Tiffany Norris
@vestasflames.bsky.social
Studying Lepidoptera in my second life. Dogs & enjoying living in the arthropod world. First education was finance & economics. It pays the bills but drains the soul.
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PHYLLIIDAE PATTERN
#pattern #insect #arthropod #phasmid #bug #leaf #leafbug #autumn #scientificillustration #illustrator #patterndesign
#pattern #insect #arthropod #phasmid #bug #leaf #leafbug #autumn #scientificillustration #illustrator #patterndesign
January 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
PHYLLIIDAE PATTERN
#pattern #insect #arthropod #phasmid #bug #leaf #leafbug #autumn #scientificillustration #illustrator #patterndesign
#pattern #insect #arthropod #phasmid #bug #leaf #leafbug #autumn #scientificillustration #illustrator #patterndesign
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Pupa 30
Corabsens calcifa
#entomology #digitalart #natureartist #natureartwork #crisálida #chrysalis #polillas #moths #butterflies #mariposas #scientificillustration #ghibli #howlsmovingcastle #howl #elcastilloambulante #elcastillovagabundo #calcifer #heart #corazon #estrellafugaz #shootingstars
Corabsens calcifa
#entomology #digitalart #natureartist #natureartwork #crisálida #chrysalis #polillas #moths #butterflies #mariposas #scientificillustration #ghibli #howlsmovingcastle #howl #elcastilloambulante #elcastillovagabundo #calcifer #heart #corazon #estrellafugaz #shootingstars
January 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It’s not an act of freedom if you forced to be somewhere. It’s dominance under a disguise.
January 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
It’s not an act of freedom if you forced to be somewhere. It’s dominance under a disguise.
January 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
My outline of Marrella splendens. I took Simonetta’s head vs Whittington’s I need to elongated the cephalic crest.
January 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
My outline of Marrella splendens. I took Simonetta’s head vs Whittington’s I need to elongated the cephalic crest.
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The newly identified trilobite Protolenus is seen in a 3D model reconstruction by Arnaud Mazurier, a researcher at the University of Poitiers in France.
#FossilFriday
#FossilFriday
January 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The newly identified trilobite Protolenus is seen in a 3D model reconstruction by Arnaud Mazurier, a researcher at the University of Poitiers in France.
#FossilFriday
#FossilFriday
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Happy #FossilFriday from the #Ediacaran of #Newfoundland. We still have no snow here so with a traffic jam on the way to work i turned west to Inner Meadow to check on the site. The light was beautiful on this #Pectinifrons so… here you go!
January 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Happy #FossilFriday from the #Ediacaran of #Newfoundland. We still have no snow here so with a traffic jam on the way to work i turned west to Inner Meadow to check on the site. The light was beautiful on this #Pectinifrons so… here you go!
I’m struggling this week with prep reading but glad to not have chemistry. 🤣
January 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I’m struggling this week with prep reading but glad to not have chemistry. 🤣
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Exciting #Arachnology news! It's been clear for some time that spiders have 'noses' on their legs but we didn't really understand how they smell airborne sex pheromones.
Now we do! Gabriele Uhl & colleagues have identified the sensilla responsible: 🕷️🧪
www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
Now we do! Gabriele Uhl & colleagues have identified the sensilla responsible: 🕷️🧪
www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
“Olfaction with legs – spiders use wall-pore sensilla for pheromone detection"
Spiders can smell: they use pore-covered sensilla that are similar to hairs to detect volatile substances. This is the key finding of a study that has been published in the January 2025 issue of the s...
www.uni-greifswald.de
January 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Exciting #Arachnology news! It's been clear for some time that spiders have 'noses' on their legs but we didn't really understand how they smell airborne sex pheromones.
Now we do! Gabriele Uhl & colleagues have identified the sensilla responsible: 🕷️🧪
www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
Now we do! Gabriele Uhl & colleagues have identified the sensilla responsible: 🕷️🧪
www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
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Speaking of the Burgess Shale, the quarries themselves are pretty neat. The Mt Stephen Quarry is a steep but moderate hike. All visits are by guided tour:
parks.canada.ca/pn-np/bc/yoh...
parks.canada.ca/pn-np/bc/yoh...
