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10 books that will make you see dinosaurs differently Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, recommends 10 dinosaur books to dig into

Thank you, @stevebrusatte.bsky.social, for recommending The Last Days of the Dinosaurs!

“[T] latest and most engaging glimpse at what it would have been like to experience the carnage. In doing so, Black pioneered a new genre of narrative prehistorical nonfiction.” 🦖 ☄️ 🌱 🐆

according to studies from those countries, yes, it absolutely is.

how dare you, studienergebnisse!

digital scan of a black and white book plate, woodcut illustration of a capybara sitting upright against a banana tree, with banana in hand along with caption "A CAPIVARD or Water Hog at the foot of a Bananier." Image via Bonhams: https://www.bonhams.com/auction/21752/lot/247/froger-francois-a-relation-of-a-voyage-made-in-the-years-1695-1696-1697-on-the-coasts-of-africa-streights-of-magellan-brasil-cayenna-and-the-antilles-by-a-squadron-of-french-men-of-war-under-the-command-of-m-de-gennes-m-gillyflower-and-others-1698/

Happy #CapybaraAppreciationDay! Please enjoy this 17th c. book illustration of a #capybara chilling under a banana tree in Brazil🍌
📕A Relation of a Voyage made in the Years 1695, 1696, 1697 on the Coasts of Africa, Streights of Magellan, Brasil, Cayenna, and the Antilles... by François Froger, 1698.

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The undisputed #1 greatest photo of a person with a fossil:

Paleontologist Altangerel Perle, with the Museum of Natural History in Ulan Bataar, Mongolia, stands between the forearms of Deinocheirus

something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.

Krieg der Maschinen | DI | 07 04 2026 | 13:00 Wie Drohnen die Gefechtsfelder der Welt prägen. Gäste: Dr. Ulrike Franke, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) & ObstdG Dr. Markus Reisner, PhD, Theresianische Militärakademie. Moderation: ...

eine science-fiction illusion von cleaner kriegführung - und die realität, die mehr an das grauen des ersten weltkriegs erinnert. @rikefranke.bsky.social (ecfr.eu) und markus reisner (bundesheer) über den drohnenkrieg. #ö1 #punkteins

"I own three volcanoes, which I clean out every week (for I also clean out the one that is extinct; one never knows)"
April 6, 1943, The Little Prince was published on this day
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NASA’s Artemis II Crew Flies Around the Moon (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

Here’s the link to the livestream for tomorrow: www.youtube.com/live/z-j1uxB...

Illustration of a Utahraptor, a large bulky dromaeosaur with a chunky head, deep belly, thick hindlegs and long tail. It is covered in a coat of coarse feathers, including pinnate wings on the arms. It has a dark crown, white supercilium, red irises, dark auriculars, and a cream "mane" of longer neck hackles, then a dark back and tail. It is posed as if looking to the side and down slightly while walking at a 3/4 angle toward the viewer, one foot raised.

Utahraptor for today's #DrawDinosDaily. These guys feel so much like the Cretaceous equivalent of a lion to me - big, powerful, and fast.

🎨 #SciArt #PaleoArt #dinosaurs

I’m cool I’m fine I just realized that there were probably already dinosaur fossils underfoot during the Cretaceous

Self reminder. Sharpen bat'leth.

#OTD 161 years ago, Elise Richter (1865–1943) was born 🎂 A specialist in Romance linguistics and phonetics, she became Austria’s first woman to obtain a Habilitation (1905) and its first female professor (1921). She died in 1943 in Theresienstadt.

#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

2026 cherry blossom flowering forecast map. sendai: 4/4. tokyo: 3/18. nagoya: 3/17. osaka: 3/23. fukuoka: 3/18. jmc japan meteorological corporation

n-kishou.com/corp/news-co...

Captured in bright indoor lighting before a hessian pin board, a Great Horned Owl with wide-eyes and wet-plumage is cloaked in a white cloth. Spiked feathers radiate from his head in all directions, like a hairy durian, accentuating his look of shock and indignation. We may have found the true paragon of Owls in Towels.

