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Shay Rice
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MSc student @ U Florida / FMNH 🐊
mammal paleontologist 🦌🦏🦣🦴⛏️
student of large herbivores
geologist + ecology fan 🏞🏔♻️
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🦢 Abbildungen von Vogel-Skeletten, .
Berlin, [s.n.], 1879-1897..

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Illustration of a stork (Ciconia alba) skeleton showing a full side view with detailed bones including skull, long neck vertebrae, ribcage, wing bones, pelvis, and long legs with articulated toes. Additional close-up views of the elongated skull and isolated wing bones are displayed on the left. The bones are dark against a beige background, emphasizing the bird's slender structure and characteristic long beak and legs. The image is a scientific anatomical plate from a late 19th-century German publication.
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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extinctmonsters.bsky.social
A couple years ago I happened upon this abandoned mastodon while wandering in the woods. I’m happy to discover that he’s since been relocated to brand new playground area, and that his name is Bimbo.
Sun bleached mastodon sculpture amongst some high grass Freshened up mastodon out in the open, with a bucket that says “peanuts for Bimbo”
November 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🦒 The handy natural history
Boston, R.G. Badger, The Gorham press, 1910.

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Illustration of a giraffe standing on a light background with a faintly painted tree and sky in the backdrop. The giraffe features a long neck, patterned with irregular brown spots on a tan body, and four slender legs with dark hooves. Its face shows two ossicones (horn-like structures), large ears, and expressive eyes. The vintage style and muted colors suggest a historical natural history print from the early 20th century. The image is labeled "Plate XXIII" and titled "Giraffe."
November 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🐟 The White River Badlands
Rapid City, S.D., 1920.

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Historical illustration titled "The White River Badlands, Rapid City, S.D., 1920," depicts a group of large, flat-horned prehistoric mammals, identified as Brontotherium gigas, near a river. The central figure is a massive Brontotherium standing in shallow water, with several others grazing or drinking nearby in a sparse landscape. Vegetation is minimal, with low shrubs and a few trees in the background. The scene captures the prehistoric fauna of the Badlands region, emphasizing the river as a vital water source in the arid environment. This detailed depiction highlights the size and habitat of these extinct creatures along the ancient riverbank.
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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floridamuseum.bsky.social
#SciArt Spotlight 🎨 Florida Pleistocene
This exhibit painting brings to life what the marine environments around Florida might have looked like during the Pleistocene.

🗝️ Check out the species in the art + key, and related fossils from our collections:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blo...
a painting of an underwater scene near the sandy floor that is covered with shells, crabs, urchins and sea grass while overhead swims fish, turtles, manatees and a seal, and a numbered key to the illustration positioned below it reflecting the list in the linked blog post
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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extinctmonsters.bsky.social
Heads up that the Field Museum is hiring a vertebrate paleontology collections manager: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
Collections Manager-Vertebrate Paleontology Department: Gantz Family Collection Center Location: Chicago IL
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Pretty good article about the specifics of PRI's situation and what led to the immediate need they have from upstate NY based media.

www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2025/10...
This hidden gem Upstate NY museum with dino bones you can touch is on the brink of extinction
Officials say the museum that houses a mastadon skeleton needs to raise $1 million by the end of 2025 to avoid foreclosure.
www.newyorkupstate.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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A 164.7 cm #rhino horn from #Yakutia sheds light on woolly rhinoceros morphology, longevity, and sexual dimorphism zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #permafrost #palaeoecology @davehone.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @conservresearch.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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extinctmonsters.bsky.social
Ceratogaulus (or Epigaulus) hatcheri, on display at the Smithsonian sometime after 1910. This is the holotype, collected by JB Hatcher in 1885.

While this little dude is sadly no longer on display, it does feature in one of the Julius Csotonyi's murals that are now in the same hall.
Skeleton of a round, vaguely beaver-shaped rodent with two horns sticking straight up in front of its eyes. Low angle painting of a grassland under a sky dotted with clouds. Two shovel-tusked elephants approach a pair of horned rodents, while a blue bird flies away.
October 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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🦢 The wild beasts of the world /.
London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, [1909?].

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Illustration of a kudu, a large antelope with a reddish-brown coat and distinct white vertical stripes along its sides. It has long, twisted spiral horns and a white patch on its face. The kudu stands in a natural, earthy environment with dry grass and muted background colors. The artwork is signed by C. E. Swan and is from the 1909 book "The wild beasts of the world." Despite the swan-related keyword, the image depicts the kudu antelope as the main subject.
October 19, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🦷 The White River Badlands
Rapid City, S.D., 1920.

