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Sanderson Brook Falls, Chester, MA. 60 feet of horsetails and cascades. 4/16/23.
42.2558000, -72.9470400
#massachusetts
#waterfalls
#photography
#waterfallphotography
#longexposure
#chasingwaterfalls
#landscapephotography
#hiking
#outdoors
#explore
#nature

October 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM Everybody can reply

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Nicky (she/her) 🦋🐛🌱🌿🐈‍⬛🐈

@nhallerwilson.bsky.social

Ooh! I love horsetails… one of the first plants I remember being told about… “dinosaur age”

Super cool. My mom loves horsetails and also trilobites

October 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM Everybody can reply

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Al Andersen

@alandersen.bsky.social

Date: 20120928
Location: San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, Sierra Vista, Arizona

A back-lit yellowed Autumn Cottonwood leaf, caught fast by the sharp points of some horsetails.

#nature #NaturePhotography #photography #TravelPhotography

A yellow autumn Cottonwood leaf, speckled with brown, is caught between several upright green horsetail reeds. The leaf is backlit, creating a gentle glow that highlights its veins and jagged edges. The surrounding stalks frame the leaf in a quiet, delicate natural scene.

October 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM Everybody can reply

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Gen

@trigonotarbida.bsky.social

Drawing from late 2023, kind of speculative drawing of longisquama with the things on it's back to camouflage with the lycopsids. + a neuropteran also from the Madygen Formation.

#palaeoart #paleoart

A basking Longisquama reptile observes a neuropteran on a nearby horsetail, trying to decide if it has warmed up enough that it's worth trying to catch it. Other Longisquamas climb around the lycopsids and horsetails at the lake's edge.

October 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM Everybody can reply

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pye

@raptor.on.computer

day 19 of #paleoctober2025 is asterophyllites - an extinct family of plants related to modern day horsetails 🌲

a black and white sketch of a tree. text reads 'paleoctober2025 - day 19, asterophyllites'

October 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM Everybody can reply

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂

@amypteride.bsky.social

#paleoctober2025 day 19 : Asterophyllites equisetiformis !

Fossil leaves such as these are super abundant in Europe during the Carboniferous and belonged to horsetails relatives that could reach tree-like sizes
And this time, I'm gonna talk a bit more about paleobotany so if you want, read below !⬇️

A drawing of Asterophyllites equisetiformis, which are leaves of the lycopod relative Calamites, a tree-size plant that live during the Carboniferous in what's now Europe.

Fossils of Asterophyllites equisetiformis

October 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM Everybody can reply

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𝕃.𝕁.𝔽𝕆𝕏 🇮🇸☕📚

@onefootiniceland.bsky.social

Jon's favourite eastern waterfall, Rjúkandi for #WaterfallWednesday 😍 Do you have a favourite foss? 🤔 Let's see'em!
#MobilePhotography #Iceland 🇮🇸 #waterfalls #WaterWednesday

A waterfall falling over several layers of rock, starting as a curtain over a couple of layers then splitting into two horsetails and then bouncing off another layer. There is a grassed rocky outcrop in the foreground with a woman in black clothes standing with a hand on one hip looking at the camera, giving a sense of scale to the falls behind her (very big!)

October 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM Everybody can reply

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Queen Gwenevere

@queengwenevere.bsky.social

Woohoo, #PortfolioDay ! I’m Gwenevere Singley, illustrator and general art wrangler! I’ve worked in games, animation, interactive media, TTRPGs, comics, and I’d love to work on more!

(All oil on canvas except the big fight scene, which was painted in Photoshop)

Portfolio: gwensingley.com

The Rose Queen, in a grand rose gown, is surrounded by her court of elegant bee attendants in a spacious pavilion decked with roses. The bee courtiers are all vying for her attention.

A knight on a white horse, setting out to find a dragon in a mountainous wild wasteland, has just encountered the dragon’s aunt. She is MASSIVE, half pompous matron and half dragon, decked with curls, pearls, and feathers (or are they horsetails?) with a long scaly tail stretching back into the mountains, and a formidable gold lorgnette, through which she examines the knight. She does not approve.

