Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.

This dumbfuck administration is going to have the U.S. at war with the whole of South America before they are done.

Top left: portrait of Mary Anning in a green cloak and straw bonnet, holding a hammer and with a basket over her arm; right: frontispiece and title page of Mary Anning's copy of Miller's monograph on fossil crinoids; bottom left: inscription which reads 'To Miss Mary Anning with the Authors best wishes' beneath which is the signature of Elizabeth Philpot to whom the book was given after Mary's death in 1847.

22 November 1832: Mary Anning and Anna Maria Pinney consult JS Miller's 1821 'Natural History of the Crinoidea' to identify a fossil crinoid they had found the day before. It appeared to be a new species. The copy they used was given to Mary by Miller in 1824. It's now in Lyme Regis Museum.

Nothing to see here. Just the White House needing to reassure the public that Piggy doesn't want to murder members of Congress. 😩

Malafaia, E. et al. 2025. Theropod tooth morphotypes from the Andrés fossil site: insights into a highly diverse fauna of European Late Jurassic carnivore dinosaurs. Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(3):a53.
doi.org/10.26879/1504
palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025...

Wing morphology of Anchiornis huxleyi and the evolution of molt strategies in paravian dinosaurs - Communications Biology A feathered dinosaur highlights gaps in our understanding of paravian wing evolution. Its wing structure shows evidence of an irregular molt, indicating flightlessness and demonstrating the complexity...

Kiat, Y., Wang, X., Zheng, X. et al. Wing morphology of Anchiornis huxleyi and the evolution of molt strategies in paravian dinosaurs. Commun Biol 8, 1633 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Can't wait to read this!!

Relief skeleton of a medium-necked plesiosaur, surrounded by ornate wood trim.

Nearly identical plesiosaur cast, in a crowded case with other relief skeletons of marine reptiles, green text banners, and illustrations.

Illustration of the same skeleton with a guy pointing a stick at it. Text says Plesiosaurus cramptoni No. 228.

The Ward Scientific Company sold these Rhomaleosaurus casts to various museums starting in 1866 (for $150). The original at the National Museum of Ireland was broken up with sledgehammers during a move in the 1920s. #FossilFriday

Mounted skeleton of the legged sea cow Pezosiren

#FossilFriday The walking sea cow Pezosiren at the National Museum of Natural History

YouTube video by CHVRCHES - Topic Lungs (2023 Remastered)

#Geol104playlist Dinosaur Physiology II
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The Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols.

This action, coupled with the President's call to hang Democratic members of Congress - both in the past few hrs - are more than "potentially divisive."

They are vile, unconscionable, and dangerous.

Bar graph showing zonal mean surface air temperature anomalies for the period of October 2025. All latitude bands observed above average temperature anomalies relative to 1951-1980.

Take a look at this... Remarkable "warmth" last month across both polar regions when visualizing temperature departures by latitude. The x-axis is quite stretched out here compared to my usual monthly update of this graphic.

GISTEMPv4 using their 1951-1980 baseline (data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/).

Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?

Memorandum & Opinion – #88 in DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-03005) – CourtListener.com MEMORANDUM OPINION re 3 Motion for Preliminary Injunction and 705 Stay: See document for details. Signed by Judge Jia M. Cobb on November 20, 2025. (lcjmc2) (Entered: 11/20/2025)

A federal judge in Washington has halted the Trump administration’s effort to keep more than 2,000 National Guard troops deployed across the city, finding that D.C. is likely to prove the deployment unlawful. Thank you, Judge Jia M. Cobb!

Tooth–bone attachment tissue is produced by cells with a mixture of odontoblastic and osteoblastic features in reptiles Tooth attachment in vertebrates ranges from ligament-based anchorage in mammals to direct fusion in many reptiles. In the veiled chameleon, we identified a transient cell population—termed ankyloblas...

