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Adi Kombra (Kobra)
@adikombra.bsky.social
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Palaeontologist in the making. Scientist and Engineer by trade. MSc, BEng. Cellist, Cook, Historian, Avgeek. MfN & Charité. Berlin.
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anatrecord.bsky.social
Taylor et al present a refined Alcian blue + Alizarin red clearing and staining protocol optimized for large vertebrate specimens. Works on adult chickens and late-stage emu embryos, no trypsin needed, best on fresh frozen tissue! Check it out! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
January 22, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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zookeys.pensoft.net
🦋 This study expands the limited existing workflows for digitizing #Lepidoptera and can be applied across #museum collections and other dried, pinned Lepidoptera specimens.

doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#butterfly #digitalization #museums
January 16, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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antinousgaygod.bsky.social
🪷 January 15th is #NationalHatDay 👒🎩👑 #Antinous as #Aristaeus divine Beekeeper wears a farmer's Sun Hat for #HatDay at Musée Louvre. Like #Antinoos, #Aristée plunged into a sacred river to work a miracle, to #SaveTheBees. We need it now as bees are dying. antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/05/as-b... 🪷
January 15, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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mfnberlin.bsky.social
Happy birthday, #Wikipedia! 🎉

To mark its 25th anniversary, we share 25 openly licensed images on #Wikimedia Commons. The specimens shown here highlight only a small part of this diversity.

🔗 View more: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

📸 Eran Wolff (1, 3), Bernhard Schurian (2)
Pinned butterfly specimen of Olynthus hypsea with spread wings, photographed for scientific documentation. Close-up of a velvet ant (Dasymutilla gloriosa), a wingless wasp, from the entomological collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. High-resolution close-up of a metallic green flower chafer beetle (Potosia aeruginosa), a member of the subfamily Cetoniinae, from the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
January 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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mfnberlin.bsky.social
How does 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 shape public engagement? 📍

The collaborative encyclopedia "Place in Engagement" explores how spaces and encounters influence collaboration and knowledge exchange. 🤝

🔗 zenodo.org/records/1796...

📸 Thomas Rosenthal
#publicengagement #openscience
#science #sciencenews
Several visitors stand in the museum around moving boxes filled with bird specimens and take part in a participatory workshop for the development of the special exhibition "ZUGvögel – Collection in motion".
January 14, 2026 at 5:26 PM
adikombra.bsky.social
Another grant rejected
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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leibnizlib.bsky.social
During #AEWAMOP9, delegates paid tribute to the Slender-billed Curlew — declared extinct by IUCN. A specimen from the Museum Koenig Bonn (@leibnizlib.bsky.social) stood as a symbol of what we’ve lost, and what international cooperation can still save.

More: t1p.de/b5c5r

#Biodiversity #Conservation
Slender-billed Curlew from the Museum Koenig Bonn at the AEWAMOP9
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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mfnberlin.bsky.social
Explore what happens to soil during and after a wildfire! 🔥

Join our #art and #science workshop "Soil, wildfires and biological remediation” with Margherita Pevere, in collaboration with #mfnberlin researchers Katharina and Parm von Oheimb! 🐌

🗓️ Sat, 25 Oct, 14:00 to 18:00
🔗 bit.ly/soil-wildfires
October 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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mfnberlin.bsky.social
Long before the dinosaurs, #insects were already eating their way through leaves! 🌿

#Fossils from Thuringia reveal the world’s oldest insect plague – 295 million years old. Understanding global change thanks to natural history collections! 🌍

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#science #sciencenews
Fossil leaf of the seed fern Autunia conferta from the Permian period. The pinnules show numerous small oval depressions – traces of insect oviposition. These scars occur in large numbers and likely represent sites where eggs were deposited but never hatched. Line drawing of the same Autunia conferta fossil leaf as in. The sketch highlights the distribution of oviposition scars across the pinnule, showing their clustered occurrence.
October 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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anatrecord.bsky.social
New study tracks semicircular canal development. Rapid growth & shape change occur w/in postnatal week 1, stabilizing by day 14 as ossification completes. Brief but critical window of vestibular morphological plasticity
Cárdenas-Serna & Jeffery: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
October 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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stevebrusatte.bsky.social
On this #fossilfriday, take a few moments to read this.