A joyful zebra, that is also a knight, ON FIRE, with stripes and tail turning to flames, garbed in a golden helmet with plumes that also turn to flames, rearing up and holding a striped lance that is also on fire, setting out on an adventure across sunny mountains, along a road leading to a golden castle. A little fire salamander friend tags along.

Cover for the Sword Opera TTRPG: a half a dozen motley renaissance characters are having a huge brawl near a baroque pavilion in a garden. A swordsman in black faces off against a swordswoman in red, behind them a be-turbaned swordsman with a blue flaming scimitar is restrained by a pleading damsel, a ruffian in yellow with a couple of daggers sprawls in the foreground, a sneaky rogue in a weird hat circles behind with a dagger, and another damsel kneels behind the duelists begging both her lovers to desist. Dramatic mountains and storm clouds set the scene.

October 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM Everybody can reply

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸

@paleobyliam.bsky.social

Congrats to @brennanstokkermans.bsky.social on the beautiful #paleoart of this new Jurassic lizard. Look at those horsetails!
#sciart
www.sci.news/paleontology...

New Jurassic Lizard Species Has Confusing Set of Features Seen in Snakes and Geckos | Sci.News

Breugnathair elgolensis is a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived during the Middle Jurassic, about 167 million years ago.

www.sci.news

October 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM Everybody can reply

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Plant Physiology

@plantphys.bsky.social

NEWS & VIEWS: Blue-light only: How horsetails broke the rules of stomatal control (Ritu Singh, Erin Cullen) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

September 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM Everybody can reply

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Emily Stepp

@emilyart.bsky.social

Tyrannosaurus rex BHI 6248 'E. D. Cope' taking down a similarly huge Edmontosaurus for DeviantArt user babyjay98. #Paleoart #Trex #Tyrannosaurus #Tyrannosaurusrex #Edmontosaurus #Edmontosaurusannectens

Painterly digital speculative paleoart scene of a red with darker red or black striped and spotted T. rex clamped onto the head of a large green Edmontosaurus annectens. The two are struggling on the bank of a river in a Hell Creek floodplain with a soft blue afternoon sky with some clouds. A forest is in the background and various ferns and horsetails litter the foreground.

September 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM Everybody can reply

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Ben Miller

@extinctmonsters.bsky.social

Moving on, the next area featured an expansive, walk-through diorama of a Carboniferous coal forest, complete with a giant Arthropleura for visitors to stomp on. The supplementary display of local fossils from Mazon Creek hid fossils in drawers that visitors could look through (few did).

Diorama of a Carboniferous forest with life-sized lycopsids and giant horsetails behind a fallen log. In front is a brown, flat millipede model.

Chest of drawers under the header "Mazon Creek Collections." There's a little case with tully monsters and an illustration of a tree that seems to show where different plant fossils fit into the complete organism.

September 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM Everybody can reply

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David Elston

@1davidelston.bsky.social

Revisited an odd horsetail at Den of Maidencraig LNR, Aberdeen, which I think is shore horsetail, the hybrid of water and common horsetails. Like a long-branched common horsetail but with stems smoother, compressible due to a large central hollow and protruding cortex when pulled apart lengthways.

September 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM Everybody can reply

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Al Andersen

@alandersen.bsky.social

Date: 20041031
Location: San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, Sierra Vista, Arizona

A Great Blue Heron stands at the edge of the San Pedro River, framed by horsetails and autumn grasses.

#LandscapePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #photography #TravelPhotography #WildlifePhotography

A Great Blue Heron with steel-blue plumage and a long, curved neck stands on a grassy embankment beside the San Pedro River. Sunlight highlights its yellow eye and sharp beak as horsetails arch around it. The still brownish water behind carries floating autumn leaves, creating a quiet, reflective riverside scene.

September 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM Everybody can reply

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Constance Lee Menefee

@conniemenefee.bsky.social

Horsetails, leopard frog & arrowhead ... one of my drawings from long ago

A pen and ink drawing of horsetails, leopard frog & an arrowhead leaf - from
the CLM #PenAndInk Archives

September 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM Everybody can reply

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich

@cormacscoast.bsky.social

What I think is a partial Calamites fossil in a piece of sandstone. Calamites were plants similar to modern Horsetails but much larger in scale. They grew in the tropical swampy conditions that prevailed on this part of the earths surface over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

September 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM Everybody can reply

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Derek Ryder

@ryderda.bsky.social

Today's volunteering was near my house, so consequently, my lunch view was my front yard. So here's something cool I saw 10 minutes before lunch.

