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Sassy Palaeontologist • Evolutionary Biologist • Science Communicator •Tweeting about Nature, Bones, Teeth, Fossils • #GuessTheSkull • (she/her)
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How am I just finding out that house martins have
KITTY CAT PAWS
Why do these mud slurpers have such floof peets
#TeamBird
?
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A me at a party holding back mad fish facts
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Me handling my multiple projects vs me showing off multiple projects
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WHATS IN YOUR MOUTH!?
Drop it! DROP IT.
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Today I learned that the "Faceless Fish" exists.
I will never forgive the ocean for this.
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Looking to show support for
#BlackBirdersWeek
?
#PostABird
and to spread some avian love!
Imma bump some Egyptian Bird Hieroglyphs below👇
First up the Hoopoe!
In
#AncientEgypt
they were sacred and a symbol for heredity and successorship!
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I use twitter to talk science, fossils, and scream about bones.
So why am I terrified to share this? This too is an unfortunate part of science...
Two years ago
@Koskinonodon
and I reported our advisor, Robert Reisz, for bullying and harassment.
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✨ Day 1 of
#BoneFacts
✨
Bone is a living tissue bone is NOT dry bone is WET. WAB.
So how come you need lubricants when you need a bone saw, or what does it mean to be “bone-dry”
This is the bone wetness thread no one asked for! 💁🏽♀️ 🦴 ☔️
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Ugh. Okay no.
As an Osteologist and someone who collects bones here is why I find this wet skeleton collecting and selling other skeletons an issue.
Please stop asking about my human bone collection. It is totally legal
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Dinosaurs trying to regain dominance over mammals
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to hide your excitement and passion to seem 'professional'.
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Toddlers Palaeontologists
🤝
Licking things to find out what they are
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Supernumerary teeth are additional to the normal set
Extra teeth can be caused by a few things like an over active dental lamina (group of cells that make teeth) but are often harmless
In this case this cat tried to be a narwhal😂
#Caterday
#SupernumerarySaturday
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This is not the move.
Othering people because of what their government is doing isn’t what we should be standing behind.
Making education more limited to those who have zero control over their dictatorships gives them less agency in their future.
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WHAAT?! my PhD work on
@SciShow
!??
Watch the awesome
#Scicomm
here:
I am FREAKINGOUT.
@TheCrashCourse
helped me pass my undergrad and now
@hankgreen
is covering our work😭❤️
@hankgreen
pretty sure we have to be friends now.
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Today in animals I refuse to belive in:
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Biologists: damn I haven’t unlocked that character
This fish is so black that it's hard to photograph! Amazingly, this is the best picture I have of it, but you can't quite see the eye. Centropyge nox, the Midnight Angelfish.
#BlackFishFriday
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I have a Paleontology joke, but it’s incomplete.
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🧬Time for some
#CatScience
!🧬
Siamese
#Cats
are born white and gain their colour through their life!
It’s based on.. wait for it TEMPERATURE 🥶 ❄️
Siamese cats are temperature dependent albinos! A.K.A a live kitty heat map!
A thread featuring my cats🧵 👇🏽
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Imagine your ancestors ruling the land and sky for MILLIONS of years only for a primate to do this to your whittle cheek
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ITS OUT!✨
WE DISCOVERED A NEW WAY TO IMAGE FOSSIL CELL SPACES!
Yes, that spinning cell space is 400 mill-years-old, also turns out fossil fish gave us bone metabolism!
PhD chapter 1 is out:
If you share ANY of my stuff on this site, share THIS THREAD!
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This
#FossilFriday
I get to tell you about the time we pulled out a Brachiosaur humerus with horses!
YA’LL it was sunset in Utah and two massive Clydesdale horses pulled an extinct beast from the earth.
I FUCKING LOVE MY JOB! 🦴 🦕 🐴
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Legal =\= ethical.
Always beware of someone hiding behind jargon he calls it “human osteology” instead of human remains to give himself legitimacy. He isn’t a scientist.
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EEE!!! I AM FREAKING.
I can NOT believe my first
#SciComm
grant got funded at
#PalAss19
!!
I will run workshops about the Dino-to-Bird transition,Evolution of flight and so much more with my new educational assistant
Raptor Puppet!!
Designed by the amazing
@BrianEngh_Art
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To academics who are silent right now.. your future students are watching and wondering if you are too uncomfortable to post or RT anything now, will you be too ‘uncomfortable’ to stand up for them.
I know it’s awkward. I know because I lived it.
#BlackLivesMatter
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I once forgot a half dissected vulture on a public bus 🚌...
RT me what is your
#SerialKillerOrScientist
moment?
