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The Creature met an ancestor! 🦣 🦴 🏛️

#TheLaBreaTarPits #LosAngeles #California #Fossils #Merchtodon #Paleontology #Photo #Photography #Plushtodon #LetyDoesSelfies

Photo of Lety and the Creature Mastodon stuffed toy standing in front of a mastodon museum exhibit under warm, indoor lighting. From top to bottom, Lety is shown wearing a short, white, long-sleeve dress with red floral print and brown sandals. Her body is roughly facing the camera, the Creature in her arms, as she turns her and the Creature back towards her left to look up at the massive fossilized skeleton of an American mastodon. On the floor between Lety and the skeleton is an exhibit sign reading “American mastodon”, “(Mammut americanum)”, “2 million to 10,000 years ago”, with a map showing the species' historical range across North America and some other out-of-focus text. In the background are several other museum visitors viewing smaller fossil displays in glass cases along a back wall.

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The Inquisitive Biologist turns 8! Here's the latest review...

How would life have evolved had the dinosaurs survived? This facsimile reprint of Dougal Dixon's second classic work of speculative zoology imagines the answer and remains as captivating and entertaining as it was in 1988.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/09/19/book-review-the-new-dinosaurs-an-alternative-evolution/

#Scicomm #SpeculativeZoology #Dinosaurs #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon @bookstodon

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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Some classic literature that I bought second-hand.
- A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico, published by Cambridge University Press (which was removed from the holdings of the University of Plymouth Charles Seale-Hayne Library just down the road from me!)
- Carl Safina's classic Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas, published by Henry Holt
- and Extinctions in Near Time: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences, published by Springer.

#Extinction #Biodiversity #Palaeontology #Paleontology #NaturalHistory #NatureWriting #EnvironmentalHistory #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon