📢 Call for Papers! Anatomical Record Special Issue: Evolution of Birth Difficulties ✨ Focus: Obstetrical dilemma, pelvic anatomy, neonatal & primate adaptations 📅 LOI: Sept 1 | 📝 Manuscript: Dec 1 Guest Editors Nicole Torres-Tamayo (she/her) & Cédric Cordey anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/asse…

New paper out today where we test the 150-year-old hypothesis that a unique jaw torus seen in Nimravus is an adaptation to resist biting forces using FEA🦁🔪 our results highlight some functional advantage of the torus, which are amplified at larger gape👀 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Brand new paper about meshing in computational fluid dynamics simulations for organic geometries in paleobiology published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution offering both practical guidance and structured comparison of meshing techniques in #CFD | ComCiència URV ➡️doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at Georgia Tech in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻

A call for W 3 (full) professorship in Molecular and Evolutionary Zoology is now open at our department. Join our community of evolutionary biologists! Excellent facilities and scientific environment! nature.com/naturecareers/…

🚨 Looking for a PhD in vertebrate palaeontology or palaeoanthropology? The Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) is hiring a predoctoral researcher under the Miquel Crusafont Fellowship! 🦴✨ #PhD #Palaeontology #Fellowship #Researchjobs

The Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough invites applications for a 3 year Teaching Stream appointment in Biomedical Anthropology. Submit applications by Nov. 10, 2025. Details available here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-As…

I should have kept my German in shape... If you have, apply!

PhD position available at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin on avialan ontogeny (birds and their closest non-avian dinosaur relatives)! jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/edf…

📢The EMC is heading to Białowieża! The 36th European Mustelid Colloquium will be held in partnership with Mammal Research Institute PAS Bialowieza Ecology Conference next October Join the mailing list: eepurl.com/ga-5z9

Great start of the week with The Anatomical Record confirming acceptance of our first chameleon paper in Laura Porro's project. Most props go to first author Dr Alice Leavey for her fantastic job on those digital atlases. More chameleon stuff soon™️!

#Research by our Ryan Felice's & Abigail Tucker's (KCL) #labs highlights adaptations needed to allow extreme lower #jaw mobility and independence of the two sides of the jaw found in large-mouthed #snakes. Ryan Felice UCL UCL Faculty of Life Sciences UCL Biosciences onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Fun date for your diary: the Grant Museum is partnering with us for a day of free, hands-on, creative activities to explore #anatomy, in celebration of World Anatomy Day (ifaa.net/2025/05/05/wor…). Pre-book for 11am, or drop-in 12pm-2pm. ucl.ac.uk/museums-collec… UCL News UCL News

Last week I successfully defended my PhD and became doctor of the crocs! 🐊

⚠️Job alert : "General Manager & Curator - Dinosaur Isle" ⬇️ 🔹iow.gov.uk/jobs/detail/57… #palaeontology #job #curator

Thank you to all who came to our World Anatomy Day Event at the Grant Museum of Zoology. We received 381 visitors (341 adults and 40 children); for comparison, a typical Saturday at the Grant Museum has about 230 visitors. Everyone seems to have discovered that #Anatomy is indeed Amazing!

Great news! Two of our people won #teaching awards from @UCL Medical School: Romain Perera won the Top Teacher Award 2024-25 for Year 2, with Laura Porro as runner-up. Congratulations! More info here: ucl.ac.uk/medical-scienc… UCL Medical School UCL Faculty of Life Sciences UCLbiosciences UCL Research Dept of Cell & Developmental Biology

New work on crocodylian locomotor evolution led by Masaya Iijima, w/Richard Blob! More erect hindlimb postures help extant gators support their weight (esp. at ankle), & how these mechanics constrained giant Deinosuchus to a slow walk at best! The paper-- science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Footprints left by an animal 280 million years ago have been discovered in the Serra de Tramuntana, Mallorca These are fossilized gorgonopsian tracks, a Permian predator considered the earliest known ancestor of mammals

We at Royal Ontario Museum are looking for a contract curator in Vertebrate Palaeontology to help me develop a major exhibition on ‘raptor’ dinosaurs. Please spread the word. Apply here: royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/UFdMVz28…