#ScienceTwitter
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No he can not.
Elon Musk's business partner says he could build the real "Jurassic Park" with genetically engineered dinosaurs
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Hi, I'm Yara Haridy an average-sized palaeontologist.
For
#FossilFriday
I present you some ...
BIGGO. HUNKIN. FOSSILS!! 💁🏽🦕
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Are you looking to show support for
#BlackBirdersWeek
?
Use the
#PostABird
hashtag and join in!
>People somehow don't know how handsome pelicans are but also HOW FREAKING HUGE PELICANS ARE?!?!
Ya'll they are big.
So here is me modelling ONLY 2/3 of a pelican arm!!
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Does this count for
#SundayFishSketch
?
🐟🐟
Coelacanths are amazing, this group’s been around since the Early Devonian (~400 mya), and were thought to be extinct till their rediscovery in ‘38.
I wanted coelacanth earrings so I made some! What should fish should I do next?
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What is the roundest animal?
All submissions will be judged harshly, this is the big leagues.
#RowndAnimals
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*screams at flowers*
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Today in the grocery store a guy hits on me in German, I say no thanks. Again in English at the cash register I ignore him. Then proceeds to FOLLOW ME OUT OF THE STORE AND FOR ANOTHER BLOCK!!?
So I crop dusted him.
Farts the universal language.
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OH HEY THERE I’m Yara the Osteological Oligarch, and my face just got distributed across Berlin!!
So let me tell you a little about my PhD research on bone evolution (and bonus fossil virus evidence) in English! 🦠 🦴 💀 ✨
#Osteology
#SciComm
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Today I accidentally learned about the existence of Japanese Serow (Capricornis crispus)..
CONVINCE ME THATS NOT A WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING?! Someone.. just.. omg.
Photos by: Jdombrow; rantuv; Aaron Logan
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I want to slap it like a bag of fertilizer
This is how geologists collect lava samples from an active volcano.
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3 days.
It’s been three days since I outed masters supervisor as a sexual harasser and a bully.
For a moment I felt absolutely free, and light. We weren’t the only ones who had to watch out for students anymore.
But now my dms are full of names. Full of stories. I feel lost.
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Translucent blue tang here to remind
#TeamInvert
you don’t have a monopoly on invisible animals.
📸Kevin Mattson
@friel
@Yara_Haridy
If you don't see it coming, it doesn't count as touching, right? Box jellies are pretty much invisible and can knock out a careless human immediately!
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So anyways this is what baby horse hooves look like when they are born... yeah.
These are called "foal slippers" also known as deciduous hoof capsules. Its said that they protect the mare's insides while also having ready-set-go hooves preordered.
📸:Quest Equine
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Marine Iguana teeth creep me out because..
THEY LOOK LIKE LITTLE HANDS!! 🖐️🖐️🖐️
These tri-cuspid teeth are great for scraping marine algae off rocks!
*scrape scraaape scraaa*
#ToothyTuesday
📸:Beth Roberts
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It’s
#WomenInScience
day AND
#FossilFriday
!
✨AKA follow a woman in paleo day✨
I’m Yara, just finished my PhD I poke and cut up fossil skeletons to understand how our modern ones work!
So, if you identify as a woman in paleo please add yourself below and I will RT ALL DAY!👇🏽
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*Ring Ring*
“Hi DR. Haridy here!”
I gave my defence in a fugue state of calm and osteology. Graduating with a “summa cum laude” aka highest praise.
I’m so lucky to be surrounded by such wonderful people who got tested just to attend in person.
#PhDone
#PandemicPhD
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✨Tell me the WEIRDEST animal and why✨
Yes this IS a competition.
Yes there is a prize.
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Finally it is obvious this guy has no respect for osteology or humans (check out the skull with cash in its mouth).
Osteology has a rough colonialists history, and it’s this exact mindset that got the whole field there.
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I still think about this.
How am I just finding out that house martins have
KITTY CAT PAWS
Why do these mud slurpers have such floof peets
#TeamBird
?
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Mammals:
We have organized
#teeth
that are specific shapes for specific functions, they even follow strict dental formulas!
Fish:
*MANIACAL LAUGHTER *
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I'd like to thank my skeleton for all this support.
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Y’all liked colourful bones, what about colorful TEETH 🦷!?
#ToothyTuesday
🟪Pink/purple teeth in otters and l wolf eels is caused by eating urchins!
🟧Orange teeth in beavers and red teeth in shrews is caused by having iron in their enamel to counteract wear!
More 🦷 info👇🏽
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*sigh* Desmatostylians are indeed cursed. However you cannot outdo fish teeth.
