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Zoology and Paleontology Blogger on "Bestiarium", Wildlife- and Paleoartists, Author, Nature Aficionado, Archeology- and History-Enthusiast www.bestiarium.kryptozoologie.net
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An old-ish drawing of a Chinese Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡

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Imagine you went out to the forest for a sunday walk & saw an elephant herd. Wait, there would certainly be trees, but no forest. Interesting new paper: Europe’s lost landscape sculptors: Today’s potential range of the extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1350...

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Noch gar nicht gesehen: Ein Video über die Wasserbüffelweide Burglehen bei Rottenburg am Neckar. Dank an @markusbuehler.bsky.social für den Hinweis. Der Regierungsbezirk Tübingen könnte deutscher Büffelweidenmeister sein. Wir inventarisieren gerade. youtu.be/4Y4Fbvh1FAw?...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Voay robustus! a recently extinct species of crocodile from Madagascar, most of its remains were found in a "sub-fossil" state, where not enough time has passed for them to fossilize suggested by @convictclaude.bsky.social! who surely apreciates me calling it a 𝙃𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙮 𝘾𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙡𝙚

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

#paleoart commission: the bulkiest, heaviest and possibly even longest crocodilian with the strongest biteforce in animal kingdom: the giant miocene caiman Purussaurus!

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

Yesterday I visited another fantastic place in the Chiemgau Alps, it must look even much more awesome when everything is green and flowers all around.

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Today I visited this awesome lake in the Chiemgau Alps of Bavaria. The weather was rainy but the colours of the water still incredible. I could see a few rainbow trouts, some brown trouts and a single char of unknown species plus a lot of minnows, and as an ornithological surplus also a merganser.

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Today I visited a very nice special exhibition in the Mammut-Museum Siegsdorf about the fossils from the Hammerschmiede Lagerstätte in Bavaria, illustrated by one of my favorite paleo-artists, Mauricio Anton.

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I just hope we will also see anytime footage of a fully adult Mesonychoteuthis in its natural habitat.

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The beavers in the bog area Inzeller Filzen are very active and their activities can be seen all around. The beavers themselves are very elusive however. Just saw this really nice artwork in honour of the local beavers.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Some impressions from lake Chiemsee. The weather was really great, and despite rather low overall number of waterfowl I have seen, I can add two pretty awesome new species on my list of first sights in the wild.

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Great crested crebes from my tour to lake Constance. I have seen them even in "Jurassic Park Dilophosaurus"-style but also feeding on fish, like the stickleback on the last photo. Not really rare but really remarkable birds with fascinating behavior and intersting anatomy.

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Yesterday I was on a very awesome birding tour on Lake Constance. Besides many wonderful wild birds and other animals I came along a particularly flamboyant captive bird. Can you imagine what it was?

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Another photo from my visit of Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, a white-naped crane (Gruß vipio). The texture of the skin is really remarkable, and photos like this are always great references for palaeoart.

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Since you asked so nicely

submitted 62 days ago • 8 comments

This are my favourite photos from my recent trip to Wilhelma Zoo Stuttgart. Not even of a zoo animal, but a wild nile goose which was hanging around near the pelicans. Not exactly a particular popular and invasive bird, but I still really like their appearance.

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Did you see the deep-sea anglerfish that bubbled up to the surface? Did you wonder WHAT IN THE DING DANG HECK it was doing there? I talked to some scientists to find out everything I could! HT @sternarchella.bsky.social, @mbarinews.bsky.social 🧪🦑 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

submitted 100 days ago • 11 comments

A gryphon vulture which I´ve recently seen during my last visit to the #Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart. I had the great pleasure to see this awesome birds in the wild on Crete (Greece) and Cres (Croatia). But this was once a rather wide spread bird, which also populated vast parts of central Europe.

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Kommenden Mittwoch um 19.30 Uhr halte ich einen Vortrag am Senckenberg-Museum Frankfurt, der auch online übertragen wird. Fühle mich sehr geehrt, in diesen heiligen Hallen sprechen zu dürfen. Dank an @juliakrohmer.bsky.social für die Einladung! museumfrankfurt.senckenberg.de/de/bildungsa...

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

Wild boars as ecosystem engineers:

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