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Today's Warmup: Saint Patrick and the Beasts of Ireland. Featuring Scelidosaurus, Megaloceros and the Great Auk. Of the three, only the auks were alive during his lifetime, when they were still common in Europe.
#StPatricksDay2023 #paleoart #paleontology #SaintPatricksDay
THREAD: The Flightless Auks of the Pacific
1/7: The great auk is the only flightless bird in the North Atlantic, and its Latin name, Pinguinus, alludes to their iconic ecology. However, unbeknownst to most, there is a second line of extinct grounded auks called Mancallinae.
In 1844, the last definitely recorded pair of great auks were killed on an Icelandic island. Europeans decimated their numbers through using them as a food source, using their down for insulation of clothing, etc., and by depriving them of their natural habitats.
Meet Star Princess, captain of the Great Auks! She will lead our team to victory ^·^
Feel free to join us if your Great Auk material ^·^ ⚽🏆🐧
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Dippers are only freshwater wing-propelled divers, and by far the smallest. We looked at their bones, brains, sinuses, wings, museums, feathers, and even their nostrils, comparing them to marine wing-propelled divers like penguins and auks.
"..little is known about the functional #anatomy of the #wings of flightless auks because all such #taxa are extinct, and their #morphology is almost exclusively represented by skeletal remains..."
by Watanabe et al
https://t.co/PTxFCDNezo
#penguins #biology #ScienceTwitter
A Crab Plover. They’re found feeding on crabs & other small animals along the coasts & islands of the Indian Ocean. Not really a plover, but more closely related to the Auks & Gulls. It is sufficiently distinctive to merit its own family Dromadidae. Watercolor from my sketchbook.
"Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the BrightdaylerWhere?“ (James Joyce "Ulysses")
Great Auks, the now extinct northern penguins, for #WorldPenguinDay
Great Auk for #novembird ! Apparently they weren’t closely related to penguins, but penguins were named after their resemblance to auks, which were in the genus Pinguinus
#Auktober today is the greatest of Auks! Literally, the Great Auk. (sadly extinct). And another pun. What is wrong with me.
There are ~150k historic images of nature available from the Biodiversity Heritage Library covering the centuries. A look through their Flickr page is well worth it (https://t.co/967dBvRe6w). These odd Auks are from The Birds of Great Britain, v7, 1795-1801. #SeabirderSaturday
If you could tak an Aak to a desert island, with cliffs.. which one would you take? #orkney #auks #scotland #desertislandbirdsrs
Great Auks by John James Audubon (1785-1851) #SixthExtinction
Exploring Caithness with the Highland @ScottishBirding group this weekend. What a super place. Great mix of birds including WT Eagles, H Harriers, terns, waders, skuas, divers, auks and Rosefinch singing away. @CaithnessBirds
For #FossilFriday: new #paleoart of Doggerland (a landmass in what's now the North Sea) with some of its characteristic Pleistocene fauna: a (modern) walrus, mammoths, spotted hyenas, cave lions, swans and great auks. Painted for @SMTrust's 'Ancient Seas' exhibition.
Got the end of 'Ithaca,' the ugly duckling, stuck in my head on Bloomsday:
When?
Going to a dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.
Where?
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Art by Richard Hamilton
Today is #WorldSeabirdDay. 173 years ago today the last known Great Auks were killed, their egg crushed under boot. https://t.co/nGdTGOKA1S
Seals a plenty, harbour porpoise, auks, chough, peregrine falcon and more. A perfect way to spend the evening.