Emily Troyer

One of these was Whiskers as a bebe. He actually hatched summer of 2020, so that means he was pushing 6 years old 😓

A small brown catfish.

My oldest bronze cory, Whiskers, just passed away. I hatched him from an egg in 2021 😔

A small white crocus flower

Could it be (false) Spring?

A reef aquarium with several corals and rocks. On top the highest rock is a small blenny fish.

Close up of small blenny fish on a rock. He's faced the morning sunshine

In the morning, I normally find Henry facing the sunrise 🥰

Hey I did a fun thing with @warren.senate.gov about breaking up giant healthcare conglomerates

Haha, they aren't called mushroom corals for nothing

A small black and yellow striped snail. There is a red colored mushroom shaped coral attached to its shell.

One of the bumblebee snails is sporting a fancy mushroom coral accessory. It's called fashion, look it up 😂

Know an undergrad who is interested in exhibit design and development? The NHMLA is now seeking applicants for a Getty Marrow Intern, which is a 10-week summer internship program working with our exhibits department. Please share with those interested!
workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

My bracket for March Mammal Madness. I have the humpback whale winning.

Happy March Mammal Madness to all who celebrate 🐋

Description of the type specimen of Cheirodopsis geikiei, a Carboniferous ray-finned fish, calling it "Imperfect fish, wanting paired and caudal fins"

Calling myself an imperfect fish from now on....

Snails have this really cool structure called a radula that they used to scrape hard surfaces for food. It's quite entertaining to watch 😅

Thank you 😊

thanks - they were certainly great little buds.

A small slice of wood with a blue and red betta fish painted on. Hippo is the title.

Hippo, a small blue and red fish resting on a leaf.

A small slice of wood with Percy, the blue acara cichlid fish painted on.

Percy, the electric blue acara. He is a beautiful metallic shiny blue fish.

Took some time to paint these memorial plaques for Hippo and Percy. Hope I did them justice 💙

A small blue and red betta fish in a tank. A hand is holding a sticker with a blue betta fish saying I'll fight you

Got it for my previous girl Hippo 💙

I have that one on my laptop 😅

A small white betta fish staring at the camera.

Lil miss sassy

What is the chicken word for bouba? 😅

Be sure to include him.

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...

This is wild. I'm a bit skeptical,but want to read this and see...

doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Amazing!

First time in a heated, planted tank. Welcome home dear.

A pearlescent betta fish in a clear cup.

New friend. She was all the way toward the back of the shelf. She seems feisty.

Very discouraging.......

This project is amazing by the way:
visdeurbel.nl/en/

Graphical abstract shows phylogeny of Pholidichthys

The origin of cichlids: The controversial phylogenomics of the convict fish, Pholidichthys leucotaenia

Very interesting. Will have to read in more detail later.
"... previous claims of a close evolutionary relationship between Pholidichthys and cichlids, while possible, are premature and warrant re-evaluation..."
doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...