Aquatic (palaeo)biology lab 🧪🦟🐛🪲

Underwater landscape at Isla Tarifa

Blennie Lipophrys trigloides

Incognito goby´s head sticks from the rock crevasse

Salema porgys´group feeding on the algae from the rock

I like me some 🐟 of the Cadiz coast, Spain - underwater landscape at Isla de Tarifa, Lipophrys trigloides, incognito goby, and group of salema porgy (Sarpa salpa) feeding. ES: Snorkel en Provincia de Cadiz - paisaje submarino de Isla Tarifa, Barriguda Remuda, Gobio incognito y Salema 🦑

Coryphoblennius galerita blennie next to sea urchin

Lipophrys pholis blennies in the rock crevasse

Salaria pavo blennie on the sand

Tripterygion tartessicum blennie mating demonstration

I really like Blennies 🐟, here are some I had photgraphed in Spain: Coryphoblennius galerita; Lipophrys pholis; Salaria pavo and Tripterygion tartessicum 🦑🐬

thanks!

#fossilfriday

Beach in Tarifa, Spain, with an animal tracksite on the Oligocene clays

Pleistocene animal tracksite on the Oligocene clays

Pleistocene animal tracksite on the Oligocene clays

Pleistocene animal tracksite on the Oligocene clays

How cool is that our favorite beach for snorkeling has a Pleistocene tracksite of tracks of Artiodactyls and Elephants from Pleistocene on the Oligocene clays tinyurl.com/2rhxvjnk @nataliajagielska.bsky.social @tetzoo.bsky.social 🦖🦣 🦴

Clinitrachus argentatus fish blending with kelp

Lipophrys trigloides at the rock surrounded by the red algae

Tripterygion tartessicum at the rock surrounded by red algae

#addOcean
Yesterday was a good day for seeing blennies and relatives at the straight of Gibraltar, I was especially stocked to see Clinitrachus argentatus, with its spectacular camouflage! also features Lipophrys trigloides and Tripterygion tartessicum 🐟🐠 🤿

Adelidae caterpillar in Dominican amber, carrying protective case from plant material

Adelidae caterpillar in Dominican amber, carrying protective case from plant material

Adelidae caterpillar in head in Dominican amber

Beautiful Adelidae 🐛🦋 from Dominican amber, originally from the @fossillocator.bsky.social collection, that was transferred by him to the Arthropoda collection of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and that we described with him in www.scup.com/doi/full/10.... Note the cool protective case it have! 🧪

Good to see you too, although its technically not me but my lab 😄

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Caterpillar in amber

Cleridae (Checkered beetle) larvae in amber

Snake fly larvae in ambe

Tineoidea (moth) caterpillar carrying a case (in amber)

For #fossilfriday here some cool larvae from ‪@nhm.org‬ Baltic amber collection, I have imaged in my (so far) last visit to US in 2019. Caterpillar from, checkered beetle (Cleridae larvae), snake fly (Rhaphidioptera) larvae Tineoidea (moth) caterpillar carrying a case @fossillocator.bsky.social

CT scan of anolis lizard legs, showing skin surface and leg structure

Skeleton of the Anolis lizard tail in the piece of amber

Skeleton of the Anolis lizard tail in the piece of amber (x-Ray)

Cuban anolis male on the tree

I always really liked Anolis 🦎, so when I came across two fossil specimens from Dominican amber that were undescribed, I have jumped at the opportunity and we have written two papers wit Kevin de Queiroz showing consistency of eco adaptations of Anolis through last 13 MY. tinyurl.com/mphx42pz 🐍

I mean - I like cats, so while I doubt that small ceratopsians behaved like domesticated(?) felines, I am sold on Dolores :)

Museo Geominero -in Madrid, central hall with glass exposition cases and three exposition galeries above it

Painting on the wall "Reconstruction of the lower cretaceous of Teurel" by Mauricio Anton, depicting various dinosaursas

Tinted glasses with depiction of the geological profile cores

3 fossilized crabs in glass case

for the #fossilfriday just wanted to let you know that Museo #Geominero of #IGME in #Madrid is awesome, one of the most beautifull paleontological museums I´ve been to 🦴💀. Has some original Art by Mauricio Anton too! Note the stained glasses with profile cores! Also 🦀

I think it does not matter that if they put Aquilops in the movie to sell merchandaise - at least people will learn of new Ceratopsid genus, besides, merchandise is cute though

Book cover: Jurassic park, the lost world by Michael Crichton, in Spanish

Screen of computer with the photo of fossil fly in amber

Piece of amber held in hand

Microscope set up with digital camera and piece of amber under the objctive

Todo el mundo visto #JurassicWorld, hablo en radio ES de pelis de JW, d. el punto de vista de paleontólogo de 🐜. Because everybody and their grandma has seen the new #JurassicWorld, gona talk with ES radio about movies f. insect paleo viewpoint. @nataliajagielska.bsky.social @tetzoo.bsky.social

