Typhlonecetes compressicauda , Species of aquatic caecilian found in the Amazon River Basin. There is no local name for this creature, they are refered to and confused for "zapana" which is actually a species of giant earthworm. Which is understandable because there is no

Quality beetles. Mimic caterpillar turds as adults and live in a case fashioned from turds as larvae.

JOB ALERT. I’ve have been waiting to offer this for ~10 years. We’re hiring an Expeditionary Botanist to lead our expeditions, enrich our collections, support our conservation collaborations, and inspire through teaching and engagement. Please RT! 1/6 botanic.cam.ac.uk/join-support/j…

Uncomfortably on-the-nose

🪲 The first troglobitic rove beetle in the Paederinae subfamily discovered from China, this is Domene lizeyui, a new species: doi.org/10.3897/zookey… #newspecies #beetles #taxonomy

New research from 𓆨Luke A Parry𓆨 describes a new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod fossil preserved in 3D by pyrite (fool’s gold)! Read more on our website! earth.ox.ac.uk/article/golden…

Nice surprise the other day. Some new editions of my latest book. I have a spare of each of these - free to a good home if you pay the postage.

Europe's ancient landscapes were open #woodlands w/ abundant #oak, #hazel & #yew phys.org/news/2024-11-e… - @aarhusuni.bsky.social comm on our new study on these #plants in the Last #Interglacial & the #Mesolithic🍃🌳🔆#palynology #forest #restoration #paleoecology #reforestation

Mummified sabre-toothed kitten found in Siberian permafrost stuns scientists .... new at BBC Wildlife discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-li…

Just finished a big upload of edited litter beetle photos to Flickr. This includes most of the pselaphines I collected at Cuyabeno (in the Amazon) and at a couple of cloud forest sites in Tungurahua. So many beautiful species, virtually all new. flickr.com/photos/1834800…

🪲🐝🐜 💻 Funded PhD Opportunity Alert! Join us to enhance arthropod #biodiversity monitoring in commercial forests using #AI tools & #DNA #metabarcoding. Interdisciplinary project with Queen's University Belfast 🎓 , University of Strathclyde & AFBI. More info 👉 sustain-cdt.ai/q2229

Its NOT the piranha you need to worry about! This was my biggest hitting video of 2024 (Paredion microps) Locally known as"Candiru" or "Canero" This carnivorous parasitic fish is the scourge of the Amazon river. These voracious vertebrates are capable of entering body cavities

In my new book, The Urban Naturalist, I talk about inspiring community scientists like Graham Moates, who used his plastic cleanups to discover that 3 million mammals every year die inside discarded bottles and cans. His paper: lnkd.in/er8u49s8

Peruvian Dragon Mantis! Stenophylla sp.

Small is beautiful! In a new pre-print in eLife, a team led by Alexey Polilov 🕊️ do the first-ever 3d electron-microscopic analysis of a miniaturized eye: the 29-lens compound eye of a 0.2-mm-long parasitic wasp! elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

First Oil Beetles this year during a few days in Mid Wales. Two mating pairs. One pair had been splatted by a car.

New book finished and out later this year with Laurence King. It's an exploration of the extraordinary diversity of insects in 70 remarkable species. The sublime illustrations are the work of Carim Nahaboo Nahaboo. German translation already in the works.

🪲 Discover the dazzling Tansy Beetle – the Jewel of York – with Dr Geoff Oxford! Explore new findings from York to the Fens this #InsectWeek. 🧬🌿 📅 26 June 2025 | 🎟 From £1.20 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/1222872738279 #Biodiversity #TansyBeetle Royal Zoological Society of Scotland Ross Piper

Well pleased to find this yesterday. The extraordinary Clown Beetle, Hololepta plana. Five of them under bark that was extremely wet. They glide beneath the bark in this strange, 2-dimensional world, hunting fly larvae.

I'll be doing an online talk this Thursday as part of this: