At the Stand Up For Science rally in Santa Fe today. #Standupforscience2025

For #FossilFriday a skull of the arctocyonid Claenodon ferox from the lower Paleocene (about 62.5 million years ago) Nacimiento Formation. Like many Paleocene mammals, Claenodon had large canines and accomodated huge jaw closing muscles, but the braincase housed a relatively small brain.

Here's an image of Jupiter I captured with my homemade backyard telescope on December 19, 2024. The Great Red Spot and its turbulent wake dominates the southern hemisphere.

Happy Thanksgiving from Albuquerque New Mexico.

Cottonwoods along the Rio Grande Bosque this morning. #newmexico #newmexicotrue #nmtrue

Summer dusk over White Sands, New Mexico.

The Rio Grande as seen this morning from the Avenida Cesar Chavez Bridge, Albuquerque, New Mexico. #newmexico #newmexicotrue #nmtrue

Blue skies above San Diego Canyon near Jemez Springs, New Mexico.

Partial skull of the lambeosaurine hadrosaur Parasaurolophus tubicen - a rare dinosaur from the upper Campanian of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. #dinosaur #paleontology

Jupiter and its giant moon Ganymede captured early Sunday morning using a homemade 12.5" telescope and a ZWO ASI662mc camera. Hard to believe that images like these can be captured with a relatively simple backyard telescope. #high-resolution #planetary #astrophotography

My first post here with a morning view from the West Mesa overlooking the North Valley of Albuquerque, New Mexico.