A touching tribute to the life, career, and discoveries of Mark Norell, from his long-time friend and field companion, Mike Novacek. In @nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Mark Norell obituary: palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds
Through fieldwork and innovative research, he transformed how scientists and the public perceive the prehistoric world.
www.nature.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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thepalass.bsky.social
A new long & narrow-snouted ichthyosaur illuminates a complex faunal turnover during an undersampled Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) interval onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday @morphobank.bsky.social #PapersinPalaeontology
Photograph of the holotype and only known specimen of the hauffiopterygian leptonectid, Xiphodracon goldencapensis (ROM VP52596) from Golden Cap, between Charmouth and Seatown, Dorset, UK. The skeleton is exposed in ventrolateral view. The skull has been fully prepared free of matrix whereas most of the skeleton is still in matrix. The left (upper) forefin has been prepared so that it is three-dimensionally preserved and projects upwards. Scale bar (lower left) is 20 cm.
October 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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mfnberlin.bsky.social
What if #Berlin became a place where protecting nature and democracy go hand in hand? 🌱

Join our "Ideas for a liveable Berlin" event to explore how shared knowledge can shape our city’s future. 🤝

🗓️ Mon, 13 Oct | 18:00 | @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
🔗 eventbrite.com/e/1719108452659

📸 Pablo Castagnola
View over Berlin from the roof of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, with the Berlin TV Tower visible in the background.
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
adikombra.bsky.social
Louis Dollo, of Dollo's law and one of the founding father of palaeontology, was born in my beloved Lille. Just something I like to remember.
September 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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morethanadodo.bsky.social
Thirty relatively intact iguanodon skeletons were found in a coal mine in Belgium in the late 1800s. Louis Dollo, who supervised the first assembly of these fossils, believed it was a biped, as it is shown here. We now know that this was a quadruped, meaning it walked on four legs instead of two.
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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val-fisch.bsky.social
Are you tired of people constantly overestimating body size of marine reptiles? No longer!

We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians.

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September 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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mfnberlin.bsky.social
Carnivorous #bats that hug? 🦇

New study on the spectral bat reveals prey provision, grooming and even wing-wrapped greetings – complex social behaviour with big implications for #conservation! 🌎

🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
📸 Marisa Tietge
#science #sciencenews
Social roosting of spectral bats (Vampyrum spectrum) inside a hollow tree, with three individuals resting closely together.
September 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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tweetisaurus.bsky.social
Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!
August 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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thepalass.bsky.social
A new sail-back ornithischian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wealden Group of the Isle of Wight & the origins of neural spine elongation in iguanodontians onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday #PapersinPalaeontology
Artist's reconstruction of new iguanodontian genus and species Istiorachis chasei (MIWG 6643) stading in profile in a dried but clearly recently flooded landscape with large branches or fallen trees in the foreground and immediately behind, standing trees on the high bank further behind, and two pteradactyls flying in the distance to the upper right. Original artwork by James Brown.
August 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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thepalass.bsky.social
Crocodyliform diversity of the Cretaceous Açu Formation, Potiguar Basin, Brazil: geographical distribution & palaeobiological implications onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology
In the centre is a geological map of the northeast coast of Brazil showing the extent of the Acu Formation. The darkest shading shows the crystalline basement to the south, followed in a northerly direction by the Acu Formation, Jandaira Formation and post-Cretaceous formations in sequentially lighter shades. Around this are examples of the different morphotypes of crocodyliform teeth identified in this study. Clockwise from top left: morphotype 1A (UFRJ-DG 698-Rd; scale bar at lower left 1 mm); morphotype 1B (UFRJ-DG 697-Rd; scale bar at lower right 1 mm); morphotype 2 (UFRJ-DG 703-Rd; scale bar at lower left 1 mm); morphotype 3 (UFRJ-DG 700-Rd; scale bar at lower left 2 mm); morphotype 4 (UFRJ-DG 704-Rd; scale bar at lower left 1 mm).
August 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
adikombra.bsky.social
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.
August 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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arctomet.bsky.social
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Evolution of hind limb morphology of Titanosauriformes (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) analyzed via 3D geometric morphometrics reveals wide-gauge posture as an exaptation for gigantism
Wide-gauge posture in the limb skeleton of Titanosauriformes is an exaptation to gigantism, as it is not correlated with body size in deeply branching titanosaurs.
doi.org
August 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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mfnberlin.bsky.social
Master your collection data with the #WiNoDa Winter School! 🎓

This free, online programme offers expert lectures and hands-on sessions on data management and analysis – from #biodiversity to #archaeology and beyond! 🦋

📅 24-28 November
🔗 Register here: winoda.de/en/event/win...

📸 Kirill Tatarenkov
High-resolution photo of a butterfly display case from the museum’s collection shown on a computer screen.
August 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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arctomet.bsky.social
Evolution of the sauropodomorph astragalus: relationships with the emergence of the sauropod bauplan and weight-bearing function, and critical appraisal of evolutionary rate estimation url: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Evolution of the sauropodomorph astragalus: relationships with the emergence of the sauropod bauplan and weight-bearing function, and critical appraisal of evolutionary rate estimation
Abstract. Sauropods, the largest terrestrial animals, were a clade of quadrupedal dinosaurs nested within sauropodomorphs, whose early representatives were
academic.oup.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM