Max’s Mobile Museum #M3 is out for the 2nd time in two days, this time at San Jacinto Elementary. We’re showing the differences between American & Pacific mastodons. The femur of Pacific mastodons (on the right) are visibly more robust than in American mastodons (on the left).

#museum #FossilFriday #paleontology #scicomm #pleistocene #mastodons

This morning's sunrise over Lake Superior was worth getting up for!

#Photography #Minnesota #LakeSuperior

The openVertebrate project is a new initiative to provide free, digital 3D vertebrate anatomy models and data to researchers, educators, students and the public...
https://youtu.be/JALuBzGvV3g
https://sketchfab.com/FloridaMuseum
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/overt/

Over the next four years, the oVert team will CT scan 20,000 fluid-preserved specimens from U.S. museum collections, producing high-resolution anatomical data for more than 80 percent of vertebrate genera.

#3Dmodels #Animals #opensource #anatomy #Xray #CTscan @Blender #sketchfab

Sedimentary ancient DNA reveals the impact of anthropogenic land use disturbance and ecological shifts on fish community structure in small lowland lake
Thomson-Laing+
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171266

"SedDNA chronicled 1390 years of fish community structure in a small lowland lake.

Sensitive native fish declined with initial vegetation clearance around the lake.

Fish abundance in the lake declined with agricultural intensification."