I think this is so endearing to get one of the spp you described to get into JW! As I insects palaeo I can only hope they stick 1 of my fossil 🦟 into piece of amber, & drop it on a character table (although there were Meganeura hawker dragonflies in the movie). Now I own aquilops keychain

My letter ‘‘Awkward wording. Rephrase’’: linguistic injustice in ecological journals, published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, has 100 citations in GS
I received dozens of messages from all over the world sharing linguistic injustice experiences. Nice sense of group
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How wonderful! I have been to talbragar with Australian Museum in 2020 (February obviously) and now have some News Arthropoden App from there submitted. Also found a Kavendryichthies theee

I told you that I like fiddler🦀 Afruca tangeri (cangrejos Violinistas) but people of Spain and Portugal like the even more - they put some very cool monuments to them/ A mi me gustan mucho Cangrejos violinistas, pero no tanto como a la gente de Faro y Tarifa, quie hicieron monumetos suyos

Basura en los caladeros procedente de tierra, y el efecto de las altas temperaturas en los insectos acuáticos Aragón Radio, la Radio Autonómica de Aragón

Hablamos con Marcos Ruiz @aragonradio.bsky.social sobre impacto de cambio Climatico a insectos acuaticos (de 18:10 punto) @ebdonana.bsky.social
www.cartv.es/aragonradio/...

Aragón Radio (CARTV) Aragón Radio, la Radio Autonómica de Aragón

en una hora (20:00) voy a hablar en @aragonradio.bsky.social en directo sobre impacto de cambio Climatico a Insectos aquaticos con Marcos Ruiz de "Agora" Ciencia podcast www.cartv.es/aragonradio/... @ebdonana.bsky.social @sanchezmarta.bsky.social @chikichanka.bsky.social

crab Grapsus adscensionis very colourfull, with red legs, and yllowish -gray carapax, sitting on the rock

crab Grapsus adscensionis very colourfull, with red legs, and yllowish -gray carapax, sitting on the rock

Grapsus adscensionis is a very pretty 🦀 - I am spending appreciable fraction of my visits to Canary islands just photographing them

Ocellated lizard on the rock

Ocellated lizard on the sand

Juvenile Ocellated lizard on the discarded room door

meeting ocellated lizards (Timon lepidus), is one of the highlights of moving to Spain - these 80 cm long majestic animals are wonrous/ encontrarme con lagartos ocelados (Timon lepidus) es uno de momentos destacados de mudarme a España: estos majestuosos animales de 80 cm de largo son maravillas.🐍🦎

Red veined darter (dragonfly), female, sitting on the dry grass against the sky

Tenomos influencia de DANA y solo 29°C en Sevilla, por eso Sympetrum folsocmbi libellulas son muy alegres/ Atmospheric inversion dropped Sevilla temps to 29°C, so red veined dartes look very contented 🪲

thanks a lot!

In all seriousness, Wealden amber is coming at tiny pieces, which are very fragile, comes in extremely low numbers, there are just a couple of hundreds inclusions known from it, BUT - its one of the few windows we have into the insect diversity of upper cretaceous, wth Lebanese amber and Crato fm.

Non biting midge Libanodiamesa simpsoni in yellowish amber . Libanodiamesa simpsoni sp. nov., holotype female (AeF) and L. deploegi Veltz et al, 2007, holotype male (G). A, B: habitus in dorsolateral view, photographed (A) and drawn (B). C: head, ventral view. D: wing base, with crossvein MCu. E, G: wing (G: modified from Veltz et al., 2007). F: female genitalia, ventral view. Scale bar ¼ 100 mm.

Fossil non-biting midge Dungeyella gavinin in yellowish amber, multi-part figure from scientific paper: Dungeyella gavini Jarzembowski et al., 2008, male (A, B, D, E) and female (C). A: habitus, lateral view. B: head and thorax. C, D: wing (C: modified from Jarzembowski et al., 2008). E: apex of midleg tibia and tarsus. Scale bar ¼ 100 mm

Just your periodic reminder the early cretaceous of Isle of Wight are not just boring things like dinosaurs, early mammals and pterosaurs, but also exciting 3mm flies from Wealden amber tinyurl.com/bd4jzpk8 @tetzoo.bsky.social @nataliajagielska.bsky.social @markwitton.bsky.social #fossilfriday

yeh, we got to inflate flies back!

hey @flygirlnhm.bsky.social - we have found out that climate change shrinks our flies, and i guess I d speak for all dipterists, If I say we won´t stand for that

It was a pleasure as always to work on the publication with @royentsoc.bsky.social @respublications.bsky.social - quality of the editing, reviews and authors´support is second to none!