Adi Kombra (Kobra)
@adikombra.bsky.social
Palaeontologist in the making. Scientist and Engineer by trade. MSc, BEng. Cellist, Cook, Historian, Avgeek. MfN & Charité. Berlin.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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During #AEWAMOP9, delegates paid tribute to the Slender-billed Curlew — declared extinct by IUCN. A specimen from the Museum Koenig Bonn (@leibnizlib.bsky.social) stood as a symbol of what we’ve lost, and what international cooperation can still save.
More: t1p.de/b5c5r
#Biodiversity #Conservation
More: t1p.de/b5c5r
#Biodiversity #Conservation
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
During #AEWAMOP9, delegates paid tribute to the Slender-billed Curlew — declared extinct by IUCN. A specimen from the Museum Koenig Bonn (@leibnizlib.bsky.social) stood as a symbol of what we’ve lost, and what international cooperation can still save.
More: t1p.de/b5c5r
#Biodiversity #Conservation
More: t1p.de/b5c5r
#Biodiversity #Conservation
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Explore what happens to soil during and after a wildfire! 🔥
Join our #art and #science workshop "Soil, wildfires and biological remediation” with Margherita Pevere, in collaboration with #mfnberlin researchers Katharina and Parm von Oheimb! 🐌
🗓️ Sat, 25 Oct, 14:00 to 18:00
🔗 bit.ly/soil-wildfires
Join our #art and #science workshop "Soil, wildfires and biological remediation” with Margherita Pevere, in collaboration with #mfnberlin researchers Katharina and Parm von Oheimb! 🐌
🗓️ Sat, 25 Oct, 14:00 to 18:00
🔗 bit.ly/soil-wildfires
October 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Explore what happens to soil during and after a wildfire! 🔥
Join our #art and #science workshop "Soil, wildfires and biological remediation” with Margherita Pevere, in collaboration with #mfnberlin researchers Katharina and Parm von Oheimb! 🐌
🗓️ Sat, 25 Oct, 14:00 to 18:00
🔗 bit.ly/soil-wildfires
Join our #art and #science workshop "Soil, wildfires and biological remediation” with Margherita Pevere, in collaboration with #mfnberlin researchers Katharina and Parm von Oheimb! 🐌
🗓️ Sat, 25 Oct, 14:00 to 18:00
🔗 bit.ly/soil-wildfires
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Long before the dinosaurs, #insects were already eating their way through leaves! 🌿
#Fossils from Thuringia reveal the world’s oldest insect plague – 295 million years old. Understanding global change thanks to natural history collections! 🌍
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#science #sciencenews
#Fossils from Thuringia reveal the world’s oldest insect plague – 295 million years old. Understanding global change thanks to natural history collections! 🌍
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#science #sciencenews
October 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Long before the dinosaurs, #insects were already eating their way through leaves! 🌿
#Fossils from Thuringia reveal the world’s oldest insect plague – 295 million years old. Understanding global change thanks to natural history collections! 🌍
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#science #sciencenews
#Fossils from Thuringia reveal the world’s oldest insect plague – 295 million years old. Understanding global change thanks to natural history collections! 🌍
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#science #sciencenews
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New study tracks semicircular canal development. Rapid growth & shape change occur w/in postnatal week 1, stabilizing by day 14 as ossification completes. Brief but critical window of vestibular morphological plasticity
Cárdenas-Serna & Jeffery: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Cárdenas-Serna & Jeffery: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
October 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
New study tracks semicircular canal development. Rapid growth & shape change occur w/in postnatal week 1, stabilizing by day 14 as ossification completes. Brief but critical window of vestibular morphological plasticity
Cárdenas-Serna & Jeffery: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Cárdenas-Serna & Jeffery: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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On this #fossilfriday, take a few moments to read this.
A touching tribute to the life, career, and discoveries of Mark Norell, from his long-time friend and field companion, Mike Novacek. In @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A touching tribute to the life, career, and discoveries of Mark Norell, from his long-time friend and field companion, Mike Novacek. In @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Mark Norell obituary: palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds
Through fieldwork and innovative research, he transformed how scientists and the public perceive the prehistoric world.
www.nature.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
On this #fossilfriday, take a few moments to read this.
