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Amazing specimens from Jurassica museum

Calling all Indian nature lovers! We're looking for locals to help with a Citizen Science project on Indian freshwater turtles, where students collect water samples for turtle eDNA, microbial diversity, and water quality. Contact Merin Joji for more information!

We welcome our new postdoc Ricardo Ely, PhD, cosupervised with Rasmus Nielsen as part of our Villum Fonden project Stochastic Morphometry. Ricardo will study bird beak evolution (like in this kākāpō) using methods developed by our Centre for Computational Evolutionary Morphometry team.

Kicking off Geometric Morphometrics workshop at University of Copenhagen Research and Dominika Bujnakova teaching 3D landmarking!!! 🐺

A blurry bbq night for the EvoMorphoLab! Thanks @BlomStine Merin Joji Sarah du Plessis Ricardo Ely, PhD for the great picture!

Geometric Morphometrics in R course completed! 24 students learned and demonstrated landmark-based methods for quantifying and comparing biological shapes. Thanks to Dean Adams & Mike Collyer, GBIF, and KU for their support:)

PhD student Michael Baand presented his research applying an upwards LDDMM framework to model phenotypic changes along branches of the butterfly phylogeny at the International Congress of Entomology International Congress of Entomology 2024 Kyoto JP. Nevermind the typhoon that followed...(he is home safe;)

PhD student @BlomStine presented a poster at this year's ESHE conference in Croatia, introducing her original CT dataset of hominid bones. Glasses hanging down on the sides let people see a hand and scapula in 3D!

Happy to report that MSc student Christoffer Hviid got the highest mark for his thesis on wolf recolonisation of northwestern Europe, synthesising nearly 100 papers on wolf ecology & management. Wolves are back and here to stay, and he has lots of ideas to promote our coexistence

How do lizard skeletons adapt to the evolutionary reduction of limbs? ow.ly/rSAw50TFtzj #ProcB #OpenAccess Dr Marco Camaiti ChappleLab Alistair Evans EvoMorphoLab

I never get tired of Dr Marco Camaiti's gorgeous lizard drawings! See our new paper to find out what happens to lizard pectoral and pelvic girdles when they lose their limbs and start swimming in sand.

MSc student Mohammed Naushad Khumri engaging the public at Copenhagen's Kulturnat with his project on the impacts of ice loss on Arctic marine mammal neurobiology. Kids 🩷 skulls!

Last week I attended my old school Lund University's architecture student vernissage, based on a course I taught in called 'Gestaltningsprocess och prototyp'. This year's theme was DJUR, for which they designed furniture or objects related to our interactions with other animals

New insights into the inner ears of my favourite limbless burrowing reptiles - amphisbaenians, or "beanies" as we lovingly call them. See here for more journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Yesterday our group had the pleasure of hearing Quentin HORTA's research on lacertid lizards - the group I studied for my PhD over 12 years ago! This just shows that lacertids never go out of style...🦎🦎🦎

I could not be prouder of EvoMorphoLab student Anne Hansen, who was selected to present her dodo work at the prestigious Videnskabsgalla snm.dk/da/arrangement…. Anne is a natural storyteller, captivating the audience with her reconstructions of dodo foraging ecology

We got the nature cover 🎉! Read our article to learn how compressive forces sculpt the intricate head scales of crocodiles 🐊 The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab Genetics & Evolution Université de Genève nature.com/articles/s4158…

HUGE congratulations to Merin Joji for her award as a Writing-Up Fellow in Morphometrics in Evolutionary Biology at the Konrad Lorenz Institute KLI: A Home to Theory that Matters in Austria. She will spend 6 months there finalising her PhD thesis, with guidance from top researchers in the field.