Dynamognathus

Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain Natural colonisation can successfully create structurally diverse, locally adapted woodlands in Britain, but the outcomes of this process can vary considerably. Combining natural colonisation and tre....

New paper - “Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain” - Fleiss - 2025 - Ecological Solutions and Evidence - besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @forestresearchuk.bsky.social

The ever-adorable shadow

Woolly rhinos jousting observed by flock of barnacle geese #sciart

Florida protects habitats of listed species on massive ranch - The Wildlife Society Over 7,000 acres protected to keep vital wildlife corridors connected

Demonstrating that cattle and conservation can coexist, over 7,000 acres of ranchland are protected safeguarding habitat for rare species in the heart of a Floridian wildlife corridor.

Plus, as long as diseases are kept in check then all those deer are a sustainable resource of free-range-meat for us. How’s the culture around hunting in Ireland, if I may ask?

The two lynx we have in NA are a tiny generalist (who does sometimes hunt deer, which is insane) and a hare-specialist. From what I’ve seen, Eurasian lynxes are more like a small leopard in terms of being an ungulate-focused generalist.

YouTube video by IGN Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age - Official Season 3 First Look Clip (2025)

INJECT IT STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS HOLY SHIT YES YES YES
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Rough black-and-white pencil sketch of an American Kestrel hovering in front-view, above a dense patch of tall grasses and wildflowers. A small mouse is sitting on the ground below the kestrel, deep amongst the grasses and wildflowers.

Quick sketch of an American Kestrel hovering over a grassland, watching for the movements of a mouse hidden below it. #wildlife #birdart #kestrel

Common eastern bumblebee visits a small white aster flower

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Fish of the genus Brycon are found in freshwater habitats in much of the known world, though are at their most abundant and diverse in the Seridic Wetlands. They are omnivores, primarily eating vegetation with a range of small fish and invertebrates.

The overall tetra diversity of the seridic wetlands must be *unfathomable*.

Dust flies and wood breaks under the titanic efforts of two Scallop Nuns, the largest land animals of Lemuria. Their home are the open woodlands, which they formed in part themselves as they constantly topple smaller trees. This open up the landscape for grasses and ferns and...

extinct forest rhino - Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis walking through wilderness while looking for mate.

Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis looking for a mate
Pleistocene, Poland
#paleoart

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Colored-pencil drawing of a prehistoric deer leaping in front of a simple green-and-brown background of Bald-Cypress trees. The deer is a darker shade of brown than the trees, and its antlers are small and have three prongs. Its tail is raised up, just as white-tailed deer do while fleeing.

Quick colored sketch of the deer Eocoileus gentryorum, bounding through a southeastern Cypress Swamp. It is known from the latest-Miocene and Pliocene of Florida and Tennessee, and is the earliest known deer in the Americas. #paleoart #cenozoic #deer #GrayFossilSite #sciart

Vetulicolian studies. Cambrian weirdos #sciart

Digital illustration of a young girl with a backpack cuddling with the giant miocene hyena Dinocrocuta on a solid yellow background with pink hearts. She is hugging the hyena's head warmly, and the animal looks content

Digital linework of a young girl with a backpack cuddling with the giant miocene hyena Dinocrocuta

A Girl and her Dinocrocuta

Messing around with some new brushes

#paleoart #sciart

I suspect they’d need a heated barn while some selective breeding is done, even with them being within extant H. amphibius diversity suspect they’d have a few unique skin/fat adaptations. Would be cool though.

A rough black-and-white pencil sketch of a small, rat-like Xenarthran mammal sitting and looking up at a very tall, early Penguin. They are on a relatively flat coast with a few low-lying plants around them.

Another concept-sketch for my personal spec-evo project: a small mammal, after weeks drifting at sea, looks up at its strange new neighbor on the shore of the Kerguelen landmass. At some point in the Paleocene, I’m planning on an endemic radiation of Xenarthrans taking hold. #specevo #xenarthra

🍄This fungi is in the mood for Spooky Season by sporting its Halloween colors! Chanterelles are known as "The Jack-o-Lantern mushroom" because their orange color!🎃

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✨Chanterelles (Genus Cantharellus)

Such a silly yet unsettling stare

Though other subspecies of green alar (also just called alar) can get quite large, the Seridic alar is the smallest member of not only the species but the genus overall. It is generally believed living alongside the only living species of Ardeanax (the ba'khar) contributes to this restriction.

Preview of my latest #paleoart piece: a baby bison flees the deadliest predator of Ice Age Europe. Harrowing, harrowing stuff.

OMG OMG OMG OMG

A colored-pencil sketch of a speculative hybrid warbler (cross between a Magnolia Warbler and a Northern Parula) standing in side view, mouth open as if singing. The top of its head, its wings and its tail are blueish gray, while its throat and belly are yellow that fades to white at the tail. A black mask covers the side of its head, and a black neck ring with black streaks marks its chest.

Quick drawing of a speculative, but plausibly real, bird. New-World Warblers in the family Parulidae readily hybridize, and this is what I imagine a cross between a Magnolia Warbler and a Northern Parula might look like. #bird #warblers #wildlife

Such a wonderfully troll-shaped swamp monster, I’m super excited to see the upcoming documentary on this species in a few months! #kaimere #specevo

Ready your binoculars as Part 1 of the Encyclopedia update drops October 3rd! 📖
This ingame tool will allow you to log and learn more about the incredible fauna found in Los Angeles during the Late Pleistocene.

A photograph of a scattered pile of tiny, nearly rectangular, white osteoderms laying on the sandy ground amongst some pebbles and small leaves. Most are laying individually, though some are connected in groups of two or three or four. They are from a small armadillo, likely the last remnants of a piece of coyote poop.

Adding a photo to this post: a weathered collection of osteoderms and bones from what was likely a juvenile Armadillo, probably left over from a pile of now-gone coyote poop. Something I found recently in the woods.

Colored-pencil sketch of a Mexican Long-nosed (formerly Nine-banded) Armadillo on a white background, walking away at an angle from the viewer

Just barely making it for September’s #NearbyNature2025, here’s the Mexican Long-nosed Armadillo. Formerly known as a northern subspecies of the recently-split Nine-banded Armadillo, this is the only Xenarthran native to Alabama today. They are mostly nocturnal insectivores. #wildlife #alabama

Absolutely beautiful