A touching tribute to the life, career, and discoveries of Mark Norell, from his long-time friend and field companion, Mike Novacek. In @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A touching tribute to the life, career, and discoveries of Mark Norell, from his long-time friend and field companion, Mike Novacek. In @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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A new long & narrow-snouted ichthyosaur illuminates a complex faunal turnover during an undersampled Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) interval onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday @morphobank.bsky.social #PapersinPalaeontology
October 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
A new long & narrow-snouted ichthyosaur illuminates a complex faunal turnover during an undersampled Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) interval onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday @morphobank.bsky.social #PapersinPalaeontology
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What if #Berlin became a place where protecting nature and democracy go hand in hand? 🌱
Join our "Ideas for a liveable Berlin" event to explore how shared knowledge can shape our city’s future. 🤝
🗓️ Mon, 13 Oct | 18:00 | @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
🔗 eventbrite.com/e/1719108452659
📸 Pablo Castagnola
Join our "Ideas for a liveable Berlin" event to explore how shared knowledge can shape our city’s future. 🤝
🗓️ Mon, 13 Oct | 18:00 | @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
🔗 eventbrite.com/e/1719108452659
📸 Pablo Castagnola
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
What if #Berlin became a place where protecting nature and democracy go hand in hand? 🌱
Join our "Ideas for a liveable Berlin" event to explore how shared knowledge can shape our city’s future. 🤝
🗓️ Mon, 13 Oct | 18:00 | @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
🔗 eventbrite.com/e/1719108452659
📸 Pablo Castagnola
Join our "Ideas for a liveable Berlin" event to explore how shared knowledge can shape our city’s future. 🤝
🗓️ Mon, 13 Oct | 18:00 | @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
🔗 eventbrite.com/e/1719108452659
📸 Pablo Castagnola
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
Louis Dollo, of Dollo's law and one of the founding father of palaeontology, was born in my beloved Lille. Just something I like to remember.
September 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Louis Dollo, of Dollo's law and one of the founding father of palaeontology, was born in my beloved Lille. Just something I like to remember.
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Thirty relatively intact iguanodon skeletons were found in a coal mine in Belgium in the late 1800s. Louis Dollo, who supervised the first assembly of these fossils, believed it was a biped, as it is shown here. We now know that this was a quadruped, meaning it walked on four legs instead of two.
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Thirty relatively intact iguanodon skeletons were found in a coal mine in Belgium in the late 1800s. Louis Dollo, who supervised the first assembly of these fossils, believed it was a biped, as it is shown here. We now know that this was a quadruped, meaning it walked on four legs instead of two.
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Are you tired of people constantly overestimating body size of marine reptiles? No longer!
We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians.
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We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians.
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September 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Are you tired of people constantly overestimating body size of marine reptiles? No longer!
We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians.
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We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians.
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Carnivorous #bats that hug? 🦇
New study on the spectral bat reveals prey provision, grooming and even wing-wrapped greetings – complex social behaviour with big implications for #conservation! 🌎
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
📸 Marisa Tietge
#science #sciencenews
New study on the spectral bat reveals prey provision, grooming and even wing-wrapped greetings – complex social behaviour with big implications for #conservation! 🌎
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
📸 Marisa Tietge
#science #sciencenews
September 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Carnivorous #bats that hug? 🦇
New study on the spectral bat reveals prey provision, grooming and even wing-wrapped greetings – complex social behaviour with big implications for #conservation! 🌎
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
📸 Marisa Tietge
#science #sciencenews
New study on the spectral bat reveals prey provision, grooming and even wing-wrapped greetings – complex social behaviour with big implications for #conservation! 🌎
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
📸 Marisa Tietge
#science #sciencenews
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Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!
August 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!
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A new sail-back ornithischian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wealden Group of the Isle of Wight & the origins of neural spine elongation in iguanodontians onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday #PapersinPalaeontology
August 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A new sail-back ornithischian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wealden Group of the Isle of Wight & the origins of neural spine elongation in iguanodontians onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday #PapersinPalaeontology
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Crocodyliform diversity of the Cretaceous Açu Formation, Potiguar Basin, Brazil: geographical distribution & palaeobiological implications onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology
August 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Crocodyliform diversity of the Cretaceous Açu Formation, Potiguar Basin, Brazil: geographical distribution & palaeobiological implications onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.
August 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.
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Master your collection data with the #WiNoDa Winter School! 🎓
This free, online programme offers expert lectures and hands-on sessions on data management and analysis – from #biodiversity to #archaeology and beyond! 🦋
📅 24-28 November
🔗 Register here: winoda.de/en/event/win...
