The Novi Red Lobster was not previously a Denny’s. They were next to each other.

A 60-year-old grandmother killer whale named Sophia battling in what scientists believe is the first time a single orca was captured on camera killing a great white shark. [📹 NatGeoWILD]

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Led by their matriarch, T49A Nan, the T49As are one of the most beloved Bigg's killer whale matrilines in the Salish Sea. Until just a few weeks ago, the four-year-old T49A6 Charlie II was the youngest brother in the family, capturing the hearts of orca lovers everywhere. (1/3)

Attention Bajoran Workers.

A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.

There is no McTry.

I’m so sorry

The #editorschoice for this month's issue is:

Evolutionary rescue by adaptive specialization in rapidly changing environments

by Jermey Draghi @virginiatech.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Iiiinnnnnteresting...

Also my glasses.

The bookshop at 3am

The lakes of my youth.

Geodiversity is an inseparable but underutilized aspect of ecological connectivity assessments under climate change vist.ly/4x6nk #BiodiversityConservation #LieteratureReview

Silicate weathering in the semi-arid Southern Pyrenees during the PETM: lithium isotope evidence Abstract. The Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a hyperthermal event ∼ 56 Ma ago, allows the Earth system response to abrupt climate change to be explored. Recent investigations link the PETM ...

Complex biogeochemical consequences of rapid global warming 56 million years ago.

cp.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

What this guy said.

An Early Miocene ape from the biogeographic crossroads of African and Eurasian Hominoidea The Early Miocene fossil record documenting hominoid evolution has long been restricted primarily to sites in East Africa, whereas contemporaneous North African sites have only yielded remains of cerc...

This major fossil discovery is also an important milestone for home-grown Egyptian paleontology. Congrats to the Mansoura University team, including UMMP's Sanaa El-Sayed! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The molecular evolution of vertebrate organs Nature Ecology & Evolution - This Review discusses recent advances in the molecular evolution of vertebrate organs, including rates of evolution of organs and cell types, molecular mechanisms...

Our internal organs are evolutionary marvels. New technologies are transforming our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate organs. You can find more by reading here:
rdcu.be/e5EgU
#EvoBio #EvoDevo 🐟🦎🐢🦇🐊🦜

Required reading

The DC Metro

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi.

The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

An Early Miocene ape from the biogeographic crossroads of African and Eurasian Hominoidea The Early Miocene fossil record documenting hominoid evolution has long been restricted primarily to sites in East Africa, whereas contemporaneous North African sites have only yielded remains of cerc...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Can confirm.

I need a moment to sit with this. 😅

(a) Global marine calcium carbonate (CaCO3) budget. Rates are from Tables 2 and 3 and are discussed in the main text. (b) Alkalinity budget, adapted from Middelburg et al. (2020; see Text S4 in Supporting Information S1 for derivations; updated values for CaCO3 burial are discussed in the main text). Uncertainties for all processes are shown within parentheses as G (∼50% uncertainty), F (∼100% uncertainty), or P (more than 100% uncertainty). Reference saturation horizons for high-Mg calcite (HMC), aragonite (Ara), and low-Mg calcite (LMC) are shown in green. Rates shown in red were derived from mass balance calculations and are therefore unconstrained.

"While sedimentary coastal and shelf dissolution has the potential to buffer a substantial amount of the global oceanic CO2 sink on short timescales, off-shelf export transports a significant fraction ... to the long-term CO2 feedback." 🧪🌊

Link: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

CoughP-TBoundaryCough.

Comic. [Small panel overlaying large panel.] PERSON 1: What’s up with this weird landscape? PERSON 2 with ponytail: Oh, it was caused by… [Large panel is map of the United States with with red overlays denoting landscape phenomena. Mega-floods in the northwest, a plate tectonics speedrun on the west coast, volcanoes next to the west coast, water and time in the southwest, geology in the west, a supervolcano within the west, glaciers in the north, farming in the middle, rivers in the mideast, geology in between rivers and farming, ??? toward the northeast, farming on the east coast, continents colliding next to the east coast, ongoing disputes between limestone and water in the south of Florida, volcanoes in Hawaii, geology in Alaska with volcanoes and glaciers below.]

Landscape Features

xkcd.com/3221/

So shifting the financial burden from the consumer to the producer wasn't a good idea after all?

Belemnite survival into the Eocene?
#paleobio #cephalopods 🧪🦑

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments - Nature Meta-analyses on a global scale show that the measured coastal mean sea level is higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments.

Seeger, K., Minderhoud, P.S.J. Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments. Nature (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Not gonna lie, I’m always chuffed to be the originator of the -“hadros” generic suffix for non-hadrosaurid hadrosauroids. Protohadros über alles!

Is that Will Downs on the far right of the outcrop pic?