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Illustration from 1920 showing detailed drawings of upper and lower jaws of the extinct Titanothere species. The upper jaw (A) displays large, complex molar teeth with distinctive ridges and cusps used for grinding. The lower jaw (B) is more slender with similarly patterned teeth but smaller and reduced in size compared to the upper jaw. Both jaws highlight the unique dental structures characteristic of Titanothere fossils found in the White River Badlands near Rapid City, S.D., emphasizing the form and size differences between upper and lower teeth. The image is from the South Dakota School of Mines, dated 1876.
October 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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floridamuseum.bsky.social
Oct. 23 🍺🐛 Bugs, Bones and Brews

Spooky season at First Magnitude Brewing with our Daniels Lab researchers, vertebrate paleontology collection & the UF Thompson Earth Systems Institute team.

Hickory Horned Devil Hazy IPA 🍺 with jalapeno peppers

Event: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/event/bugs-b...
a large pale green caterpillar with black blotches has large barbed spines protruding from its shoulders and running down its back in smaller sizes
October 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🦛 Johnson's household book of nature, .
New York, H.J.Johnson, [1880].

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Illustration showing a group of six hippopotamuses in a natural setting by a river. One large hippo stands prominently in the foreground with its mouth open, displaying large tusks and teeth. Behind it, other hippos rest partially submerged in water and on the riverbank surrounded by dense green foliage and ferns. The scene conveys the hippos' semi-aquatic habitat. The image includes the label "Hippopotamus" and the scientific name "Plate XXXVI Ungulata" on the right side, indicating it is from an 1880 natural history book. The artwork features rich earthy tones and detailed textures.
October 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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We are saddened to hear of Dr. Jane Goodall's passing, and so honored to be among the organizations she worked closely with during her long and incredible career.
October 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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www.priweb.org/mortgage-cam...
Mortgage Campaign Landing Page — Paleontological Research Institution
www.priweb.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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widga.bsky.social
Shortly before my VP class every week someone draws these delightful critters on the chalkboard--usually just in time for me to discuss them in lecture. The students have started calling this unknown artist "EMS Banksy." Complete mystery!
Chalk drawing of Tiktaalik Chalk drawing of Eusthenopteron.
October 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers.

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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floridamuseum.bsky.social
Carrie Tyler (@unlv.edu) and Michal Kowalewski (Florida Museum) constructed and analyzed a massive dataset of marine fossils to demonstrated for the first time that functional diversity can be accurately inferred from the marine fossil record.
Study: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
close up on dozens of wet shells and varying sizes of shell fragments are mixed together
September 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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burkemuseum.bsky.social
In the early 1980’s, we began preparing separate spread wings to help illustrate features of birds that had never been accurately drawn.

Today our collection of spread wings is the largest in the world, preserving more than 40,000 specimens.
September 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🐼 A hand-book to the British mammalia
London, Edward Lloyd, 1896.

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Historical illustration from 1896 titled "Fallow Deer" showing two British fallow deer in a natural setting. The foreground features a male deer with large, broad, flat antlers and a reddish-brown coat covered in white spots. Next to him lies a spotted female deer resting on green foliage. In the background, smaller deer are visible amid sparse trees and grassy terrain. The detailed, colored drawing highlights the deer's distinctive markings and antler shape, typical of the species native to Britain.
September 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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🦌 Animate creation
New York, S. Hess[c1885]

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Black and white historical illustration titled "Moose, or Elk," depicting two moose in a forest setting. A large bull moose with broad, detailed antlers stands alert beside a female moose lying on the ground among dense foliage and grasses. The background features trees and a wooded environment, capturing the natural habitat of the moose. The artwork is finely detailed, emphasizing the texture of the moose's fur and the intricate shapes of the antlers and surrounding vegetation. The illustration is framed within a square border on an aged paper page, dated circa 1885.
August 31, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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If you don't have access to Nature, but would like to read our paper on the new specimen of #Spicomellus, you can read it online at this link with no subscription: rdcu.be/eCJK3
Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur
Nature - The ankylosaurian dinosaur Spicomellus afer possessed a tail weapon and uniquely elaborate dermal armour.
rdcu.be
August 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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It suggests early ankylosaur armour could have been used to show off to mates, like a peacock's tail feathers.

Later ankylosaurs might have moved to more functional armour as more advanced predators evolved.

Discover what else this amazing ankylosaur reveals 👇 (4/4)
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
“Bizarre” armoured dinosaur Spicomellus afer rewrites ankylosaur evolution | Natural History Museum
The world’s most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than first realised.
www.nhm.ac.uk
August 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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From a trip to L.A. a few years ago, the @tarpits.org Page Museum's animatronic saber-toothed cat and giant ground sloth locked in an eternally looping Ice Age death struggle never fails to spark joy
August 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM