I have been told to stop stealing muffins from the bakery. Unfortunately, it’s the only way to keep my lucrative muffin stand in business. Everyone is fine with this.

Loss of bats to lethal fungus linked to 1,300 child deaths in US, study says Because bats feed on crop pests, their disappearance led to a surge in pesticide use. Research found a rise in infant mortality in areas where the bats had been wiped out theguardian.com/environment/ar…

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The dunk has done more than shrunk: New paper discusses everything you want to know about reconstructing #Dunkleosteus. Other highlights include body plan evolution in #arthrodires and future research directions on their #biomechanics and #metabolism.

Please dear God don't let the menswear guy critique my research discipline, he's also a science guy with succinct observations where he uses words like a scalpel.

Donald Trump has no plan for you.

Starting next week September 17, 2024 - 4 Session C2C Care Course Developing a Collections Management Policy! Utilizing multiple teaching tools this 4 session course will guide participants through the development process of their policy. Register here: connectingtocollections.org/devcollections…

The poleward displacement of the ITCZ this fall is evident in a year over year comparison of vegetation greenness over Africa.

Volumetric versus Element-scaling Mass Estimation and Its Application to Permo-Triassic Tetrapods academic.oup.com/iob/article/do…

Late Pleistocene polar bear genomes reveal the timing of allele fixation in key genes associated with Arctic adaptation bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Opportunity to come and do a PhD on islands and allometry with me & Gavin Thomas at Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Natalie Cooper at the Natural History Museum! 🗓️start date: January 2025 🛑Deadline: 28th October 2024 🛂 funding for UK only, sadly findaphd.com/search/Project…

A piece of woolly mammoth skin excavated from the Siberian permafrost has been found to contain fossil chromosomes in a first-of-its-kind discovery, according to a new study. complexly.info/fossilchromoso…

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Illinois leads in producing pumpkins... we need this

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. Read more here: s.si.edu/3BeHhw8

It’s the American mastodon (Mammut americanum)!!! Congrats to many of you who nailed it. 😉

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On 21 September 1937: J.R.R. #Tolkien's The Hobbit was published. The book tells of a hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, and his journey with thirteen dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon, Smaug. It's sold over 100 million copies as one of the best-selling books of all time