Joan Turmelle
@killdeercheer.bsky.social
(she/her) Of 'Joan's Journal' & 'Through Time and Clades'. Anthropology Undergrad Alumna. Mermaid at Heart. Natural History, Animation, Pinups. Art by Ilari Pätilä.
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This is haunting and beautiful and a reminder that there is absolutely still wonder out there.
Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid
December 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This is haunting and beautiful and a reminder that there is absolutely still wonder out there.
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Microsyops fur brush demo. Quick one. Brushes now available here villes.gumroad.com/l/rkrac
October 7, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Microsyops fur brush demo. Quick one. Brushes now available here villes.gumroad.com/l/rkrac
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Another piece of wintry palaeoart to celebrate the season: William Scheele’s Bison! I’m pretty sure this is the impressively horned Bison latifrons, though the blurb suggests it’s one of the living species. Either way, an imposing and stylish reconstruction of an underappreciated animal!
December 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Another piece of wintry palaeoart to celebrate the season: William Scheele’s Bison! I’m pretty sure this is the impressively horned Bison latifrons, though the blurb suggests it’s one of the living species. Either way, an imposing and stylish reconstruction of an underappreciated animal!
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A #PudgyHorse tribute to the Lascaux cave paintings, painted with the Strata Trio watercolours made by @thoughtsupnorth.bsky.social from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
Might as well post this one as it's been stolen and sold on Australian Temu. 🙃
#ArtAdventCalendar
Might as well post this one as it's been stolen and sold on Australian Temu. 🙃
#ArtAdventCalendar
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
A #PudgyHorse tribute to the Lascaux cave paintings, painted with the Strata Trio watercolours made by @thoughtsupnorth.bsky.social from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
Might as well post this one as it's been stolen and sold on Australian Temu. 🙃
#ArtAdventCalendar
Might as well post this one as it's been stolen and sold on Australian Temu. 🙃
#ArtAdventCalendar
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The Internet is becoming increasingly unreliable. Buy books and read them.
December 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The Internet is becoming increasingly unreliable. Buy books and read them.
Next on Joan's Journal: what is the nature of prehistoric cave art in Europe? Can the rock art of modern peoples give us any insights? 🪨🎨
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December 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Next on Joan's Journal: what is the nature of prehistoric cave art in Europe? Can the rock art of modern peoples give us any insights? 🪨🎨
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This is a good read! Just want to add that for general audiences, forgoing the tree altogether and using concentric containers is usually more successful at conveying the intended meaning.
December 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This is a good read! Just want to add that for general audiences, forgoing the tree altogether and using concentric containers is usually more successful at conveying the intended meaning.
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LETS GOOOO Australopithecus deyiremeda is not only legit but is tied to the Burtele Foot!
Arboreality maintained in some australopiths while other (Au. afarensis) committed more to the ground.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Arboreality maintained in some australopiths while other (Au. afarensis) committed more to the ground.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New finds shed light on diet and locomotion in Australopithecus deyiremeda - Nature
3.4-million-year-old hominin fossils discovered in Ethiopia provide insight into the diet and locomotion of Australopithecus deyiremeda.
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
LETS GOOOO Australopithecus deyiremeda is not only legit but is tied to the Burtele Foot!
Arboreality maintained in some australopiths while other (Au. afarensis) committed more to the ground.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Arboreality maintained in some australopiths while other (Au. afarensis) committed more to the ground.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
A wonderful season! The animals were brought to life with such vivid detail that I swear several shots were filmed in prehistory 💖💖 Well done to everyone involved! 🥰
Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A wonderful season! The animals were brought to life with such vivid detail that I swear several shots were filmed in prehistory 💖💖 Well done to everyone involved! 🥰
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New fossils from Ethiopia reveal that Australopithecus deyiremeda lived beside Lucy’s species while walking, climbing, and eating in different ways. Early hominin evolution was a branching landscape, not a single path. #Paleoanthropology #HumanOrigins #Fossils #Evolution
The Foot That Didn’t Fit: What a Strange Fossil Reveals About Our Earliest Neighbors
New fossils from the Ethiopian highlands reshape the picture of how multiple hominin species shared landscapes, diets, and ways of moving 3.4 million years ago.
