David Walker 🌎
@Bio_ecologist
Biologist, ecologist, conservationist. Graduate student at Montclair State University studying Ecology and Evolution. he/him @bioecologist on the other site
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Okay #sciencetwitter and #paleontology folk, you're my last hope for confirming the existence of a paper that I've heard referenced. Does anyone know of a paper wherein the fossilized vertebrae of an #orca were found with the remnants of a #greatwhiteshark tooth in it? PC: CC
Very confused about a picture I saw on reddit recently. The post author says it was taken on July 17th in Brooklyn. They couldn't say if it was real (they said it was sent by someone they know). *If* real, it looks shockingly like orcas, but that makes no sense. @CetologyH
Your average Bunnings rodent control shelf. Where does all this go? Rats yes, but also possums and frogmouths and powerful owls and boobook!……… We should not have access to these ecosystem destroying chemicals.
I need you guys to drop the most realistic, life-like models of any prehistoric animal you have ever seen. The kind of stuff you'd put in a museum. I'll start with this Micromeryx at the Museum am Löwentor in Stuttgart, Germany. It looks like a taxidermied specimen.
Hi. It´s a pleasure to share this short video showing two beautiful PARROT SKULLS(Ara Macao) articulated and movable.Scale 1/1 , 2/1 Two cuts( braincase and peak) allow to see inside both. Cranial kinesis is show in the way prof. L.Witmer did. Original file: @Witmerlab. Thanks!!
Can anyone still on here remember where to find the kinetic parrot skull that was 3-D printed in different colors? I feel like it might've been based off of or created by @WitmerLab but I can't find it anymore.
I just find this so wild. There is a species of limpet and its habitat is baleen on whalefalls, and its diet is rotting baleen. The evolution of baleen whales created this niche that had never existed before, and then something evolved to fill that niche...
New Creataceous background created by NJ native @ChrisDPiazza. Included are a 'fleshed out' version of Dryptosaurus, Cretaceous sea turtle Peritresius ornatus, Horseshoe crabs & Grebe-like birds modeled after fragmentary bird fossils of the same age from the Inversand quarry.
All we want is a single pool fixed, a place for three teams to hold meets, for three teams to practice. Is that too much to ask? jcitytimes.com/op-ed-how-does…
Welp, it's time for my next installment of "animal myths". Why limit myself to extant animals? This time, we're going to delve into dromaeosaurid dinosaurs (aka: the raptor dinosaurs)! I...feel like I might get some hate for the last one, though.
As I promised late in December, I'm going to start the first animal myths thread of hopefully more to come. First up, rhinos!
As I promised late in December, I'm going to start the first animal myths thread of hopefully more to come. First up, rhinos!
More Zoobooks-adjacent stuff. John Bonnett Wexo, the author of Zoobooks, created limited edition bronze sculptures featuring wildlife and images of the Earth. There are even a couple parts where extinct fauna (particularly dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals) are depicted.
highlight of the recent @APCruises pelagic: a SPERM WHALE fluking for a big dive down into the Hudson Canyon!!
Fascinating review paper on what we know (and don't) about the roles of large herbivores in terrestrial ecosystems, by @rob_pringle & co. Very policy-relevant, in this UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
One of the coolest taxidermy mounts at the Carnegie museum. These Nile crocodiles are also enormous!
A great example of the value of museum specimens in understanding the impact of the #ClimateEmergency, & the power of art in communicating it. The #botany collection of Henry David #Thoreau provide a baseline for plant communities 150 years ago. All the ones in blue are declining
OK here we go. Conceivably the greatest, most technical accomplishment in the history of natural history art: nearly 4000 glass models of flowers created by Rudolph and Leopold #Blaschka for @HarvardMuseum. None of the objects in here look like glass. Readers, they're all glass.
The horror of ghost nets: this #dolphin lived for a long time with its snout entangled in discarded fishing tackle - it sawed almost all the way through the bone before the dolphin eventually died. #SmithsonianNMNH #GhostNets
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