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This #NAIDOCWeek, why not learn about your local Indigenous community's weather knowledge? You can find traditional weather & climate expertise, that has been developed & passed down through countless generations by First Nations people, at: https://t.co/kuZGPzzLE2
Exiting news from Australia: The newly described 47.000 yrs old Tiliqua frangens was a gigantic armoured skink which reached a length of about 60 cm und weighed more than 2 kg. In terms of weight it is the biggest skink on record. https://t.co/nmXtI30p2H
The trans athlete “debate” would have dramatically affected me growing up.
I was 5’2” at 8 years old. 6’0” at 12. Parents complained so often i was the wrong age, i carried a copy of my birth certificate. I would have 100% been the target of the trans-vestigators. I remember a
For Pride Month 🏳️🌈
Spotlight on a gay Magyar paleontologist, discoverer of Transylvanian Dinosaurs, who postulated on the evolution of birds and named species after his boyfriends ass. Oh, and hijacked a plane & planned on becoming the King of Albania.
Baron Franz Nopcsa 🎊 🧵
Aseroe rubra is a hilarious fungus in the stinkhorn family, Phallaceae, that smells like absolute hell and mimics a rotten meat/feces mixture to help attract the flies that disperse its spores. Here it is coming up in Podocarpus totara/Agathis australis forest in NZ
Had a wonderful tour as part of work today at @ANSTO. Their science communication is fantastic, definitely demystified some assumptions I had about nuclear science!
Upon rounding a bend in the road I had to stop at an amazing spectacle of what seemed like a flock of flamingos on a distant salt lake. Only problem is this was Australia! Closer looks revealed a ultra-saline soup with salt crystals forming these shapes above the surface.
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The massive currents swirling around Antarctica are a crucial driver of the global network of ocean currents that transport heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients around the world. How will this lifeline change on a warming planet?
[animation: @NASAViz]
The Badlands episode of Prehistoric Planet 2 reminded me that a really great paper came out this year on Cretaceous desert environments, which palaeoartists should appreciate as I know this is an FAQ for restorations, and it has great figures -- and is open access!