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The ship is used for educational purposes, among others, & can be toured for free. #BenchFacts 3/4 fashion declutter next post
September 25, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Learn From A Bench and get rid of stuff! I'll tell you a tale of ships & sails...and an old, old wooden ship. Almost 229 years ago, on 10-21-1797, the U.S.S. Constitution was launched & she is the oldest commissioned vessel that's still afloat in the world...1/4 #BenchFacts
September 25, 2026 at 3:20 PM
...that could use that light sensing organ to establish circadian rhythms & adjust them based on their the sun, which is important for land dwelling animals. 5/5
#BenchFacts #Science #Paleontology #Evolution
June 3, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Learn From A Bench! Say Hi-ju to this little Kaiju! Meet your 506 million year old Stem #Arthropod Bestie; Mosura, bestowed with "Mothra's" original moniker. They are one of the noble Radiodonts; the first group to branch off from the arthropods in days of yore....1/7
#BenchFacts #Science
August 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
...shared anatomical features with & were likely members of the group archosauramorpha, the group which archosaurs & their close relatives are part of. This confirmed what DNA has shown; turtles are closely related to archosaurs. 4/4 #BenchFacts #Science
May 31, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Learn from a Bench! Time to get moving with your favorite Ediacaran Weirdies! #EdiacaranBiota lived for over 60 million years before the #CambrianExplosion (538.8 ish Mya) & have body plans so different than those that exist today...1/4 #BenchFacts #Science
May 24, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Learn From A Bench and get rid of stuff! It's Big Bug Time! It's 415 Mya & life on land is boring. You're hanging out on a flood plain; There's no grass, no trees, just diminutive basal plants, fungus & things that look mossy....1/7 #BenchFacts #Science
August 12, 2026 at 7:04 PM
...or manuevering on land. It had a variety of other adaptations for life in the water. It filled it's cute little belly fish & other sea life. No, you can't have one as a pet, they're extinct & if you find one, I call dibs. #BenchFacts #Science #Paleontology
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August 20, 2026 at 7:09 PM
.Sometimes the facts is that we don't know all the facts. #BenchFacts #Science #Paleontology 4/4
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Learn From A Bench! It's time to soar with the #Pterosaurs! Your Flying Reptile Bestie presents us with some problematic ponderances; What shape were their wings? Where did the membranes of their wings attach, the hip or the ankle? Fossils alone have thus far not...1/4
September 10, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Llearn From A Bench and get rid of stuff! It's time to get swimmy in the Triassic! We have a new mostly to fully Aquatic Arcosauromorph Bestie! It's 244 Mya & it's only 8 million years since the worst mass extinction of macroscopic life happened....1/5 #BenchFacts #Science #paleontology
August 20, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Learn from a Bench! Life finds a way! Then it stops doing that. Then it finds a way again! One of the stages of the #Cambrian pd. was ended by the End Botomian Extinction Event 514-509 Mya. It is one of the earlier Mass Extinction Events...1/5 #Science #MassExtinctionEvent #BenchFacts
May 13, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Learn from a bench! It's time to get eggs-cited! You can tell a lot about a #Dinosaur by what's going on with their nests! A group of bird like Theropods (this group includes T-Rexes, Raptors & birds), the Oviraptorids, laid eggs two at a time in their nests...1/2 #BenchFacts #Paleontology
April 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
...we have the Giant Huntsman Spider. Neither are native to North America, but I think I shall carry a defensive tennis racket with me everywhere. 4/4 #BenchFacts
October 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
...allowed the development of more elaborate body structures & plans. This enabled the building of more diverse ecosystems & new niches to be created & filled. 5/6 #BenchFacts #Science
May 11, 2026 at 10:32 PM
...organism forms on the parent itself before detaching. It's boring & lacks genetic diversity that creates hardiness in populations, but it gets the job done. 6/6
#BenchFacts #Science #EdiacaranBiota
May 27, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Learn from a Bench! The Egg-citement continues! Your Non Avian Eumaniraptoran Dinosaur Bestie is laying eggs in an open nest & your super worried they're going to become someone's lunch...1/several #BenchFacts #Dinosaurs
April 23, 2026 at 8:36 PM
...living in marine ecosystems 100 Mya, it's painting a picture of an ancient ocean that includes cephalopods as adding as much to the ocean scape as ichthyosaurs & plesiosaurs! #BenchFacts #science
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May 6, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Many of the Kuiper Belt Objects have moons & a relatively high number of them, 11% ish, are binary systems. comets originate from this region also. I did it! I did the Solar System #BenchFacts Style! 3/3
September 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The "Lonely Guy Gene" (LOG gene) is responsible for this, among other plant traits and functions, expressed in variable ways, & it is a gene that all plants have. All that being said, the band "Poison" owes science money. #BenchFacts 3/4
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
...unlike later & modern Cephalopods. It still gave your millimeters sized Stem Cephalopod Bestie the ability to adapt it's Buoyancy by pumping in & out gas or water as needed, though. 4/4 #BenchFacts #Science
August 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
...Another is when a specific Anthocyanin, called Delphinidin, works in a similar manner, with the exception being that their environment must be very mildly acidic, rather than alkaline, to give the blue hue. 3/3
#BenchFacts #BlueFlowers
July 30, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Learn From A Bench! 🎶 It's so hard to say goodbye...to your Pseudosuchian Bestie🎶. We have #Crocodilians now. They've survived being chic shoes & belts & 2 Mass #extinction events. But how? ...1/7 Sorry guys
#BenchFacts #Science #Paleontology
August 5, 2026 at 5:15 PM
With present day boy birdies that brood, it's possible that this behavior began with the non avian dinosaurs in days of yore.
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I know you're dreadfully curious why white eggs exist, but that quandary is later us's problem. 7/8
April 23, 2026 at 8:40 PM
in the front & more concentrated in number on the 16 segments of their back end. This granted them better oxygen absorption, allow them to withstand lower oxygen environments. 6/7 whoops #BenchFacts #Science #Paleozoology. Link to beginning 👇
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Learn From A Bench! Say Hi-ju to this little Kaiju! Meet your 506 million year old Stem #Arthropod Bestie; Mosura, bestowed with "Mothra's" original moniker. They are one of the noble Radiodonts; the first group to branch off from the arthropods in days of yore....1/7
#BenchFacts #Science
August 9, 2026 at 6:16 PM
...that allowed the minimum rate of 25% survival of existing species at the time that we just love so much. #BenchFacts #Science #Paleontology 5/5

Also, the 2nd hand dress went for day 290 of the purge streak. #ootd #SustainableFashion declutter
July 28, 2026 at 2:19 PM