Emerson Souza

BSc Zoology, Msc Conservation Biology, Herpetology 🐍🐢🦎🐊🐸♥ 4 palaeontology

[Jack Ashby @JackDAshby]

Help! I'm on the hunt for an extinct bird... does anyone know of any UK #museums that have a solitaire *on display* - the tall flightless relative of the #dodo (other than here at @ZoologyMuseum)?
Am I right in remembering @NtlMuseumsScot has one?

[Jodi Rowley @jodirowley]

A froggy salute to a wonderful #WorldFrogDay! While the annual day of celebration is almost over, let's continue to celebrate our ~7000 known #frogs: from the forests, and grasslands to the swamps & deserts.

[Prof Jamie Woodward @Jamie_Woodward_]

Over 14,000 years ago, illuminated by animal fat lamps, these two bison were expertly modelled in wet clay in the dark recesses of Le Tuc d'Audoubert cave in southwest France #IceAgeArt

[TwilightBeasts @TwilightBeasts]

AMAZING!! *ANOTHER* frozen cave lion KITTEN found in Siberia!!!! Possibly around 50,000 years old!! (Photo YakutiaMedia) cc @Laelaps @holland_tom https://t.co/sDHXKwDZGi

[Jan Freedman @JanFreedman]

WHOA!!! This is SPECTACULAR!! Another baby cave lion found frozen in Siberia!! BEAUTIFUL!!! (Image YakutiaMedia) https://t.co/YvGwe1OBTe

[Strange Animals @Strange_Animals]

Buettikofer's epauletted fruit bat is an unusual megabat from the forests & savannah of west Africa. They are threatened by habitat loss.

[BBC Earth @BBCEarth]

Six-gill sharks: as big as a great white, they may not have eaten for an entire year!
#BluePlanet2

[TwilightBeasts @TwilightBeasts]

A FROZEN Woolly rhinoceros found in Siberia! #FossilFriday (Photo epa european pressphoto agency b.v) https://t.co/rMreDdREYs

[Jordi Galbany @jordigalbany]

Going to remote areas of the Volcanoes NP may be hard, but it allows you to see very well the gorillas… Here, female Mudakama in Kadende…

[Mark Witton (Bluesky: @markwitton.bsky.social) @MarkWitton]

Highlights of synapsid evolution for #FossilFriday: Inostrancevia, Stereognathus, Arsinoitherium and Daeodon. Details of larger #paleoart.

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

Twenty apes used to live on this island, but Ponso is now the last remaining survivor of his colony

[American Bird Conservancy @ABCbirds]

Cats kill 1+ million birds in Australia *every day*, scientists find. https://t.co/EgeHEjBFt9 Via @conversationUS (h/t @PeterPMarra)

[Darren Naish @TetZoo]

What's new? Oh, you know: a horned, long-necked herbivorous stem-archosaur from the Middle Triassic of India. WHAT. https://t.co/tYk0TD110U

[Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia @CisnerosHeredia]

Meet the #newspecies #Hyalinobatrachium yaku, a glassfrog from Amazonian #Ecuador #Centrolenidae. @ZooKeys_Journal https://t.co/Wp4Sc0CJA1

[The Siberian Times @siberian_times]

Remains of extinct 'zebra-like horse' found at Denisova cave, home of ancient man https://t.co/RKdxBg80ps

[The Siberian Times @siberian_times]

$17,290 gathered out of pledged $106,000; 85 backers & 26 more days 2 help Siberian scientists revive lost ecosystem https://t.co/nPs3NuoaPK

[Jennifer Sheridan @JenASheridan]

Awesomely named new genus of frog discovered in caves on volcanoes in Indonesia. #NotTheFirstPlaceIWouldveChecked https://t.co/N0f4KoJIWM

[Dr Beulah Garner @thiswordistaken]

These loans are difficult to process because can be 100's specimens in one vial, but just one set of labels #curation #larvae #beetles https://t.co/v5DbR1NWID

[Dr Beulah Garner @thiswordistaken]

Antidote: #beetle classification: these beauties! Erwin & Garner in action. These Lebiinae are arboreal with specially adapted tarsus

[Dr Beulah Garner @thiswordistaken]

Two new species of the ground beetle sub family Lebiinae from Kenya! #coleoptera https://t.co/Lut0rXx6fy