Lemurs, llamas and Humboldt penguins enjoying the sun at Sewerby Hall and Park on Wednesday.

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as part of week long celebration of today is look back to pygmy Arctic tyrannosaur Nanuqsaurus from Cretaceous of Alaska (see Fiorillo & Tykoski 2014, PLOS ONE). limited seasonal resources may have produced dwarfism in this dino?

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Hoy es
Hablando de exploradores, viajes, ciencia interdisciplinaria y mucha mucha curiosidad.

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"Everything is interconnected": Happy birthday, Alexander von 🎉🥳Born in 1769, the intrepid world traveller, visionary explorer & climate-change pioneer, saw as an interconnected living web & warned of human-made over 200 years ago.

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"Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things."

Happy birthday to Alexander von The naturalist, geographer, polymath, and explorer was born 252 years ago.

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Geographer, naturalist and explorer Friedrich Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt was 1769. Scroll through his amazing books: https://t.co/xUacO4CHCs

These illustrations come from 'Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland', botanique III, 1807-1829

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Alexander von Humboldt was born in 1769. Polymath, explorer & naturalist. These birds are just a few examples of species named after him - Humboldt's penguin, aracari & hummingbird.
Penguin by J. Smit.
Aracari & hummingbird from volumes of John Gould.

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Alexander, Freiherr von Humboldt, Voyage aux Régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent, fait dans les années 1709 à 1804: Monographie des melastomacées: No. 54, 1816-1823 https://t.co/ElLxzRSCar

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Was reading about the Humboldt Current for ecology lecture next week & stumbled onto this img on wikipedia. TIL 3 things:

1. No tropical cyclones off W South America 😮

2. No (well, 1-2) tropical cyclones in the S Atlantic(!!!) 😮

3. LOL Hawaii's perfect location 😮😳

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🌾Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk🌱

It's other name patagonian hog-nose, this critter comes from chile and Argentina! Actually in 1983 these guys became protected because hognose pelts was in high demands however interestingly this specific species had less value then the rest :0

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Friedrich Georg Weitsch (b. 8.8.1758)
'Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt' (1806)
Oil on canvas
126 x 92.5 cm

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Humboldt penguin at Marwell Zoo. Ink and opaque watercolour on toned paper. https://t.co/RayZN3UFJT

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Marx Engels, Humboldt University AU..
Redraw my old art
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Inktober 52 - week 26 - Travel

The Galápagos penguin is the only penguin found north of the equator.The cool waters of the Humboldt and Cromwell Currents allow it to survive despite the tropical latitude.

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🐧 Can you name what type of penguin this is?

A Humboldt penguin! This species shares its name with the Humboldt Current. Both are named after the 18th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt. You can recognize a Humboldt penguin by the black band of feathers across its chest.

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more gabo!, gabo is an inkling from the sandbox world, with powers imposible to have if he was a normal splatoon oc, he is a humboldt squid that can do standard inkling stuff but can also teleport, turn into a monster when mad and etc he is a really nice guy

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Day 26: Carnivore (Humboldt Squid)


Welcome to Hell's Kitchen, All Ten Tent-circles.

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A happy Humboldt swimming sketch!

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Day 14: Humboldt Squid
I just used yesterday’s prompt as an excuse to draw an inkling

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