I won’t even specify a single taxon because it is trauma all the way down.
I think, out of all the groups we've seen evolve over the history of life, Desmatostylians have the most cursed teeth of any living thing that has ever existed.
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I study teeth.. but when animals lose their teeth through evolution they come up with other nightmarish solutions and I love them all.
Herons and Egrets have harpoon tongues.
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It gets worse because I can promise you the vast majority of those skeletons are NOT of Caucasian decent. The vast majority of human remains for collections come from India and other asian countries.
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When you’ve read more about Silurian fish than you ever wanted to...
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In a world where days mean nothing..
TODAY I complete my 26th rotation around our star! It’s been a great year thanks to many of you, I’ve learned so many things!!
Things like ..CACTUSES HAVE SKELETONS!?🌵 💀
As always for my birthday I ask you for weird facts🙏🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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@_Astro_Nerd_
I am attempting shoulder training my cat while she’s on leash. I did not consider my massive curly hair an issue.
She got wrapped in it. Was not amused. 😂😂
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✨HEY YOU,
#GUESSTHESKULL
! ✨
The weekly twitter game where I show you a
#skull
and you guess the animal!💀🐋🦒
This animal has modified its skull for an easy-going-poop-eating lifestyle... 💩💩 *yum*
This week's skull is WILD. Who do you think this is? 👀
📸by Skulls_Steven
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Do you ever think about how all the organs, all the cells, all the processes inside your body HAPPEN IN COMPLETE DARKNESS!?!
I think about that a lot.
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#Titanoboa
is simply too much snake
This extinct snake was the largest ever in-the-land-of-ever.
12.8 meters and over 1100kg* that’s a big noodle. *all estimates based on size of vertebrae
I cannot over emphasis that is simply TOO MUCH SNAKE.
#FossilFriday
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I LOVE COLORATION IN BONES!
Bones can be purple, green/blue, or black!
This is one of those side topics that I AM OBSESSED WITH!!
More info below👇🏽
Saw this on FB. Didnt know otter bones were purple. I guess its because of eating urchins? Is that a real thing?
@CoastalPaleo
?
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-sigh-
Look.. I want to normalize changing ones mind when faced with new facts and the new fact I’ve discovered is that Victoria crowned pigeons look like blue dinos as babies.
So as ex.campaign manager of
#Hoopoe2020
I say vote for the best candidate. Vote blue.
👑
#BestOfCrest
SEMI-FINALS (pt1/2) 👑
🐦 Victoria crowned pigeon
(Left 📷 ucumari)
VS
🐦 Hoopoe
(Right 📷 Andy Morrfew)
Who has the
#BestOfCrest
? Cast your vote in the poll below!
#GuessTheCrest
#Ornithology
#Birds
#TeamBird
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True equality is when we can be just as mediocre as some of our colleagues
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It’s a mummified bird.
📸credit: Sarah Quarles
A widely circulated image through early image boards, depicting an entity dubbed "Harpcrawler" by users.
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That means demand by western countries fuels grave robbing and desecration... this is often done in the poorest neighbourhoods.
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Varanid: want long
Evolution: Ok, how long?
V: looooooooong! 😠
This is a real animal that exists right now on this planet.
(Varanus mertensi, photo by Jeroen Speybroeck)
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There are two kinds of frog fossils..
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Plz don’t feed the mosasaur.
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STORY TIME!
Many of you may have read the
@nytimes
article by
@asher_elbein
:
Some of you may want more context as to how "normal" paleo fieldwork became a collapsing museum rescue mission AND case study in how to
#DecolonizePaleontology
📸:Mariem Hbaieb
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my dramatic cat:
the snow is here, but the joy is gone.
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Roses are red
Skink tails are blue
They can drop them to escape
predators like you
#ValentineASpecies
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ITS TIME TO
#GUESSTHESKULL
💀
A weekly twitter game where I show you a
#Skull
and you guess the animal, together we'll learn a thing!
This week's skull comes from an animal many people don't even know have skulls! What do you think hmm? 🤔🤔
#Osteology
#SciComm
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I'm not okay, I will never be okay ever again.
A STURGEON AND A PADDLEFISH HYBRID BABY?!!
Bizarre!! Inadvertent captive hybridization of Russian
#sturgeon
and American
#paddlefish
.
Intermediate morphology and high survival.
First cross of two families: Acipenseridae and Polyodontidae
#openaccess
->
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Briefly back at the museum so I decided to check in on some friends... yup still dead 👍🏽
Last pic is also me.
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Sticks and stones
Break my bones
For I am not
Colossal.
Time goes on
I’m healed and gone
For now I am
a Fossil.
