Jochem Noordzij

A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group

🚨New paper alert!🚨🤩

🧪⚒️Welcome the first filter-feeding pterosaur from Brazil: Bakiribu waridza, from the Araripe Basin!! 🥳

The new species is AWESOME and was discoverd inside a regurgitalite 😱🤍

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s 2025. Why do so many scientific journal articles still display weird when shared on social media? Social media is, despite it’s challenges and limitations, an incredibly powerful (and widely used) professional tool for scientists. One common use of social media is to share one’s res…

We interrupt your doomscrolling for a brief rant about scientific journal publishers apparently still not realizing that lots people share scientific journal articles online.

Please enjoy "why do so many scientific journal articles still display weird when shared on social media? 🧪

Human eye on top, squirrel monkey eye below. Little of the peri-iridal tissues are exposed in the squirrel monkey, which is now understood to derive from simply scaling constraints and human adaptations to horizontal scanning. There is no evidence for social cognition being tied to such differences in eye appearances.

Due to the whites of the eye, humans have a uniquely communicative gaze. Other primates have dark eyes, hiding their gaze from conspecifics. We cooperate, they compete. Common knowledge – right? Yes, but it’s incorrect, as we argue in our new paper 🧵🧪1/11

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a drawing of a young tyrannosaurus’ skull, split at the back into two heads. a bit of the spine and two brushes are next to it. text reads: Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature

the two-headed rex 1/6 🧵
#paleoart #dinosaur #trex

The Surprising (And Very Unscientific) Reason Why Penis Bones Are So Rare In Natural History Museums #NotAllMuseums (but a lot of them) seem have to banished the penis bone. Why?

When it comes to certain parts of anatomy, #museums have been deliberately teaching people the wrong thing.
Most #mammals have a bone in their penis but natural history museums usually remove them from display, as I told @iflscience.com (& wrote in #NaturesMemory):
www.iflscience.com/where-have-a...

The box for The Dinosaur Deck showing a Tyrannosaurus and a pterosaur, cards written by Riley Black

Three cards from The Dinosaur Deck, showing the horned dinosaur Wendiceratops, the sauropod Bajadasaurus, and the back of the card for Allosaurus showing stats and fun facts

When I was a young fossil fan, I loved dinosaur fact cards. Imagine my joy at being asked to write a set of my own!

The Dinosaur Deck is out now, featuring 52 dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles that span the Mesozoic, including some new friends in addition to classic creatures.

YouTube video by Kiabugboy More Oncocerida from Gotland

Timeline cleanse: do you want to see one of the best fossil animations I have EVER seen?

@kiabugboy.bsky.social you are literally a master of the form. BBC or Discovery (whoever pays more) should hire you immediately 🧪🦑⚒️

A human hand holds up a small, back-lit, stained glass panel depicting a graceful swimming trilobite in pale blue tones. It is surrounded by honey-coloured glass in a narrow metal frame.

A #TrilobiteTuesday flashback: When I retired from @romtoronto.bsky.social at the end of 2016 one of my museum colleagues (& a good friend) made this for me. Phil isn't here on @bsky.app, but I can still thank him & acknowledge his talents & kindness! #stainedglass #SciArt #PalaeoArt #InverteFest

With the trailers for both #WalkingWithDinosaurs and #JurassicWorld Rebirth apparently showing swimming Spinosaurus, I thought it might be time to go over why I think these animals were not good swimmers. After all, it's something I've written a fair bit about (with @arctomet.bsky.social) 1/many

Donation spike gives Museum of the Earth new life but future remains uncertain - The Ithaca Voice ITHACA, N.Y. — Following a surge of donations sparked by The Ithaca Voice’s reporting, the Museum of the Earth — one of the last natural history museums in upstate New […]

I've got some GOOD NEWS for once! Surge of donations to the PRI museum in New York is going to let it stay open for at least a few more months. Keep going! ithacavoice.org/2025/04/dona...

Combining fossil taxa with and without morphological data improves dated phylogenetic analyses

Mark C. Nikolic, Rachel C. M. Warnock, Melanie J. Hopkins

I think the fundamental approach of presenting kids with neat simplified models, with the assumption that some of these kids might be interested or professionally motivated to later learn the underlying complexity on their own, is deeply flawed

An antique book open to reveal white butterflies glued directly onto the page

An antique book open to reveal beetle specimens glued directly onto the page

Five butterflies pasted onto a blue sheet in four clear windows of mixa

Four sets of butterflies in clear windows on a blue page. A finger lifts one of the windows on a hinge to reveal it is clear on both sides

What a treat to see: behind the scenes at @nhm-london.bsky.social are some of the world's oldest #insect collections. Before pinning them in drawers became a thing around 1700, collectors like James Petiver & Leonard Plukenet just squished them in books, or sandwiched them between sheets of mica.

