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Two photos side by side of a dodo skeleton on display in the Treasures gallery at the NHM London.

Happy Thanksgiving! On the topic of fat, tasty birds - here's the lovely skeleton of the Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) we saw on display last week in the treasures gallery at the @nhm-london.bsky.social.

Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified Fossils newly discovered in Ethiopia indicate that previously unidentified foot bones belong to the ancient human relative Australopithecus deyiremeda.

Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified www.nature.com/articles/d41...

YouTube video by The Microscopic Odyssey Tardigrade Making Biscuits Like a Cat

In this chaotic world, I thank @jamesweiss.bsky.social for showing me this footage of a tardigrade "making biscuits" like a cat 😺
youtube.com/shorts/D215E...

This take is objectively correct

Wading into pie discourse: huckleberry pie is the best pie of all time and I will die on this hill.

Headline saying “Fossil vomit contains new species of pterosaur from Brazil”. For additional info apart from the joke, the sub-headed says: “Filter-feeding flying reptile was likely devoured by a dinosaur during the early Cretaceous”

Roses are red
That dino looks ill

Food Distribution, But Not Market Forces, Predict Behavioral Social Tolerance in Rhesus Macaques Decentralizing food resources in rhesus macaques reduced aggression, increased co-feeding and promoted social tolerance, suggesting that distributed resources could enhance group stability and welfar....

Pleased to have been a part of this project, now detailed by Dr. Rosemary Blersch (not on BlueSky) based on work in the McCowan-Vandeleest Laboratory for Biobehavioral Complexity.

Studies often examine effects of clumped resources, we decentralized food provisioning to increase social tolerance.

we're at 31 submissions out of the 100 available slots already, damn

Happy Origin Day! Published OTD in 1859

Are you local to the DC area and want to be a public engagement volunteer with us in the Hall of Human Origins? Apply now! naturalhistory.si.edu/join-us/volu...

Old newspaper clipping titled “The skull that never was.” Large illustration of a skull being measured with calipers and two hands pointing at its eye sockets, next to an oval portrait photograph of an older man in a suit and tie. The headline suggests a scientific hoax being exposed, referring to the Piltdown skull. Small columns of text fill the page in typical mid 1900s newspaper layout.

#OnThisDay in 1953, the Piltdown man fossils were declared a “perfectly executed and carefully prepared fraud," concluding a hoax that had lasted over forty years. 🏺🧪

Mounted skeleton of the legged sea cow Pezosiren

#FossilFriday The walking sea cow Pezosiren at the National Museum of Natural History

Ask Hank Anything Livestream YouTube video by Complexly

I'm about to do a LIVE Ask Hank Anything, answering questions from fans and surprise guests!!

www.youtube.com/live/NMr8AOT...

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a crowd of people . Alt: An Arrested Development scene where Tobias shouts "There are dozens of us! Dozens!"

Are you a science communicator in British Columbia who wants to connect with other scicommers?? Shoot me a message, we're trying to start a group. 🧪🇨🇦
@uvicscience.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @sfu.ca @rascvancouver.bsky.social @viuniversity.bsky.social @thetyee.ca @pme.ubc.ca @wildernews.bsky.social

YouTube video by PBS Eons How Chewing May Have Beat Extinction

youtu.be/MoPEyQrChdg?...

Hello internets, there's a paleontological museum in danger of being closed. Please help.

I can always pass it along! PBS has some pretty strict rules for what we can boost on main, though.

Ghosts Behind Glass How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us.   While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...

Ghosts Behind Glass has been officially published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social!

If you are looking for an absolutely gorgeous book that tackles a deeply serious topic, this is a perfect choice. Would make a really thoughtful Christmas gift.

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

AABA 2026 workshop proposal form There are six pages to this form. On this page, please provide us with your contact information. On the following pages, you will be asked about the budget, sponsorship, description/proposal, particip...

AABA Workshop Proposals are due in two days! Submit your workshop idea by November 15. More info here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This Saturday (November 15), tune into youtube.com/scishow to hang with some of the SciShow team (+1 person from the Crash Course team) while they ESCAPE THE LAB in a live Learn-a-thon event!

Organic Baby Formula Producer ByHeart Recalls All Products In U.S. As Infant Botulism Outbreak Spreads ByHeart previously recalled two batches of formula after the disease was found in babies who consumed the product.

ByHeart previously recalled two batches of formula after the disease was found in babies who consumed the product.

The Danc-- A painting of people dancing in the streets of 16th-century Strasbourg

cing, "Seldom Told Stories" color palette for the show Photo of Maison des Tanneurs in Strasbourg city center.

Hand-drawn map of Strasbourg, The History Show logo, Half of the Quaternion Eagle an emblem of the Holy Roman Empire.

Half of the Quaternion Eagle, an emblem of the Holy Roman Empire, "Plague," a black & white drawing of a group of people dancing with various onlookers surrounding them.

This week, RJ takes us all the way back to 16th-century France, where a plague of dancing took over the city of Strasbourg.

Watch along with the Complexly team as part of the Learn-a-thon on Friday, November 14th at youtube.com/complexly

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Thylacines drawn on a grassy cliff near water's edge.

The next endling in our mini-series is the Thylacine! Thylacines (aka Tasmanian Tigers or Tasmanian Wolves) have been extinct since 1936. Many factors contributed to their extinction, but our own zoological fascination was part of the problem. Learn more in our latest episode. youtu.be/YeMXE8XEmSU

Two #Postdoc opportunities in the Pontzer Lab at Duke
-Human Ecology, Energetics, and Climate
-Population Ecology Aging, and Health Network (PECAHN

Check it out and spread the word!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30783

Collections Manager-Vertebrate Paleontology Department: Gantz Family Collection Center Location: Chicago IL

Heads up that the Field Museum is hiring a vertebrate paleontology collections manager: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...

For #FossilFriday, let's look at what is both the most and least important stat on the Big Spreadsheet of North American Fossil Exhibits: how many of the mounted skeletons on display are real? 🧵

YouTube video by PBS Eons Crawling Out Of The Water Was An Evolutionary Accident

please, let us return to the wet stuff

The skull of a Megacerops brontothere on display at the Brigham Young University Palaeontology Museum in Provo, Utah, USA.

A side-on snapshot of the skull of Megacerops, a #brontothere (‘thunder beast’) from North America for this #FossilFriday. Sporting large bulbous horns, these large, ancient mammals looked a bit like rhinos 🦏 but are actually more closely related to horses 🐎.

#Paleontology #Science #Cenozoic

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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.

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.