David Moscato

I'm doing a new nerdy thing over at Common Descent!

Meccha Chameleon is unironically an excellent tool for understanding how animal camouflage works.

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Apparently if you accidentally call a fax machine it screams at you as punishment

I do this all the time with Pokédex entries

Someone get those folks a pre-opened juice box for the good NASA job they did

Thoughts on trailers I saw at the movies today: Oak Street - High hopes for the premise, low hopes for the dinosaurs Paw Patrol - I know zero about Paw Patrol, but excited to see fun dinos for kids Minions - Not gonna see it, but the trailer made me laugh Animal Farm - Andy, what are you doing?

Project Hail Mary is my second favorite movie based on a novel by Andy Weir where a scientist gets stranded in space.

they're good geese Brent

Just posted a long message about my favorite Pokémon, then immediately posted another long message about the appropriate response to abusers in science, both on the same Discord server that I built with my friend by talking a lot about fossils. What a life. For the record, Steelix and ostracism.

What did this sweet angel ever do to anyone?

Turns out sometimes you make a silly science video for the internet and then someone goes and makes incredible art about it.

Spook-E Season has begun!

At long last, @paleolorax.bsky.social gives us her Plant-Based History of the Earth!

Plants require sunlight to survive, but when night falls and the daytime-dwellers disappear, many varieties of flower come alive. This episode, Nora and Aly explore the allure of “moon gardens” and the adaptations that allow beautiful and aromatic flowers to thrive in darkness.

Such fun! Such chaos! Such science!

Well I do say that

Some plants get big – like, several acres big – like, an entire forest big – like, the largest living things on the planet big. This episode, Nora and Aly address some of the most sprawling plants on Earth and explore the plant super-powers that allow them to achieve super-size.

PUMPED

DragonCon is NEXT WEEK!

Title: "We Have Wolves At Home": Dire Wolves, Dodos, and De-Extinction Time: Sat 04:00 pm Location: 209-211 Hilton (Length: 1 Hour) @dmos150.bsky.social and I have sworn to support each other emotionally, and hold each other back physically, in this panel.

Did you know that placing a banana next to an apple can help the banana ripen faster? Well that was news to some people! This episode, Nora and Aly discuss what exactly is going on inside a ripening fruit and how the fruit knows it’s time to signal its own deliciousness. Image by Dominique Hessel

I have been told I should crow about this more. Apparently goodreads reviewers are known to be brutal. Mostly I'm just glad my books found their audience. #booksky www.goodreads.com/series/27255...

"Aaaaaahhhhhh!" -plants, somehow

Making a Mesozoic meal!

Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!

Episode 3 - What's Inside a Pinecone? Out now! Featuring an animated discussion about these CT-scan images from the Regents of the University of Michigan.

For the curious, this is the article that inspired this first episode: The "sex change" (not really, but kinda) of the Fortingall Yew Tree in Scotland www.thepinknews.com/2015/11/03/e...

Episode 2's bonus episode (Before We Leaf) is now available for our Patrons! Featuring even more stories of plants vs pets, including that one time David lost a lizard.

I'm producing a podcast with a pair of proficient plant-ladies! The first two episodes are out, and it's a ton of fun! (I'm also on the podcast, but you'll mostly have to check out the bonus content to hear me)

Thanks for having me! I had a great time dissecting de-extinction!

Absolutely brutal

"I hurt for these wolves, creatures wholly unaware that they were created to be trophies."

RAD-WEE

This article reads like a sci-fi horror short story. Those poor puppies. time.com/7274542/colo...

Terror Bird xkcd.com/3069

Hey everyone, did you know Riley wrote an awesome new book about the incredible relationship between plants and animals throughout Earth history? 🌿🦕

SO EXCITED to finally share this! The pilot episode of our upcoming brand-new plant-themed podcast!

Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice. Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced. They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study. 2/n

This episode, @oddpride.com joins us to investigate just what was the deal with one of the most infamous figures in early American paleontology.

People have been asking to see a caecilian butt, so here's a video I took at the Vancouver aquarium for this exact purpose. Look how it swims by moving its long serpentine body. Look how it has no tail and simply ends in a butt.