Amber Treadway

I miss my rat babies so much 😭

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The fossilized spinal column of the early mammal relative Thrinaxodon embedded in exposed bedrock that outcrops in the icy landscape of the Central Transantarctic Mountains

It’s Antarctica Day! Give it up for this articulated skeleton of Thrinaxodon, an early mammal relative from 250 million years ago, found in the Transantarctic Mountains 8 years ago. This continent has an amazing fossil heritage that we’re continuing to learn more about!

Social and emotional cognition in Pleistocene hominin evolution: The role of biocultural processes Patterns and processes of social cognition underlie much of the behavioral and ecological flexibility and adaptive capacity that characterizes the pri…

Just out "Social and emotional cognition in Pleistocene hominin evolution: The role of biocultural processes" with @johnhawks.net @marckissel.bsky.social Penny Spikins, Jennifer French and me. Open access in Journal of Archaeological Science... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Depictions of evolution where a phylogeny often has humans on the far right or top can give an impression of evolution being progressive of leading to ‘increased complexity’ when it does not. Top figure shows such a phylogeny which can look the same as ‘the March of progress’ depiction most commonly used to depict evolution (showing monkey to man erroneous march of evolution) - instead swiveling some nodes on a phylogeny where humans are shown closer to the center (which doesn’t change relationships) can lead to better ‘tree thinking’

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social

On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).

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She requires the pets 💜💜💜

8/10 recipe. Really homey and warm flavors. Very filling :) I used pork tenderloin instead of pork belly, probably would be super delicious with pork belly 💜💜💜

Meal prep for this week 😋

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Intersex mammoths are the story of the day

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👂🦴 New study by Urciuoli et al reveals that the classic Neandertal inner ear—once thought to evolve late—was already present in early Middle Pleistocene humans like Reilingen and Ehringsdorf! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

You're never gonna believe this, but we're out of archaeologists again.

We have matched ~650 groups with archaeologists this semester! I am so grateful to the 196 Archaeologist volunteers!

We have 60 unmatched groups rn

Know archaeologists who could do a session? Send them to SkypeAScientist.com

We only rate dogs. This is a family of Suburban Gold Fairies. It's rare for them to travel together like this. Very magical but please only send dogs. Thank you... 13/10 for all (TT: hdbrosriley)

Snow!!! We didn’t get any snow last night but it was super cold 🥶 Have fun with winter!!

My stream community is raising funds for Feeding America during the government shutdown. We will be raising money until the end of the year. Please share to spread the word 💜💜💜

SNAP benefits are under attack during this government shutdown and food banks are picking up the slack.

But they need your help. Here are the best ways to do that:

This is Finn. His human stopped scratching his back, so he had to take matters into his own hands. 13/10 (TT: anna.ve.w)

Otis!! You are so pretty!!! 💜💜💜

a photograph of a very polite-looking spotted hyena loafing like a housecat

another photo of a spotted hyena loafing like a housecat

"but hyenas look more like dogs than cats" oh? then explain THIS 🫵 peak cat behaviour

Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya - Nature Communications Here, the authors present archaeology of the Namorotukunan site in Kenya’s Turkana Basin that demonstrates adaptive shifts in hominin tool-making behaviour spanning 300,000 years and increasing enviro...

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A drawing of a bunch of pumpkins surrounded by three mice, with the mice climbing on them and curled up next to them.

mouse harvest 🐁🎃 this was the print club design for october! trying to slowly but surely catch up

[ #Art #NatureArt #AnimalArt ]

they noshed the squash

🧛🦇 This spooky season, get to know the only mammal that feeds exclusively on blood: the vampire bat!

BG3 has been infiltrating my feed today and I am not complaining 💜

drawing of Alfira from BG3- a blue-skinned tiefling girl in a colorful pink, teal, and purple outfit. she is sitting and holding her lute.

🎶 #bg3

Biogeochemical evidence for targeted landscape use in ancient foragers of Malawi - Communications Earth & Environment Foragers hunted small game locally and procured most large prey in riparian habitats and Afromontane grasslands to the southeast of the Kasitu Valley of northern Malawi, suggesting that migratory beha...

"We found no evidence of migratory behavior in species that exhibit this behavior today. Ancient foragers likely hunted prey that were available year-round, consistent with zooarchaeological and genetic evidence for reduced mobility at the end of the Pleistocene." 🏺🧪🦣

I feel this but on a stratigraphy level 🤣

Guinea baboons share meat according to fixed social rules that parallel hunter-gatherer societies The quality of relationships and the social organization of a society, influence the transfer of valuable resources not only in humans but also in other primates. Researchers at the German Primate Cen...

Interesting, but title seems misleading.

Pioneering animal behavior scholar Jane Goodall.

Anyone wishing a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded, could model after Jane Goodall.

Jane Goodall, the gentle disrupter whose research on chimpanzees redefined what it meant to be human 🏺🧪
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Here's how dinosaur ‘mummies’ are helping scientists solve fossil mysteries A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like.

You didn’t think you were just getting one dinosaur article from me today, did you?

In another for NatGeo, I dig into how dinosaur “mummies” are preserved - and why there are probably many more exceptional dinosaur fossils out there than we ever dreamed. 🧪