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#Thylacine
Jack Ashby
JackDAshby
There's been gentle criticism of the new #thylacine study (where @BraveNewClimate concludes #thylacines probably survived to the 90s) as it's based eye-witness accounts, which are obviously unreliable.Here's a little thread
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Douglass Rovinsky, PhD
DSRovinsky
One of the common "factoids" about the thylacine that just will not die (hahahaHAHAHA) is about their diet – specifically, that they were sanguivores (blood-drinkers).That’s right, my fellow Children of
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Douglass Rovinsky, PhD
DSRovinsky
My second PhD paper is out: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.1537 @royalsocietyIn it we reveal that the thylacine, the famous extinct Australian icon, was only about half as big as once thought - not
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Darren Naish
TetZoo
Time to embark on another of my #cryptozoology PHOTO MEGA-THREADS (from hereon, #TetZoocryptomegathread). Today: Rilla Martin’s 1964 Ozenkadnook tiger photo, aka the ‘Rilla critter’ photo, from western Victoria, Australia. It's
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Anna MacDonald
Dr_AnnaM
OMG! After 4 years, Friday was my last day working on @OMGenomes at @ourANU. I’ve been lucky to do some amazing mammaly museumy geneticy things, hang out with great people,
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Clare Brown
CuratorClare
Interrupting your last-hour-of-Friday scrolling to ponder the value of natural science collections. A thread I absolutely love museum collections and their ability to help wildlife. At @LeedsMuseums we have
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