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Oakland Zoo @oaklandzoo.bsky.social · 1d

Here it is, the signature soundtrack of Oakland Zoo (sound UP 🎶)

Gibbons make these whooping sounds for many reasons -- to send an alert about predators, as mating calls, to announce their territory to neighbors, or to strengthen social bonding.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 2d

Preview of my latest #paleoart piece: a baby bison flees the deadliest predator of Ice Age Europe. Harrowing, harrowing stuff.

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 2d

Manuscript submitted - what @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social and I initially thought would be a quick paper redescribing a handful of specimens but grew into 53 specimens, for which we traveled to 10 states plus DC... with some exciting implications.

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Stieven @stievenvdp.bsky.social · 4d

Hip Hip Hooray! Have a nice 120th nameday old chap.

Diorama feaaturing wildlife of the Hell Creek formation.

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Alessandro Chiarenza @macroecoevoale.bsky.social · 4d

A brilliant palaeontologist, Dr Tsogtbaatar, is facing a tough battle and needs help with medical expenses. Please consider donating or sharing the link: every bit truly helps. Thank you!

Donate to Help Dr. Tsogtbaatar, Icon of Mongolian Paleontology, organized by Lindsay Zanno

Renowned Mongolian paleontologist Dr. Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar is fig… Lindsay Zanno needs your support for Help Dr. Tsogtbaatar, Icon of Mongolian Paleontology

www.gofundme.com

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jvpvertpaleo.bsky.social @jvpvertpaleo.bsky.social · 4d

Oh hai! We're here now! Follow us for the latest articles published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology!

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 4d

Happy 120th Nameday, Tyrannosaurus rex and Albertosaurus sarcophagus!

Reconstructed skull of the holotype specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex

The 1905 and 1906 reconstructions of the skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex

Skull of Albertosaurus sarcophagus at the Royal Tyrell Museum of Palaeontology

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 4d

For those who want to read the original Osborn paper from 1905 naming Tyrannosaurus rex, its junior synonym Dynamosaurus imperiosus, and Albertosaurus sarcophagus, here it is!

digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/a02fc8...

digitallibrary.amnh.org

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Astra Fauna (Sarah Dahlinger) 🔜 Granite State Comic Con @astrafauna.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hi all! I'm Sarah the author and illustrator for #AstraFauna.
The book follows the non-official adventures of 5 alien scientists as they explore new worlds.
You can see more here! - www.astrafauna.com
#creatureart #NOAI #creature #scifi #indie

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JH @jhemiptera.bsky.social · 5d

I saw this blessed fish in Fukui last week @mosasaurologist.bsky.social

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Henry Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 5d

The big angry fish that eats everything!

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 5d

If you liked my thread, check out fellow @chasmosaurs.bsky.social author Marc’s three part review of it over on Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs! There is a TON of art I didn’t share that you’ll see there, it’s well worth your time.

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 5d

This adorable oreodont family has had quite a journey. Paul Miller made this mount for the U of Chicago Walker Museum in 1924. They were transferred to the Field when the Walker shut down, then loaned to the BYU museum for 60 years. The oreodonts are now back in Chicago. #FossilFriday

Framed plaster slab with three mounted Miniochoerus skeletons

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 6d

Get really into dinosaurs. That's my recommendation for a happier life. Each day, I get news like "Look at this big freak that used roam the Earth!" or "Ya know the big freak you already loved? Fossils show it was even more freakish!" and it's a blessing every time.

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Sternberg Museum Paleontology @sternbergpaleo.bsky.social · 5d

This #FossilFriday, we have our museum's most recognizable fossil: Fish-Within-A-Fish! Featuring Xiphactinus, a large predatory fish, with the smaller Gillicus in its gut contents. It was found and collected by George F. Sternberg in 1952, and is now an iconic part of the Sternberg's collections!

Fish-within-a-fish fossil at the Sternberg Museum. A fossil Xiphactinus with a Gillicus within the gut contents. A dark brown fish fossil within another fish fossil against a light brown background.

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Henry Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 5d

Well my memory was wayyyy off but I found it!!! It's from Dinosaurs: Lifestyles of the Big and Carnivorous, produced by Standard Deviants (an edutainment troupe) in 2001. The rest of it was completely erased from my memory. I presume it was a library rental

In the back, a red cartoon Oviraptor (labeled "Oviraptor") holds eggs and looms over a nest in a prairie. In front of it is a visual of two Oviraptor heads. The left head is surrounded by flowers and labeled "Egg Nurterer". The right head is dressed as a pirate and labeled "Egg Robber".

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 6d

Anyway the Historic Museum of the Bamoun Sultanate in Cameroon is the coolest building in the world. momaa.org/directory/mu...

A building with two mirrored entrances, shaped like python heads in full color. The second floor is shaped like a huge, broad spider.

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 6d

New in @science.org, meet Acronichthys maccagnoi, a new species from Late Creatacous Canada that changes what we know about the origins and evolution of one of the most successful fish groups on Earth.

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 6d

Is it a lizard? Is it a snake? Maybe a 'false snake'?? As that's what its name means in Gaelic!

Hello to Breugnathair, a new fossil from the Jurassic of Skye with a curious mix of snake & lizard features, showing that early squamate evolution was complex

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fossil found on Skye is new species of fanged Jurassic reptile

Experts say the lizard-like creature, which has been given the Gaelic name Breugnathair elgolensis, had lived about 167 million years ago.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Henry Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 6d

THIS WAS YOU?! I loved this animation when I came across it during my embarrassing middle school Beatles phase. Truly a small world

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 7d

New #paleoart posted to #Patreon: woolly mammoths around a duck-filled lake. Accompanying the hi-res and WIPs of this image is a discussion about mammoth colour: the uniform red-brown mammoths of classic palaeoart seem unlikely now. Check it out at www.patreon.com/posts/night-...
#fossil #sciart

A herd of mammoths, with three large individuals up front, and lots of smaller, more distant individuals in the background, surrounding a shallow Pleistocene lake. They stand on browning, yellowing grass in front of a blue, partly cloudy sky. The mammoths are variable in colour, some being dark, some pale. A juvenile mammoth, blonde all over, has broken ranks and started chasing mallards around a pond. He has made a little grebe nervous. Why has this baby mammoth started attacking other species? Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 6d

If you’ve never seen the comic, here it is:

Far Side single-panel cartoon by Gary Larsen. It shows two vaguely chimpanzee looking creatures on a branch. One is grooming the other, and pulls a light hair from his fur, saying “well, well— another blond hair… conducting a little more research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 7d

Even when she saw terrible, horrible things, she kept hoping and working and fighting for a better future. May we all carry some of her spirit into the work ahead.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 7d

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

An image of Jane Goodall and a chimpanzee, from 1965. Photo courtesy CBS Photo Archive / Getty.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 7d

Sad to read Jane Goodall has died. She inspired a whole generation of biologists and conservationists. Read my first book by her in high school. We also happen to share a birthday😊. An absolute LEGEND, the world is lucky to have experienced her talent and compassion.
www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91

"Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wedne...

www.nbcnews.com

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