Thistle is making her daily laps around the tank. 💚🤍

Who needs a TV when this is the view from the couch.

Ooh very neat

A new species for me: Tremex columba, the pigeon horntail wasp. This female had finished depositing her eggs into this tree and then passed away, her job complete.

one of my dumbest, now in color

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Checked out Sterling State Park today. Nice to see Lake Erie again.

Lol, ewww

Found this fish preoperculum (?) bone on Lake Erie. Any idea who it belonged to? 🤔 It's ~8 cm long.

Ooh I think it's freshwater drum! collections-zoology.fieldmuseum.org/catalogue/7014…

I'm recruiting a MSc student to work on an NSF project focusing on morphological disparity in crinoids from Anticosti Island. My lab at Paleobiology Research Group at OU uses fossils, fieldwork, & phylogenetic modeling to study macroevolution in extinct invertebrates. Feel free to reach out & please RT!

Yay paper accepted 😁 Some cool pufferfish science coming out soon....

Very interesting!!

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Checking out the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History today- this time in more detail. Quite a lovely museum.

A dapper gentleman

Henry loves his nori 🥰

This is why I love studying fishes because you can literally think of (most) any question and find a model system in fishes.