Dan Sinopoli

Year of the [red]horse

Donald Trump, Presidential lolcow

Not even T-rex would want to scavenge him

It ain't fair

Where Can You Find A One-Of-A-Kind Pocket Shark Among 8 Million Pickled Fish? Louisiana's WWII Bunkers, Of Course The largest collection of its kind includes a specimen you won't find anywhere else on Earth.

OMG I'm in IFLScience!

Odds are I have scale and fin ray counts for that specific gar

"Itsa me Owen Grady"-Crisp Rat

I can't believe Hyracotherium got Pluto'd.

Time to redact Hyracotherium from all of the horse evolution diagrams

Gar seriously have the uncanny ability to produce slime even after they've been dead, frozen, and thawed.

It's going to be the War of the Triple Alliance but we are Paraguay.

From @lsu.bsky.social to the @nytimes.com! Daniel Geldof, @lsumns.bsky.social alumnus, shows how the rockhead poacher may use its massive skull to make sound in noisy tidal zones. 🔊🐟 #LSUScience
✨🔗:
https://nyti.ms/4jzAor3
https://bit.ly/4pBPU7c
https://bit.ly/49gJvto

Me watching the Dromies

The genes sox, SPARC, Hox, NITR, MSY, ATL, LGA, asip, cyp, and fox.

‘Every Single Dollar Mattered’: Donations Save Museum of the Earth From Foreclosure Just days before a year-end foreclosure deadline, the Museum of the Earth has paid off its mortgage following a wide fundraising campaign that rescued the Ithaca area landmark.

ACTUAL GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: The Paleontological Research Institution and the Museum of the Earth have made it through the crisis!

Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI

www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...

There are 8 million fish in a World War II bunker outside New Orleans. More arrive soon. Hidden in a World War II bunker near New Orleans, Tulane stores more than 8 million preserved fish — and the collection is still growing.

Great news article about the Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute's Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection and our recent accessions of specimens from the DEEPEND Consortium and the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Just translated an excellent academic paper from Spanish about how Tropical Gar (or pejelagarto) were influential in Yokotan Mayan people. They noted the close similarities between gars and crocodiles and prepared sacrificial gar stews to offer to their river deity for good luck on crocodile hunts!

MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) is a nonprofit research institution advancing marine science and engineering to understand our changing ocean.

I'm seeing an increase in fake AI-generated content on social media purporting to be deep-sea fish videos. Instead of highlighting these and giving them attention, I'll share a fantastic and real source of deep-sea fish videos:

www.youtube.com/@MBARIvideo

More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ...

Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social‬ The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge!

Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'

@jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer

ssb2026.github.io

Mfw I see the new copilot icon on my manuscript word file.

Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.

*You're Gonna Go Gar Kid* by The Offspring

After one too many car issues I'm now an official car hater.

male moa

If you look up "short king" in the dictionary, there's just a picture of him
#PrehistoricPlanet
#PrehistoricPlanetIceAge

Rewatching Walking with Dinosaurs + Beasts and WOW there's a lot of baby death.

PREHISTORIC PLANET SEASON 3 DROPPED WITH ALL THE EPISODES

It's evolved aposematic coloration

Might actually tear up when we get to see the Stellar's Sea Cow. A species we wiped out so early it pre-dated photography, brought to back to life on TV.