Invernessian palaeogeneticist and stay-at-home dad. Knows a thing or two about the aDNA of extinct lions, sabretooths and megafauna. Author of The Missing Lynx. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Missing-Lynx-Future-Britains-Mammals/dp/1472957350
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In 2024, researchers challenged a decades-old theory about the extinction of woolly mammoths that they didn't die out the way we thoughtScientists now believe a sudden event caused the extinction of the last woolly mammoths. These mammoths became isolated on Wrangel Island after the ice age ended. A new study analyzed mammoth genome...m.economictimes.com
🏺 🦣 🧪 New hominin remains of H. antecessor reported from field season just completed: significantly changes age distribution (adults now represented) and continues evidence for hominin body processing & consumption (cutmarks, fragmentation & tooth marks)
The Conversation ES¡Ya conocemos los hallazgos de la campaña de excavación nº 48 en Atapuerca! Nos lo cuenta todo la investigadora de @iphes-cerca.bsky.social, Marina Lozano. ↘️ https://theconversation.com/osos-hienas-neandertales-y-25-nuevos-fosiles-de-homo-antecessor-ultimas-noticias-desde-atapuerca-287240
📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Meanwhile in Bermuda 🇧🇲, cat.
‘Wild animal’ was actually a large catA “wild animal” that caused the Cooper’s Island Nature Reserve to be closed off on Friday evening was revealed to be a “rather large feral cat”, according to the Parks Department.
Police, along with t...www.royalgazette.com
mass layoffs at Pixar despite Toy Story 5 about to cross $1 billion at the box office. there is simply no amount of money that will make corporations happy enough to not upend people’s lives.
Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred StaffersPixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.variety.com[Open Access] www.frontiersin.org/journals/vet...
Frontiers | Foraminal widening indicating a spinal nerve tumor in the saber-tooth cat Smilodon fatalis from Rancho La BreaTracing the health of extinct populations is important. Documenting this in deep time is challenging, but skeletal markers of disease can be preserved in fos...www.frontiersin.orgwww.discovermagazine.com/rare-spinal-...
Rare Spinal Tumors Found in Saber-Toothed Cats Trapped at La Brea May Hint at Inbreeding Before ExtinctionLearn how fossilized vertebrae from California’s La Brea Tar Pits may link nerve tumors, difficult hunts, and inbreeding as saber-toothed cats neared extinction.www.discovermagazine.com
Bill Oddie has died aged 85. We'll certainly be thinking of this quote today. #Humanist #Nature #Birdwatching #Humanists #HumanistsUK #BillOddie
Humanists UKSpringwatch icon, humanist, and probably the UK's best-loved birdwatcher, Bill Oddie, has died aged 85. Very sad. Thank you for a lifetime of helping us understand nature.
Raising Kazoo reminds me of this piece I wrote for Smithsonian about sabercat cubs. In my expert opinion, Kazoo is just as bitey.
The Softer Side of SabercatsThe iconic fanged predators may have raised their young for years—dragging baby mastodon bones home for them and slowly teaching them how to huntwww.smithsonianmag.com
