Director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History • He/Him • 🐟Zoologist 🦈 • https://linktr.ee/john.friel
Tired: Orcas attacking boats off the Iberian Peninsula. Wired: Orcas pulverizing Molas off the Mexican coast. 😲
David GrimmOrcas are ramming sunfish so hard they explode. Check out the stunning video at the link. Nice story by @annieroth.bsky.social for @science.org
See fossil shark teeth, post fossil shark teeth for #SharkWeek. Behold this pile of Goblin Shark (Scapanorhynchus texanus) teeth from the Eutaw Formation of Alabama. I collect these each summer to be giveaways at museum outreach events.
Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️#sharkweek A gorgeous tooth of the extinct megatoothed shark Carcharocles angustidens that I found on a South Carolina riverbank in summer 2020 with @tetrameryx.bsky.social - likely from the Oligocene Ashley Formation. 🦖🧪🦑🦈
Of course I had to start searching for more Malm Whale images and found this one. Now I want to start a rumor that this whale was also the inspiration for the Kool-Aid Man "Wall Burst" ad campaign. Oh yeah!
jordanThe only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.
TIL that Erling Haaland collects alcohol related taxidermy, and this raccoon is the third and latest addition to his collection. #WorldCup #TheMoreYouKnow
Erling Haaland returns to Norway with £560 stuffed raccoon souvenir after World Cup exitYouTube video by The Independentwww.youtube.com