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Lucy Flower
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Nature, rewilding, palaeoecology and ice age mammals
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deepfrieddna.bsky.social
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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A Middle and Late Devensian sequence from the northern part of Kents Cavern (Devon, UK) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A Middle and Late Devensian sequence from the northern part of Kents Cavern (Devon, UK)
1920s/30s excavation of a Middle Devensian sequence in the northern part of Kents Cavern recovered important Late Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic archaeological material, including Britain's olde....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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clapacommunity.bsky.social
“I think cleft, especially cleft palate, is very misunderstood. A lot of people think it’s a one operation fix all."

“People can be a bit surprised when they realise all the other stuff it affects."

📰 Read Izzy’s story: buff.ly/zA2TNHs

#CleftAware
Collage of two photos. First shows close up of newborn with a nasogastric tube. The second image shows a close up of a young woman with stadium seats showing behind her.
May 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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rspb.bsky.social
#NoMowMay has begun! 🌼

The rare chance to help nature by doing nothing.
The image presents a comparison between two types of lawns to promote #NoMowMay. On the left side, titled "Why have a lawn like this?" it displays a grid of uniform green squares representing a plain, regularly mowed lawn. On the right side, titled "When you can have a lawn like this?" the grid intersperses colourful icons of a sunflower, a pink flower, a ladybug, a frog, a bee, a butterfly, a white flower with a yellow centre, a tulip, another sunflower, a red mushroom with white spots, and additional flowers, symbolising a lively, biodiverse lawn encouraged by letting grass grow naturally during May.
May 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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londongeology.bsky.social
If you like this account please do give it a share! We are really struggling to get engagement on this platform. London’s geology is more varied than you think and we are here to spread the word, look after and promote London’s geosites #londongeology
A series of photos from Gilbert’s Pit in Charlton. A pair of hands holds a slab of the Woolwich Shell Bed, an iron oxide rich clay packed with white fossil shells A series of photos from Gilbert’s Pit in Charlton. The Blackheath Beds, pavked with well rounded, black flint pebbles forms the top of the section at Gilbert’s Pit
April 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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archaeobears.bsky.social
Some of the back story to our recent @antiquityj.bsky.social paper - when we were undertaking the analysis @isotopesuk.bsky.social

www.bgs.ac.uk/news/explori...
Exploring animal diets in Shakespeare’s London - British Geological Survey
The ‘Box office bears’ project aims to understand more about the bears that were once a common sight in England. Prof Hannah O’Regan and Dr Lizzie Wright from the University of Nottingham explain what...
www.bgs.ac.uk
March 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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theguardian.com
Wolves’ reintroduction to Highlands could help native woodlands to recover, says study
Wolves’ reintroduction to Highlands could help native woodlands to recover, says study
Researchers believe the animals could keep red deer populations under control in areas of Scotland, leading to storage of 1m tonnes of CO2 Reintroducing wolves in the Scottish Highlands could lead to an expansion of native woodland which could take in…
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February 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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justrena.bsky.social
Once upon a time on Twitter there were eejits (@deepfrieddna.bsky.social , Jan Friedman and me) who thought it might be fun to write about animals who weren't dinosaurs. Beasties from the very twilight of the Pleistocene, to the edge of humans.
Here's an example
twilightbeasts.org/2016/04/27/s...
Small but mighty
Our planet’s climate fluctuations move to the slow, almost imperceptible dance steps of tilts in our axis and wobbles in our precession around the star we call the Sun. These movements which cause …
twilightbeasts.org
February 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM