As a former resident of dubai of many years, I echo every syllable.
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As a former resident of dubai of many years, I echo every syllable.
A museum display case at the Bundeskunsthalle with a bright blue interior shows various coral specimens arranged on stepped shelves. At the center sits a large wooden crate labeled βZoologisches Institut Berlin β Habana,β suggesting the collectionβs origin. Surrounding it are different coral formsβbranching, rounded, and texturedβpresented as scientific specimens. The lighting highlights the contrast between the pale corals and the vivid blue background.
A long-hidden coral collection β now visible across Germany! πͺΈ
In 1967, a team from the Museum fΓΌr Naturkunde Berlin travelled to the coast of #Cuba to extract an entire reef. The plan failed β but they returned with ~50 crates of coral (8β10 tonnes!). 𧡠1/2
πΈ Mick Vincenz
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Scimitar-crested Spinosaurus species from the Sahara caps stepwise spinosaurid radiation | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
My first newsletter for premium subscribers is out, all about the adorable, plant-munching lump that was Tyrannoroter.
Please come on this journey with me, the journey of the 290-million-year-old barf, I promise we'll have fun: π§ͺ www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...
A lot of people seem to be realizing that some of their scientific heroes are, at best, creeps.
Bloody frigging hell!
Taylor et al present a refined Alcian blue + Alizarin red clearing and staining protocol optimized for large vertebrate specimens. Works on adult chickens and late-stage emu embryos, no trypsin needed, best on fresh frozen tissue! Check it out! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
π¦ This study expands the limited existing workflows for digitizing #Lepidoptera and can be applied across #museum collections and other dried, pinned Lepidoptera specimens.
doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#butterfly #digitalization #museums
πͺ· January 15th is #NationalHatDay ππ©π #Antinous as #Aristaeus divine Beekeeper wears a farmer's Sun Hat for #HatDay at MusΓ©e Louvre. Like #Antinoos, #AristΓ©e plunged into a sacred river to work a miracle, to #SaveTheBees. We need it now as bees are dying. antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/05/as-b... πͺ·
Pinned butterfly specimen of Olynthus hypsea with spread wings, photographed for scientific documentation.
Close-up of a velvet ant (Dasymutilla gloriosa), a wingless wasp, from the entomological collection of the Museum fΓΌr Naturkunde Berlin.
High-resolution close-up of a metallic green flower chafer beetle (Potosia aeruginosa), a member of the subfamily Cetoniinae, from the collection of the Museum fΓΌr Naturkunde Berlin.
Happy birthday, #Wikipedia! π
To mark its 25th anniversary, we share 25 openly licensed images on #Wikimedia Commons. The specimens shown here highlight only a small part of this diversity.
π View more: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
πΈ Eran Wolff (1, 3), Bernhard Schurian (2)
Several visitors stand in the museum around moving boxes filled with bird specimens and take part in a participatory workshop for the development of the special exhibition "ZUGvΓΆgel β Collection in motion".
How does π±ππ’π€π¦ shape public engagement? π
The collaborative encyclopedia "Place in Engagement" explores how spaces and encounters influence collaboration and knowledge exchange. π€
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πΈ Thomas Rosenthal
#publicengagement #openscience
#science #sciencenews
Another grant rejected
Slender-billed Curlew from the Museum Koenig Bonn at the AEWAMOP9
During #AEWAMOP9, delegates paid tribute to the Slender-billed Curlew β declared extinct by IUCN. A specimen from the Museum Koenig Bonn (@leibnizlib.bsky.social) stood as a symbol of what weβve lost, and what international cooperation can still save.
More: t1p.de/b5c5r
#Biodiversity #Conservation
Explore what happens to soil during and after a wildfire! π₯
Join our #art and #science workshop "Soil, wildfires and biological remediationβ with Margherita Pevere, in collaboration with #mfnberlin researchers Katharina and Parm von Oheimb! π
ποΈ Sat, 25 Oct, 14:00 to 18:00
π bit.ly/soil-wildfires
Fossil leaf of the seed fern Autunia conferta from the Permian period. The pinnules show numerous small oval depressions β traces of insect oviposition. These scars occur in large numbers and likely represent sites where eggs were deposited but never hatched.
Line drawing of the same Autunia conferta fossil leaf as in. The sketch highlights the distribution of oviposition scars across the pinnule, showing their clustered occurrence.
Long before the dinosaurs, #insects were already eating their way through leaves! πΏ
#Fossils from Thuringia reveal the worldβs oldest insect plague β 295 million years old. Understanding global change thanks to natural history collections! π
π www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#science #sciencenews
New study tracks semicircular canal development. Rapid growth & shape change occur w/in postnatal week 1, stabilizing by day 14 as ossification completes. Brief but critical window of vestibular morphological plasticity
CΓ‘rdenas-Serna & Jeffery: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
On this #fossilfriday, take a few moments to read this.
A touching tribute to the life, career, and discoveries of Mark Norell, from his long-time friend and field companion, Mike Novacek. In @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Photograph of the holotype and only known specimen of the hauffiopterygian leptonectid, Xiphodracon goldencapensis (ROM VP52596) from Golden Cap, between Charmouth and Seatown, Dorset, UK. The skeleton is exposed in ventrolateral view. The skull has been fully prepared free of matrix whereas most of the skeleton is still in matrix. The left (upper) forefin has been prepared so that it is three-dimensionally preserved and projects upwards. Scale bar (lower left) is 20 cm.
A new long & narrow-snouted ichthyosaur illuminates a complex faunal turnover during an undersampled Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) interval onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday @morphobank.bsky.social #PapersinPalaeontology
View over Berlin from the roof of the Museum fΓΌr Naturkunde Berlin, with the Berlin TV Tower visible in the background.
What if #Berlin became a place where protecting nature and democracy go hand in hand? π±
Join our "Ideas for a liveable Berlin" event to explore how shared knowledge can shape our cityβs future. π€
ποΈ Mon, 13 Oct | 18:00 | @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
π eventbrite.com/e/1719108452659
πΈ Pablo Castagnola
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and itβs possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread π§΅)
Louis Dollo, of Dollo's law and one of the founding father of palaeontology, was born in my beloved Lille. Just something I like to remember.
Thirty relatively intact iguanodon skeletons were found in a coal mine in Belgium in the late 1800s. Louis Dollo, who supervised the first assembly of these fossils, believed it was a biped, as it is shown here. We now know that this was a quadruped, meaning it walked on four legs instead of two.
Are you tired of people constantly overestimating body size of marine reptiles? No longer!
We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians.
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Social roosting of spectral bats (Vampyrum spectrum) inside a hollow tree, with three individuals resting closely together.
Carnivorous #bats that hug? π¦
New study on the spectral bat reveals prey provision, grooming and even wing-wrapped greetings β complex social behaviour with big implications for #conservation! π
π journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
πΈ Marisa Tietge
#science #sciencenews
Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!
