Roxana Taszus

An illustration showing Sphenodraco perched on a tree trunk while a group of Rhamphorhynchus fly in the background

Everyone, please meet Sphenodraco! A newly described sphenodontian (a tuatara relative) from the Late Jurassic of Europe published TODAY!

#paleoart #reptiles #sciart #art

A little painting of a greenfinch, see from the front. The background is a dark beigisch grey. The bird is a beige green. It looks almost directly to the viewer, the position of the eyes and beak make it look quite angry. The brushstrokes are quite loose, but there is lots of detail in this painting

A little painting of a blue, see from the front. The background is a patched, painterly brown. The bird has a yellow breast and stomach, and its feathers are quite ruffled and puffed up. The head is white, with a black mask around the eyes and a blue cap on its head.. It looks almost directly to the viewer, the position of the eyes and beak make it look quite angry. The brushstrokes are quite loose, but there is lots of detail in this painting

Sold these two little bird paintings! A greenfinch and a blue tit. Glad they went as a pair, as they fit so nicely together (both rather angry/ judgy looking 😄).

If you feel like having a painting yourself, or perhaps some postcards of birds, I now have a webshop! www.esthervanhulsen.com/shop/

Functional optimality underpins the repeated evolution of the extreme “saber-tooth” morphology Saber teeth are a classic example of convergence, having evolved repeatedly throughout mammalian history. Using 3D morphometrics, biomechanical testing, and a Pareto optimality analysis, Pollock et al...

Functional optimality underpins the repeated evolution of the extreme “saber-tooth” morphology
Cell Press
www.cell.com/current-biol...

The elephant backbone: Morphological differences, dorsostability, and vertebral fusions In this study, we examine various aspects of the functional morphology and intervertebral mobility of the elephants backbone, comparing it to that of other large herbivorous mammals, as well as to ex...

We love #functional #morphology in our Centre (relating an animal's shape to how it moves, eats ...). Here's an interesting article & great images on #elephantine #giants, and the trade-off between size/range of #locomotion. #elephant #mammoth #biology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Gross functional transition in elephants

Interesting paper showing functional shift from mandible to trunk in elephants:
elifesciences.org/articles/90908
How these radical switches in gross functional morphology happen? Is it some kind of tipping nonlinear shift?
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

It's not often i manage to capture more than one Kingfisher in the same photo, so here's my #StunDay capture for this lovely warm Sunday morning with 2 of them on the same reed at Rodley Nature Reserve.

#birds #wildlife #EastCoastKin #ukbirding @rspb.bsky.social #naturephotography #birdphotography

Giant Mystical Eagle Thought to Be 'Extinct in Mexico' Reappears, Marking Landmark Moment for Conservationists Named for the crone-bird hybrid of Greek mythology, the appearance of this large and majestic raptor is worthy of the association.

A mystical eagle thought extinct reappears in Mexico—a huge win for conservation and indigenous culture. 🦅✨

🎉Bat Conservation Win 🎉
Livingstone’s fruit bat (𝘗𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘪) has been officially downlisted from Critically Endangered to Endangered by the IUCN!

Explicit value trade-offs in conservation: integrating animal welfare Conservation is an evolving discipline, with its values changing over time. Animal welfare is gaining attention, but can conflict with other conservation values. We illustrate how different management...

Explicit value trade-offs in conservation: integrating animal welfare: Trends in Ecology & Evolution www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Was lucky to contribute to this. Too much of conservation involves pretending differing interests will always result in win-win scenarios. It doesn’t.

Hey, #UNOceanConference attendees! Join Scripps' @octavioaburto.bsky.social & Angela Solanilla June 12 for "Marine Prosperity Areas: A Multidimensional Approach to Marine Conservation." The event highlights a win-win development in ocean stewardship, benefiting both ecosystems & economies.

$60 million deal ends mining threat to Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp - The Current Twin Pines Minerals agrees to sell its land near Okefenokee Swamp to The Conservation Fund, ending the threat of mining.

Huge conservation win. HUGE! Share some good news

thecurrentga.org/2025/06/20/o...

New Live Online Course

Learn how to process and analyse acoustic signals using R. This hands-on course will cover key techniques in bioacoustics.

Registration: www.prstats.org/course/bioac...

