What about reptiles? Anti-Bergmann?

What place?

MYSTERY PIC: What is this?
Hint: lizard anatomy.

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your regular reminder that Judicial Review is not anywhere written in the Constitution but "participants in an insurrection are automatically barred from holding office" is.

No sleeping? Hasn’t the writer ever attended a class session?

“Except now! Charge, ye mangey scum!!”
—Robert E. Lee to his 13th in command, Long John Trump
1864 or ‘65, whatever.

DeSantis signed a law that protects delicate cops from having anyone come within 25 feet of them while they’re “performing their duties” but construction workers have to face the full fury of the goddamn sun

“Aide-de-camp” is not really an assistant kind of aide, but a senior member of a command staff. No way was Lafayette anyone’s assistant. Ever. Mon dieu!

Flytrap has made it into month 4 and looks better than when I got it!

Aye, but NOT decapitated.
As for the army, he did write about how unsoldierly and unprepared to meet a major opponent they were.

Whoa, wait!
You mean that’s NOT true!
Jeez‼️

Ouch!

Yes, he was a volunteer for Washington. I think he found the American “Army” pitiful.
Returned to France, lived til 1834, respected by two nations

Things may not be looking up (!), but some of us are still in the game. Keep looking for the kindness & beauty in our world, and goodnight,

I’ve always wondered how that works, the triggerfish’s safety.

What do you teach? Certainly not a whole course on cephalopods? Oh, but wouldna that be wonderful!

I’ve had friends go there before.
I’ve also had a few octopus friends. My god, they’re intelligent! If they lived longer there WOULD be an octopus civilization at least on a par with humans!

Now THAT is cool!!

From a newly minted Ph.D., correct?

What is a good way to earn $4500 fast? Suggestions??

Hey, I had that same problem in ‘87; I asked my 10th graders if they remembered where they were when Apollo 11…. And they said they hadn’t been born!

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Enjoy our springtime exhibition featuring hundreds of butterflies and colorful native plants, now on view through August 25: nhm.org/butterflies

March 19th is Taxonomist Appreciation Day! The World Register of Marine Species is celebrating by announcing the Top 10 New Marine Species described in 2023! Check out the list here 👇🧪
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Wonderful… what do you feed them?

Full color reconstructions of 5 Urocordylids nectrideans in lateral view. From top to bottom: Sauropleura scalaris, S. pectinata, Lepterpeton dobbsii, Ptyonius marshii and Urocordylus wandesfordii

Colorful Urocordylids, a full reconstruction of the sketches I showed yesterday.

Fossils of two of these taxa (Lepterpeton dobbsii and Urocordylus wandesfordii) were found on Ireland, so I guess it is a timely post for St. Patrick’s Day! 🍀

🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology

From a dumpster. We can exchange stories about dumpster finds: a rare book, a museum shell collection…

And you still have your lasers!

Three green and black marbled newts (Triturus marmoratus) eating food pellets and arranged roughly in a circular shape.

It’s important to keep your newts in a circle at all times