Julian Norris
@paleoguy073.bsky.social
-Evolutionary biology
-Science communication
-Openly non-religious and atheist
-Herpetoculture, aquarium hobby, & arachnid hobby
-Other socials: https://linktr.ee/Paleoguy073
-Science communication
-Openly non-religious and atheist
-Herpetoculture, aquarium hobby, & arachnid hobby
-Other socials: https://linktr.ee/Paleoguy073
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Diatoms are cosmopolitan and a widely spread microbe that form a glass shell around them, a silica. They are the pioneer in most sources of water. It's not hard to imagine that they maybe one of the earliest lifeform back then too.
January 31, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Diatoms are cosmopolitan and a widely spread microbe that form a glass shell around them, a silica. They are the pioneer in most sources of water. It's not hard to imagine that they maybe one of the earliest lifeform back then too.
You know what’s crazy, I don’t think RFK Jr actually believes anything he says after seeing this. He’s just a puppet for the Republican party.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2jJrR83/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2jJrR83/
RFK Jr. is hammered by Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) on women's reproductive rights at his confirmation hearing for secretary of Health and Human Services. "When was it that you decided to sell out the va...
TikTok video by MSNBC
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January 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
You know what’s crazy, I don’t think RFK Jr actually believes anything he says after seeing this. He’s just a puppet for the Republican party.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2jJrR83/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2jJrR83/
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Give YOUR feedback to Iowa about the prospect of removing evolution and climate change education from their education standards!
Imagine discussing biology without references to its foundational concept 😂
“We’re removing references to gravity from intro to physics”
Imagine discussing biology without references to its foundational concept 😂
“We’re removing references to gravity from intro to physics”
Meanwhile in Iowa they are removing climate change, human impact on climate change, and references to evolution from our state's education standards. You can provide feedback by Feb. 3: www.surveymonkey.com/r/GHS2RYC
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January 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Give YOUR feedback to Iowa about the prospect of removing evolution and climate change education from their education standards!
Imagine discussing biology without references to its foundational concept 😂
“We’re removing references to gravity from intro to physics”
Imagine discussing biology without references to its foundational concept 😂
“We’re removing references to gravity from intro to physics”
New widespread occurrence of canine hookworms, *Ancylostoma caninum*, from Australia that have evolved mutations allowing them to resist the drug benzimidazole www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Widespread occurrence of benzimidazole resistance single nucleotide polymorphisms in the canine hookworm, Ancylostoma caninum, in Australia
Canine hookworm (Ancylostoma caninum), a gastrointestinal nematode of domestic dogs, principally infects the small intestine of dogs and has the poten…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
New widespread occurrence of canine hookworms, *Ancylostoma caninum*, from Australia that have evolved mutations allowing them to resist the drug benzimidazole www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Organic films containing protocells and other prebiotic compounds needed for the origin of life form in the presence of silica in a miller-urey type experiment! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Concomitant formation of protocells and prebiotic compounds under a plausible early Earth atmosphere | PNAS
Revealing the origin of life and unambiguously detecting fossil remains of the earliest
organisms are closely related aspects of the same scientifi...
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January 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Organic films containing protocells and other prebiotic compounds needed for the origin of life form in the presence of silica in a miller-urey type experiment! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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In a victory for wistful nostalgics in the palaeontology world, a new paper suggests resurrecting the genus Diatryma (formerly lumped into Gastornis) based on a good number of skeletal differences. Lots of lovely figures in this one, congrats to the authors!
palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024...
palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024...
Review of Gastornithiformes
Resurrecting the taxon Diatryma: A review of the giant flightless Eocene Gastornithiformes (Aves), with a report of the first skull of Diatryma geiselensis
palaeo-electronica.org
December 20, 2024 at 10:22 PM
In a victory for wistful nostalgics in the palaeontology world, a new paper suggests resurrecting the genus Diatryma (formerly lumped into Gastornis) based on a good number of skeletal differences. Lots of lovely figures in this one, congrats to the authors!
palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024...
palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024...
