Dr Ross Barnett

Stop 👏 having 👏 unrealistic 👏 body 👏 standards 👏 for 👏 camels 👏

Highland Cathedral duet with @thewheeledpiper YouTube video by Ally The Piper

Happy #InternationalBagpipeDay! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQE6...

We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really existed Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist Michael Marshall reveals what new fossils are telling us about the hominins that have been considered the first humans

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist Michael Marshall reveals what new fossils are telling us about the hominins that have been considered the first humans

She went to the beach and ended up saving a sea legend 👏 @monicaandco_ YouTube video by We Love Animals

Two oarfish stranded in Cabo, and were successfully returned to water. www.youtube.com/shorts/cHpIU...

Large tortoiseshell butterfly confirmed no longer extinct in UK Early spring sightings show colourful insect is a resident species for first time in decades, says conservation charity

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We don’t talk enough about the greatest wedding scene ever filmed 🎥

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

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Kidderminster cave house dating back to 1511 up for auction The current owner of the property says there is nowhere anywhere

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The locomotor behaviour of subfossil Malagasy sloth-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Indriidae) and koala-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Megaladapidae): new insights from limb trabecular bone Abstract. The locomotion of Malagasy Quaternary subfossil lemurs, including palaeopropithecines (‘sloth-lemurs’) and megaladapids (‘koala-lemurs’), has bee

I’m very happy to share that our work on bone inner structure of Madagascar’s subfossil sloth- and koala-lemurs is finally out 🦴🐒 on @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social
A big thank you to co-authors @julsam.bsky.social Carla Argilés Esturgó and Damiano Marchi!

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This sounds like a David Brent song title.

BrewDog sold highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning reforestation plans Self-styled ‘punk’ beer company bought land in 2020, pledging to plant Scotland’s ‘biggest ever forest’

BrewDog sold its Highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning its reforestation plans #Kinrara #carboncredits #greenlairds #Brewdog 🌳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👇

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Metazooa Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

🐶 Animal #951 🕷️
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
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🔥 36 | Avg. Guesses: 6

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A colourful painting on rough-edged paper with a cluster of standing stones inside a circular ditch below a stylised sun with a face.

I want to make space for new works in my Etsy shop, so everything on there is now 20% off - including this watercolour on recycled cotton rag paper entitled 'Sun Henge' and paintings of ancient monuments in Brittany and Britain. Check it out here: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#StandingStoneSunday

a close up of a blonde woman 's face with a necklace around her neck Alt: a close up of Sarah MIchelle Gellar as Buffy the vampire slayer while she narrows her eyes and looks with suspicion.

But not all!

Metazooa Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

🪲 Animal #950 🐝
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 35 | Avg. Guesses: 6

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Castle Douglas horned pony cap crosses Atlantic for exhibition The horned cap from southern Scotland would have made the pony wearing it look

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Beating Extinction: What A Tiny Pacific Bird Taught Me About Hope And Where We Fit The Guam kingfisher was extinct in the wild. Through coordinated breeding, cultural consultation, and careful reintroduction scientists created a path toward restoration.

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CAVE PEOPLE!

CAVE PEOPLE!

Stone Age Advertisements - YouTube

We made a playlist of stone age TV commercials for this episode, and we found so many we had to make it a two-parter! Let us know if there are any good cavemen ads we missed and we'll add them to the list for Part Three! (Yes, we covered the Geico Cavemen) youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Episode 123: Stone Age Advertising (Part 1) | Screens of the Stone Age Podcast YouTube video by Screens of the Stone Age

Did you know we posted our regular episode last weekend? I just forgot to share it here! It's about cavemen in advertising, and it's a pretty good one: youtu.be/Z-tq7i-o178 🧪🏺

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Monkey business as mystery marmoset found in Doncaster raid The one-year-old marmoset was an

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The single most important thing a man can do to be an ally is give his woman friends permission to give dudes at the bar his number so when they call he can angrily say that's not funny because she died 15 years ago that very night

Happy Friday! 👻

2 photographs of a biography of Marty Feldman. One has googly eyes added but it looks virtually the same.

Every time we see this Marty Feldman book it reminds us of that time we stuck googly eyes on it but all that happened was it looked even more like Marty Feldman. 👀

Country diary: Wildcats are here and they’re on the march | Amanda Thomson Badenoch and Strathspey, Cairngorms: Conservation efforts to help them are working – numbers are still small, but I’ve seen signs in the late winter snow

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To fill a gap in my CV I've said that I was a guitarist for The Fall for a brief period. No-one has disputed this or even asked questions about it. Fesshole GOLD from 27th December 2020

Come to Fesshole Live in 2026! Tickets on sale for Glasgow, Leicester, Luton, Leeds & Cambridge. Sweden Tour visits Malmö, Göteborg and Stockholm, and Anon Opin hits Leicester and Glasgow. Best of Fesshole, audience confessions, secret history & more: https://sites.google.com/view/fesshole

Metazooa Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

🐦‍⬛ Animal #949 🦡
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
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🔥 34 | Avg. Guesses: 6

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Meet ‘Tous’ — an entirely new genus of mammal we identified. Here’s why it’s so exciting A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

More on the Lazarus species from west papua theconversation.com/meet-tous-an...

a close up of a furry animal with yellow eyes and the words biomorphosis below it Alt: a close up of an aye-aye with yellow eyes sniffing and looking around.

Love the detail about the long-fingered possum. Convergence with Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)?