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You had me at HELODUS 💕.

Top 📸: Ray's drawing of Helodus, a toothy Carboniferous ghost shark.

Bottom 📸: A beautifully preserved Helodus skull as revealed by a high resolution CT scan by the Michael Coates lab.

🔊 Listen now to Episode #87 with Dr. Michael Coates:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/mich...
June 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur.

Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.

(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)
May 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Humans before Americans
May 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Turkey mid-flight
April 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Yearling squirrels playing tag in an old oak
April 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
@aoc.bsky.social Thank you for your steadfast effort. If these bozos are ever convicted of treason, can they be sentenced to hard labor instead of death?
April 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Katydid In Grass
December 8, 2024 at 4:58 AM
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I am happy to share my latest article published on
@uk.theconversation.com, written for a broad audience, where I summarise our review about the Denisovans! 🧬✨ Discover their fascinating genetics and how they shaped human history.

theconversation.com/their-dna-su...
Their DNA survives in diverse populations across the world – but who were the Denisovans?
The discovery of a finger bone in a cave in Siberia some 15 years ago kicked off a race to unravel the mysteries of an entirely new group of humanoids.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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Excited to share our review article on Denisovans, now published in Nature Genetics 🥳 I am very grateful to
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for making this possible! Check it out 🔎🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔎Here's the free link:
rdcu.be/dY9G1
A history of multiple Denisovan introgression events in modern humans - Nature Genetics
This review describes evidence of multiple Denisovan populations, each with varying relatedness to Altai Denisovans, that introgressed into modern humans and highlights how introgression influenced hu...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:53 PM