@deepfrieddna.bsky.social
Invernessian palaeogeneticist and stay-at-home dad. Knows a thing or two about the aDNA of extinct lions, sabretooths and megafauna. Author of The Missing Lynx. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Missing-Lynx-Future-Britains-Mammals/dp/1472957350
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 doesnβt feel complete:
12.12.2025 17:10 β π 47 π 13 π¬ 2 π 0Throwback to the Xmas when I spoofed mobile game ads too accurately, and no one clicked on the video.
12.12.2025 16:51 β π 689 π 215 π¬ 18 π 4I 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.
12.12.2025 09:20 β π 184 π 22 π¬ 21 π 2Oh no! Mr. Majeika. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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 β heraldic palaeontology β above the Downing Street door of the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social
11.12.2025 08:52 β π 409 π 84 π¬ 6 π 6A new weasel species just found in China. Every time I mention βdark extinctions,β 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.
www.earth.com/news/routine...
Doing my best to pass on the wonder the elephant issue of ZooBooks instilled in me.
10.12.2025 13:01 β π 81 π 23 π¬ 6 π 1Cat paw print in a red brick wall.
Iβve 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.
10.12.2025 16:07 β π 3224 π 731 π¬ 31 π 28Born #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
10.12.2025 08:00 β π 64 π 26 π¬ 2 π 1Everybody getting sump'n www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWnP...
10.12.2025 10:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Illustration 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.
𦣠The Mastodon giganteus of North America /.
Boston: J. Wilson, 1852..
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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 weβre 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
21.11.2024 04:15 β π 33807 π 5545 π¬ 447 π 312Olfaction in Smilodon, Thylacinus, Glyptodon, and Scelidotherium www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
09.12.2025 21:15 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Guns 4 show, knives 4 a pro".
09.12.2025 19:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate!!!!! by the way his name is darwin and he lives a farm now
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