💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦎🇪🇬 #Ancient Egyptians carefully wrapped and sealed #animal #mummies including #ibises, #falcons, #snakes, #fish, #shrews, and a 2-meter-long #crocodile.

Researchers at the British #Museum used X-ray equipment and CT scanners to see through the fragile wrappings without touching them.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/egyptian-animal-mummies-x-rays-ct-scans-video

#animals #anthropology #archaeology #culture #economy #egypt #history #religion #science #textiles #thebritishmuseum #traditions #research #tksst #video

🦎🇪🇬 #Ancient Egyptians carefully wrapped and sealed #animal #mummies including #ibises, #falcons, #snakes, #fish, #shrews, and a 2-meter-long #crocodile.

Researchers at the British #Museum used X-ray equipment and CT scanners to see through the fragile wrappings without touching them.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/egyptian-animal-mummies-x-rays-ct-scans-video

#animals #anthropology #archaeology #culture #economy #egypt #history #religion #science #textiles #thebritishmuseum #traditions #research #tksst #video

#NewSpecies!
New shrew from #guinea just came in:

Crocidura pediculus

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B89647-5A31-1E1C-FE43-E478B1CE87D1
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1039.3197
#ejtaxonomy #CrociduraPediculus

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #mammalogy #mammals #shrews

🐭🕷️ From #shrews that weigh less than a penny to #spiders no bigger than a grain of rice, the #USA is home to some of the world's smallest #animals.

👉 https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/top-20-smallest-animals-in-the-us-11-203607/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news_links&utm_content=smallest-animals-in-the-us

#nature #biodiversity #wildlife #biology #science #education #ecology #conservation

New open access NHM available ahead of print! "Seasonal Body Size Plasticity and the Generality of Dehnel’s Phenomenon in Sorex Shrews" by McLean et al. Read now! https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735018

#openAccess #seasonal #bodySize #shrews

NEW EUROPEAN RECORD 🎉

We were able to detect the Pygmy Shrews (Sorex minutus) in the high #alpine up to 3,300 m a.s.l. in #SouthTyrol #Italy, 780 metres higher than known before 🐁

New short note in #Hystrix (w/ #ChiaraPaniccia & @Eliag from https://bsky.app/profile/euracalpenv.bsky.social )

📄 https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00760-2024

#PygmyShrew #Shrews #SmallMammals #Hystrix #Südtirol #AltoAdige #EuropeanAlps #BiodiversityMonitoringSouthTyrol #GLORIA #Mountains #MountainPeaks #SoilFauna #SoilBiodiversity #Monitoring #AlpSoil_Lab #Glaciers #OetztalAlps #Sesvenna

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Feb 7th, 2025

https://bit.ly/stc020725

#Mosa #fat #plant-based #cultivated #Alabama #shrews #Nipah #Hendra #Vortex #deformed #core #elongated #ECM #acellular #nanocomposite #alginate #agroforestry #farming #trees #shrubs