A dead tree has fallen over in a forest, in a green sea of horsetails (that EVERYONE thinks are ferns). The tree was cut because it was blocking the trail, and out of the cut end of the stump is growing a VERY cool white cap and stem mushroom.

September 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM Everybody can reply

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Will of Trees

@willoftrees.bsky.social

for some reason i was enthralled with the horsetail growing on the property

young green horestail shoots stand up like striped spires, with a skunk cabbage behing a few of them and heart-shaped leaves of lily-of-the-valley cover the forest floor

more horsetails standing erect, this time in a dead grass patch- they almost resemble some creatures out of beetlejuice.

April 5, 2024 at 11:56 PM Everybody can reply

A Ranty Person

@dengekipororo.bsky.social

Housetail Nyan (つくしニャン)

- Bio -
A plant-like cat Yo-kai who loves spring. Wherever he walks, plentiful horsetails sprout up. Just like a tall, standing horsetail, he has confidence in his straightforward heart.

July 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM Everybody can reply

Samsonar Shaman

@samsonar.bsky.social

little to no development called Entisol. these soils are characteristic to a Taiga biome, also known as a Boreal Forest. horsetails, cycads, and conifers cover the ground and many of the animals that live here give the locality that the Eumerella Formation is a part of its name, Dinosaur Cove, two-

October 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM Everybody can reply

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ian.fenrisgames

@fenrisgames.com

I mean, if I had £10s of K spare I could get some proper injection moulded stuff made - eg horsetails like miniature versions of the common AliExpress type of model bamboo, etc

It's a marathon, not a sprint, been trying to figure this one out for years :D

January 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM Everybody can reply

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🪴🐌 Min Tayza 🧑‍🔬🦖

@sketchy-as-fork.bsky.social

The Painting/The Reference (photo from Anton Sorokin)

a roughly brushed painting depicting an orange and brown colored Diplocaulus with a yellow belly, an extinct amphibian with a boomerang-shaped skull, clutching its egg mass while staring at the viewer. It is positioned upright in its shallow water environment surrounded by horsetails and roots.

a brown newt with a yellow belly stares disapprovingly at the camera while clutching its egg. it's "standing" in brownish water surrounded by wispy plants

July 26, 2023 at 4:39 AM Everybody can reply

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Bloated White Shark, PhD (he/him)

@unlabeledelder.bsky.social

Love 25 foot tall horsetails!

Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · Jul 12

For #FossilFriday, here's a restoration of the possible life appearance of #Equisetites arenaceus, from the Early Late Triassic of Europe; a horsetail with stems up to 25cm across! I have more information about this on my patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/107353...
#paleobotany #paleoart

A coloured pen restoration in a single grown Stem, which is 10 m tall,next to a tall woman. The stem is ribbed with clusters of short frilly branches in the top half, looking like a wide pipe cleaner. There are pale silhouetted of other stems in the background and a short growing stem is to the left of the big one.

July 12, 2024 at 1:25 PM Everybody can reply

Susannah 🍁

@wweeta.bsky.social

Loops and swirls and fluff. Fireweed, gone to seed. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/09/fluf... #VancouverIsland #Flowers #Autumn #Seeds #Nature

Part of a fireweed stalk, showing the flower stems now bereft of flowers, and curled into loops and spirals going every which way around the stem. White fluffy, feathery spheres, each carrying one seed, hang in between the loops, waiting for the next little breeze to carry them off. Background: horsetails, then evergreen forest.

September 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM Everybody can reply

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Lucy Corrander

@lucycorrander.bsky.social

I wouldn't advocate having horsetails on an allotment either. When I took on mine I had the extra challenge of lots of layers of carpets. Horsetail roots made long, tough strands between the layers. I tried growing clover but it decided to take over so I've hacked it back!

June 26, 2024 at 3:35 PM Everybody can reply

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