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Just found out that BEETLES ARE LIARS! 😮 They make out like their abdomen begins at the top of their wing-cases, but no no! It's all a ruse: their abdomen actually begins further down *under* the wing-case. Sneaky sneaky.... 🪲#beetles #coleoptera
'Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I think I'm gonna go and eat worms'🎶Remember this children's song? Well there are #earthworms in New Zealand called noke that were the food of chiefs: sweet & rich to taste. Amazing #wildfood, I💚this te reo Māori poem about them! #annelids
I made this diagram after a final exam for my palaeobiology Masters degree six years ago. If nothing else, my utilisation of Microsoft publisher is truly expert 😆
My #paleoart reconstruction of our #StEiggosaurus from #IsleofEigg. I chose #watercolours in a vivid pallete, inspired by Scottish illustrator #MairiHedderwick's travel sketches from the Hebrides. Finished with fineliner and coloured pencil. #Scotland #ThyreophoranThursday
Bone #histology resembled a group of #dinosaurs that incl. Stegosaurus (called thyreophorans). It was probably a juvenile, & bite marks show it was scavenged after death. #IsleofEigg was under a shallow sea in the #Jurassic, #StEiggosaurus washed into it after death. [4/7]
#Dinosaurs get all the press, but there are usually many other animals to be found at any fossil locality. At our site on the #IsleofSkye, a huge diversity of verts are represented, giving insights into an entire Middle #Jurassic ecosystem. #FossilFriday #Scotland #fossils
#FossilFriday this week=Borealestes, a docodontan mammal from #IsleofSkye. I found this jaw a couple of years ago, one of many new specimens from this Middle #Jurassic locality (see our review of the Kilmaluag Fauna published recently: https://t.co/HbCn1UeiwF). #MesozoicMammals
@origamiPete Hadrocodium 😁 Chinese #MesozoicMammals that taught us about evolution of mammal brains linked to sense of smell, about jaw-ear transition, & was teeny weeny (art: Mark A Klingler)
Women are totally awesome, as I'm sure you already know, so lets celebrate them, not just on #InternationalWomensDay, but every day! #IWD2020 #TransWomenAreWomen ❤️