📸 Kirill Tatarenkov
This free, online programme offers expert lectures and hands-on sessions on data management and analysis – from #biodiversity to #archaeology and beyond! 🦋
📅 24-28 November
🔗 Register here: winoda.de/en/event/win...
📸 Kirill Tatarenkov
August 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Master your collection data with the #WiNoDa Winter School! 🎓
This free, online programme offers expert lectures and hands-on sessions on data management and analysis – from #biodiversity to #archaeology and beyond! 🦋
📅 24-28 November
🔗 Register here: winoda.de/en/event/win...
📸 Kirill Tatarenkov
This free, online programme offers expert lectures and hands-on sessions on data management and analysis – from #biodiversity to #archaeology and beyond! 🦋
📅 24-28 November
🔗 Register here: winoda.de/en/event/win...
📸 Kirill Tatarenkov
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Evolution of the sauropodomorph astragalus: relationships with the emergence of the sauropod bauplan and weight-bearing function, and critical appraisal of evolutionary rate estimation url: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Evolution of the sauropodomorph astragalus: relationships with the emergence of the sauropod bauplan and weight-bearing function, and critical appraisal of evolutionary rate estimation
Abstract. Sauropods, the largest terrestrial animals, were a clade of quadrupedal dinosaurs nested within sauropodomorphs, whose early representatives were
academic.oup.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Evolution of the sauropodomorph astragalus: relationships with the emergence of the sauropod bauplan and weight-bearing function, and critical appraisal of evolutionary rate estimation url: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
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Plesionectes longicollum made the news:
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/wasse...
@dinosven.bsky.social @danielmadzia.bsky.social
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/wasse...
@dinosven.bsky.social @danielmadzia.bsky.social
Neuer Meeressaurier in Fossil aus Baden-Württemberg entdeckt
Neue Analysen zeigen: Ein Fossil aus dem Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart ist ein bisher unbekannter Meeressaurier - mit einem ungewöhnlich langen Hals. Gefunden wurde es in einem kleinen Ort in Baden-Württ...
www.tagesschau.de
August 7, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Plesionectes longicollum made the news:
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/wasse...
@dinosven.bsky.social @danielmadzia.bsky.social
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/wasse...
@dinosven.bsky.social @danielmadzia.bsky.social
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Trilling for love! 🦇
Male greater mouse-eared #bats compete acoustically in church attics – a rare lek mating system now documented by researchers from FU Berlin and #mfnberlin. Their roosts deserve protection, too! 🌍
🔗 Publication: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
📸 Lisa Printz
Male greater mouse-eared #bats compete acoustically in church attics – a rare lek mating system now documented by researchers from FU Berlin and #mfnberlin. Their roosts deserve protection, too! 🌍
🔗 Publication: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
📸 Lisa Printz
August 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Trilling for love! 🦇
Male greater mouse-eared #bats compete acoustically in church attics – a rare lek mating system now documented by researchers from FU Berlin and #mfnberlin. Their roosts deserve protection, too! 🌍
🔗 Publication: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
📸 Lisa Printz
Male greater mouse-eared #bats compete acoustically in church attics – a rare lek mating system now documented by researchers from FU Berlin and #mfnberlin. Their roosts deserve protection, too! 🌍
🔗 Publication: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
📸 Lisa Printz
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While examining fossils in our collection, paleontologists Sven Sachs (@dinosven.bsky.social) and Dr. Daniel Madzia (@danielmadzia.bsky.social) social have discovered a new species of plesiosaur.
August 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
While examining fossils in our collection, paleontologists Sven Sachs (@dinosven.bsky.social) and Dr. Daniel Madzia (@danielmadzia.bsky.social) social have discovered a new species of plesiosaur.
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Dauphin, Y. Navigating the Limits: Unraveling Unidentified Fossil Bone and Tooth Fragments Through Histology, Chemistry, and Multivariate Statistics. Minerals 2025, 15, 807. doi.org/10.3390/min1...
doi.org
August 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Dauphin, Y. Navigating the Limits: Unraveling Unidentified Fossil Bone and Tooth Fragments Through Histology, Chemistry, and Multivariate Statistics. Minerals 2025, 15, 807. doi.org/10.3390/min1...
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July 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM