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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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I went to LV-426 and all I got was this chest pain.
Man with a facehugger on his face. Man with a chestburster emerging from his chest.
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Exorcist vibes out there tonight
A dark street is illuminated by lampposts with a cone of light.
October 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Wonderfully spooky memento mori from the Howff in Dundee.
A flat and worn grave slab surrounded by leaves that shows a carved skeleton holding an hourglass and spade. An ornate sarcophagus lid covered in moss with a winged hourglass, two skulls and crossed bones carved. Ornate sarcophagus lid covered in lichen with carved bell, crossbones and skulls. A grave slab with relief of a man and woman in 16/17th century clothing holding hands with a skull between them.
October 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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So, the drainage in the lower field was being blocked by the EU?
Private eye letters page has a picture of Nigel garage in a flat cap beside Richard tice in a red tie compared with an image of ted and Ralph from the fast show. The text says "sir, two men in a complex tense relationship versus ted and Ralph from the fast show".
September 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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111 years ago today, Martha, the last passenger pigeon died alone in Cincinnati Zoo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passeng...
Coloured painting of a single passenger pigeon perching on a fir tree branch. Its breast is salmon pink, while wings and head are blue grey with black spots toward the wing edge.
September 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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This is an outrage.gif complaints to @privateeyenews.bsky.social
Cartoon of Dr Sattler, Dr Grant and Hammond from "Jurassic park" observing a triops like creature in a puddle under the banner "Palaeozoic park" while one says "you were right. It's not as impressive."
August 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Private Eye
Cartoon by mike Oldfield. "North American animals: how they have changed". First panel has Smilodon, wolf and short faced bear with the title "last ice age, terrifying looking beasts". Second panel has two I .C.E. stormtroopers in tactical gear, masks, and shades with title "present I.C.E. age, terrifying looking beasts".
August 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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He looks like a fucking Boglin®
Latex handheld puppet with glass eyes that is mostly head and arms. A Boglin toy from the 1980s.
August 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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One previous owner...
Wooden coffin leaning upright against a brick wall.
August 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Some of the many treasures for sale in the antique shops of Cullen.
A silver skull with prominent electrodes and lightbulbs for eyes A statue of a horse covered in many stripes of paint of different colours. Sculpture of three garden gnomes playing cards on a mushroom table. A grotesque stone carving holding a shield that bears a strong resemblance to uncle deadly from the Muppets.
August 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Some spectacular gravestones in Fordyce auld Kirk.
A carved stone effigy of a knight lies in a niche within a stone wall. A lichen covered grave slab with prominent skull and crossbones. A lichen covered grave slab of a blacksmith with engraving of a crown, a hammer, and an anvil.
August 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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The Vogelherd cave lion head. Just so expertly done but imbued with real character and spirit that speaks even after 25,000 years
A small carved head of a lion made from mammoth ivory, with prominent round ears and cross hatching indicating a cheek ruff.
July 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Socks with mammoths, sabretooths, and dodos? Would be rude not to buy a pair!
Pair of dark blue socks with image of a mammoth, a sabretooth, and a dodo, photographed on a wooden table.
July 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Today's my birthday!
PBF comic. Panel 1: boy is sleeping. Panel 2: boy wakes up with a smile. Panel 3: boy jumps excitedly on his bed shouting "today's my birthday!". Panel 4: death, the grim reaper, slides one bead along on his life tally.
July 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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This week a confidant informed me that my old lab mate, and most Danish person I've ever known, Prof. Eske Willerslev, has a larger than life size bronze statue cast in his honour. Genuinely impressive stuff. www.hornsleth.com/works/projec...
3 men standing in front of a large bronze statue on a plinth.
July 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I was aware that the description of plesiosaurs as like "a snake drawn through the shell of a turtle" had a long and mysterious pedigree (oceansofkansas.com/snaketurtle....). Here is a datum not previously mentioned; from Hugh Miller's 1858 book "The Cruise of the Betsey".
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Facsimile page of Hugh Miller's "The Cruise of the Betsey" (1857), pg97 with the phrase "An English geologist has described it, grotesquely enough, and yet most happily, as a snake threaded through a tortoise."
July 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Also saw some fantastic taxidermy
A badly stuffed Scottish wildcat with large staring eyes A stuffed boars head on a wall plaque with a red hat and sunglasses on.
June 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Had a wonderful time learning more about rewilding in Scotland yesterday on a course by Northwoods Network/Scotland The Big Picture. Saw incredible regenerated wetland due to beaver reintroduction (but alas no actual beavers sighted). 🦫
Common frog (Rana temporaria) sitting on a man's hand. View of a flooded meadow with beaver dams and biodiverse woodland. A tree trunk showing beaver gnawing. A beaver dam made of branches and mud.
June 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Multifaceted analysis reveals diet and kinship of Late Pleistocene ‘Tumat Puppies’ [Paywall] www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Two partial mummified carcasses of ice age wolf cubs lying side by side on a grey table with a scale bar. Both show ochre coloured skin patches among dark brown clumps of fur and the legs, head, and ears are discernible.
June 16, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Went to pick up the milk this morning and found a roe fawn (Capreolus capreolus) squeaking beside my front door.
Roe deer fawn on a tarmac path between a wall and a hedge. Roe deer fawn on a tarmac path between a wall and a hedge.
June 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Learn it. Know it. Live it.
Robin the boy wonder says "ChatGPT says" while batman slaps him violently and says "no".
May 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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My dad was away birding in a remote spot in the Highlands and sent me this photo! Makes me so happy to see this wee sign of successful reintroduction and natural spread!
Two small trees on a riverbank showing signs of being toppled by beavers with gnaw marks at the base.
May 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Took a meander round the islands to enjoy the sunshine and was rewarded with good views of a grey heron (Ardea cinerea) and a female goosander (Mergus merganser).
A grey heron on a grassy green bank beside a dark river. A female common merganser on a small rock in the middle of a stream.
May 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Cartoon of Alexander the great being shown the gordian knot and that "whoever can untie this knot will rule the world". He cuts it with his sword. A gordian advisor says "fuck's sake I said untie" then "you dont get to rule the world by ignoring the rules and breaking shit". Alexander then cuts the advisor in half while saying "untie!". He then asks "anybody else need solving?". The final panel is Alexander on a throne while the advisor's ghost says "history will remember you as a dick", while Alexander replies "not if I write it."
May 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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This tiny pineapple 🍍 cheered me up in the botanic gardens today.
A small pineapple growing out of the top of a plant on a gravel flat.
May 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM