Jeanne Timmons

The paper refers to this as a "leafy shoot impression" of Cupressinocladus sp.

The paper refers to this as a "putative reproductive structure." It looks like a very bumpy type of pine cone in rock. It has a large dark section with rust-colors and light yellows in others.

From 2025: A new #conifer record from the late Aptian of La Paja Formation from Veléz, Santander ( #Colombia)

Hector Daniel Palma-Castro, Cristian David Benavides-Cabra, Fabiany Herrera #paleobotany #palaeobotany

acpa.botany.pl/A-new-conife...

VERY well said.

"These findings show that exclusive, cooperative partnerships, once thought to be largely a vertebrate phenomenon, can also arise in socially monogamous insects."

Exclusive aggression against intruders in cockroach mating pairs following mutual wing-eating Abstract. Pair bonding is often described as a selective association between two conspecific adults that involves the exclusion of rivals. While extensivel

"The wood-feeding cockroach S. taiwanensis forms monogamous pairs following a unique mating behaviour, ‘mutual wing-eating’, during which partners consume each other’s wings..." - Haruka Osaki, Kensei Kikuchi, Nathan Lo

royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Oh my goodness, I love this by @serpenillus.bsky.social.

Very grateful to Dr. Manzur, not only for running for Senate, but for being a voice of reason and compassion in a time when so many in power are neither.

ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, ap...

Deeply, deeply disturbing and a very important read.

Story by Kat Lonsdorf, Jude Joffe-Block, Meg Anderson @npr.org

www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...

Federal Courts Reject Trump Administration’s Attempts to Obtain Private Voter Information Judges in California, Michigan, and Oregon have ruled that the DOJ cannot force states to turn over voter lists — and two questioned the administration’s motives.

Judges in California, Michigan, and Oregon have ruled that the Justice Department cannot force states to turn over voter lists. bit.ly/4seXFBQ

STOP. LISTEN. Seriously.

Maybe we’ve been going about this all wrong. Maybe this has to be dismantled from the bottom up. This rank corruption.

There needs to be a serious IMPEACH NOEM demand. These hearings have made any other choice complicity.

"It is fraud" -- Neguse nails Kristi Noem for lying during her testimony yesterday when she told the Senate that DHS's $220m ad campaign starring her "went out to a competitive bid" (it did not), and tells her "I think there's gonna be accountability" (1/2)

The one thing you can say about this administration is they never hesitate to say the quiet parts out loud.

BREAKING: Senate vote on War Power’s Resolution fails 47-52

46 Dems in favor, 1 Nay (Feckless Fetterman)

51 GOP against, 1 Yea (Rand Paul, co-sponsored bill with Kaine)

It is unhinged that we even need a war power’s resolution to restate what is explicit in the Constitution. Yet here we are. smh

😡 "The GOP-controlled House of Representatives will vote on its own War Powers resolution blocking hostilities w/Iran on Thursday. That measure is expected to fail, as well, thanks in part to at least 7 House Democrats who have indicated their support..." @igorbobic.bsky.social

Not a surprise and deeply maddening.

The Tuna's Tail Before coming to the Western Science Center I worked at the Virginia Museum of Natural History as Curator of Paleontology. My primary field site during that time was the Carmel Church Quarry in easter...

"...in #VA I ran approximately 50 excavations at Carmel Church, recovering many thousands of #fossils. By far the most remarkable unit there was the middle #Miocene (14-million-yr-old) Calvert Formation..." - Dr. Alton Dooley 🐠🐋🦈

life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/the-tunas-ta...

The joy of connecting with scientists about their research
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Chickadees, a tufted titmouse, a downy woodpecker, and a house sparrow in this particular moment at the feeders. 🪶❄️

The whole slice of fossil trunk. It's about 1.8 meters in diameter - taller than me. (There's also part of a fossil palm tree trunk on the right)

Close up of the fossil trunk showing the center on the left and the growth rings (there are ~250 rings in total)

I'm at the Paläontologisches Museum München this week, working on some long-overdue projects 🙃 They have cool #fossils in the exhibit hall but this is my favorite: a giant slice from the trunk of a redwood #tree (Sequoia sp. ) that was growing in the US ~16 million years ago. 🌲⛏️ #paleobotany

If Howard Lutnick is speaking to Congress, why isn't Trump?

It happened at a time of his choosing

One of my favorite snapping turtles at a local pond, surrounded by fish. #WorldWildlifeDay

A large grey lynx walks down a snowy road looking incredibly badass.

I'm celebrating half a century on this planet today and it's also #WorldWildlifeDay. I know there's a lot of darkness, but the world is still full of so much beauty. Let's celebrate it by sharing our favourite wildlife photos.

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.

Well done, @newyorkstateag.bsky.social Tish James

#Nature #NaturePhotography Magnificent tree on our hike in Montana de Oro.

It’s incredibly frustrating that no corruption, no recklessness, no perversion is enough for the people capable of removing President Trump to remove President Trump.

Shades of blue all over - the light blue of the sky as the sun sets, the blue tints on the snow below and the dark silhouettes of pines. Clouds are lit by a setting sun.

Snow-covered pond ❄️

This.

A digital illustration of a flowering summer prairie at sunset, with blue hills in the distance. An American bison is walking from right to left, and with it walks a ghostly white silhouette of a mammoth.

#SciArtSeptember 6 - Prairie

The greatest beasts are gone, but maybe the land still remembers.

Another version of the idea of ghosts of lost beasts, this time the spirit of a mammoth walking with a bison somewhere in the fragments of the American prairie that still exist.