Tomorrow we are partnering w/ Greenwich Hospital for Kids Health Discovery Day! Free admission 1pm-4pm for guests under 18. Learn about medicine & science from real doctors from Greenwich & Yale New Haven Children’s hospitals in our science galleries!

@SerpenIllus Amazing art! The event was fantastic as well.

The Natural History Museum of Utah’s ceratopsian wall is one of my favorite paleontology displays.

@deadnaturalists I have leaned from the Master, Mark. Now is my time to speak, but not sing.

Compared to its living relatives, Spheniscus megaramphus was larger and had a more sharply hooked beak, giving it a rather fearsome appearance. They also had very large heads - so much so some scientists (=me) call them killer bobble-head penguins.

@TennysonAlan @NZfauna @trayc7 @fieldpalaeo @GiovaFavazzi Here's a nice reconstruction of a raft of Petradyptes coming ashore with a jumbo Kumimanu (more not hat later) in the mix, by study coauthor @GiovaFavazzi Enjoy #PenguinAwarenessDay!

Happy Penguin Awareness Day to those who celebrate

Only 25 days left to see the original art behind the Federal Duck Stamp at the Bruce Museum! This is one of my (many) favorites, David Maass's iconic oil painting of Wood Ducks for the 1974-1975 stamp. Bruce Museum, Gift of Richie Prager, 2021.15.31

Had the opportunity to write about the art behind the Federal Duck Stamp for ⁦⁦@sciam⁩.This show is up till 2/9/25 - why not stop by over holiday break? Thanks to ⁦@katewong⁩ for editing!

Are fake journals starting to threaten people now?

The face value of that sheet is only $625 ( the historic value is far higher) but nonetheless winning the Duck Stamp Contest is so prestigious and print sales so lucrative that some refer to the winner as the “Million Dollar Duck”

Siderite can look as light as pile of autumn leaves but this mineral is about half iron and super dense! Another amazing piece in the Bruce Museum’s Robert R. Wiener Mineral Gallery.

I just never get tired of purple chalcedony.