Late Halloween post. Here’s a collage of prehistoric beasts with spooky/monster names. One was just described! Can you ID them all? #paleoart #watercolor

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Somewhere only we know 🎶🍂

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One of my barn owl foot photos. So much fascinating #anatomy. #Owls constrict prey with their feet, have unusually long talons with a subcircular cross-section, have pectinnate edges on some talons, and of course possess both scales and filaments. #birds

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Young et al have an interesting paper out, demonstrating that the Laurentide Ice Sheet started to advance between 2000 and 1000 years ago, possibly heralding the inception of the next glacial cycle. However, due to rising CO₂, the advance stopped in the 1960s. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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215 million years of dinosaur evolution, made for an info screen in science center @heureka.fi ’s new exhibition, The Evolution of Dinosaurs. Left, Tawa hallae, a basal dinosaur from the Triassic Ghost Ranch location in the US. Right, the common crane, a beloved species of living dinosaur.

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