This one is short and serious, so I didn't go with the usual fun feature image. I don't go into it because it has nothing to do with my writing and also because I can't prove anything yet; but I have a serious stalking problem, and the stalkers are very powerful and wealthy, and very good at deniability. I think they have something to do with the birth family that probably lost custody of me at age three, when I was Barbara Jean Deming in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to my natural father, who changed my last name to his: Beier.

On Monday, Elon Musk's social media AI chatbot posted in French that the gas chambers in Nazi death camps were designed for 'disinfection' against typhus, rather than for mass executions.

We made it through both sabertooths and popular AKC dog breeds! Now what? Well, the volcano Semeru came up with an answer today, but more generally, here are my plans. First, continue winding down from paleocats (for now); I miss them already. Return to the Friday Feline and Dog Day Saturday Afternoon guest video posts, starting this Friday some time. These might not always be videos, since AI seems to have increased the already large drek content on YouTube.

Bat dog! On review of the news, it appears that this breed gets stolen a lot, which is sad. However, here is a heart-warming and amazing story of one dog saving another: three hours until the owner got home! Meanwhile, at the show... 🐺🐺🐺 (Yes, despite appearances, it is a domesticated wolf.) And...WHEE! More information: American Kennel Club breed…

You might find this very short short story triggering: it takes us into the mind of a dying cat. But the sabertooths are all extinct and it seemed the best way to summarize the series. I have taken some liberties with geography and individual details such as gender and cause of death, but this is about the real 11,000-year-old sabercat whose restored skeleton you see above.

This is the first sabertooth that we have an actual picture of. In fact, it's the first time in history that paleontologists have had something other than bones and teeth to use in studying an extinct animal that left no living relatives! (Lopatin et al.) That is the mummy of a partially preserved Homotherium cub, discovered in Siberian permafrost in 2020.

With that friendly, slobbering grin and warm personality, I suspect that the popularity of labs is only partly due to their hunting skills. But those skills are impressive: Here is Animal Planet's look at this beautiful breed -- -- and Bailey the Beagle on labs: More information: AKC breed page Wikipedia page The Canadian Encyclopedia page Featured image: Michael Peppenster/Shutterstock Note:Shutterstock doesn't allow you to exclude AI from a search these days; the best I could do is "authentic."

And you thought Halloween was 🎃ver. That fangly specimen was drawn by E. D. Cope in 1880. Here is a photograph of another fossil from this same White River Group predator genus. It was found in Nebraska's badlands during the 1950s: The sight of it moved one of its discoverers to describe what's going on there in free verse: Once in the sun-fierce badlands of the west…

【NHK】【NHK】南海トラフ巨大地震では、最悪の場合、大阪・梅田にも津波が襲来する。危険な現象が「縮流」。大都市特有の現象でどの

The penultimate post in our sabertooth series is due out this Friday and will probably make it since the nimravid it focuses on, although fangly, isn't an extreme sabertooth and we have already encountered the climate changes and ignimbrite flare-up of those days. Nevertheless, a cold has had me down for a couple of days. I'm on the come-back trail now but still droopy, and I have some unavoidable errands that will take me out into this week's cold and rainy weather that the Gulf of Alaska has seen fit to send us.

A friendly face; giving us its total attention; that beautiful light golden fur -- no wonder this dog breed is so popular! Also, they retrieve things. But what you need to see right now (sorry, AKC) is Punk winning the Westminster Kennel Club agility trial so hard that they actually do a slow-motion replay: But this is about the American Kennel Club list, so here is Bailey the Beagle to introduce Goldens:

Boo! On any other day but Halloween this would just be another old-timey scientific drawing (Figure 9, in Cope, 1880). Why bother with it when we can look it up online -- -- go to a museum, or, if we have a spare $75,000 to $161,000 or so, set up a real scare for trick-or-treaters with a "magnificent combination of fossilization and very talented preparation skills" (

"Here I come to save the day!" German Shepherds don't need capes. Not that there's anything wrong with that, beagles. "Ahem. Hold my beer." I didn't find Duncan with an online search, but IMDb's list of silent-film dog stars has quite a few German Shepherds on it Here are some of them at work. The only ones I can name (because of…

It's crouching behind you, right now. Well, perhaps not unless you have time-traveled to late Eocene or early Oligocene western North America. If you have, you are out of luck. Dinictis has longer, more gracile legs than some other nimravids and it is capable of short-term bursts of speed. (Antón, 2013) Don't take comfort in your track shoes and those H.

Some call them the most "humanized" dog breed, though as with cats, it isn't always clear who is domesticating whom. Maybe the wolves that became poodles had a secret desire to swim and retrieve things, to perform before admiring crowds in a circus, and to serve in the military. Maybe poodles have us right where they want us!

Pop quiz: These four Halloween skulls (part of Figure 1.10 in Sabertooth, CC BY-NC-ND-SA) are from: Two nimravids A Smilodon A modern big cat Can you tell them apart? Yes, that's Smilodon down there in the lower left, per Antón's image caption, with today's featured nimravid -- Hoplophoneus -- above it. This pictured species, Hoplophoneus mentalis, was about the size of a modern leopard but it was much more muscular than a leopard, especially in the forelegs.

Why not a glamour shot for a dog that too often goes unnoticed, though not by American Kennel Club members as well as many, many other dachshund fans worldwide. Of course, you might get arrested for animal cruelty in some places for trying to invent such a breed today. That long back and those short legs do lead to health issues…

Meet the Staple-Puller cat! It's a cat, right? It's got saberteeth. Actually Eusmilus bidentatus up there is a nimravid. What's a nimravid? Nimravids were the very first cat-like group of sabertoothed mammals to evolve. But they were not the first known group of sabertoothed carnivorous mammals. That honor goes to an oxyaenid group that is much older than nimravids. An oxyaenid skull is shown at the top of this graphic (the two skulls are not to scale):

This is a social-media post worth sharing here: 🇧🇷 In Brazil, a jaguar was rescued after spending several hours in a river The injured animal was clinging with its last strength to a mat attached to a boat. Several rescue teams were involved to safely pull the predator out of the Rio Negro. After the rescue, the big cat was… …