Burgess Shale fossil hikes
Discover the Burgess Shale fossils on a guided hike. Three unique hikes to unique locations. Find trail descriptions, schedules, rates and book your hike
parks.canada.ca
January 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Speaking of the Burgess Shale, the quarries themselves are pretty neat. The Mt Stephen Quarry is a steep but moderate hike. All visits are by guided tour:
parks.canada.ca/pn-np/bc/yoh...
parks.canada.ca/pn-np/bc/yoh...
Insect ears confuse me because they are more shallow folds than internal tunnels. Such different approaches.
January 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Insect ears confuse me because they are more shallow folds than internal tunnels. Such different approaches.
Also realized the
Lecotype of marrella splendens is ventral side not dorsal. It’s kinda duh now but it didn’t dawn on me till tonight.
Lecotype of marrella splendens is ventral side not dorsal. It’s kinda duh now but it didn’t dawn on me till tonight.
January 9, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Also realized the
Lecotype of marrella splendens is ventral side not dorsal. It’s kinda duh now but it didn’t dawn on me till tonight.
Lecotype of marrella splendens is ventral side not dorsal. It’s kinda duh now but it didn’t dawn on me till tonight.
Drawing marrella but I really should be finishing my notes on ommatidia. I still don’t get how they went from ocelli to ommatidia. But the book just said a duplication events.
January 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Drawing marrella but I really should be finishing my notes on ommatidia. I still don’t get how they went from ocelli to ommatidia. But the book just said a duplication events.
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Finally 🦑
Squid are not insects but instead cephalopods that belong to the phylum Mollusca.
#entomemeology #entomology #entomologymemes #squid #mollusca #cephalopoda #squidmemes
Squid are not insects but instead cephalopods that belong to the phylum Mollusca.
#entomemeology #entomology #entomologymemes #squid #mollusca #cephalopoda #squidmemes
January 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Finally 🦑
Squid are not insects but instead cephalopods that belong to the phylum Mollusca.
#entomemeology #entomology #entomologymemes #squid #mollusca #cephalopoda #squidmemes
Squid are not insects but instead cephalopods that belong to the phylum Mollusca.
#entomemeology #entomology #entomologymemes #squid #mollusca #cephalopoda #squidmemes
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This #FossilFriday, one of the stranger #Ediacaran fossils from #Newfoundland: Hapsidophyllas flexibilis lived on the ancient seafloor and had multiple complex branches coming from a central basal rod. This lesser-known specimen is found on the D surface at Mistaken Point.
November 29, 2024 at 3:57 PM
This #FossilFriday, one of the stranger #Ediacaran fossils from #Newfoundland: Hapsidophyllas flexibilis lived on the ancient seafloor and had multiple complex branches coming from a central basal rod. This lesser-known specimen is found on the D surface at Mistaken Point.
My marrella Monday drawing. Trying to get the shape more. I need lots of work. The antennules are way off back spiniforms need to be more S shaped
#marrellamonday #marrella #marrellasplendens #marrellomorph #arthropods #fossils #invertebrates #merrymarrella
#marrellamonday #marrella #marrellasplendens #marrellomorph #arthropods #fossils #invertebrates #merrymarrella
January 7, 2025 at 5:50 AM
My marrella Monday drawing. Trying to get the shape more. I need lots of work. The antennules are way off back spiniforms need to be more S shaped
#marrellamonday #marrella #marrellasplendens #marrellomorph #arthropods #fossils #invertebrates #merrymarrella
#marrellamonday #marrella #marrellasplendens #marrellomorph #arthropods #fossils #invertebrates #merrymarrella
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A case study of how a beetle family called Belidae evolved through the domination of flowering plants and the splitting of the supercontinent Gondwana hundreds of millions of years ago.
https://buff.ly/49BNa3z
https://buff.ly/49BNa3z
The evolution of a beetle family
A combination of DNA sampling and fossils have allowed researchers to study how environmental changes impacted the evolutionary history of Belidae beetles.
