Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺

Giants causeway basalt formations inspired the external architecture of the building

It’s sure was … brilliant it was and sad in one sense after what a fantastic range of teams working with, but it’s really great to see all hard work paid gf by everyone. I plan to visit early 2027 hopefully. Saving has started!

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Today the fantastic Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi has opened.

I feel privileged to have worked in all core areas, incl. developing exhibits & species, design input, narrative, collections, labs etc as an expert consultant for 4 years.

Delighted it’s finally open! #nhmad

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Her own private fun comfy palace 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this made me laugh so much …. I can just imagine what that was like just from what he did to one roll - I’m finding bits all over the house! He was galloping around a lot last night, I assumed it was zoomies. Little did I know! 😆 he stole this one out of the bathroom shelf.

Pooka flittered an entire toilet roll
And did not regret it one bit! 🤣
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#cats #kitten #caturday

Yup! All around him with his increasingly large teeth!!!

Yeah, growing ! 🤣🤣

Friday night and we are all wrecked …

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We conclude that this highly selective exocannibalistic behavior likely reflects inter-group conflict during the Late Pleistocene, when Northern Europe is marked by diverse Neandertal cultural traditions, but also the arrival of Homo sapiens.

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The mix of four adult females and two infants is extremely unlikely and reflects deliberate selection of individuals/targets by the cannibalistic group, whose own remains are missing but were almost certainly Neandertals. 👩‍👩‍👦

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Despite the high fragmentation of the remains, we were able to dress the profile of these individuals.🦴

Adults were all gracile females, non-local and possibly originate from different groups. Also, they show among the shortest stature ever documented for Neandertals! 🤏

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Our study integrate morphology🦴, paleogenomic🧬 and isotopic⚛️ data to document cannibalism at the Troisème caverne of Goyet (Belgium) 🇧🇪

The results indicate the presence of at least four adults/adolescents females and two infants among the human remains, mostly composed of lower limb bones.

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Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey

Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖

Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!

We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.

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The apprentice Guardian of the Bones is coming along well….

#Caturday
#cats
#SiberianCat
#kitten
#zooarchaeology 🏺🦣

Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty Quantitative analysis of canid skulls points to an earlier origin of dog diversity

Very happy to contribute to this excellent paper on #dogs by @carlydigsit.bsky.social & collabs showing that dog appearances were changing far far earlier than Victorian era breeding. 🏺🧪🦣 🐕 #zooarchaeology

Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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There is no "ceasefire".
There never was a "ceasefire".

a man in a cowboy hat is riding a white horse on top of a rocky hillside . ALT: a man in a cowboy hat is riding a white horse on top of a rocky hillside .

@president.ie Farewell and many thanks to President Higgins for your 14 years of excellent service to Ireland and its people. Sincerely thank you (& Sabina) for such humility, grace, fairness, and integrity. Going to miss you a lot and Misneach (& Bród and Síoda ❤️). Keep enjoying life!

All brushed and nearly full set of adult teeth now… and SO FLUFFY!!! (My fingers too are touching his skin)

A fake Bluesky suspension DM. "Bluesky @blueskyguard3453.bsky.social We regret to inform you that your Bluesky account has been temporarily suspended due to security-related restrictions. To prevent the permanent termination of your account, it is imperative that you complete the verification process within the next 24 hours by using the following link: (REDACTED) If the link does not open directly, please copy and paste it into your browser's address bar. ▲ Important: Failure to complete the required verification within the specified time frame will result in the irreversible and permanent ban of your account. We appreciate your immediate attention and cooperation in this matter. Sincerely, Bluesky Support Team 10:49 PM"

Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM.

DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.

Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.

Stay safe!

I believe they have counselling in place for all the team. Which is great as I’d say well needed

Huge respect for the archaeological and extended specialist team… they are doing us all proud and with such dignity too. Righting wrongs. All too close in time than we are used too, it will weigh heavily on their shoulders for a long time.

ROBS TRANCE

It’s a Trance music afternoon and evening ahead - love it! Beats relax me and make me happy, keeps the work flowing.

Found this extensive 7hr playlist on Spotify! Let’s go!!!

open.spotify.com/playlist/5uy...

I’ve seen things 😳

Time for bed but I’m not tired as I slept so well last night after falling asleep at my desk and then going to bed, never looked at the time. Got up at 7.30am feeling refreshed and that was all that mattered!

Thanks! I’ll put them in shortly. Set timer. He loves his treats but tends not to chew much 😅

Oh great idea. I’ll do that … can I do that to his soft wet food? I only have hard treats.

Pooka is teething at the moment and feeling very sorry for himself … look at that little sad face … 😞 #kitten #cat

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