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New paper in @devdynamics.bsky.social detailing eye development in a diurnal, foveate gecko!

Project led by A Wegerski, featuring me, C Murr, @tonygamble.eurosky.social, B Brooks, R Hufnagel, and A Rasys

#GeckoEvoDevo #GoldDustDayGecko #foveae

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Lateral view of the head of a near-hatching stage Phelsuma laticauda embryo.
November 3, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Elephant facial motor control | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Elephant facial motor control
Elephant trunk control involves huge numbers of facial motor neurons, cell size gradients, and motor foveae.
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August 14, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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A 2022 study in #ScienceAdvances reveals that elephants have an exceptionally high number of facial neurons—perhaps the most known to any land-dwelling mammal.

Learn more on #WorldElephantDay: scim.ag/4wiIUzy
Elephant facial motor control
Elephant trunk control involves huge numbers of facial motor neurons, cell size gradients, and motor foveae.
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August 12, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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SOOTHING BIRD FACT 🐦

Some bird species have two foveae in each eye—that's the plural of fovea, the spot in your field of vision that's in sharpest focus. Imagine having *two* in-focus areas of vision for each eye, one in front and one to the side!

📷 Paul Friel, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
closely cropped photo of the head of an adult bald eagle, showing its white head feathers, large yellow bill, and eye
March 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Awesome!

"Embryology reveals a morphological signature of ancestral diurnality maintained in a nocturnal lineage"

By Griffing et al. in @journal-evo.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

(Are there any similar analyses for Nocturnal Caprimulgiformes -> Diurnal Apodidae / Trochilidae ? )
Embryology reveals a morphological signature of ancestral diurnality maintained in a nocturnal lineage
Abstract. Evolutionary transitions to diurnality are often associated with specialized ocular morphology, such as pits (foveae) in the retina. Foveae are r
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February 16, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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Discover why hawks see what humans can’t. Unlock the secrets of hawk super vision: discover how high-density foveae, powerful lenses, and rapid brain processing let them see beyond human limits.
#HawkVision #AvianSuperVision #BirdsOfPrey #HawkEye
Why Hawks See What Humans Can’t: The Science of Hawk Super Vision
Discover how hawks see what humans can’t—explore hawk ultra-sharp vision power, UV detection and built-in zoom through fascinating scientific insights
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July 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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A 2022 study in #ScienceAdvances reveals that elephants have an exceptionally high number of facial neurons—perhaps the most known to any land-dwelling mammal.

Learn more on #WorldElephantDay:
Elephant facial motor control
Elephant trunk control involves huge numbers of facial motor neurons, cell size gradients, and motor foveae.
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August 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Eagles have vision four to five times sharper than humans, with 20/5 eyesight that allows them to spot a rabbit from over three miles away. Their retinas contain up to one million cone cells per square millimeter, and two foveae enable them to focus forward and sideways at once.
August 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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As I understand it:

#Wasps #Hymenoptera
Clypeus features in Scelionidae: Gryon: paired depressions (foveae) near the lateral margins. Telenomus: Narrow; convex, usually with simple margins. Smooth, typically impunctate, shiny or bearing only faint microsculpture and a few isolated setae. Trimorus: Broad (much wider than tall), lateral corners often distinctly pointed or angular. Usually features prominent, strong transverse striae, sometimes with a median carina. Denser setae, sometimes with tufts near margins.
June 10, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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This is one of the Gryon misellum group - clypeus has paired foveae near the lateral margins (a Gryon characteritic).

#Wasps #Hymenoptera #Scelionidae
Gryon misellum group parasitoid wasp.
June 10, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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Lucky to be in Tromsø on a sunny (though chilly) day and visit the Arctic-Alpine Botanical Garden. Along with a lot of great bumble bees and countless little flies saw a miner #bee (genus Andrena) and its mimic, a bumble fly (genus Criorhina). It's #flyfriday already somewhere!

#bugsky #flyday
Black bee with light golden hair on its torso and legs, and in furrows along the edges of its eyes (facial foveae), longish antennae, light pollen on its legs, against a purple flower background. Fly with gold colored thorax and some golden hairs, big eyes, some light hairs on its legs and abdomen, and the same general shape of abdomen and wings as the miner bee.
June 18, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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Equally tiny and (to me) more surprising bee on the same flower - smallest Andrena miner #bee I’ve ever seen, thought it was a small sweat bee until I looked at the photos. (On Sisyrinchium angustifolium, blue-eyed grass.)