A Moist Owlette is freshly showered at Owl Park San Vigilio, a zoological park in northern Italy 🇮🇹 via fb.com/816647270688... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

Ich habe an einem Podcast über die Geschichte des Kosovo mitgemacht, der nun auf Ö1 zu hören ist: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

screenshot oe1.orf.at, 2 sendungsteaser: "im gespräch: 'es gibt eine lust, alles niederzubrennen' und punkt eins: 'warum diskutieren, wenn man zuschlagen kann?' (in wirklichkeit geht es einmal um die zerstörungslust von antidemokrat*innen und bei der anderen um deeskalationsstrategien bei konfliktsituationen im alltag.)

wohlfühlsender ö1. 🤗

Vista aérea de uma escavação paleontológica. Três pessoas trabalham ao redor de um grande osso osso fóssil exposto na rocha. Uma das pessoas veste colete laranja, outra camisa vermelha e a terceira roupas escuras. Ferramentas de escavação e um galão branco estão posicionados ao lado da área escavada.

Ilustração científica em fundo claro mostrando a silhueta preta de um dinossauro saurópode de pescoço e cauda longos. Alguns ossos estão destacados: partes preservadas em branco e reconstruções em azul claro, incluindo elementos dos membros, costelas e vértebras caudais. Ao lado do dinossauro há a silhueta de uma pessoa para escala (1,80 m), além de uma barra de escala de 1 metro. A legenda identifica o espécime como Dasosaurus tocantinsensis gen. et sp. nov. (CPHNAM VT 1600).

bristly boi.

This Day in Labor History: February 8, 1887. President Grover Cleveland signed the Dawes Act into law, creating a process to split up Indian reservations in order to create individual parcels of land and then sell the remainder off to white settlers. Let's talk ideas of work & the American genocide!

A colored digital drawing of Haolong, a stocky ornithopod dinosaur, standing on all fours with his head raised and beak opened, apparently calling out. The dinosaur is covered in a mosaic of small scales, sharp spines and large plate-like scales.

Spiny little friend.

A quick doodle of Haolong dongi, a newly described ornithopod from China with... spikes. Numerous sharp spines grew from the animal's neck and back, seemingly different from all other known dinosaur integuments. Definitely wasn't on my bingo card for 2026 dinosaur finds!

"Man ist #lesefaul geworden. Der Radio unterrichtet uns über hun­derterlei in flüchtiger Weise, was wir nicht zu wissen brauchen, was wir nur in ungenügender Weise zu wissen bekommen, was nur mitgeteilt wird, damit auch hier die Maschine in Tätigkeit bleibt."

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If you have a problem,
if no one else can help,
and if you can find them,
maybe you can hire…

THE A-TEAM (1983-87)

Premiered on NBC 43yrs ago today.

Black and white photograph of Emmy Noether. She is standing just behind an ornate chair, wearing a white striped blouse with puffy shoulders, a fluffy bow at her neck, and a heavy long skirt cinched with a belt. Her dark hair is pulled back and she is looking a bit to the photographer's right.

Felix Klein lectured “On Hilbert’s first note on the foundations of physics" at the Mathematical Society of Göttingen #OTD in 1918. He included excerpts from letters in which he and Hilbert give priority to Emmy Noether’s results on conservation of energy in general relativity. (1/n) 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬

2026 Winter Olympics announcement of Jamaica's Bobsled team qualifying for Milan 2026. Four Black men in dark blue fitted bobsled suits standing side by side with their arms folded across their chest and smiling.

In case you needed to see something NOT terrible tonight, we millennials will get to relive Cool Runnings as grown-ups!

Had this shared with me this morning, and too good not to share with you.

Courtesy of 'Peanutismint' on Instagram.

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A shake-up of the dinosaur family tree! Rhabdodontids are not ornithopods. They are ceratopsians.

There were horned dinosaurs in Europe! As shown by a new fossil of Ajkaceratops from Hungary!

Check out our new study, led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social ⤵️