Dr Ross Barnett

You can’t choose the times you live in. And sadly we live in an age of extinction I wonder who the last person in Ireland was to hear a wolf howl. Did they realise the magnitude of what they were hearing?

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Mystery Solved: 14,000-Year-Old “Puppies” Were Actually Wolves A pair of Ice Age “puppies” preserved in Siberian permafrost for over 14,000 years have turned out to be wolves, not early domesticated dogs. A recent study of two ancient “puppies” dating back more t...

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Meet the Extinct Camels of North America, From Ice Age Giants to Sheep-Size Runners Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out the relationships and adaptations of these “absolutely bonkers” herbivores

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International, I think.

#31DaysOfHalloween #Halloween #Halloween2025.
A timely reminder from Whitby ….😮

'Urban geology': How to find fossils (and other discoveries) in your city's buildings If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and history, from fascinating fossils to unusual rocks.

This was a lot of fun to write for the BBC - the joys of 'urban geology': fossil-hunting and more in the buildings of central London with @pavementgeology.bsky.social. She even showed me a possible dinosaur bone! #urbangeology www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Palaeontology and pancakes at Uncle Bill's Pancake House in Cape May, New Jersey, U.S.A. 😃🥞🦕 @uclpress.bsky.social @chrismanias.bsky.social #Booksky

“Today, Dr. Frankenstein's descendants keep promising that Al won't destroy civilization while ignoring Shelley's point, that the inventor is more dangerous than his monster.”

Why 40 wolves have shaken Danish politics Even this small number has sparked fierce debates over livestock and public safety in one of Europe's most intensively farmed countries

In Denmark if you're left-leaning or young, you're much more likely to understand that wolves are positive for ecosystems. If you're right-wing or older, the chances diminish substantially.

Why 40 wolves have shaken Danish politics.
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Six Questions for the GCG Committee  – Nadine Gabriel Posted on by geocurators Written by Nadine Gabriel who works at World Museum, Natural History Museum, London 1. What collections do you care for? I’m the Mineralogy Curator at the Natural…

Have you ever wondered what it's like being a mineralogy curator? I wrote a blogpost for @originalgcg.bsky.social about what I get up to at work 🧪⚒️ #geology #minerals #museums
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Sic em @dantheclamman.blog !

Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams

Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams https://theonion.com/biologists-announce-there-absolutely-nothing-we-can-learn-from-clams/

A week ago I saw someone eat an orange in the way you'd eat an apple; peel and everything. It disturbed me so much that I've not been able to get it out of my mind. Sharing so you can think about it too.

Sometimes before starting a task I roll a d20 dice as a skill check to determine how well I'm going to do it.

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These ancient bumblebees were found with their pollen source Insects have long pollinated plants, but evidence of ancient pairing is rare. Fossils now show bees and linden trees goes back 24 million years.

Scientists just found several fossil bumblebees covered in pollen that directly matches fossil flowers nearby.

The 24-million-year-old discovery reveals the oldest known evidence connecting pollinators to the pollinated.

#Paleontology #NationalFossilDay

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New at @sciencenews.bsky.social

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Aberdeenshire shoe shop untouched for 70 years to be restored The Soutar's Shop at Birse, near Aboyne, shut in the late 1940s and has remained untouched since.

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Race to finish rebuild of Iron Age crannog on Loch Tay One year after the first wooden piles were driven into the waters of Loch Tay, the ambitious project to rebuild a crannog is entering its final…

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"We Rate Dogs" exploiting the animal abuse obsession of Facebook's bootlicking, fash-leaning uderbase to plant the seeds or doubt about ICE

YouTube video by Screens of the Stone Age Episode 113: Legend of the Bog (2009) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast

You’ve seen mummies; you’ve seen zombies; but what about a resurrected Iron Age bog body? It's October so we're reviewing scary movies this month! First up is Legend of the Bog (2009), featuring Vinnie Jones and probably the worst written archaeologist we've ever seen 🏺🧪

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This is excellent!

Metazooa Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

🦦 Animal #807 🦎
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 25 | Avg. Guesses: 6.2

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RIP Drew Struzan
A master.

Star Trek TOS art, featuring floating heads of Kirk, Spock, and Bones.

Poster for Blade Runner, featuring floating heads of the characters.

Poster for Back to the Future Part II, with Doc and Marty both lifting shades to look at their watches with the Delorean nearby.

Poster for ET, with ET in the woods reaching for a floating UFO, with the lights of a city grid in the background.

RIP Drew Struzan

Metazooa Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

🦬 Animal #806 🐯
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
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🔥 24 | Avg. Guesses: 6.2

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Museums, galleries & heritage sites are a forgotten part of the public sector. Austerity meant closing buildings, mothballing artefacts, laying off highly skilled staff & freezing pay for years. A national disgrace 10x worse for smaller regional institutions. Go and donate now.

A coloured photograph showing a model Dinoceras from five different angles. The creature is grey and elephant-like in body, but its head is truly extraordinary and almost indescribable. It is a bit like a rhino in form, but has two large down-facing sabre-teeth, four horns on its nose, flappy ears and two giant protuberances on its forehead, looking a bit like Mickey Mouse ears, but more upright. It is standing on a wooden stand, and has quizzical look, as if it querying why it is being observed.

Cool new article investigating two paper mâché models from the Pfalzmuseum für Naturkunde, revealing a series of prehistoric animal reconstructions made in the 1890s: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Just look at the Dinoceras!!!!

(thanks to @hydrarchos.bsky.social for sending this over)