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December 17, 2024 at 9:21 AM
A case study of how a beetle family called Belidae evolved through the domination of flowering plants and the splitting of the supercontinent Gondwana hundreds of millions of years ago.
https://buff.ly/49BNa3z
https://buff.ly/49BNa3z
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Excited to share our latest research!
We explore how Gondwanan fragmentation shaped Lancetinae beetles: Cretaceous divergence, Miocene diversification, and an impressive ability to colonize remote islands.
Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Evolution #Biogeography #Gondwana
We explore how Gondwanan fragmentation shaped Lancetinae beetles: Cretaceous divergence, Miocene diversification, and an impressive ability to colonize remote islands.
Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Evolution #Biogeography #Gondwana
Plate tectonics, cold adaptation and long-distance range expansion to remote archipelagos and the high Andes as drivers of a circumantarctic freshwater arthropod radiation
Disjunct distributions, characterised by spatially separated populations of related species, offer insights into historical biogeographic patterns and…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 20, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Excited to share our latest research!
We explore how Gondwanan fragmentation shaped Lancetinae beetles: Cretaceous divergence, Miocene diversification, and an impressive ability to colonize remote islands.
Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Evolution #Biogeography #Gondwana
We explore how Gondwanan fragmentation shaped Lancetinae beetles: Cretaceous divergence, Miocene diversification, and an impressive ability to colonize remote islands.
Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Evolution #Biogeography #Gondwana
Ugh I was drawing a proturan and got all focus on abdominal segments that I left out the legs. Oops. Their odd tetrapod walking doesn’t help. Best description reading then is antenniform. That’s a phenomenal term
January 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Ugh I was drawing a proturan and got all focus on abdominal segments that I left out the legs. Oops. Their odd tetrapod walking doesn’t help. Best description reading then is antenniform. That’s a phenomenal term
Took a break to try and draw a practice pyramid shape. I failed a the proportions so bad 🤣
January 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Took a break to try and draw a practice pyramid shape. I failed a the proportions so bad 🤣
The Elsevier folks resigning is another sign academic journals are flawed. We need to move to a university dissertation method to protect integrity. If you can’t defend your paper then it’s a bad sign. The peer review journal system is too flawed #peerreview #science
January 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The Elsevier folks resigning is another sign academic journals are flawed. We need to move to a university dissertation method to protect integrity. If you can’t defend your paper then it’s a bad sign. The peer review journal system is too flawed #peerreview #science
Was watching a YouTube video from GeoGirl about oldest rocks she reminded me the every time I see a video of the continents shifting I wish the cratons were highlighted. It would help so much. Also the sea levels never fluctuate #continentaldrift #platetectonics #cratons #geology
January 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Was watching a YouTube video from GeoGirl about oldest rocks she reminded me the every time I see a video of the continents shifting I wish the cratons were highlighted. It would help so much. Also the sea levels never fluctuate #continentaldrift #platetectonics #cratons #geology
Almost done my notes on Simonetta then I’ll move on to Whittington. Currently interesting bit is the decision he made with the epipodite. Simonetta didn’t believe Marrella had any.
#Arthropoda #paleontology #fossils #artiopoda #marrella #marrellasplendens #albertosimonetta #paleontology
#Arthropoda #paleontology #fossils #artiopoda #marrella #marrellasplendens #albertosimonetta #paleontology
January 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Almost done my notes on Simonetta then I’ll move on to Whittington. Currently interesting bit is the decision he made with the epipodite. Simonetta didn’t believe Marrella had any.
#Arthropoda #paleontology #fossils #artiopoda #marrella #marrellasplendens #albertosimonetta #paleontology
#Arthropoda #paleontology #fossils #artiopoda #marrella #marrellasplendens #albertosimonetta #paleontology
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The deeper you go into biology, the more complicated things become. We see that the boxes we put life in are gross oversimplifications. We historically have taught the simplified version. This is doing a disservice to our students! Teaching that life *is* complex is more accurate/interesting/better.
January 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The deeper you go into biology, the more complicated things become. We see that the boxes we put life in are gross oversimplifications. We historically have taught the simplified version. This is doing a disservice to our students! Teaching that life *is* complex is more accurate/interesting/better.