#Bioacoustics #SoundEcology #AcousticMonitoring #Ecoacoustics #RStats #WildlifeResearch #OnlineTraining

🔊 How can AI ID birds by sound?
Join us on 8 July for AI-powered Bioacoustics with BirdNET – a FREE webinar exploring how machine learning helps monitor birdlife at scale.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1389440637...

@wildersensing.com @nhbs.bsky.social @wildlifeacoustics.bsky.social @kahst.bsky.social

Isle of May seabird soundscape Soundscape of seabird calls from the Isle of May, Scotland

An Isle of May super seabird soundscape #BirdingScotland #bioacoustics #SuperSeabirdSunday @steelyseabirder.bsky.social soundcloud.com/fat-paul-sch...

What bioacoustics means for on-farm habitats and biodiversity - Farmers Weekly Using sensors and smart listening technology to understand more about on-farm habitats and the biodiversity they support is coming to a field near you.

Great to hear farmers in the UK using new tech like #bioacoustics for biodiversity monitoring! 🌍

#BiodiversityActions #Monitoring #EcologySurveys

www.fwi.co.uk/news/environ...

Bioacoustics: What nature’s sounds can tell us about the health of our world Recording the soundscapes of our ecosystems is a burgeoning field that allows researchers to better decode what the Earth is saying. But are we listening?

Bioacoustics: What nature’s sounds can tell us about the health of our world tinyurl.com/2kljtclc (Canadian Geographic, 2022)

Mongabay India wins best science podcast at Publisher Podcast Awards Mongabay India’s 2024 podcast miniseries “Wild Frequencies” bagged the “Best Science and Medical” category at the Publisher Podcast Awards ceremony in London on June 11. The podcast is a…

Mongabay India’s 2024 podcast miniseries “Wild Frequencies” bagged the “Best Science and Medical” category at the Publisher Podcast Awards ceremony in London on June 11.

The podcast tells stories of how researchers in India use the science of bioacoustics to better understand the lives of wildlife.

Synapsid limb evolution reveals complex journey toward upright posture. Analyzing 936 bones from 330 species, new study uncovers mosaic shifts in humerus & femur proportions over 320+ million years—shedding light on rise of mammals
Bishop & Pierce anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A solargram photo taken from the Winter Solstice of 2024 (21 Dec) to Summer Solstice of 2025 (20 June). It's a 6 month long exposure taken with a beer can pinhole camera, it shows the sun's movement across the sky during that time period, each day the Sun scribes a line on the paper in the pinhole camera. The bottom line is Dec 21 2024 and the top line is 20 June 2025. This kind of photo makes the movement of the Sun during the day into visible trails on the paper in the camera. There is a long orange-yellow arc going across the paper showing the whole 6 months. There is a shadow of my tree on the image, the tree blossomed during the exposure. Shades of blue and pink are on the paper too. There is a black kind of semi circle at the top of the image, that's where the water was disintegrating the top part of the paper.

6 month, long exposure pinhole camera Solargram.

Paper wet - part was beginning to disintegrate from water intrusion. Had snow & wind storms & lots of rain May/June 2025.

Pinhole is tiny - I was surprised paper was so wet. Very pleased with result - even more pleased I got the angle right.

Perfectly explained, impeccably executed, hilariously animated

Do you love the color of the crab? 🦀

Screenshot of a Bluesky post Lauren Follow @laurenkayes.bsky.social It's so cool that cities are like "oweeease only turn your AC on if you're actively dying and don't go below 79 " while the Al nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits Jun 22, 2024 at 5:58 PM

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

me, who has always been an em dash hater

I was looking at the many orange sponges in area thinking 'it would be cool if one of these was a frogfish'. And one of them was.

A fascinating set of publications, including these findings from an app rather like eBird for night-time lights.
#CitSci #DarkSkies #SaveEnergy #Conservationscience 🌏🧪

Day 55 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John (H. sapiens) with one of the first of a nearly endless evolutionary series of shrimp, Aeger tipularius (PRI 50595)
#savePRI #redlobster #arthropods 🦑⚒️🧪🦐🦞

Watercolor painting of a peregrine faclon standing on a rock, seen from the side. The falcon is looking up. The background is white. The painting is highly detailed

Peregrine Falcon on a rock
Watercolor and colored pencil on board
12.2″ x 11.4″ (31 x 29 cm)
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#wildlifeart #animalart #wildlifepainting #animalpainting #realisticart #animalillustration #wildlifeillustration #traditionalanimalart #naturalhistoryart #birdart