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bbc.co.ukDutch zookeeper dies after being mauled by leopardThe woman began her career at the park when she was 17 and had worked there on-and-off for four decades.

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Steve Brusatte

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No amphibians today live entirely in the sea. Which is weird. And probably has something to do with saltwater and their delicate skin. But here's a fossil that might be a marine amphibian! A potential evolutionary gamechanger. My thoughts for Nature: go.nature.com/4zkZcKz

go.nature.comEvolutionary ‘game-changer’: weird armoured amphibian lived in ancient seasThe creature’s armour cladding probably enabled it to tolerate the salty seas of the Late Triassic.

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Jordan Bestwick

@jordanbestwick1.bsky.social

🎉New paper alert 🎉 Shell bone histology of modern and fossil Aldabra giant tortoises Lead author Stefanie Herter, Fully OA here: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

metazooa.comMetazooaFind the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

🦤 Animal #1180 🦏 I figured it out in 3 guesses! 🟧🟧🟩 🔥 8 | Avg. Guesses: 5.4 metazooa.com #metazooa

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archaeologymag.comPrehistoric cave bear remains in Italy's Dolomites are now sealed off for research | Archaeology News Online MagazineAncient cave bear bones in Italy's Dolomites are now protected from looters, so scientists can study how the bears lived.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle

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13 Nov 2024

Feels like a good morning to tell Bluesky the story about when I overdosed on my underwear, so let’s do this! 🧵

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authorea.comEvolutionary history and body mass shaped extinctions in the Late Pleistocene mammal community of southern South America during human dispersal | AuthoreaThe impact of Late Pleistocene humans on megafaunal extinctions remains intensely debated. A major limitation in previous studies is modeling humans within a reductionist framework, ignoring the broad...

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science.orgHighlights from an early base camp in Beringia 13,800 years ago: Shég’ Xdaltth’í’ and the Late Pleistocene peopling of AlaskaHuman dispersal across the Bering Land Bridge (BLB) was a key event in the peopling of the Americas, but Beringia’s archaeological record remains poorly understood. In response, the Shég’ Xdaltth’í’ s...

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Biodiversity Pics

@biodiversitypix.bsky.social

🦣 The Mastodon giganteus of North America /. Boston: J. Wilson, 1852.. [Source]

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discoverwildlife.com10 most beautiful wild cats on the planet | Discover WildlifeDiscover the 10 most beautiful wild cat species, from powerful big cats to rare small felines, and what makes each truly remarkable

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people.comFirefly Species Lost to Science for Over 40 Years Rediscovered In a Nature Preserve in DelawareEntomologist Christopher Heckscher rediscovered the once “lost species,” Pyractomena similis, in a Delaware meadow in the spring of 2026, according to a newly published paper in the Journal of Lost Sp...

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fesshole 🧻

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I enjoy taking my handheld radio frequency jammer to the psychic clairvoyancy events my wife drags me to. The panic on the "psychic's" face when their assistant looking everyone up on social media behind the scenes gets replaced with static in their ear is brilliant.

metazooa.comMetazooaFind the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

🐧 Animal #1180 🐰 I figured it out in 2 guesses! 🟧🟩 🔥 6 | Avg. Guesses: 5.4 metazooa.com #metazooa

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ABC News Australia

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Second thylacine head hits UK auction house just weeks after first rare sale

abc.net.auSecond thylacine head hits UK auction house after years stashed under bedThey say lightning never strikes twice, but a UK auction house is preparing to sell a second rare thylacine head — and this time, there's not a googly eye in sight.

metazooa.comMetazooaFind the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

🦈 Animal #1180 🦢 I figured it out in 5 guesses! 🟥🟨🟨🟨🟩 🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 5.5 metazooa.com #metazooa

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rawstory.comRough start for Trump's fraud hotline as it 'instantly backfires': reportThe Trump administration’s new Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program is drawing ridicule on social media after Tuesday’s Oval Office launch, with users posting mock tips about the president and his fa...

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theguardian.com‘Don’t sweat the small stuff’: hospice workers share 12 lessons about life and deathHospice and end-of-life workers discuss what they’ve learned from their work and patients in their last moments

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin today: “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian, you are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that. I commend you.”

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people.comScientists Find 46,000-Year-Old Bone Fragments in a Cave, Leading to Groundbreaking DiscoveryScientists identified 46,000-year-old Neanderthal hand bones in Spain’s Abauntz cave, with remarkably preserved DNA offering new clues about the species.

