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I'm a biology Master's student with a Bachelor's degree in biology. I post about animals, alive and extinct, and the insane, often obscure things about them. If that interests you, feel free to follow.
Ausarchosaur
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Ausarchosaur
@ausar_the
Biologist with Master’s degree. Vertebrate zoology and paleontology, but I’ll post about whatever.
Joined August 2019
- I find it ironic that this guy posted a pic of construction workers finding fossils, because this is something that's actually happened. Multiple times.
- Two beasts renowned for their strength. Who would w- The grizzly bear, and it's not even close.
Sperm whale vs giant squid isn't even close. Like, it really, REALLY isn't close. (but it looks REALLY metal, I'll give it that lol) 🧵 - New species of giant isopod from Vietnam. zookeys.pensoft.net/article/139335/
- Sperm whale vs giant squid isn't even close. Like, it really, REALLY isn't close. (but it looks REALLY metal, I'll give it that lol) 🧵
- I need you guys to drop the most realistic, life-like models of any prehistoric animal you have ever seen. The kind of stuff you'd put in a museum. I'll start with this Micromeryx at the Museum am Löwentor in Stuttgart, Germany. It looks like a taxidermied specimen.
- This is insane. A mummified. SABER-TOOTH.THIS JUST IN - BABY HOMOTHERIUM MUMMY FOUND IN SIBERIA! It was only a matter of time before we got the rest of the Pleistocene fauna of this region in mummy form. More material for de-extinction maybe nature.com/articles/s4159…
- It’s kind of insane to me how widespread this misconception is.
- So I’ve never actually watched Wild Kratts, but the more I learn about it, the more it looks a lot like it’s got its fair share of animal fights. I’m actually surprised.
- I lowkey want a goofy Madagascar/Barnyard-esque show where the dinosaurs can all talk and get caught in their own hijinks under the noses of the human visitors and staff of Jurassic Park or World.What Jurassic Park/World opinion will leave people looking at you like this?
- An unorthodox answer, but this mount of the great auk at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Seems innocuous…until you remember what happened to this bird (and the others displayed with it), and see the ship off in the distance.
y’all what is a painting or other work of visual art that never fails to destroy you every time you see it because BOY I’ll start:
