spread bird, which also populated vast parts of central Europe.
February 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A gryphon vulture which I´ve recently seen during my last visit to the #Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart. I had the great pleasure to see this awesome birds in the wild on Crete (Greece) and Cres (Croatia). But this was once a rather wide spread bird, which also populated vast parts of central Europe.