The Grim Raptor

Once they rally around the chosen talking points the final number will be 100%.

It's ok, I forgive you you.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Zuckon.

You mean their bones are still mostly cartilage?

I recently read Mockingbird & enjoyed it immensely. It prompted me to read The Man Who Fell To Earth, also by Walter Tevis & recommended.

I listen to ~100 audiobooks/year & the best in quite some time was Lavinia by Ursula K Le Guin. It's not one of her best known works but easily my new favorite.

A tweet by Donald Trump dated November 6th, 2012 that says "If the Dow drops 1,000 points in two days the President should be impeached immediately!"

Fossil foot of the ground sloth Megatherium americanum.

Fossil leg and foot of the ground sloth Mylodon.

Fossil foot of the ground sloth Scelidotherium

Fossil foot of the ground sloth Lestodon armatus

Sloth feet! #FossilFriday

"interesting new pterosaur soft tissue bits" might be the six loveliest words in the English language.

A skeletal mount of Megaladapis, climbing a tree limb in an upright posture

A human male standing next to a mounted Megaladapis for scale. The Megaladapis stands about 3 feet tall.

A Megaladapis skull in frontal view, showing the side facing orbits and long upper canine teeth.

The Koala Lemur, Megaladapis edwardsi. This adorably goofy squatty body was by far the largest lemur to ever exist. They were likely driven to extinction a mere 500 years ago on a rapidly changing Madagascar. On display at the Paris Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy. #FossilFriday

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Marlin fossil display.

Closeup of Marlin fossil.

Placard for Marlin fossil.

Closeup of Marlin fossil tail.

Mighty Marlin. The largest and best preserved Marlin fossil in the world, found during expansion of the Panama Canal in the late 2000's. At the Biomuseo in Panama City, Panama #FossilFriday

The front half of a skeletal mount of Moropus. Other skeletons of prehistoric mammals are visible around it.

Majestic Moropus elatus, a chalicothere from the early Miocene of Nebraska, on display at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science #fossilfriday

Title page from the book The Missing Lynx, signed by the author "This way to the Pleistocene ->"

I made it across the pond for Tet Zoo 2019 and got a signed copy of @deepfrieddna.bsky.social's excellent The Missing Lynx. For anyone who enjoys Twilight Beasts, there's a whole book full of the same goodness.

Under the boot of man Working in a museum I come face to face with life’s extraordinary diversity every day. Specimens a few hundred years old tell us of the richness of life right beneath our feet. Older specimens prov…

And this post by @deepfrieddna.bsky.social is one of my favorite pieces of natural history writing ever. I reread it when visiting the auks at the Trinity College Zoology Museum in Dublin and not gonna lie, it made me cry. twilightbeasts.org/2018/05/18/u...

Interview with the mammoth Archaeology brings you some strange and marvellous places. They never told me that in the prospectus. I’m currently writing this, away up north in Kikinda, in the Banat province of Serbia, a region…

Can't wait to see the surprise! Visiting Kika is on my bucket list because of this article. twilightbeasts.org/2019/07/29/i...

In an age when seemingly everyone on the planet had a blog, Twilight Beasts still managed to rise to the top. Thanks for creating it and for reminding me to go back and reread them!

Skeletal mount of the sauropod dinosaur Tapuiasaurus.

Closeup photograph of the head and neck of the sauropod dinosaur Tapuiasaurus.

Isolated bones of the sauropod dinosaur Tapuiasaurus.

Tapuiasaurus, Cretaceous titanosaur housed at the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil.
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A small blue gray fossil desmostylid tooth.

They're wonderful. Here's a wee little one I have.

a man and a woman are shaking hands and the man is saying i was way off ALT: a man and a woman are shaking hands and the man is saying i was way off

Well, it's Shantungosaurus.

Republican Senator: Mr Hegseth, name a country that starts with 'A'.
Pete: Actually, ...
Republican Senator: Bravo!!!

I finally deactivated my Facebook acct this week, but over the last year I unfriended casual acquaintances, blocked major advertisers, deleted lots of photos & all personal info, and unfollowed/unliked nearly everything. If you must use it, those seem like the best actions to at least demonetize it.

Deleted my account the day Musk bought it. Either your principles matter or they dont. This shouldn't even be a tough call.

In more great news, Lucy said she's going to hold the football for Charlie Brown this time.

"Magnanimous" is a bit of a giveaway.

How many Scaramuccis until we're wishing Mr Doocy success in his future endeavors?

A gar or agar?