a tiny light brown dachshund is being held up by a human who is out of frame. they are at a beautiful snowy mountain range that looks straight out of a Pinterest photo. the dachshund pup, Frankie, is wearing a full body puffer jacket that matches her light brown fur perfectly.
This is Frankie. She just got a fancy new puffer and thinks she’s better than everyone now. And she is correct. 13/10 (IG: frankielasaucisse)
Scientists just found Purgatorius, the world’s oldest primate, lived much farther south than previously known.
The data suggest the tiny critter spread quickly after the asteroid that killed the dinos, migrating southward across the US.
#Paleontology
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New for #NatGeo
I love this!! Turkana is my favorite place to be 💜
Result from the Koobi Fora #paleostream! This region on the east side of modern day Lake Turkana in Kenya is a treasure trove for fossils of the early Pleistocene and is most famous for many early human remains, with up to 6 species present throughout the layers...
A sharpie acrylic painting of several cave-painting-esque chubby horses in different positions. Sitting, laying down, bucking, rolling around and walking on pink paper with red borders.
Chubby horses are everything to me.
"This Cat Was Special"
This is my second favorite piece ever and I want more people to see it. This took MONTHS to make so I literally can’t afford to make this kind of stuff often. If you wanna see more of this idk, let me know or buy a print.
drawing of a browt from pokemon, but it's an ugly falcon chick
welcome to the world, my scrungly son
gen 10
A drawing of a pink barn owl looking into an oracle ball. The caption reads, "in every possible future... you matter, a lot"
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fan art of the new fire starter pokemon that resembles a pomeranian dog
fan art of rowlet with the new grass starter pokemon that resembles a chick
fan art of sobble with the new water starter pokemon that resembles a gecko
Rising from the dead to draw the new starters. I really love the dog and the bird, not sure about the gecko, but maybe it'll grow on me
Buddo! My favorite ancient enby sculpture.
www.livescience.com/55132-photos...
a,b, Successive settlement and growth of new oyster individuals generate a highly complex reef structure, shown from afar (a) and close up (b), comprising live and dead animals. c, Here we compared oyster recruitment among 16 artificial habitat units (triangles), which spanned the full range of fractal dimension, height range and surface area displayed by 28 three-dimensional models of oyster reef surfaces (crosses), obtained from natural oyster reefs. Artificial habitat units and natural oyster reef surface models were of a standardized 15 × 15 cm planar area. Oyster reef surface models were obtained from four naturally occurring S. glomerata reefs in New South Wales, Australia, using photogrammetry together with structure from motion. d, The 16 artificial habitat units used in the study resulted from crossing four levels of fractal dimension with four levels of height range, giving 11 different values of surface area across the 16 units. The experimental design explores a geometric relationship between surface area, fractal dimension and height range. Increasing the fractal dimension or height range (or both) while holding planar area constant results in an increase in surface area.
Oyster reefs build fast, and there are many factors contributing to that speed. One interesting factor is that the reef grows, three-dimensionally, in a way that maximizes survival of its next generation. 🧪🌊
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Highly recommend Stony Brook's geology field camp in Turkana. If you are looking for a really amazing field school this summer, applications are open until March 1st!
www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/stud...
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
Oh my lord that is terrifyingggg, but also so cool that so much was intact!!!
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A desert valley landscape showing bands of different colored sandstones spanning between 4-9 million years old.
I love the paleontological site of Lothagam in Turkana County, Kenya 💜 It's my favorite place in the world.
A photo of a white and gray colored goose in a snowy background.
A photo of the same goose on a snowt background but with a canadian goose next to it. They are approximately the same size.
The white goose and canadian goose walking next to each other in a snowy background.
Anyone know what this white goose is? It's a cutie and I've never seen one this color before. #bird #goose
I have adopted some really good self care habits in 2026. Now the hard part is keeping up momentum. I'm proud of myself for taking the steps to solidify self-care as a priority.
Pink Sea slug dragon based on Rose's Nudibranch (Ceratodoris rosacea). Sprouting tendrils all over the body and a pair of feathered wings.
For the first time ever, I'll be offering different art postcards each month this year over on Patreon!
Starting things off with a pink sea slug dragon! It's never been in print before, so grab 'em while you can!
Click for more info:
www.patreon.com/posts/new-ar...
#seaslug #seaslugdragon
A photo of a pink grasshopper perched on two crossed blades of grass.
Ever seen a pink grasshopper? A genetic mutation called erythrism (overproduction of red pigment) leaves some individuals looking pretty in pink! Though these rare insects are beautiful, their vivid coloring makes hiding from predators more difficult.
Photo: Back from the Brink, CC BY-NC 2.0, flickr
Breaking news and congratulations to the team, Sulawesi preserves evidence for the oldest art yet recorded, and strengthens claims for the early colonisation of Australia. At 68k BP this art is almost 30k years earlier than the accepted record for Europe. Bravo🏺🦣🎨
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thank you!
What app is that? I've been wanting a better way to track my walking :)
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Early Homo and Homo erectus timeline between 2.0 and 1.0 Ma and map of key sites in Africa and southern Eurasia.
New reconstruction of DAN5 cranium (Gona, Ethiopia) supports complex emergence of Homo erectus🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A mosaic contemporaneous with or postdating emergence of H. erectus craniodental complex ~ 1.6 Ma implies intricate evolutionary transition from early Homo to H. erectus
3D scans of the distal radial epiphysis in the four hominoid primate species analyzed. (a) Homo sapiens; (b) Pongo pygmaeus; (c) Pan troglodytes; (d) Gorilla gorilla. 1 = Common insertion area of the radioscaphocapitate and long radiolunate ligaments; 2 = Insertion area of the short radiolunate ligament.
Inferences about fossil hominin locomotion through 3D morphometric analysis of wrist ligament insertion sites🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Results show marked interspecies differences in size, orientation, and position of specific ligament insertions, reflecting divergent functional adaptations
New anatomical details concerning the cranial structure of the early Permian stem reptile Protorothyris archeri revealed by μCT, with implications for the evolution of olfaction in reptiles - Jenkins - 2025 - Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