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This is not a model. Or a shabby taxidermized modern rhino. This is a "fossilised" Woolly Rhinoceros, discovered in Starunia mine in Carpathian Ukraine (then Poland) in 1929. Dating to the Pleistocene, its exquisite preservation is owed to a mixture of brine, oil & clay. Held on display in Krakow. 🧵
December 2, 2024 at 10:32 PM
This is not a model. Or a shabby taxidermized modern rhino. This is a "fossilised" Woolly Rhinoceros, discovered in Starunia mine in Carpathian Ukraine (then Poland) in 1929. Dating to the Pleistocene, its exquisite preservation is owed to a mixture of brine, oil & clay. Held on display in Krakow. 🧵
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EDMONTOSAURUS IS HERE TO TELL YOU THAT IT'S VALID TO EAT FINGERS
(and sometimes arms)
#paleoart #sciart #paleostream
(and sometimes arms)
#paleoart #sciart #paleostream
December 3, 2024 at 3:30 AM
EDMONTOSAURUS IS HERE TO TELL YOU THAT IT'S VALID TO EAT FINGERS
(and sometimes arms)
#paleoart #sciart #paleostream
(and sometimes arms)
#paleoart #sciart #paleostream
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Happy Thanksgiving from your friends at WitmerLab! Lots to be thankful for, but we'll single out the purity of the animals we study & of the scientific riddles they pose. The animals themselves have no politics, no nationality, no religion, no judgement, no baggage. And many of them are delicious! 🦃
November 27, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from your friends at WitmerLab! Lots to be thankful for, but we'll single out the purity of the animals we study & of the scientific riddles they pose. The animals themselves have no politics, no nationality, no religion, no judgement, no baggage. And many of them are delicious! 🦃
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#HappyThanksgiving from WitmerLab! You have your holiday traditions, and we have ours! Yes, we CT scanned our turkey on our best turkey platter. Science has never been so delicious! And like any good dinosaur biologist, I prepared and accessioned the skeleton—OUVC 10789. 🦃🦖
November 28, 2024 at 2:37 PM
#HappyThanksgiving from WitmerLab! You have your holiday traditions, and we have ours! Yes, we CT scanned our turkey on our best turkey platter. Science has never been so delicious! And like any good dinosaur biologist, I prepared and accessioned the skeleton—OUVC 10789. 🦃🦖
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Miyamae, J.A. et al. 2024. Synapsids and sensitivity: Broad survey of tetrapod trigeminal canal morphology supports an evolutionary trend of increasing facial tactile specialization in the mammal lineage. The Anatomical Record:1–48. doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...
Synapsids and sensitivity: Broad survey of tetrapod trigeminal canal morphology supports an evolutionary trend of increasing facial tactile specialization in the mammal lineage
The trigeminus nerve (cranial nerve V) is a large and significant conduit of sensory information from the face to the brain, with its three branches extending over the head to innervate a wide variet...
doi.org
November 25, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Miyamae, J.A. et al. 2024. Synapsids and sensitivity: Broad survey of tetrapod trigeminal canal morphology supports an evolutionary trend of increasing facial tactile specialization in the mammal lineage. The Anatomical Record:1–48. doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...
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López-Antoñanzas, R., Simões, T.R., Condamine, F.L. et al. Bayesian tip-dated timeline for diversification and major biogeographic events in Muroidea (Rodentia), the largest mammalian radiation. BMC Biol 22, 270 (2024). doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Bayesian tip-dated timeline for diversification and major biogeographic events in Muroidea (Rodentia), the largest mammalian radiation - BMC Biology
Background Extinct organisms provide vital information about the time of origination and biogeography of extant groups. The development of phylogenetic methods to study evolutionary processes through ...
doi.org
November 25, 2024 at 7:01 PM
López-Antoñanzas, R., Simões, T.R., Condamine, F.L. et al. Bayesian tip-dated timeline for diversification and major biogeographic events in Muroidea (Rodentia), the largest mammalian radiation. BMC Biol 22, 270 (2024). doi.org/10.1186/s129...
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Upper arms, forearms, even parts of our wrists originally arose in fish living in rivers, streams, and tidal environments hundreds of millions of years ago
November 25, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Upper arms, forearms, even parts of our wrists originally arose in fish living in rivers, streams, and tidal environments hundreds of millions of years ago
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
One of the most recent uses for the "Leviathan" painting (2008) is on the cover of the Smithsonian edition of ANCIENT SEA REPTILES, by Dr Darren Naish.
#SciArt #Dinosaurs #PaleoArt #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
One of the most recent uses for the "Leviathan" painting (2008) is on the cover of the Smithsonian edition of ANCIENT SEA REPTILES, by Dr Darren Naish.
#SciArt #Dinosaurs #PaleoArt #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
June 6, 2024 at 5:46 PM
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
One of the most recent uses for the "Leviathan" painting (2008) is on the cover of the Smithsonian edition of ANCIENT SEA REPTILES, by Dr Darren Naish.
#SciArt #Dinosaurs #PaleoArt #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
One of the most recent uses for the "Leviathan" painting (2008) is on the cover of the Smithsonian edition of ANCIENT SEA REPTILES, by Dr Darren Naish.
#SciArt #Dinosaurs #PaleoArt #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
Cladograms representing current model of modern and (known in pop culture) extinct reptile phylogenetic relationships.
November 23, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Cladograms representing current model of modern and (known in pop culture) extinct reptile phylogenetic relationships.
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Y’all weren’t kidding, Deep Time is gorgeous
November 21, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Y’all weren’t kidding, Deep Time is gorgeous
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One of my favorite #MonkeyCruise inspirations!
November 18, 2024 at 4:21 AM
One of my favorite #MonkeyCruise inspirations!
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November 17, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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Using robotics to understand the history of life. The latest from our collaborative team with @vdisanto.bsky.social, Michael Ishida, Fumiya Iida, and Fiji Berio. With robots we can model great transitions in the history of life. See: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paleoinspired robotics as an experimental approach to the history of life
The emerging field of paleoinspired robotics studies ancient organisms and their evolutionary trajectories.
www.science.org
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Using robotics to understand the history of life. The latest from our collaborative team with @vdisanto.bsky.social, Michael Ishida, Fumiya Iida, and Fiji Berio. With robots we can model great transitions in the history of life. See: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...