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I figured it out in 6 guesses!
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๐ฅ 27 | Avg. Guesses: 6
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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
๐ฆ Animal #942 ๐ฆ
I figured it out in 6 guesses!
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๐ฅ 27 | Avg. Guesses: 6
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Neanderthals, modern humans, and the rules of attraction. Here's my story on a tantalizing study on mating preferences as far back as 250,000 years ago. Gift link: nyti.ms/4bcNzvy
26.02.2026 20:02 โ ๐ 97 ๐ 26 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 10New maps out today! Saiga once teetering on the brink of extinction now migrate in the millions across the Kazakh Steppe. Learn about the challenges they face on their long distance journeys here: cms.int/gium/migrati...
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anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... [Paywall]
26.02.2026 10:33 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.
With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of vaccines. THREAD๐
Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7 #history #skystorians
๐จ Animal #941 ๐ฆ
I figured it out in 6 guesses!
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๐ฅ 26 | Avg. Guesses: 6
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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 ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ On sale soon!
18.02.2026 11:13 โ ๐ 219 ๐ 59 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 4Will do!
25.02.2026 13:24 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Red 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?
25.02.2026 11:39 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0๐ฆ Animal #940 ๐ฆค
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
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๐ฅ 25 | Avg. Guesses: 6
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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...
24.02.2026 22:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Get vaccinated, folks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
24.02.2026 18:44 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Quite 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/
24.02.2026 09:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I'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
23.02.2026 09:06 โ ๐ 26 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1like the infamous cricket bat! www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/scie...
23.02.2026 09:11 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Full article: The first Early Pleistocene (ca 1โMa) 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....
22.02.2026 13:13 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1On this day in 1918, incas the last Carolina parakeet died in Cincinnati zoo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolin...
21.02.2026 23:16 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐ Animal #936 ๐
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
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๐ฅ 21 | Avg. Guesses: 6
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