There is a new Dr. in town for this #FossilFriday, congrats to Isaure Scavezzoni who just defended her PhD 🥳🤩

#MonsterMonday #Placoderm Made this fun version of the head of Dunkleosteus for kids. Not life-like but eye-catching. Original STL made by robotic_arm creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa…

SECAD 2024 officially started! @secad2024 Prof. Valentin Fischer Narimane Chatar Cottereau Romain Laboury Antoine ULiège Research & Innovation

Second day of SECAD 2024 be like @secad2024 Prof. Valentin Fischer

Article in Smithsonian Magazine about our recent saber kitty papers with @Tseng_ZJ 🦁🔪 smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-in…

New Peirosauridae from Brazil just dropped! 🚨🐊 Meet Epoidesuchus tavaresae, from the Adamantina Formation (Late Cretaceous), a new pepesuchine peirosaurid, which was long-snouted and semiaquiatic. The great paleoart below was done by Guilherme Gehr. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

Amandine Gillet And shout out to MSc student Melvin Vankelst for his first talk in a scientific meeting 🎓 interested in carnivorous mammals, GMM and teeth? 🦷 Follow Melvin for some toothy madness coming soon!

Great start to the weekend!!! 🥳 Our work on the ontogenetic histology of Macrospondylus bollensis 🐊 has now been published online; one of the most fun projects I've ever done and can't wait to continue with this work! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

New #OpenAccess paper in Journal of Anatomy led by Schachner Lab alum Adam Lawson on African Grey Parrot air sacs and postcranial skeletal pneumaticity 🦜🫁🩻 (a DEEP dive)! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo… Aracely Martinez, Ph.D. Scarlet Imaging Brandon Hedrick UFVetMed Association of Avian Veterinarians (AAV)

From land to sea – investigating the genetic basis for the evolution of unique limb structures in cetaceans: ow.ly/c2Jg50THGGW #ProcB Schmalhausen Evolutionary Morphology KosiolGroup

Guilherme Hermanson & I have a new paper out, a collab w researchers fr @mfnberlin not on this app (afaik), incl. Jasper Ponstein as 1st author.. "Functional and character disparity are decoupled in turtle mandibles" For details, see thread on 🦋. Paper link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

I'm happy to announce that our paper on new plesiosaur records from the Pliensbachian, an Early Jurassic stage where such fossils are rare, was published. The material from #Germany includes the first early Pliensbachian pliosaur known to date. #Science peerj.com/articles/18408/

The last remaining chapter of my thesis is finally published! We investigated the peculiar morphology of the pectoral girdle of two clades of aquatic crocs: Thalattosuchia & Dyrosauridae 🐊 doi.org/10.1002/ar.255… Prof. Valentin Fischer Dr. Michela Johnson Jouve Stéphane

PhD project EarthSciences UCL supervised by me on the evolution and biogeography of alligatoroid crocodylians, utilising CT scan data to evaluate internal cranial anatomy, as part of the NERC TREES Doctoral Landscape Award. Application deadline = 20th Jan 2025: trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/neuro…

Two new F.R.S.-FNRS funded PhD students in the lab: Melvin Vankelst will be working on the biomechanical performances of Eocene-Oligocene carnivorous mammals and Alexis Rastier - Sigillaria 🌴 will be investigating the latest Devonian turnovers in plant communities!

New paper about the functioning of saber teeth led by the amazing Dr Tahlia Pollock 🥳 combining 3DGM with biomechanical testing we identified functional optimality as a key driver underpinning the repeated evolution of extreme saber-tooth morphologies 🔪🦁 cell.com/current-biolog…

Analysing Thalattosuchia palaeobiodiversity through the prism of phylogenetic comparative methods onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa… CR2P @PaleoDB Dryad Wiley Earth and Space Science

Again, we're running the 1st ever virtual international conference on vertebrate morphology (ICVM) this August 7-10: isvm-icvm.org/icvm-2025Abstr… are due 26 May (12 days)! Of course you can just register and not submit abstract(s). ~3 days of great talks, posters, keynotes and more!

Fossilized gut contents of the largest predatory ichthyosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Germany: hunting, digestive taphonomy & prey preferences in a macropredator doi.org/10.1002/spp2.7… UNIMORE Feiko Miedema Lauer Foundation for Paleontology, Science and Edu Wiley Earth and Space Science

Sharpening our understanding of saber-tooth biomechanics. New research by Tahlia Pollock & Philip Anderson: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…