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The Amazing Giant Black Fossa — Tetrapod Zoology Is there a bigger, badder, blacker fossa alive in Madagascar?

In 1989, a scientist visiting the north of #Madagascar observed a gigantic, wholly black fossa investigating the interior of a tent. This inspired a later study of local knowledge about this animal. What do we know? A new article at Tetrapod Zoology ... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/10...

Ohkai & Loba from The Fifth Yanai in Halloween costumes, dressed as a sailor and a merman. They are lounging together on a couch, mid-conversation.

🎃🧜‍♂️ Happy Halloween from a sailor and his lucky catch! ⛵🎃

Ohkai & Loba are from my dark fantasy series The Fifth Yanai

🚨New Website blog 🚨 🧵

Did you watch Shark Whisperer on Netflix? I did & it was pseudoscientific rubbish. In this blog, I do a deep dive into the documentary; its subject, Ocean Ramsey; & the harmful effects of “shark influencers” on shark conservation (1/9)

www.drjackacooper.com/writing/shar...

Merman

- Quite attractive...for a fish man!

Day 10: Daimyo Hermitaur

" Shelled Sovereign "

* Carapaceon
* Element: Water
* Weakest To: Thunder

Daimyo Hermitaurs are large crustacean monsters found in coastal regions and sandy soils.
#monsterhunter
#monsterhunterwilds

Day 19: Lagiacrus

" Azure Lord of The Seas "

* Leviathan
* Element: Thunder and Water
* Weakest To: Fire

#monsterhunter
#monsterhunterwilds

Of all the implications of the Nanotyrannus paper, I think I’m most excited by how heavy of a smackdown this is to the concept of declining dinosaur diversity leading up to the asteroid impact. If anything, these end Cretaceous North American ecosystems are positively stuffed with diversity!

Sketched this little guy eating a mammal earlier this year, although I didn't actually know what to call it then.

I guess we do now. Welcome back Nanotyrannus!

My paleontological art inspiration, from layout to colour, is commercial art from 60-80s Poland.

So Sorry Mark. But I Burst Out Laughing.

See next time just write about fish. No one will care enough to change things for at least a century

I am so sorry Mark

A digital concept art illustration depicting several angles of Mermaid Aze's body, including details about the biology, physical traits and abilities of realistic mermaids. A section of the sheet is dedicated to depicting Azure in clothes mostly inspired by her Sea of Thieves character's outfit: a wrap of purple cloth over a seashell top and a skirt made of striped purple cloth and torn fishing net, attached by a leather belt from the back of which a weapon holster hangs, with a hook necklace and a short blue open jacket over it all.

Decided to expand on this information sheet I made for myself during artfight last year. Welcome to my biology class 🧜‍♀️
#Art

A pink-haired mermaid waving to a swimmer, soon to be her lunch.

OH Hi Lunch!

Scientific diagram of a Jurassic Araucaria, based mostly on Araucaria delevoryasii from the Morrison Formation.

Reconstruction/Diagram of Kimuriella with leaves based on Zamites species from formations featured in the game, total form based on Kimuriella densifolia and Kimuriella/Zamites gigas.

Jurassic Gleichenia-lineage plant based mostly on Gleichenia pulchella.

Reconstruction of a "Cupressinocladus" type cheirolepidiaceous conifer, drawing from various Jurassic and Early Cretaceous preserved logs and branches.

I can now share the "Jurassic Scrub" plants I designed/reconstructed for Prehistoric Kingdom!

Inspired by Japanese Yokai, we'd love for you to learn more about our Phantoms in our latest Kickstarter update!

A fossil species found living off southern California, with notes on the genus Cymatioa (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Galeommatoidea) A small bivalve mollusk previously only known from the Pleistocene of Los Angeles County has recently been found living intertidally near Santa Barbara, California. The bivalve has been determined to ...

Cymatioa cooki, a mollusk thought to have been extinct for millions of years has been rediscovered alive along the coast of Southern California

zookeys.pensoft.net/article/95139/

Mmmmm I love having BOTH Caudal and Tail bones they are clearly different.

I remember when I interviewed Beth Shapiro about mammoth DNA and she told me that cloning is basically a distraction and we should focus on the biology of the real animals. Sucks to see her sell out to be part of Colossal and assist this vaporware science.

Hi this is a PSA but if you are not generally a science journalist type person, but you are a journalist, and you get a PR piece from Colossal...

....just ask us please.

Because no the woolly mice don't mean mammoths are back, and DIRE WOLVES ARE NOT JUST WOLFIER WOLVES. GoT is FANTASY.

Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal The extinct giant canids were a remarkable example of convergent evolution

Dire wolves were not close relatives of gray wolves. They last shared a common ancestor more than 5 million years ago. What Colossal has done is make something new and slapped a dire wolf sticker on it, as if an organism equals a hypothetical genome.

Keurbos susanae, a newly described giant arthropod from the Ordovician-age Soom Shale of South Africa.

Emergency paleontological salvage work begins at the forthcoming electric substationsite at St George Dinosaur Discovery Site /Washington County, UT. Need power equipment. Unique urban site. 2nd most significant dino tracksite in NA at risk of losing most basal Jurassic bonebed in North America.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Washington, DC):

In response to the news of tagged 1,600 pound great white shark “Contender” visiting Florida, shark scientist Dr. David Shiffman has issued the following statement.

“In my professional opinion, that is a big shark.”

He is available for interviews.

Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor Prion disease is caused by misfolding of the prion protein (PrP) into pathogenic self-propagating conformations, leading to rapid-onset dementia and death. However, elimination of endogenous PrP halts...

Scientists have created an actual treatment for prions, the cause of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans, chronic wasting disease in deer, & mad cow disease.

"Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor". #ShareGoodNewsToo

HOLT SHIT, THIS IS *INCREDIBLE*.

An actual treatment for prions! That's fucking ASTOUNDING. Those things are goddamn TERRIFYING.

Popular meme format, grandma labeled with "bluesky's public launch was one year ago today." Younger person helping her labeled with "sure grandma let's get you to bed."

happy first birthday to Bluesky, and what a year it's been!

with every day, the need for an open network that puts people first becomes increasingly clear. we're glad to be building this with you. after all, the heart of a social network is the people.

I’m retexturing her from feedback from an actual modeler and blockbench as I ended up striping, texture edging and textured her unminecrafty. This is an extreme WIP btw with not all colors and patterns added.

Stubby Mermaid Block Bench Model

Stubby mermaid block bench

Stubby Mermaid Block Bench Side

I added Girl Dinner Minecraft