#Animals

Natural History Museum⁷

NHM_London

For #FossilFriday we're looking at all things invertebrate for #InverteFest, starting with this dragonfly from the Jurassic limestone of Germany. Inverts were the first group of animals to evolve powered

Alexander Verbeek 🌍

Alex_Verbeek

Instant laugh guaranteed Sound on 1/n Ok, this tweet raised some comments, let’s address those. 1. Is it funny? I had a good laugh, sorry for those animal lover

Ben See

ClimateBen

Scientsts: global warming of 3.2C is* hard to survive* hard to prevent* likely by 2090* possible by 2070* plausible by 2050* just one of many existential threats that mean a

Dr Erica McAlister

flygirlNHM

What do Campsicnemus mirabilis, a flightless fly from Hawai’i and Gallirallus dieffenbachia, a flightless rail from New Zealand have in common?Both are recently extinct animals #LostSpeciesDay #OnTheBrink @XrRebel @NHM_London What

Chloe Shergold

ShergoldChloe

#AnimBehav2021 (1/6) If there is one thing to be learnt from the last 12 months is that our social environment is important for our well-being. Each of us have coped

😃 unspinthespin 😃

unspinthespin

1. Fauci and Morens explain that although newly emerging infectious diseases have been threatening humans since the Neolithic Revolution some 12,000 years ago—when hunter-gatherers settled into villages to domesticate animals

Annika Reads

papersofnote

What could be a cuter end-of-year topic than polar bear circadian rhythms? Unlike some arctic animals, female polar bears have rhythms even in constant light conditions of arctic summer and

David Hogg

davidhogg111

The amount of disinformation the right has spread about my friends and I is insane. It’s almost gotten my friends and myself killed, people have chased us off the road,

Joel Baden

JoelBaden

#Exodus 20:8-11The SabbathIt was a staple of early Christian interpretation - and it remains so today - that of all the hundreds of laws in the Pentateuch, the only ones

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vegix

Consumers are sold the idea that animals on UK farms have good lives, and yet most live inside factory farms where their natural behaviours are thwarted, and they suffer, and

Jennifer Campbell-Smith, PhD 𓄿𓃥

drcampbellsmith

So why is this behavioral ecologist so excited about the coyote and badger video, other than it being pure and adorable? (a thread) Coyotes and badgers have been observed working

bearistotle

gnrosenberg

Now comes another long thread about ethics, suffering, and meat. Sorry. It's what I do I’ve been thinking lately about practical animal ethics in relationship to @alexmotya’s Porkopolis, Lesley

Quartz

qz

1/ As our animals have transformed from our property to our de facto children, a massive and lucrative industry has developed to feed and care for them. ( by @Ostaley)https://qz.com/1954821/how-america-is-changing-the-global-pet-industry/

Rachael H Funnell

The_RHF

What do you get when a fish eats a frog that ate a fish? Thanks @mjbernt and the CT scanner at the @AMNH we now know. Thread, sources via @IFLScience:https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ct-shows-its-a-fisheatfrog-frogeatfish-world

Tomas Pueyo

tomaspueyo

The main concern I'm hearing right now: What if new COVID variants keep evolving so much that vaccines can't keep up and we end up in a situation like the

Shannon Vallor

ShannonVallor

Thanks sorry to only be getting to this now. It's a great question - 'appropriately expanding the moral community' is a broader theme of ethics in many traditions, and my

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