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Dive in with MBARI for some of the most stunning deep-sea sightings we made in 2025 📽️✨️

This year, our team spotted a dazzling variety of deep-sea denizens. These fascinating finds underscore the remarkable diversity of life in the ocean. Watch here: youtu.be/_SV6sGV1Pbw?...
MBARI's spectacular deep-sea sightings from 2025—in stunning 4K
YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
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December 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Finished — can highly recommend this insightful series. Very relevant, not only to the past, but to the current situation here in the US.

Sometimes, history really •does• rhyme…
Surprise! Happy holidays!

The final two episodes of "Burn Order" were due to be posted this Monday, December 15th. But here they are, a little early.

This is the complete series -- a total of six episodes.

Free to listen at Apple podcasts or on any podcast app:

podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order
History Podcast · Series ·
podcasts.apple.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Delivery! I got some awesomely unique paleo merch from the Badlands Dinosaur Museum (including the first postcard to feature my beloved Trierarchuncus)

I'll put a link below to the shop 👇🏽
December 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Is this a turtle claw from the Utahraptor Megablock. If so it is huge for the mid-Mesozoic of North America? @heatherfsmith.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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That's better
December 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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A few years ago, Bill Nye the science guy debated creationist Ken Ham about evolution. The last question was "what would change your mind?"

Bill Nye said "Evidence."

Ken Ham said "Nothing can possibly change my mind about this."

I think about that a lot.
December 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Steady state theory of evolution does not reflect the history of life. I am more a fan of reticulate evolution. Things go well, populations expand and gene pool diversifies and given a crisis gene pool diversity and populations contract... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Why the punctuational model of evolution is valid | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Why the punctuational model of evolution is valid
www.cambridge.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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If you're fond of telling your fellow Thanksgiving diners that the turkey is indeed a dinosaur, then I've got an infographic for you

From the hips to the wishbone to the wrist joint, a turkey features SCADS of dinosaurian traits visible right there on your Thanksgiving table. Print and share!
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.

If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

#sciencematters
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Also, adorable Edmontosaur toe beans. You needn’t be a Mammal to have toe beans. Hooves and all, these count. Not convinced? See Fig. 3. I will die on this hill.

Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template “mummification” | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template “mummification”
Two “mummies” of the end-Cretaceous, duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens preserve a fleshy crest over the neck and trunk, an interdigitating spike row over the hips and tail, and hooves cappi...
www.science.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
ICYMI —
The Fossil Finders gets you a front row seat to paleontologists‘ personal fieldwork adventures! This new program is a collaboration between SVP and paleo-Twitch-streaming rockstar @paleontologizing.bsky.social!

You can find Danny’s channel at Twitch.tv/paleontologizing.

#TheFossilFinders
October 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
My undergrad Anthropology advisor, and an amazing Human being.
October 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reading this, i experienced…
Walrus Surprise!!
For #fossilfriday here is the Golden Gate walrus - a partial snout and tusk of a walrus dredged from late Pleistocene sediments on the seafloor below the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco! This is the southernmost record of modern walrus in the eastern Pacific. On display @calacademy.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Remember when being against Fascism—that is, being Anti-Fascist—was considered, at least nominally, a •good• thing, an ideal to work toward?

Frog remembers:
October 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Ah, the Tawny Frogmouth Youth…
TEAM TAWNY 🥇
October 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Replace "the Cosmos" with "the History of the Earth and its Biological History." To specifically define how paleontologists must operate!
"We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
October 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Sharing for @Rebecca Hunt-Foster; "Happy Establishment day Dinosaur National Monument! On this date in 1915, President Woodrow Wilson established the original 80-acre national monument to protect the Carnegie Dinosaur Quarry." @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @palaeontosoc.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Today new publication has been released in @journalsystpal.bsky.social
We are proud to present you Cariocecus bocagei, a new hadrosauroid from the Papo Seco Formation (Barremian, Early K) of Portugal.
Come with me in this post series to learn more about it! 1/x
September 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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A new paper by Bertozzo et al. describes 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙞, a basal hadrosauroid from the Lower Cretaceous of Portugal 🦖 The most complete iguanodontian skull specimen found in Portugal, offers insights into cranial development and anatomy during hadrosauroid evolution: buff.ly/FMnyy1m #PaleoSky
September 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Here's a dinosaur trace for this week's #FossilFriday — a footprint of a large 'carnosaur' (likely a carcharodontosaur) at the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Track Site outside of Moab, Utah.

This is easily one of the most impressive dinosaur track sites in the world, and it honestly needs more protection
September 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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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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August 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM