Dr Ross Barnett

YouTube video by ERB Red Baron vs White Death. Epic Rap Battles of History

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Modified from The Wonders of Life on Earth (Time Editors, 1960): https://raftingmonkey.com/2019/05/23/making-the-interchange-great-again/

When two of your favorite franchises crossover, but some of the major characters from one of them canonically die before it happens, so now it doesn’t feel complete:

Throwback to the Xmas when I spoofed mobile game ads too accurately, and no one clicked on the video.

Adopted “mammoths” from Alaska turn out to be a whale's tale Radiocarbon-dated fossils indicate woolly mammoths were extirpated from mainland Beringia around 13 000 years ago. However, environmental DNA in permafrost suggests small “cryptic“ populations surviv...

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I am a new senior academic in a long established British university. Upon taking charge of 'my' premises, I found dozens of decent students sleeping in our 24-hour study spaces: they are homeless. I don't know how to tackle this without rigid management just changing the locks.

Poland arrests Russian archaeologist wanted in Ukraine - BBC News The allegations against the suspect includes the illegal excavation of an ancient city in Crimea.

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Giant Loggerhead turtle found alive on Solway Coast beach The turtle is found by a walker on the beach next to Southerness Golf Club in southern Scotland.

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Comedian Stanley Baxter dies aged 99 Baxter, who was born in Glasgow, was one of the biggest stars on British television for several decades.

Oh no! Mr. Majeika. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Metazooa Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

🐐 Animal #865 🐕
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
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🔥 34 | Avg. Guesses: 6.1

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YouTube video by British Pathé Prehistoric Horrors Aka Dinosaur Models For Film (1967) | British Pathé

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Walking with bison in ‘the Yellowstone of Europe’ High in Romania’s Făgăraș Mountains, wolves, bears and even bison once again roam free

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Metazooa Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

🐉 Animal #864 🐩
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩
🔥 33 | Avg. Guesses: 6.1

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Engraving of an underground cavern with a couple of flying bats in the air. A group of gnomes with digging tools are gathered round looking at a fossil skeleton of an ichthyosaur buried in the rock.

#WyrdWednesday 'Gnomes of the German legends laying bare the skeleton of an Ichthyosaurus'

From 'The Universe, or, The infinitely great and the infinitely little' by Félix-Archimède Pouchet, 1895

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Sculpted Iguanodon and Megatherium with heraldic designs above the door of the Sedgwick Museum.

Now that the scaffolding is gone, you can get a good look at a rare artform — heraldic palaeontology — above the Downing Street door of the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social

Routine expedition ended with the discovery of a unique animal with a secret ability A routine expedition surprises scientists by revealing a unique animal, Mustela mopbie, with a secret ability that could change what we know.

A new weasel species just found in China. Every time I mention “dark extinctions,” people demand proof. But how do you prove the loss of a species we never knew existed?

There are more undiscovered species than known ones.
Extinction often happens before discovery.
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Bones, bites, and burials: investigating a skeleton from eneolithic necropolis for evidence of probable lion attack in Bulgaria An individual with unique cranial lesions was discovered during excavations of a Late Eneolithic necropolis near the Kozareva mound (Eastern Bulgaria)…

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Doing my best to pass on the wonder the elephant issue of ZooBooks instilled in me.

Cat paw print in a red brick wall.

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

Born #OnThisDay in 1815 was mathematician Ada Lovelace. She is known for her work on the Analytical Engine with mathematician Charles Babbage, an early proposed mechanical computer for which she wrote one of the first algorithms. #WomenInSTEM

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Sump'n Claus - SNL

Everybody getting sump'n www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWnP...

Dinosaurs like Diplodocus may have been as colourful as birds Skin fossils from a sauropod dinosaur examined with an electron microscope feature structures called melanosomes, which are similar to those that create the bright colours in birds' feathers

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Illustration titled "Mastodon giganteus" from 1852 depicts seven detailed, labeled anatomical drawings of mastodon vertebrae and pelvic bones. The bones are shown from various angles, emphasizing their size, contours, and hollow centers. The figures highlight structural features such as large openings and pronounced processes. The scale indicates 2.75 inches to the foot, suggesting the massive size of these bones. The illustration is monochrome and rendered with fine shading to enhance the texture and form, providing a scientific study of extinct mastodon skeletal anatomy.

🦣 The Mastodon giganteus of North America /.
Boston: J. Wilson, 1852..

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Fossil science owes a debt to indigenous knowledge: Lesotho missionary’s notes tell the story Long ago, people identified fossils in their environment and explained them within their own cultural framework. This was early citizen science.

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Vincent D'Onofrio & @vincentdonofrio Pigs can't look up. But I could pick a pig up one night and raise it into the sky and tilt this pig ever so gentle. I can make sure this pigs eyes line up with the stars. Imagine seeing the stars 4the first time.l want 2b treated that kindly and see the stars for the first time.

I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time

The olfactory bulb endocast as a proxy for mammalian olfaction | PNAS Olfaction is a critical sense for tetrapods, playing a key role in survival and reproduction by aiding in food detection, predator avoidance, and s...

Olfaction in Smilodon, Thylacinus, Glyptodon, and Scelidotherium www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

YouTube video by Eutherpe Bella Ciao

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"Guns 4 show, knives 4 a pro".

happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate!!!!! by the way his name is darwin and he lives a farm now