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🐟 New preprint today! 🐠Here's a gloriously detailed, CT-based re-description of iconic Jurassic stem teleost Dorsetichthys bechei. 🐡This 3D specimen reveals important insights into the internal anatomy, ecology and evolution of this important fish. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Woah! Is that a second preprint?!? This is a pioneering and quite yucky taphonomy study I contributed to, led by Iacopo Cavicchini and Dr Thomas Clements, in which rotting zebrafish were CT scanned at multiple stages of decay. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I've got a 4-year fully-funded PhD studentship (including home fees) opportunity in my lab! Come study morphological evolution of bird heads, jaw muscles, and Darwin's finches. Plus learn some human anatomy along the way! apply now at: findaphd.com/phds/project/c…

Proud to announce one of my PhD chapter is out in #OpenAccess in Current Biology with Prof. Valentin Fischer Davide Tamagnini & Margot Michaud 🥳 Interested in evolutionary patterns of cat-like carnivorans? 🦁🔪 Here is a thread 🧵1/X doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

My first first-author publication is now out!🚨🚨 We redescribe the skull & mandible of the late Permian Scottish dicynodont Gordonia traquairi. Also, for the first time, we describe a digitally reconstructed endocast of a dicynodon-like dicynodont 🧵 1/10

Super proud that our review of the Cretaceous Lagerstätte of Lebanon is finally out! Read all about the different sites, the beautiful soft tissue fossils, the taphonomy, and also how colonialism impacts Lebanese palaeontology. Link: lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10.11…

🚨Our publication on the famous fish beds of Lebanon is now out!!🚨 We provide the first comprehensive review of the 4 best sites of exceptional preservation of marine Cretaceous fossils in Lebanon, their fossil species, and their >1600 year long history of discovery 1/17🧵

New Paper! Juvenile Jurassic mammaliaform from the Isle of Skye shows mammals grew more slowly in the time of dinosaurs. Our study in Nature uses synchrotron imaging of teeth to look at life history and growth. Thread 🧵 ... nature.com/articles/s4158…

Great to host old colleagues from Earth Sciences Bham today Amgueddfa Caerdydd to work on some fascinating fossil material - outside the norm for the lab! 🤩 @ButlerLabBham Luke Meade Cardiff Curator

PhD opportunity with @ButlerLabBham, Natural England & me on the nature, importance and protection of British vertebrate fossil track sites [image by Mark Witton]. Field, desk & lab-based project. Potential funding through CENTA - more info here centa.ac.uk/studentship/20…

📰 | Scientists have described a new species of procolophonid reptile, found at Cromhall Quarry, which is notable for its unusual teeth. birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/anci… College of Life and Environmental Sciences Uni of Birmingham

Meet Threordatoth chasmatos! 🦎 It may have been small, but this ancient reptile was a big part of life in the Triassic. Find out what its life was like 👇 nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

A new procolophonid with complex dentition from the Late Triassic of southwest England onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp… Luke Meade @ButlerLabBham Marc Jones Nick Fraser MorphoSource Wiley Earth and Space Science #FossilFriday

Great job opportunity for someone interested in early mammal evolution and fieldwork in the Middle Jurassic of Skye, working with Dr Elsa Panciroli Luke Meade and Richard Butler: jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK473/res…

Would you like to work with me on #MesozoicMammals from #Scotland? We're seeking a Research Assistant for an amazing The Leverhulme Trust project, based in Birmingham with Prof Richard Butler. You'd join our team gaining new insights into mammal evolution! jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK473/res…

Check out my new blog post on Palaeocast about the recently discovered early reptile Threordatoth chasmatos! It has some bizarre teeth🦷 palaeocast.com/a-new-early-re…… It features an interview with the lead author of the description Luke Meade and artwork by Mark Witton