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Mythical animals, including a vegetable lamb (1801), from Bilderbuch für Kinder.

Source: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/200877e8-385c-4637-b456-08a890589252

#stems #animals #basilisks #zoology #phoenix #encyclopedia #birds #childrensbook #sheep #vegetables #hybridfigures #tents #dragons #unicorns #fantasticalcreatures #mythologicalcreatures #plants #animalhybrid #lambs #vegetablelamb #bookillustration #engraving #art #publicdomain

I was going to set 100 MCMC runs going earlier in the week but I forgot after loading the data into R. I only realised this morning that I hadn't set them running! Now it is on run 1 out of 100. It's going to take a couple of days, based on the other sets I've done already.
#rstats #science #bayesian #palaeontology #palaeobiology #zoology #evolutionaryBiology #evolution #phylogeny

The other day, I was teaching quantum evolution and adaptive zones, and I started calling the inter adaptive zone, the danger zone, and crudely sang the danger zone and asked if the class has seen Top Gun, and most of them had. Quite impressed. I’m going to add Maverick or Archer to my slides from next year!
#zoology #evolution

Want to be an animal investigator? Nab 'nature's most wanted' in this quiz
By Rebecca McLaren

Animals have run foul of human laws throughout history. See if you can match the animal to their crime.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-10-06/most-wanted-animal-criminals-quiz-what-the-duck/106864450

#AnimalBehaviour #Nature #Zoology #RebeccaMcLaren