#FossilFriday
#Paleopathology
#SmallFossilsNeedLoveToo
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When my family decided to immigrate to Canada it meant a lil’Yara said “FINE. but only if I can have a cat ”
I got 17 years of this mouth breathing strawberry-yogurt stealing buttface.
I’m so sorry I can’t be there for your last day. This pandemic sucks. This year sucks.
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Oh hello twitter! I thought it would be most appropriate to introduce myself with a corpse. Expect sass. Expect
#science
. Expect to watch me fumble through life and academia.
#myfirsttweet
#pelican
#anatomy
#beach
#idontknowwhatiamdoing
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I’m not afraid that I won’t be believed. I’m not afraid of what the paleontological community will think of me. I am afraid that you won’t care.
That it won’t matter.
That publications matter more.
I’m afraid that we are all so jaded that this will mean nothing.
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"Its called fashion!"
yelled the European goldfinch
I woke up feeling like I couldn't breathe, chest heavy.. anxiety clearly getting to me. Going outside and
#Birding
#Birdwatching
helped a lot. Being yelled at by a finch straight up fixed it.
Just do your best, that's all.
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For the love of bi-pedality!!! SOUND ON OMGJEDFKD
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We are telling our separate stories about the same person today in hopes that the paleontological community will hold them accountable in a meaningful way.
When you support a known abuser, you enable them, and you make the victim’s safe world smaller.
710 days ago, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation.
695 days ago, I, along with
@Yara_Haridy
, reported our PhD advisor, Robert Reisz, for bullying and harassment.
Today, we are sharing our story.
#FossilFriday
#AcademicTwitter
#paleontology
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So anyways... I SUBMITTED MY THESIS✨🥳
Had to visit archaeopteryx after of course because it’s such an inspiring specimen
I’ll save my long thread with advice and a summary of my experience after the defence! ⚔️
Yes I have to submit by snail mail cuz Germany 🤣
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I personally don’t have a problem with collecting human remains with INFORMED CONSENT by the OG skeleton maker themselves.
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VERY IMPORTANT NEWS!
Caecilians upgraded from mucus noodle to VENOMOUS NOODLE!! New paper shows that each of their teeth has its own gland, who's secretions have the enzymatic properties of venom.
I wonder if there is another explanation
#OA
Paper:
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I think informed consent is very unlikely in large collections because have you tried convincing people to donate organs/blood. It’s not easy.
Informed consent with compensation is even more unlikely...
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Sobia wants everyone to know she helped with the new dino art!
Happy
#FossilFriday
! We’re proud to announce a new dinosaur from the Menefee Formation: Ornatops incantatus!
You can read the open access
@thePeerJ
paper for free here:
Art by
@BrianEngh_Art
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Evolution: here have another sky murderer
Us: oh thanks! It’s related to all other sky murderers right...?
Evolution: nah I was drunk and made this one out of parrot and song bird parts.
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Falcons are more closely related to parrots and song birds. Because why not 🥴🥴
Like other falconets, the Philippine falconet does not hover or soar when hunting. Instead, it will perch on exposed tree branches and watch for prey, taking flight only after it has identified its target. Once prey has been captured, this bird will return to its perch to feast.
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Polycephalic animals are very real! Usually the result of twins that failed to separate. Giving multiple heads or multiple faces depending on the degree of separation.
We even have some in the fossil record a hatchling choristodere 👇🏽
Fragment of a 2007 biology textbook. The photograph appears to be of a strange chicken born in 2002 in a farm in Essex, which had several extra heads and limbs that matured at different rates. It lived for 6 months. There are no other known cases of this rare mutation.
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Happy
#FossilFriday
!!
Tiktaalik and I have some big news, I will be joining
@NeilShubin
’s lab in
@UChicago
and the
@FieldMuseum
to study the oldest skeletons of “your inner fish”!!
I’m so excited to dig into deep time to find out why our bones and teeth do what they do 💀 🦷
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Please don’t yell at your kids for bringing home dead things.
They might just be a palaeontologist.
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Again I don’t have issue with the idea of human remains in peoples collections (I’ll sell my skeleton idc) but other people DO have issue with it and it’s their bones.
They made them they get to decide what happens.
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Good morning to all 10k of you!😱😱
I’m just a gal out here trying to spread the good gospel of Osteology, weird ass animals and
#SciComm
!
So thanks for joining me, have a Saturday hornbill!
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It’s a special kind of cognitive dissonance to watch my fellow scientists talk about decolonization of bird names and not a peep about Palestine. Bird names.
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CHONKOSAURUS
Accurate representation of body fat to skeleton ratio 🦕
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