Dr. Sven N. Nielsen

Fuck fascism

No. No surprise at all.

and he made Life Of Brian possible

Now, that could prove useful 🧪

The media treated Biden's pardon of Hunter for trumped-up gun possession charges as more scandalous - far more scandalous - than Trump's pardon of war criminal serial killer Eddie Gallagher. And here we are:

We’d never get or send so cool an ambassador.

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Two photos of an ichthyosaur skeleton displayed on a wall at the NHM. The second photo is a closeup of the hindquarters, showing a fetal ichthyosaur skeleton that is being expelled from the skeleton of the presumed mother - the braincase and eye socket are just adjacent to the pelvic flipper of the presumed mother, and the rest of the fetus' skeleton is already protruding from the body, tail first.

#fossilfriday One of the most famous "pregnant" ichthyosaurs, a specimen of Stenopterygius quadriscissus from the Jurassic of Holzmaden, Germany, preserved either during birth or as the fetus was expelled post-mortem.

Northern Lampshell (Terebratulina septentrionalis) Northern Lampshell from Beverly, MA, USA on June 11, 2023 at 01:46 PM by Alex Shure. A couple of rogue individuals in a protected overhang ≈12m depth

Living #fossilfriday BRACHIOPOD, Terebratulina showing off its handsome lophophore! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

You'll be visited by 3 spirits

The three spirits

This is alarming

Daily mollusk - not sure if these are larvae or holoplanktonic mollusks (i.e., mollusks who live their whole life in the plankton) 🧪

A Pliocene mega-tsunami deposit and associated features in the Ranquil Formation, southern Chile An exceptionally large tsunami affected the coastline of southern Chile during the Pliocene. Its backflow eroded coarse beach and coastal dune sedimen…

In case you got hooked by my comment:

Numerical investigation of severe dune erosion induced by a tsunami: A case study of the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami on Osuka coast, Hachinohe, Japan Tsunami waves cause severe erosion and deposition in coastal areas. Although tsunami deposits are well surveyed because they reflect tsunami history, …

Nice study on coastal dune erosion by tsunami 🧪
Too bad they did not read our paper 😁

Very obvious and adequate song choice. I heard it in my head without having sound on.

Brazil’s hypocrisy at COP30 The Brazilian government’s 20 October authorization of oil drilling in the mouth of the Amazon River stands in stark contrast to Brazil’s role as host this week of the 30th Conference of the Parties t...

Hello Brazil? 🧪

Author would be Paleontological Society, 2025?

📢 rphylopic 📦 1.6.0 is now on #CRAN!

- resolve_phylopic() retries failing API calls 🔄
- geom_phylopic()/add_phylopic() work with ggplot2 4.0.0 🪛
- add_phylopic_tree() wraps add_phylopic() for base R trees 🪾
- get_phylopic() can get og source files from #PhyloPic 👤

rphylopic.palaeoverse.org
#Rstats

Diving into the past: a new assemblage of Neogene elasmobranch microfossils from the eastern Pacific of South America The fossil record of chondrichthyans from the Pacific coast of South America is rich and diverse, with the Bahía Inglesa Formation distinguished as one of the most important in the region. Despite th...

New Miocene sharks dropped from Chile. Including the anime inspired new sawshark genus Pochitaserra 🧪

IPCC Chair @jimskeaclimate.bsky.social addressed the opening of Earth Information Day 2025 at COP30 today, stating that “during testing times, and facing complex challenges, IPCC will continue to reach for consensus on a shared and trusted evidence base.”

➡️ Full remarks www.ipcc.ch/2025/11/10/c...

Slimonia acuminata from the: Woodward, H., 1878. A monograph of the British fossil Crustacea, belonging to the Order Merostomata. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society, 32(145), pp.ii-263.

This illustration from a classic, reminds us, that we need all three approaches to the ancient worlds:
Palæontography - the description of past life forms
Palæobiology - purely biological theoretical outlook
Palæontology - a holistic study of the past, combining different fields.
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio

Daily mollusk 🧪

"OH YOU CLAM! Speak you clam, So Silent and sane we would fain hear your gentle voice again" Old postcard with a picture of a clam and the above text

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Loosing the PRI would devastate paleontology. Its collections are just incredible 🧪

Nah. You ruined it. Fossils of ghosts are much more interesting. Especially this close to Halloween 😁

Impressive slab. Only screws, no meshes? At least I can't see any.

This hidden gem Upstate NY museum with dino bones you can touch is on the brink of extinction Officials say the museum that houses a mastadon skeleton needs to raise $1 million by the end of 2025 to avoid foreclosure.

Pretty good article about the specifics of PRI's situation and what led to the immediate need they have from upstate NY based media.

www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2025/10...

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Brittle star swimming! Love this movement.