We just doubled the number of mammoth individuals with #million-year-old DNA! 🎉🦣🧬

Our new study reports 11 new #mammoth mitogenomes that are greater than 126,000 years old, of which two are more than one million years old!

Congrats, Camilo (@jcchacond.bsky.social) and everyone!

See thread below 👇

You Might Think of Shrimp as Bugs of the Sea. But a Remarkable Discovery Shows the Opposite: Bugs Are Actually Shrimp of the Land A recent study suggests that insects branched out from crustaceans on the tree of life

Shrimps is bugs? No, it’s kinda the other way around. Insects are technically crustaceans, which highlights the importance of systematics in understanding how evolution unfolds. My latest for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social.

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.

A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀

Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛

Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

I'm seeing stuff about #PortfolioDay. Cool! Allow me to share. I make realistic animal models that are usually 3D-printed. I sell files on my site too (savimade.ca)

This. Since I begun studying and speaking publicly about science colonialism and illicit fossil trafficking I suffered several attacks. And I became a target from a certain palaeontological association that is more concerned with protecting smugglers and pirates than with science. +

The structure of the end-Cretaceous dinosaur fossil record in North America Dean et al. examine the fossil record of North American dinosaurs prior to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Estimates of detection probability from occupancy models decrease prior to the extinction...

🚨 I'm super happy to announce that our new paper is finally out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🚨

We used the ecological approach of occupancy modelling to investigate the structure of the dinosaur fossil record prior to the K/Pg mass extinction!

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Selection of books on Dixonian speculative zoology, including the After trilogy, manga versions and the two Greenworld volumes.

Dixon painting of predator rats attacking a rabbuck.

Dixon drawings of gigantelopes.

Images from 1988's The New Dinosaurs, showing lank and balaclav.

In 1981, author-editor Dougal Dixon devised the idea of using 'future animals' to illuminate evolutionary processes. His book - After Man - was a sensation and resulted in him beginning the face of what we now call Speculative Zoology. An interview with the main himself... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/3/...

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

drawing of an american robin nesting in the mouth of an Edmontosaurus skeleton

dinosaurs are still with us 🪺

2 different angles of a bronze cast of an Edmontosaurus skull where an American robin has nested in its mouth.

This robin has excellent taste in real estate.

(That’s 'Monty,' the bronze cast of an Edmontosaurus on UTK's campus.)

📸 McClung Museum

#Tegelwippen | Zelfs kleine geveltuinen (1 à 2 m2) hebben zeer positief effect op populaties, blijkt uit onderzoek @unileiden.bsky.social 💧In 65 geveltuintjes vonden we 235 planten- en 154 insectensoorten, die anders niet zouden voorkomen op deze plek - Ecoloog Joeri Morpurgo in NRC 4/4 📷M.Krijgsman

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Excited to announce the pre-launch of my new lifestyle app, PaleoTime (TM)

Using a unique calculation, PaleoPersonHours (PPH), #PaleoTime will reset your lifestyle to an anthropologically informed time-budget baseline for health and happiness!

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Digitised museum collections are full of surprises. For example here's Reinier Vinkeles's etching of a harp-playing putto, ploughing farmer, crystal grotto, and pair of fossil Mosasaurus jaws. That's surprising. (@rijksmuseum.bsky.social: id.rijksmuseum.nl/200388929)

A cretaceous fly trap? remarkable abdominal modification in a fossil wasp - BMC Biology Background Carnivorous insects have evolved a range of prey and host capture mechanisms. However, insect predation strategies in the fossil record remain poorly understood. Results Here, we describe †...

🪰🧬 A Cretaceous 'flytrap' wasp

99-million-year-old amber fossils reveal a wasp with a bizarre abdominal clamp – likely used to grab prey like a tiny Venus flytrap.

🔗 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#SciComm #Palaeontology #Insects 🧪

The impacts of climate activism We review 50 studies on the impacts of climate activism. We present the existing evidence in a map of what we know about climate activism and its impa…

A really cool new study on the impact of climate activism has just dropped! Some highlights:

1) "There is strong evidence that climate activism shifts public opinion and media coverage in a pro-climate direction, but this varies by context and the tactics employed."