#bugsky #macrophotography #bloomscrolling #nativeplants
Bee on flower with 6 purple petals, yellow at center, yellow anthers. Bee is dark with some light hair on its abdominal bands and facial foveae, rear legs caked with yellow pollen.
April 13, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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Looks to me like miner bee, genus Andrena. If I’m not mistaken she has the furry vertical furrows (foveae) just inside the eye (much easier to see head-on). Beautiful!
April 7, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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Pop-up protest at Clairemont and N Druid Hills yielded lots of supportive honks and the discovery of a nesting aggregation of miner bees (likely Andrena barbara) on the traffic island. Fortunately I had my camera in the car to document it for #iNaturalist.
#bees #abolishICE #bugsky
Guy in an iNaturalist tshirt with a camera holding a sign that says “Free Rodney Taylor, Free them all!”, standing on a patch of dirt and grass with another protestor in the background and many cars passing by. Bee among dead leaves; bee is dark with blond hairs on her face (pronounced facial foveae), thorax mostly bare on top but with lots of hair on sides, and combs of blond hair on legs.
March 8, 2026 at 4:30 AM
autismsupsoc.bsky.social
Note that a bird’s eyes are significantly larger than iris and pupil that is casually observed.

The image on the right showcases the “tube” shape that Owl eyes have.
Top down drawn cross section of a birds head showcasing that the eyes rake ho a significant amount of space Text An illustration of the frontal section of the head of an idealized bird of prey, such as a raptor, showing the positions of the deep and shallow foveae. The line of sight (LOS) through the pupil to the deep fovea is shown in the diagram. [From Tucker (55) with permission.] Top down drawn cross section of an owl head showcasing that the eyes take up a significant amount of space. The owl eyes are also not round but are cone shaped getting larger as they go deeper into the skull. The 2 eyes might be larger than the space remaining for brain.
December 10, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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Your foveae do not like this, stop
November 9, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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here is an example of this: www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Elephant facial motor control
Elephant trunk control involves huge numbers of facial motor neurons, cell size gradients, and motor foveae.
www.science.org
January 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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February 14, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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I got these photos of a friendly Tree Swallow in the evening light a couple of weeks ago. The silhouette it casted in the evening sky is quite striking! Another interesting feature of these photos is how Tree Swallow feathers are iridescent and are only blue in certain conditions. #birds 🪶
An adult Tree swallow stares directly at me in the evening light. This one was perched on a sign for several minutes while I was taking photos. Swallows in general are pretty flighty birds so it was unusual to be able to be so close to one. Some of the blue iridescent feathers can also be spotted along the edge of the body in areas while the body directly faces the evening light. An adult Tree swallow looks beyond while perched on a sign in the evening light. This photo also demonstrates the short wide bill that swallows possess and their forward facing eyes that help them focus on the insects they catch on the wing. Swallow eyes are similar to eyes found on birds of prey in that they have two foveae in eye compared to a human’s one which allows them to spot prey from great distances and accurately judge the distance of their prey. An adult Tree swallow looks beyond while perched on a sign in the evening light. This photo also demonstrates the short wide bill that swallows possess and their forward facing eyes that help them focus on the insects they catch on the wing. Swallow eyes are similar to eyes found on birds of prey in that they have two foveae in eye compared to a human’s one which allows them to spot prey from great distances and accurately judge the distance of their prey. An adult Tree Swallow stares out while perched on a sun and being basked in the evening light. I personally feel this photo along with the other one’s help demonstrate the scientific name of Tachycineta bicolor which means moving quickly for the genus name and two colored for the species name. It’s always a joy to watch them fly about making sudden turns or skimming just above the water to grab insects from the surface.
June 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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#LiteratureNotice Parker et al. Evolution of leafcutter ant myrmecophiles: #Hamotus heidiae, a new symbiont of Acromyrmex colonies with undetectable hydrocarbons (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) doi.org/10.1007/s000... #Beetle #Beetles #leafcutterants #rovebeetles #symbiosis
Hamotus heidiae gen. et sp. nov. A Dorsal habitus of holotype male. B Lateral habitus of holotype male. C Schematic of meso-metaventrite with foveae indicated. LMSF: lateral mesoventral fovea; MMSF: median mesoventral fovea; LMCF: lateral mesocoxal fovea; MMTF: median metaventral fovea. The circular notch of the metaventral apex between metacoxae is indicated. D Aedeagus, lateral view. E Aedeagus, dorsal view
January 25, 2026 at 1:43 AM