www.anthropology.net
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
New fossils from Ethiopia reveal that Australopithecus deyiremeda lived beside Lucy’s species while walking, climbing, and eating in different ways. Early hominin evolution was a branching landscape, not a single path. #Paleoanthropology #HumanOrigins #Fossils #Evolution
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One of my favourite #Pleistocene mammals - and, yes, it has a role in #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge - is the big predatory marsupial #Thylacoleo. Here's an introduction to this fantastic animal.... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #marsupials
Thylacoleo, the Incredible Marsupial Lion — Tetrapod Zoology
Among the most striking and interesting of extinct mammals is the so-called marsupial lion of Australia, or Thylacoleo carnifex …
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November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
One of my favourite #Pleistocene mammals - and, yes, it has a role in #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge - is the big predatory marsupial #Thylacoleo. Here's an introduction to this fantastic animal.... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #marsupials
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Happy Origin Day! Published OTD in 1859
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Happy Origin Day! Published OTD in 1859
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it is truly one of the treasures of nature that they look so elegant from every angle except this one
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
it is truly one of the treasures of nature that they look so elegant from every angle except this one
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I would sell my entire soul for all my fellow science communicators to stop ending the "story of the dinosaurs" at the end-cretaceous extinction and dive into, even briefly, the story of cenozoic birds. I'm also willing to offer cash, I just don't have much of it.
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I would sell my entire soul for all my fellow science communicators to stop ending the "story of the dinosaurs" at the end-cretaceous extinction and dive into, even briefly, the story of cenozoic birds. I'm also willing to offer cash, I just don't have much of it.
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Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
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🚨NEW: Iran will move its capital due to an ecological catastrophe. Experts warn the move won’t help the nearly 10 million people living in Tehran, who will continue to face the impacts of corruption and climate change.
“We saw this coming,” one source told me.
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“We saw this coming,” one source told me.
My story @sciam.bsky.social 🧪
Iran's Capital Is Moving. The Reason is an Ecological Catastrophe
The move is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame
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November 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🚨NEW: Iran will move its capital due to an ecological catastrophe. Experts warn the move won’t help the nearly 10 million people living in Tehran, who will continue to face the impacts of corruption and climate change.
“We saw this coming,” one source told me.
My story @sciam.bsky.social 🧪
“We saw this coming,” one source told me.
My story @sciam.bsky.social 🧪
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What might be my favourite fossil has been just published by Kiat et al. 2025. Years ago I saw a pic of this Anchiornis specimen in nat geo article and I audibly gasped.preserving not only the feathers but also the original patterns as well. I made this drawing on the spot. Maybe its time to do v2.0
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
What might be my favourite fossil has been just published by Kiat et al. 2025. Years ago I saw a pic of this Anchiornis specimen in nat geo article and I audibly gasped.preserving not only the feathers but also the original patterns as well. I made this drawing on the spot. Maybe its time to do v2.0
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Endangered Species of the Philippines 🇵🇭
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Endangered Species of the Philippines 🇵🇭
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This is a real image of a real thing that exists in the universe! And because a bunch of humans decided to get together and build a space telescope, we get to see it! 🤯
Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry.
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
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Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding
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November 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is a real image of a real thing that exists in the universe! And because a bunch of humans decided to get together and build a space telescope, we get to see it! 🤯
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New long-term data from Ngogo chimpanzees show that lethal territorial gains led to major boosts in fertility and infant survival. The findings offer a rare, living model for how spatial competition and resource control may have shaped past hominin societies. #Anthropology #Primates #HumanEvolution
A long-term study of the Ngogo chimpanzees shows that lethal territorial aggression led to a 22 percent range expansion, doubled birth rates, and dramatically improved infant survival. Territorial gains shaped their evolutionary success. #Chimpanzees #Evolution #Primatology #PNAS
The Territory Paradox: How Violence Shapes Life and Death Among Ngogo Chimpanzees
A decades-long study of wild chimpanzees in Uganda reveals that lethal conflict, territorial expansion, and reproductive success are more tightly linked than many scientists once believed.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
New long-term data from Ngogo chimpanzees show that lethal territorial gains led to major boosts in fertility and infant survival. The findings offer a rare, living model for how spatial competition and resource control may have shaped past hominin societies. #Anthropology #Primates #HumanEvolution
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A couple years ago I happened upon this abandoned mastodon while wandering in the woods. I’m happy to discover that he’s since been relocated to brand new playground area, and that his name is Bimbo.
November 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A couple years ago I happened upon this abandoned mastodon while wandering in the woods. I’m happy to discover that he’s since been relocated to brand new playground area, and that his name is Bimbo.
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Be nice to seagulls!!! 🤍
November 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Be nice to seagulls!!! 🤍
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In some ways, this does make more sense than ctenophores as the outgroup to all other animals because it allows for the developmental programming for *some* sort of symmetry to be a synapomorphy of non-sponge animals.
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
In some ways, this does make more sense than ctenophores as the outgroup to all other animals because it allows for the developmental programming for *some* sort of symmetry to be a synapomorphy of non-sponge animals.