I wrote about black-crowned night herons for . nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl #biology #conservation #birding #ornithology #animals #endangeredspecies
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#teamfish - spotted this super cool looking transparent #cardinalfish, but struggling to find an ID. Any suggestions? #palau #fish #cryptobenthic #pacificocean
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Meanwhile, after the floods recede in Orange County, Florida...
(Alligator Gar. Another reason I'm staying in Minnesota.)
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Shark belly-buttons heal! Skin denticles surround the 'scar', then as the skin heals over the denticles grow to crowd the space. Whether sharks are born in eggs (yolk-attached) or live (placental) they all have umbilical scars that heal. 🦈🦷 #babyshark #skinteeth #sharkscience
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Tag yourself I’m “Experience Cuppage”
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I've come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I've worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it's time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I've found (in alphabetical order):
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I was lucky to be there when this gorgeous Red-tailed Racer decided to move down from its high resting place to eye level. With her skin stretched tight around her last meal, she seemed to struggle to get comfortable. Finally she rested her head on her full belly and settled.
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UPDATE on John Greenfield’s recovery:
- Sounds pretty serious still
- He’s been transferred to the Chicagoland area.
- Here’s how you can send a card or schedule time to go see him. #bikechi
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Lion’s mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) without its mane. After reproduction, they shrink in size, lose thousands of tentacles and become fantastic alien flowers.
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Snow in Mukojima by Kawase Hasui, 1931
Other Hasui's works: masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/works-of-kawas
#shinhanga
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Thrilling find off the coast of Palm Beach, Florida. Possibly a larval Caulophryne species of deep water Anglerfish, the adults of which are just crazy looking.
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OH NEAT Sapphirinid copepods! They sparkle!
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昨日の調査で得られたサフィリナ科のカイアシ類での1種 Sapphirinidae gen. sp.です。本種は、虹色に輝くプランクトンで、光のあてかたで輝き方が変化します。美しい！
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This beautiful bobcat passed by my camera in the Diablo Range recently.
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同じタイプの別個体ですが、実は腹面も綺麗なのです。
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ボルネオのゴミムシダマシ。
羽パカだけど綺麗なのでクリーニングしてみました。
1~3. なるべく周囲の写り込みご無いように撮影。ギラつくLEDも無し。
4. 写り込み有り。写りこんだところが黒っぽく見えます。LED有り。4
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Probably the best video you’ll see today of a monkey angrily snapping green beans for some reason.
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The ventral and dorsal aspects of a juvenile batfish (ogcocephalidae). These fishes are benthic and crawl along the bottom using their modified fins. They go through a pelagic larval stage before settling out onto the ocean floor.
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I love ! Writers are valuable! #AmEditing #SciComm I made my living writing for 20 years and always had to fight to get paid even a living wage.
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This is what I would be doing on TV without writers.
Writers are asking for fairness: when the studios invest millions into producing a film or series, they can pay for the value writers create. #WGAStrong #WGAStrike @WGAEast @WGAWest
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Take note: This is preventable. A pic of some nocturnal migrating, collision victims found today. Found downtown West Manhattan, with co-volunteer #AnimalRights #architects #BirdSafety #birdstrikes #conservation #LightsOutNYC
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The largest of the large are, like the smallest of the small, polyphyletic.
Evolution of miniaturization in the rasborine fishes. Miniatures in red.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11
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Evolution of the largest of the large dinosaurs phys.org/news/2023-05-e via @physorg_com
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The Dwarf Dory (Zenion hololepis) changes color based on the angle that light hits it. This is also the subject from which I posted a close up image, a couple of days back, asking if anyone recognized the colors. That angle really brought out the blues and greens.
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It never occurred to me that the white fur of springbok is not simply hair that they raise, like in pronghorn, but rather a literal skin flap which opens up.
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Print version of my story on fairy lanterns. #lazarusspecies #endangeredspecies #botany #biology #sciencewriting #sciencenews
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There’s no fucking reason to be using a leaf blower of any kind at 8:45am on a Sunday.
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A disconcerting number of reporters seem to have forgotten that their job is to be antagonistic to power, not to burnish it.
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For over two decades, the "fairy lantern" plant Thismia kobensis, found in Hyogo Prefecture, was thought extinct. But now it’s being called a “Lazarus species” for its apparent return from the dead.
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On fairy lanterns, which are weird little #parasitic #plants that siphon their energy from #fungi for . japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/05/0 #sciencenews #weirdnews #biology #botany #sciencewriting
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It is not every tour that you get lucky enough to see a wonderful White Wallaby or an incredible Eastern Quoll, but to see both at the same time, in the daylight, is truly remarkable.
Joanna Dale took this very special photograph on an Inala tour and was kind enough to share it.
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🇯🇵🌳 In Japan if a tree interferes with the construction of a road for example, well they don't cut it, they dig around it, tie up its roots and move it elsewhere. Respect for Nature par excellence 🙏
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One of my favorite images from a previous trip- a Hammerjaw (Omosudis lowii) after a meal consisting of a squid larger in size than than it is. Like so many deep water fishes, Hammerjaws have expandable stomachs and jaws that open to extraordinarily wide angles.
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A lot of people are saying today that Dorval R Carter Jr should resign. As his Ventra card, I would like nothing more than to spend time with him again. But before that, I would like to tell a story about how he has quit working for two times already. 🧵 1/9
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Look at the colours on this lancetfish!
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The art of camouflage.
A pair of Spotted Xenia Pipefish, Siokunichthys herrei, peaking out from a Xenia Soft Coral. Romblon, Philippines
#ikelite
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