Dr. Win
@paleowin.bsky.social
College professor at SWOCC in Coos Bay Oregon. Paleontologist and geologist. 🏳️🌈 Avatar by Black Mudpuppy. 🦏🐋🦭🦌🦒🐴🐿️🦡
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Because people keep asking, the Story of The Lizard In That Dude's Leg. Some caveats:
1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).
1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).
September 30, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Because people keep asking, the Story of The Lizard In That Dude's Leg. Some caveats:
1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).
1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).
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I began this drawing as a simple sketch to test some paper (a new batch of Fabriano Artistico 300lb). The red crest was such a treat to draw after using so many greys! I see and/or hear red-bellied woodpeckers almost every day, but it never gets boring :)
I’m happy with the paper. #SciArt #Birds
I’m happy with the paper. #SciArt #Birds
November 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Anchiornis. Detail from a drawing from 2019.
A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.
(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.
(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
November 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Anchiornis. Detail from a drawing from 2019.
A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.
(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.
(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
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Here's the GVP page of Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia: volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?.... Plume from the eruption can be seen in this Aqua/MODIS image cross the Red Sea to the Arabian Peninsula. #eruption #volcano
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Here's the GVP page of Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia: volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?.... Plume from the eruption can be seen in this Aqua/MODIS image cross the Red Sea to the Arabian Peninsula. #eruption #volcano
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Took a day trip yesterday to see the Sandhill Cranes gather at sunset at the Jasper-Pulaski FWA and it was absolutely and totally worth it. 😍 #birds
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Took a day trip yesterday to see the Sandhill Cranes gather at sunset at the Jasper-Pulaski FWA and it was absolutely and totally worth it. 😍 #birds
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The Ward Scientific Company sold these Rhomaleosaurus casts to various museums starting in 1866 (for $150). The original at the National Museum of Ireland was broken up with sledgehammers during a move in the 1920s. #FossilFriday
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The Ward Scientific Company sold these Rhomaleosaurus casts to various museums starting in 1866 (for $150). The original at the National Museum of Ireland was broken up with sledgehammers during a move in the 1920s. #FossilFriday
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New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
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How New Research Is Changing What We Know About The Great Hammerhead
How New Research Is Changing What We Know About The Great Hammerhead
The great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran) — one of the ocean’s most iconic predators — is in deeper peril than once thought. Once believed to roam vast ocean basins, new research reveals it may…
www.forbes.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
How New Research Is Changing What We Know About The Great Hammerhead
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I love this logo for the American Malacalogical Society Meeting this coming June in Syracuse, NY. 🦑🐌🦪🐙🐚⚒️🧪
The Awards Banquet will be hosted at Ithaca’s Museum
of the Earth, inside their Marvelous Mollusks
exhibit, under the right whale.
Website still being updated:
ams.wildapricot.org/Meetings
The Awards Banquet will be hosted at Ithaca’s Museum
of the Earth, inside their Marvelous Mollusks
exhibit, under the right whale.
Website still being updated:
ams.wildapricot.org/Meetings
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I love this logo for the American Malacalogical Society Meeting this coming June in Syracuse, NY. 🦑🐌🦪🐙🐚⚒️🧪
The Awards Banquet will be hosted at Ithaca’s Museum
of the Earth, inside their Marvelous Mollusks
exhibit, under the right whale.
Website still being updated:
ams.wildapricot.org/Meetings
The Awards Banquet will be hosted at Ithaca’s Museum
of the Earth, inside their Marvelous Mollusks
exhibit, under the right whale.
Website still being updated:
ams.wildapricot.org/Meetings
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Happy Halloween!
This piece isn't quite done, but it fit the spooky vibes of the season so I'm posting the WIP.
This piece isn't quite done, but it fit the spooky vibes of the season so I'm posting the WIP.
October 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Happy Halloween!
This piece isn't quite done, but it fit the spooky vibes of the season so I'm posting the WIP.
This piece isn't quite done, but it fit the spooky vibes of the season so I'm posting the WIP.
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Ocean acidity has increased by ~30% over pre-Industrial levels due to the uptake of anthropogenic CO2. Pteropods, “sea butterflies,” are planktonic snails that are sensitive to these changes. Scientists have found that their shells are getting thinner & are dissolving, especially at high latitudes.
October 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Ocean acidity has increased by ~30% over pre-Industrial levels due to the uptake of anthropogenic CO2. Pteropods, “sea butterflies,” are planktonic snails that are sensitive to these changes. Scientists have found that their shells are getting thinner & are dissolving, especially at high latitudes.
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Nanotyrannus is cool and all, but what if there was a brand new book written with, and illustrated by, @markwitton.bsky.social on Spinosaurus? Wouldn't that be really cool?
Listen to use talk about it here before it comes out in less than a week!
terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s11e10-spino...
Listen to use talk about it here before it comes out in less than a week!
terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s11e10-spino...
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Nanotyrannus is cool and all, but what if there was a brand new book written with, and illustrated by, @markwitton.bsky.social on Spinosaurus? Wouldn't that be really cool?
Listen to use talk about it here before it comes out in less than a week!
terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s11e10-spino...
Listen to use talk about it here before it comes out in less than a week!
terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s11e10-spino...
