They're actually not exclusive — I've seen them in other museums but they are designed by and manufactured for PRI who then sells them to other museums.

Same. Though I will say PRI/Museum of the Earth and NHM London are both standouts, given they have Paleozoic Plushies and exclusive editions of Darwin's books respectively

Clearly, the aliens were just taking their UFO to the boneyard in Roswell.

closeup of where the human and zebra skeletons are spliced together

APRIL FOOLS!
It's a human skeleton spliced onto a zebra skeleton! Centaurs aren't real. "Poisson d'Avril" means April Fools and Nullepart-le-Trou means "Nowhere-the-Hole"

The fewer LLM chatbots I have to deal with in my life the better.

The AI enshittification of Duolingo has gone so far that it gave me a blatantly wrong grammatical explanation... I already cancelled my premium subscription but I think this is the last straw for me.

My emails are written by me as well, though if you've ever received one you can probably already tell given I'm seemingly incapable of writing an email without typos.

No serious scholars are using AI to do their writing for them. If you're using LLMs to write up research articles, review grants or manuscripts, or grade, you're a joke.

I do not use LLMs for my writing. Any of it. My scientific articles are written by my human coauthors and myself, with assistance of irresponsible quantities of caffeine, and occasionally pets. My fanfic is written by myself alone while sleep deprived and having bad ideas.

You have your own creativity to answer that! If you do write about it, please post the link in this thread tho, I want to read it.

Tldr it's not a real animal. As for fantasy centaurs, it's up to the author. Write whatever you want in your universe.

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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Les francophones comprennent tout de suite

no they are vertebrates

one of the authors wrote a blog about it: blogs.mtdv.me/articles/-Et...

you really only see discoveries this amazing and outlandish at this time of year!

"Centaur skeleton" - actually a composite of zebra (Equus sp.) and human (Homo sapiens) bones assembled to resemble a centaur. If you look carefully you can see the point where the human lumbar spine is connected to the cervical spine of a zebra. Photo actually from a temporary exhibit on hoaxes photographed at the Bruce Museum (Greenwich, CT) in 2023.

New Holocene subfossils from the Poissons d'Avril cave in France show conclusive proof of the Cave Centaur ("Centaurus spelaeus"). Authors argue late surviving cave centaurs were origin of centaur myth. Skeleton on display in nearby village of Nullepart-le-Trou.
preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2204.06826

"Did you know" section of the English Wikipedia Main page from April 1, 2026. Did you know... ...that Governor Joe was "not afraid of longhairs" ...that men ceased to exist in 2009? ...that the Los Angeles Metro wants you to ride their D? ...that African Nigeria played in the NFL? ...that Karl Marx made an arrangement of a Christmas carol? ...that Ben Franklin was inspired by an internet meme? ...that a moth flew into a podiatrist's office because the light was on? ...that the Armed Forces of the Philippines have a cobra that they use for combat? ...that horses suffered a ban in November 2025? ...that Romeo and Juliet are a same-sex couple? ... that E.T. wants Osama bin Laden to fuck off?

this year's is great

Hell yeah!

wow, beautiful preservation! You can only find this type of preservation at this time of year

Just published today - a quick nomenclatural note on an obscure non-pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Stonesfield Slate! Thomas Huxley named it in 1859, not Hermann von Meyer

The very fragmentary Arambourgiania sp. cervical vertebra from Tennessee. The posterior fragment is on the left, and the anterior fragment is on the right. Views: A, left lateral; B, posterior; C, dorsal; D, ventral; E, right lateral; F, anterior; G, dorsal; H, ventral. It's VERY beaten and the different anatomical features are hard to make out in the photos.

Arambourgiania in North America, you may ask? There is one - two very worn fragments of a cervical vertebra from Tennessee, which look intermediate between Infernodrakon and the later A. philadelphiae. It's the only North American azhdarchid from this time identifiable to genus level

In New Jersey heading towards GWB

Yeah, but makes less sense for Delta to fly there now since it's no longer offering an easy connection to the African cities AF used to serve from ORY.

I've taken JFK to ORY or vice versa so many times while visiting family in France. Low-key disappointed that flight is gone.

This is actually very useful for my fanfics

At this point I look at everything under UV. Even if the specimen itself is not fluorescent sometimes you can get a better idea of how something has been prepped. And if you're not trying to get publishable-quality UVIF photos then cheap UV flashlights are good enough for examining stuff.