New short on my second channel regarding some (at the time) confusing information about Enhydriodon--giant prehistoric otters--in Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age. Be sure to check it out! #enhydriodon #prehistoricplaneticeage #otters
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🐋 #whale #bluewhale #Massachusetts
"Seeing blue whales outside of their Canadian feeding grounds is rare in the Atlantic," aquarium scientist Katherine McKenna
Enormous blue whales spotted in "unusual occurrence" off Massachusetts coast - CBS Boston share.google/HjqKSYa6vGaJ...
Shots I got of one of the Malayan tigers. Hardly stellar, but still probably the best photos I’ve taken of this subspecies, which I’ve seen at much fewer zoos compared to Amur and Sumatran.
Photos taken at Virginia Zoo
Lambert et al. (2001) appears in season 6, ep 4 (‘The Fleshy Part of the Thigh’) of The Sopranos, broadcast in April 2006.
Spreads from inside the book, one at left on fossil rodents, one at right on phorusrhacids and horses.
cover of UK edition, showing green theropod model on black background.
Remember when that Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life book I (co)wrote appeared on The Sopranos? Yeah, me too. My 2001 Dorling Kindersley book, co-authored with David Lambert and Liz Wyse, might be the most influential book I've ever been involved in. And...
This is a marvelous change not only for the Humpback whale 🐋 population but for all of us. We need to keep our gentle giants from going extinct.
Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery | RNZ News share.google/X1HB3JFgaePK...
Happy International Polar Bear Day!
Anywhere in Australia makes for excellent mammal-watching. 🇦🇺
But if we had to choose one of the most incredible wildlife-watching destinations Down Under, it would be here: https://nature.ly/4khEB2Z
After decades of recovery, southern right whales are showing signs of a climate-driven decline in breeding rates, which scientists say is a “warning signal” about changes in the Southern Ocean.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It's easy to think of #goblinsharks as "those deep sea weirdos from far away places" but we have them over here In U.S. waters, too. This one was caught off the #Florida keys
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New study suggests that late Pleistocene Japan use to be home to cave lions rather than tigers:
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🦈 #shark
#Thailand is releasing captive-bred
Indo-Pacific #leopardsharks near #MaitonIsland "revive a species that has sharply declined in the wild due to overfishing and habitat loss."
Click through to watch a video from Reuters about this
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Sea turtles may be better able to cope with climate change than we thought. There are concerns that the reptiles face extinction because warmer conditions will make most #turtle eggs develop into females. But the animals have a genetic safety net. 🧪 🦑 🐢
www.newscientist.com/article/2512...
Happy Penguin Awareness Day!
Photos taken at:
Bronx Zoo (little blue penguin)
Detroit Zoo (king, chinstrap, and southern rockhopper penguin)
London Zoo (Humboldt penguin)
Whipsnade Zoo (northern rockhopper penguin)
I've written a bit about writing, given that I've now published numerous books and hundreds of articles. One point I emphasise is that good writing takes a-g-e-s. It's painfully slow. I keep count of what I get done in a day and it might be shocking how little gets done, per day, on some projects.
Screengrabbed comment explaining how animals like crocodiles are not living fossils at all.
Over on Instagram, Slash shared a reel from a content creator all about the 'living fossils' concept. Whenever someone promotes this stuff, it's basically always misleading and only partly correct. I posted this comment...
This is of course not counting the Southeast African cheetahs that are being used as proxies in India. Strangely, there’s no evidence of Northeast African cheetahs despite them being geographically far closer than the Northwest African subspecies.
I was not expecting this….DNA analysis seems to indicate the historical presence of Northwest African cheetahs in Saudi Arabia! Turns out the Asiatic cheetah was once not the only subspecies to inhabit Asia!
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An edit I made of Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age. Essentially tried to make my own intro utilizing the intro music from The Future is Wild.
I own nothing, all rights belong to their respective owners!!!
A short edit I made it to celebrate #worldwildlifeday2025
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In celebration of #worldpangolinday2025
I uploaded my first short on Phylum Studios, covering a newly described species of Asian pangolin. Be sure to check it out!!!
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