A #Halloween #FossilFriday! Here’s a 🧠 brain! Sorta… this is an endocast, where sediment packed into a skull while there was still some soft tissue replacing and molding and casting where the brain was. This particular one is Miocene from Kyrgyzstan and likely horse. Found by @ashpoust.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A #Halloween #FossilFriday! Here’s a 🧠 brain! Sorta… this is an endocast, where sediment packed into a skull while there was still some soft tissue replacing and molding and casting where the brain was. This particular one is Miocene from Kyrgyzstan and likely horse. Found by @ashpoust.bsky.social
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Power outage at work, time to post baby tapirs!
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Power outage at work, time to post baby tapirs!
Read the whole thread, but: this! Just because a new well-done paper has come out with a similar finding to previous very bad science does not actually give validity to previous poor science.
to be convinced. Now that has happened, people like me and @arctomet.bsky.social and @stevebrusatte.bsky.social are saying 'yes, this is convincing, Nano appears to be valid' *because* the scientific method was followed, and *not* because people *thought* that it was. In short...
October 31, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Read the whole thread, but: this! Just because a new well-done paper has come out with a similar finding to previous very bad science does not actually give validity to previous poor science.
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HORNY SPONGES
Face it, we ALL need to know MOAR about the HORNY SPONGES! #spongeThursday!
October 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
HORNY SPONGES
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Anyone else might want to contribute work to fundraise for PRI? If someone is willing to coordinate and run the auction, i will certainly spread the call to all my #sciart friends 🥰
I wonder if a group art for PRI auction could be set up? I have some paleo quilting I’d donate!
October 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Anyone else might want to contribute work to fundraise for PRI? If someone is willing to coordinate and run the auction, i will certainly spread the call to all my #sciart friends 🥰
My whiteboard drawing seems to have modified. I personally think it’s a great improvement. I want only really derpy sauropod reconstructions from now on!
October 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My whiteboard drawing seems to have modified. I personally think it’s a great improvement. I want only really derpy sauropod reconstructions from now on!
An example for my historical geology class today!
A fossil once assumed to be of a young Tyrannosaurus rex is in fact that of a different species altogether
go.nature.com/4qyROr5
go.nature.com/4qyROr5
‘Teenage T. rex’ fossil is actually a different species
The discovery of smaller predator Nanotyrannus could prompt a re-think of tyrannosaur evolution.
go.nature.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
An example for my historical geology class today!
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Let me attempt to articulate something. As a former participant in the "teenage nerds talk about dinosaurs online" scene, I think some of us who follow paleontology as adults or do dinosaur stuff professionally care too much about the specifics of what's being discussed there. (cont'd)
October 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Let me attempt to articulate something. As a former participant in the "teenage nerds talk about dinosaurs online" scene, I think some of us who follow paleontology as adults or do dinosaur stuff professionally care too much about the specifics of what's being discussed there. (cont'd)
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The Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, NY, has been in financial trouble for a while. I'm biased because I currently have my life-size giant snail and clam on display, but they're a bunch of great people doing great work.
Read how you can help here: www.priweb.org/mortgage-cam...
Read how you can help here: www.priweb.org/mortgage-cam...
October 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM
The Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, NY, has been in financial trouble for a while. I'm biased because I currently have my life-size giant snail and clam on display, but they're a bunch of great people doing great work.
Read how you can help here: www.priweb.org/mortgage-cam...
Read how you can help here: www.priweb.org/mortgage-cam...
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302 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Smoky Quartz:
- A grey to black variety of quartz
- Its colour is due to a combination of Al3+ replacing Si in the crystal lattice and gamma irradiation
- Its colour fades when exposed to UV light and heat
- Forms in igneous rocks #minerals
Smoky Quartz:
- A grey to black variety of quartz
- Its colour is due to a combination of Al3+ replacing Si in the crystal lattice and gamma irradiation
- Its colour fades when exposed to UV light and heat
- Forms in igneous rocks #minerals
October 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
302 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Smoky Quartz:
- A grey to black variety of quartz
- Its colour is due to a combination of Al3+ replacing Si in the crystal lattice and gamma irradiation
- Its colour fades when exposed to UV light and heat
- Forms in igneous rocks #minerals
Smoky Quartz:
- A grey to black variety of quartz
- Its colour is due to a combination of Al3+ replacing Si in the crystal lattice and gamma irradiation
- Its colour fades when exposed to UV light and heat
- Forms in igneous rocks #minerals
Loosing the PRI would devastate US science. Any level donation, spreading the word helps. #FossilFriday #SaveScience
priweb.donorsupport.co/page/FUNWALK...
priweb.donorsupport.co/page/FUNWALK...
Save the Museum of the Earth – Secure Its Future!
In these challenging times, places like the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) stand as beacons of hope, fostering understanding of the natural world and inspiring action for a sustainable fut...
priweb.donorsupport.co
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Loosing the PRI would devastate US science. Any level donation, spreading the word helps. #FossilFriday #SaveScience
priweb.donorsupport.co/page/FUNWALK...
priweb.donorsupport.co/page/FUNWALK...
Yall want to see a box of crap for #FossilFriday? Of course you do!
October 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Yall want to see a box of crap for #FossilFriday? Of course you do!