Dr Ross Barnett

Just got my hot-off-the-press copy of the new edition of Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved, written by @tetzoo.bsky.social and yours truly, with gorgeous new cover art from @bobnichollsart.bsky.social: finally, a sauropodomorph on the cover 🦕🦕🦕 On sale soon!

Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/f...

Will do!

Red Victorian letterbox recessed into a stone wall that is missing the front panel.

Has someone stolen our local Victorian postbox or is this official royal mail business?

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Yeah, it's been made. Certain author (not me) wanted to rebrand P.spelaea as the "steppe lion", but it didn't catch on...

In search of the elusive snow leopard in Uzbekistan - BBC Reel

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NHS Grampian confirms first case of measles since 2014 The health board says everyone should ensure they are vaccinated after confirming its first recorded case in more than a decade.

Get vaccinated, folks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Quite surprised by this given that there are several weirs and other obstacles between the Beauly firth, river Ness, and loch Ness, but goes to show it does happen. fb.watch/FtaZygT_8r/

Round of public events to discuss reintroduction of lynx hailed as success for ‘constructive conversations’ A series of public events to inform and gather feedback on the potential reintroduction of lynx in Scotland has now come to a close.

www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/round-o...

I'm going to do more of these and I'm taking requests. Rules: you can pick a TF character OR a critter, not both, only paleozoic and precambrian taxa, focus on inverts, priority for obscure taxa, plants and fungi can be included. #Transformers #Maccadam #Autobot #sciart

The infamous Piltdown 'cricket bat' An elephant bone shaped to look like a hand tool was perhaps the most outrageous fake in the Piltdown Man scandal.

like the infamous cricket bat! www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/scie...

Piltdown Man skull that fooled the scientific world for years Charles Dawson claimed he had found a skull which was half ape and half human in Sussex countryside.

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The first Early Pleistocene (ca 1 Ma) fossil terrestrial vertebrate fauna from a cave in New Zealand reveals substantial avifaunal turnover in the last million years New Zealand has a rich Late Pleistocene–Holocene vertebrate fossil record with numerous sites across the country in dune, cave and wetland deposits, collectively providing detailed knowledge on the...

Full article: The first Early Pleistocene (ca 1 Ma) fossil terrestrial vertebrate fauna from a cave in New Zealand reveals substantial avifaunal turnover in the last million years www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Phylogenetic Position of the Extinct Hawaiian Honeyeaters: Overcoming the Limitations of Historical DNA Mohoidae, the Hawaiian honeyeaters, are a group of extinct birds that once inhabited the Hawaiian Islands. Their genetic data are only available from historical museum specimens, so it is based on hi...

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Carolina parakeet - Wikipedia

On this day in 1918, incas the last Carolina parakeet died in Cincinnati zoo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolin...

Lion DNA convicts poachers in world first Investigators reveal how they were able to identify a missing animal using a database of lions in Zimbabwe.

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Floreana giant tortoise reintroduced to Galápagos island after almost 200 years Subspecies driven to extinction by hungry whalers returns after ‘back breeding’ programme using partial descendants

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

This is dangerous: name as many animals as you can, as fast as you can. Extinct animals mostly count, but it's weird about multi-specific genera. rose.systems/animalist/

I think the extinction date is pretty close between Japan and beringian lions (all about 11-12ka), not like the difference between mainland and wrangel mammoths (which is 6000 years of difference).

Maybe slightly angled away from the camera and foreshortened? Or some depositional crushing? It does look weirdly puma-esque.

Japan’s lost ‘tigers’ found to be a different big cat species Cave lions lived in Japan long after they went extinct elsewhere, study reveals

www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

True, but Northumberland is actually a part of England.

Dog walkers discovered 2,000-year-old Lunan Bay footprints The imprints were uncovered by storms at Lunan Bay - and later wiped away by the wind and the rain.

Always cool seeing what @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social in the news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A giant pear with a human mouth in a fantasy realm with the words "lol wut" at the bottom of the image.

reminds me of this

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Caver rescued after getting stuck in Highland cave system Assynt Mountain Rescue Team said the uninjured caver was well equipped but needed help returning to the surface.

Inchnadamph www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

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