Have just discovered this early (1843) attempt by Edward Newman to artistically reconstruct pterosaurs and am absolutely delighted

We just need to invent a straw that lasts a little bit longer than 4 seconds but still less than a million years

okay what the fuck THAT'S what Ötzi looked like when they found him???? i assumed he was like, mostly encased in ice like a cartoon caveman, not emerging like a damned soul climbing out of Hell to take revenge on the living

In 2022, I wrote about Envigo, a research beagle center that had racked up dozens of animal welfare violations. This week, the DOJ announced that Envigo’s parent company will pay $35 million—the largest fine in the history of the Animal Welfare Act. justice.gov/opa/pr/animal-…

I had a museum for the things I brought home as a child: a dusty old chest of drawers in the barn next to the house. Now I’ve grown up, so has my cabinet of curiosities. This is where I keep many of my treasures: a “handsome, ink-stained, oak printer’s chest” #mudlarking

The blunthead slug snake isn't like other snakes. This nocturnal reptile, which primarily feeds on slugs and snails, eats using a technique called mandibular sawing. To slice off the indigestible parts of prey, this species slides its jaws back and forth like a saw!

Super fun article by Elizabeth Anne Brown spotlights our deep-sea research led by Jacob Winnikoff and Itay Budin Itay Budin scientificamerican.com/article/how-de…

I kind of love this, but I'm also compelled to point out that fossil fuels are mostly made of the remains of ancient photosynthetic life. Petroleum is primarily composed of plankton, algae, & other aquatic life. So microplastics are reincarnated plankton. Plastic is necromancy

one time the British Museum glued a snail to an index card and then realized four years later that it had been alive the whole time

Biblically accurate Simon Biles.

Big news! A team of former @natgeo editors and contributors (Rachael Bale Oliver Payne Rene Ebersole) has started a new investigative wildlife journalism nonprofit called WIRE. Incredible that they are continuing this important work: wireonline.org

i love how we keep deciphering cuneiform and they keep being shopping receipts

Still obsessed with the cicada we saw emerging last night. The fairy-colored wings of the freshly hatched exoskeleton were so beautiful 🥹