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Dr Ross Barnett
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Invernessian palaeogeneticist and stay-at-home dad. Knows a thing or two about the aDNA of extinct lions, sabretooths and megafauna. Author of The Missing Lynx.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Missing-Lynx-Future-Britains-Mammals/dp/1472957350
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Look at what this garish, classless, tasteless fool has done to the People’s House.
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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We’ve dug too far! We overshot the Stone Age and hit the Dinosaur Age again! Today we’re joined by palaeontologist Joe Wood to review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), the second movie in the Jurassic franchise (and the last good one) 🧪🦖🦕
youtu.be/lL86nyt_yEQ
Episode 115: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast
YouTube video by Screens of the Stone Age
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November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Scientists discover telephone-cord-like optic nerves in chameleons, which were overlooked by Aristotle, Newton, and everyone else, until now...

Story:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scie...

Study:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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This is out now:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Association between lactase persistence and height in the past (indicating people with the persistence allele were better nourished by drinking milk than those without it) provides a potential explanation for why it was under strong selection.
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Middle-aged dad. I helped my daughter with her homework, researching Arthropleura, a millipede-like animal that could grow to over 2.5m long. I've been having nightmares about it for the last two nights. I know they're extinct but my dreams don't.
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Fossil eggshells contain radioactive minerals that can be used to tell how long ago those eggs were buried, a way to determine the ages of fossil sites that lack volcanic rocks. I’ll tell you more at NatGeo. 🧪
Fossilized eggs reveal new way to date the Age of the Dinosaurs
Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear.....
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
🫎 Animal #832 🐑
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6

metazooa.com
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Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
metazooa.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I've said it before: everything giant pandas do makes more sense if you imagine they are six drinks in on a Friday night.

But I feel like we haven't fully celebrated their triumphant return. See, the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is no longer Endangered.

A conservation success story!
a panda bear is sitting on a wooden platform with toys
Alt: a panda bear is sitting on a wooden platform with toys, it barrels through them, falls, and manages to roll down every part of the stairs, as if on purpose. Just agent of chaos behavior.
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Phylogeny of tinamous based on whole-genomes and fossils: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🪶🧪 (📷Musher et al.)
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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“We are in trouble for all the crimes”
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: ‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’

Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Music, along with Theology and all modern languages now under threat at Nottingham Uni. More details in Hannah’s message below.
Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students.

Please contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to be involved.
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🐍 Animal #829 🐎
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
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🔥 20 | Avg. Guesses: 6

metazooa.com
#metazooa
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
metazooa.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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New at Tetrapod Zoology, a brief look at what's surely the world's best known extinct proboscidean: that Ice Age superstar the Woolly mammoth .... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #mammoths #IceAge #Pleistocene #fossilmammals #elephants
A Woolly Mammoth Primer — Tetrapod Zoology
I’ve said before that proboscideans – the familiar group of placental mammals that includes living elephants and their many fossil relatives – have never been well served here at Tet Zoo…
tetzoo.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM