Archaeopteryx by Maurice Wilson

Polychelidan #lobsters are not widely known, because they now live only in deep waters. We re-described a small #fossil species with weird bulbous claws, Teruzzicheles popeyei (named after Popeye💪) and show it is related to extant polychelids and like them lived in deep water.

I'm thankful for groundwater biodiversity.

Even more groundwater biodiversity… I am thankful for China’s groundwater loaches-top to bottom: Taiji Cave Loach (Oreonectes anopthalmus), blind cave loaches: (Paracobitis typhlops), (Triplophysa macrocephala), (Oreonectes sp.), (Tryplophysa sp.), (Tryplophysa sp.).

A rarely-observed Tundra Bumble Bee (Bombus hyperboreus) was spotted in Norway by natur-heimat. It’s the #WildlifeWednesday Observation of the Day! More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/2…

Only discovered 20 years ago, Tiktaalik was an important fossil find in understanding the water to land transition in vertebrates. #FossilrFriday #UMMP

A lovely proctotrupid wasp among leaf litter in the garden this afternoon 💚🍃

MÉXICO, UN PAÍS DE ABEJAS 🐝 Lxs invito a leer esta nota de divulgación que acabamos de publicar en el portal del El Instituto de Ecología, INECOL resumiendo lo que se conoce de abejas nativas en México y su importancia en los ecosistemas. inecol.mx/index.php/divu…

#FossilFriday brings you this mid Devonian Kettneraspis. Love a spiny fella. But missing his head. This other photo is just a partial head but look at that one genal spine (really zoom, thing just keeps going). Really shouldn’t be that long for any Kettneraspis I’ve seen. Weird

Weird feeling i cant explain where every conversation i have feels like a goodbye

Agapostemon bees are nothing if not persistent and this A. subtilior female proves it - still in action in December. She must be one of the last ones (I’d say “of the season” if native bee seasons of old still held…) around here. [Alameda, CA 12-1-24] #bees #nativebees

にょろんなマグカップ🐍

In the deep, imagining each day as eat-or-be-eaten is easy. It is cold and dark; resources are limited. But some wonderful animals in the Ocean are one made of many, working together, like this siphonophore, an ocean drifter of single cells working in concert. #ChileMargin2024

【𝑋𝑦𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑜𝑝𝑎 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑢𝑚】 (アカアシセジロクマバチ) 2018年3月(購入) #はちいもの標本紹介蜂編 #はちいもの標本紹介

Raptor from today class.

Pseudocreobotra sp. Flower mantid. Pirang forest. The Gambia.

Trilobites with antennae are as unnerving to me as dinosaurs with feathers. What an amazing fossil!

56.クロアナバチ 私のお気に入り、玄関先で土木工事をしていた、クロアナバチお母さん！✨🐴 優秀な狩人蜂であるとともに、翅の振動で砂利を浮かせたり、てしてしと叩いて穴を埋めたりと愛嬌のあるハチです。

Not the most obscure, but there are fossils of jewel beetles from Messel (Eocene Germany) that still shine 🪲✨

An example of a gastropod interacting with a crinoid.