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reuters.comFeared extinct, Bangka slow loris primate rediscovered in IndonesiaThe Bangka slow loris is one of Earth's most exotic primates, a slow-moving tree dweller that happens to be venomous. It was listed as critically endangered and possibly extinct, last scientifically ...

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The Public Domain Review

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After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle

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The Onion

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Researchers Find Crows Smart Enough Not To Let On How Smart They Really Are https://theonion.com/researchers-find-crows-smart-enough-not-to-let-on-how-s-1844081510/

newscientist.comThe Monte Verde controversy is back: who first lived in the Americas? | New Scientist

I do enjoy a green man. This one is on Dornoch cathedral.

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New Scientist

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The Monte Verde sites in Chile have been the source of arguments among archaeologists for decades. Columnist Michael Marshall finds the row is heating up again – and could change our understanding of the first peoples in the Americas

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Nina Willburger

@drnwillburger.bsky.social

The condition of fabrics from #prehistoric pile dwelling and wetland settlements is amazing. This charred ball of thread was found at the site of Marin-Epagnier/Préfargier. It was made of hemp or lime fibres, and dates about 3900 to 3300 BC. The thread measures a total of about 10 m in length.🧵1/2

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Ed Newton-Rex

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No ISBNs in Canada for AI writing. This is a fantastic policy, and every country should do the same. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

phys.orgLion tracks from the ice age: How two ways of seeing brought ancient animals to lifeThe coastline near the southern tip of Africa looked vastly different between about 400,000 years ago and 70,000 years ago, compared with today. At times it lay as much as 100km (62 miles) south of it...

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra

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UHI Archaeology Institute

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Seminar: Professor Seren Griffiths on radiocarbon dating and narratives of the past Professor Seren Griffiths will discuss radiocarbon dating in the next UHI Archaeology Institute seminar on October 30....

archaeologyorkney.comSeminar: Professor Seren Griffiths on radiocarbon dating and narratives of the pastProfessor Seren Griffiths will discuss radiocarbon dating in the next UHI Archaeology Institute seminar on October 30.

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David Díez del Molino 🇪🇸🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈

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🚨 #postdoc alert ❤️‍🔥 I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group at @cpgsthlm.bsky.social and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social working on #woollymammoth genomics 🦣🦴🧬✨ Deadline: 30th Nov. +Info about the position 👉 www.su.se/english/divi... +info about CPG 👉 palaeogenetics.com RT pls

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theguardian.comLike dinosaur eggs in the sand: the pterosaur museum built to thrive in the Gobi desertHow architects worked with harsh environment to create sustainable building in location where fossils were found

Screens of the Stone Age Podcast

Alien for tax purposes.

Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜@lynnemthomas.com

Add “for Tax Purposes” to a movie: Dirty Dancing for Tax Purposes

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We cover a lot of old movies on the podcast, but this time we ventured out to the cinema to see The End of Oak Street (2026), and guess what? Feathered dinosaurs! Feathered Allosaurus, feathered Coelophysis, and even feathered Camarasaurus, for some reason... 🧪🦖🦕 youtu.be/rrqlNkndDBA

youtu.beEpisode 139: The End of Oak Street (2026) | Screens of the Stone Age PodcastYouTube video by Screens of the Stone Age

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes

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🏺🧪 Great to see this out from @cam-archaeology.bsky.social colleague Emma Pomeroy & Shanidar team! I've commented elsewhere but here's some longer thoughts - hugely important for many reasons (& spear is convincing despite also wondering about tip of a goat horn!) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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theguardian.com18 again: I returned to my life in 1990. Who – and what – would I find there?I doused myself in Poison perfume and made the trip back to my childhood home, friends and college. What could I learn by re-immersing myself in a world that brimmed with hope and potential?

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nature.comEvidence for funerary behaviour and lethal trauma in a new Neanderthal individual from Shanidar Cave - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Evidence for funerary behaviour and lethal trauma in a new Neanderthal individual from Shanidar Cave

bbc.co.ukHole in Neanderthal shoulder bone linked to ancient wooden spearA 75,000-year-old Neanderthal spear wound may be evidence violence shaped human life far earlier than thought.

bbc.co.ukPhotographer has 'mythic-like' encounter with rare albino deerThe British Deer Society confirms the photograph is of an albino red deer seen in Devon.

bbc.co.ukCritically endangered frogs bred for first time at London ZooThe Afia Birago’s puddle frogs are a recently identified species from a single Ghanaian forest.