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Tyrannosaur Expert; Dinosaur Paleontologist; University of Maryland Geology Faculty; Director of the College Park Scholars-Science & Global Change Program; Science Author; Cat Dad; 🦖🦕
Good to see a current US Senator talking this way.
(No sarcasm.)
When he’s right, he’s right.
Did you know? The lesser Madagascar hedgehog tenrec is more closely related to elephants than true hedgehogs! Weighing ~0.25 lb (0.2 kg), this small mammal inhabits western Madagascar. It can roll up into a spiky ball to defend itself from foes.
Photo: Nigel Voaden, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist
The latest monthly status of key greenhouse gases shown side-by-side. These gases trap heat in our atmosphere and drive wide-ranging impacts across the Earth system.
For more data/info: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/
I spoke with an attorney who has been representing Epstein's survivors for decades: “Their focus instead appears to be on the important people — powerful people that are contained within these files and protecting them instead of protecting who needs the protection."
theintercept.com/2026/02/13/e...
Also, keep in mind that like extant crocodilians, non-avian dinosaurs may have had extensive parental care for hatchlings up to (maybe) yearlings, but after that, the kids would be on their own. (Technically birds do the same, but with their fast growth the young are adults by then!)
#Geol204playlist For the Cambrian Explosion and Paleozoic Marine life (yes, I know: the species mentioned are all of Mesozoic or Cenozoic origin...) youtu.be/vz65vonktMA?...
Very cool volunteer opportunity relative to Dinosaur National Monument!
Countries can rewild land borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief
- Jessika Roswall cites Poland and Finland, which have made border areas near Russia or its allies ‘more hostile’ to cross
#rewilding
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump never met a favor he couldn't do for his pal Vladimir.
Last night I watched all 4 eps of the new Netflix series The Dinosaurs. I tend not to comment on these kinds of shows as, having worked on them, I find that those people who criticize or critique them have no understanding of the competing pressures and factors inherent to the TV industry... 1/8
To the contrary, the framers of the American constitution were *deeply* concerned about a Trump. They believed - it turns out incorrectly - that the system of checks and balances, the other institutions, would prevent a despotic president.
Inter‐ and intraspecific variation in theropod dinosaur dental microwear and its palaeoecological implications - Morrison - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Unraveling the identity of Plesiosaurus posidoniae, the first plesiosaur described from the Posidonia Shale of Germany - Sachs - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Full article: Osteology and relationships of a new shuvosaurid (Pseudosuchia, Poposauroidea) from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, U.S.A. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
They’re dumb thugs flexing with LLMs instead of muscles. Absolute losers.
Pete Buttigieg nails it.
Hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, and discrimination are viruses, magnified by suffering, carried in buckets, spilled onto the world.
We cannot eliminate them by actions that magnify hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, discrimination and suffering - only by actions that relieve them.
Not to mention decarbonisation would mean a third of all heavily polluting ships just... don't need to be there
Sweet and lovely. and a reminder that so much of Japan's best-loved, most socially embedded anime makes little impact on English-speaking fans.
Happy #FossilFriday here is a wee climate paper that I coauthored. We found that 20kya eastern Washington was drying and warming up and chasing away all the pesky pine trees (ew, trees).
As usual with pleistocene stuff, my job was figuring out how old all the dirt was (age-depth modelling)
#PaleoFest2026 #PaleoFest talks are starting soon. Don't forget to axolotl questions!
This bears repeating.
Dr. Casey Means is not eligible for the position as Surgeon General. The position requires experience in public health programs & entry into regular corps. She has done neither.
You can take action by sending a letter to your senator.
🧪 actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...
The US army corps of engineers is considering, right now, what would be the largest destruction of coral reefs in US history. To make a port slightly bigger.
People know this, right?
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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