My extensive knowledge of birds suggests that these are definitely neither flamingoes nor crows. So they must be ducks, which are the only other sort of bird.

A new taxon of saurischian dinosaur from the Coelophysis Quarry of New Mexico, USA (Triassic: latest Norian or Rhaetian) highlights herrerasaurian diversity in the latest Triassic The most complete record of the earliest dinosaur lineages is from the Carnian from the higher latitudes of Pangea (e.g. present-day Brazil, Argentina), but dinosaurian assemblages from the upper sta...

New early dinosaur from the Coelophysis quarry! Many, many congratulations to Simba on this publication, which is based on his undergrad work, and which he presented at our 200 years of the dinosaurs conf in 2024!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

NOT NOW, AMOC! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Indeed. Perhaps would have been better to phrase as "less sugar and fewer deep-fried options"

Was great to see our old friend Patagotitan juxtaposed with the awesome Norman architecture of Peterborough Cathedral at the grand opening of the Titanosaur exhibition last night

While I love this (and I'm a huge fan, Sadiq), it is *FEWER* high-sugar & deep fried options. Please. Please.

WILD EARTH NEWS!! Head-butting Sperm whales, Cornish Carnivores and MUCH more. Episode 1 YouTube video by Wild Earth Uncovered

Check out this new YouTube series, #WildEarthNews, on the latest happenings in the natural world by my friend Ben Anderson. He releases a new one every fortnight: youtu.be/w3YcyVpvoq4?...

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😁😁 mate I'm on the way back from the Alps too. I have not paid under €100 for lunch on any day this week.

I think you're being unfair. I slept on the floor there once and as airport floors go, I'd say it was about average

On the origin of metazoan reefs Abstract. Tropical shallow marine metazoan reefs have been biodiversity hotspots throughout their history, where this high biodiversity is thought to origi

On the origin of metazoan reefs url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

I absolutely love skiing for so many reasons, but a major one is that it is the only sport where it is entirely acceptable - even *expected* - that you drink two pints at lunch and an Irish whiskey in the afternoon and carry on as before

A chart from Our World In Data, showing the shift away from coal power in the UK - nearly 70% of electricity production in the late 1980s, to less than 0.1% in 2025.

There's a lot being shared right now about China's incredible shift towards renewable energy - and rightly so.

But this, from the UK, is equally astonishing & encouraging.

It's not just that change can happen. It's that it *is* happening.

(Via climateactapp.substack.com/p/your-daily...)

When did mammoths go extinct? Did they sneeze themselves to death as a result of allergies? We take a look at some 'massive' fossil fails in the latest episode: Weird ideas about how and when mammoths were "snuffed out"

He is insane.

And this is an open declaration of intended genocide.

If any other world leader said this, there would be sanctions and an arrest warrant, not just for him, but for his whole regime.

Fossil Fails: Weird ideas about how and when Mammoths were "Snuffed Out" YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast

Available now with @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and @fossilrob.bsky.social where ever you get your podcasts, or on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeob...

Funding doesn't equal magic, but it does allow scientists to do lots of great work and come up with exciting solutions. It also allows small scale ideas to be translated commercially. And I didn't say we shouldn't fund NASA, I said we should spend this amount of money on climate change research.

Well, it took a year to develop an RNA vaccine when covid hit - a technology that previously didn't exist - purely because all the world invested in it. This shows that if you chuck enough money at it, scientists will invent stuff.

I strongly believe we would have solved climate change if $25B had been spent on funding climate scientists to come up with solutions. And imagine what could have been done with $901B in terms of green investments. The thing is, even a fraction of that money would literally be world-changing.

The BBC is meant to be a public service broadcaster, sharing info with us so we can make good decisions and understand the world around us. Instead, it continues to fail the public, publishing half baked articles which expose people to bad info which leaves them vulnerable to grifters. (1/n)

My daughter gave the guinea pig a bowl haircut for Easter

Yeah but look how excited and appreciative of this paper I am! I even just explained how interesting it was to my husband, who last studied palaeontology in 2001 and genuinely doesn't care... So @fossilrob.bsky.social has indoctrinated me.

Ooo super cool! Look @fossilrob.bsky.social

Of course, it feels almost silly to talk about our fossil heritage while far more important events are happening in Lebanon

There are ways to help the over a million affected by the war (the government offers no support). You can do so here: gofund.me/f28f75e94

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026

📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month
⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices

www.carbonbrief.org/...

Drilling for more oil & gas in the North Sea won't lower bills, it won't make us more energy independent and it won't insulate us from price shocks.

A Labour backslide on this would be a huge betrayal.

Double down on renewables. Insulate every home. Lower bills, permanently.

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How do you become a palaeontologist? @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and @fossilrob.bsky.social chat about their own routes and their advice for aspiring fossil fans

OOPS! GB News owner Paul Marshall tried to rebut Christian leaders, who criticised his channel's dodgy climate coverage…but in the process he made 25 dodgy claims of his own 🫠

Impressively, he packed the 25 dodgy claims into just 340 words 👏

Receipts: docs.google.com/docu...

Europe is the shield against imperialism. The US is gone.