Tooth–bone attachment tissue is produced by cells with a mixture of odontoblastic and osteoblastic features in reptiles - Šulcová - Journal of Anatomy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Limb proportions predict aquatic habits and soft-tissue flippers in extinct amniotes Gordon et al. use a phylogenetic supervised machine-learning approach on a large original comparative dataset of limb measurements to reconstruct the evolutionary history of aquatic lifestyles in seve...

Limb proportions predict aquatic habits and soft-tissue flippers in extinct amniotes: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

A. Romilio et al. (2025)
Track by Track: Revealing Sauropod Turning and Lateralised Gait at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite (Upper Jurassic, Bluff Sandstone, Colorado)
Geomatics 5(4): 67
www.mdpi.com/3599020

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

Cosnefroy, Q., Crevecoeur, I., Semal, P. et al. Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey. Sci Rep 15, 40741 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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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CW: pedophilia, sexual harassment

In light of the Epstein documents, we need to talk about just how common and pervasive pedophilia is.

We also need to talk about how most women (as far as I can tell) first become acquainted with their sexual identity through interactions with pedophiles.

CSI: Cretaceous. A reptile body farm is shedding light on how dinosaurs died. Here’s how scientists are solving the “dinosaur death pose” mystery and others.

Alas, this article on our reptile decomposition research does not come in a scratch-and-sniff format. However, if you'd like to see what my students, colleagues, and I have been up to with our decomposing lizards and crocodylians, here's your chance. 🧪

Global warming is like a human fever: https://nature.ly/4igz104

"If our body temperature spiked by 2°F in a very short period of time, which is exactly what the Earth's temperature has done, then we'd be feeling really achy." @katharinehayhoe.com for @axios.com

The incredible takahē story Thought to be extinct not once but twice, the takahē's remarkable story of survival and rediscovery is a testament to the resilience of nature.

After being declared extinct twice(!), it was on this day in 1948 that the Takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri) was rediscovered again. Thanks to intensive conservation work there are now more than 500. www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/tak...

Microwear structures and surface analysis on isolated theropod teeth from the Upper Jurassic Andrés fossil site, Pombal, Portugal The analysis of wear surfaces on teeth has been applied to infer diet, feeding mechanisms, climatic conditions, and habitat in various groups of extinct organisms. Recently, analyses of microwear surf...

www.scup.com/doi/10.18261...

Hindlimb functional morphology and locomotor biomechanics of the small Late Triassic pseudosuchian reptile Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum (Archosauria: Gracilisuchidae) - Lecuona - Journal of Anatomy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Walk and chew, people. Walk and chew.

Functional anatomy, jaw mechanisms, and feeding behavior of Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi, Arthrodira) - Engelman - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Godzilla (2014): the big showdown is in SF

Xin-xin Ren, Xu-ri Wang, Yi-chuan Liu & Shu-bin Ju (2025)
Late Jurassic tectono-volcanic evolution and sauropod radiation of eastern Jiangnan orogen: Evidence from Tunxi Formation, China
China Geology 8(4): 779-796
doi: doi.org/10.31035/cg2...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Description of a new clutch of Nanhsiungoolithus chuetienensis reveals possible parataxonomic affiliation of dromaeosaurid egg A new clutch of a rarely described oospecies, Nanhsiungoolithus chuetienensis is detailed in this work. The clutch contains 14 eggs radially arranged in two concentric rings, representing the most ...

Description of a new clutch of Nanhsiungoolithus chuetienensis reveals possible parataxonomic affiliation of dromaeosaurid egg: Historical Biology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A new theropod dinosaur record and footprints from the Lower Cretaceous of the Triunfo Basin, northeastern Brazil The Triunfo Basin (Uiraúna-Brejo das Freiras Basin) is part of the Rio do Peixe Basin Complex, an extensive megatracksite from the Lower Cretaceous. Hundreds of footprints and trackways of theropod...

A new theropod dinosaur record and footprints from the Lower Cretaceous of the Triunfo Basin, northeastern Brazil: Historical Biology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....