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How did the earliest vertebrates feed without jaws? 🐟 Check out our new paper #openaccess paper in Royal Society Publishing Proceedings B, in which we describe the three-dimensionally preserved mouth of a heterostracan, the Palaeozoic jawless fish below. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

First piece of popular science. Thanks for my Editor Jenna and all colleagues :) Flowers may be more ancient than dinosaurs – but scientists can’t agree on when they evolved theconversation.com/flowers-may-be… via The Conversation

The feeding method of one the oldest of vertebrates, which had no jaw, has been tested for the first time🐟 Could this provide clues into humans' deep evolutionary history?🤔 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Madleen Grohganz Humberto G. Ferrón Zerina Johanson Phil Donoghue SVP #FossilFriday

Our second President’s Award goes to Mónica Alejandra Gómez Correa! As current PhD student at Universität Hamburg and Latinas in Earth and Planetary Sciences co-leader, Mónica was awarded our President’s Award for her impressive early career and for paving the way as a future leader. Congratulations @mokasaurus!

Fantastic key note lecture by Professor Nick Lane about the origins of eukaryotic life! #NHMSC2024

Conference group photo with Darwin! #NHMSC2024

A great pleasure to participate in the ISELV 2024 with a keynote on the ecological scenario of early vertebrate evolution 🐟. Macroevolution and Functional morphology

Ten minutes in, and already had several fish-related puns. #EED2024 #FishEvoDevo2024

From embryos to fossils now, courtesy of Sam Giles. #EED2024 #FishEvoDevo2024

We had a very exciting first day of satellite meetings today. Looking forward to day 2 already! :) #EED2024

Are your rrrrreeeeeaaaaady #EED2024 participants???? 🤩🇫🇮☀️🧬🔬🧫🥼

Another amazing day of satellite meetings—hope that all the attendees learned something new! The main conference kicked off this evening, and tomorrow is the first full day of the main #EED2024. Let’s go evo-devo!!!

#EED2024 ❤️ Paleo — a busy morning session on what the beasts of yore can tell us about EvoDevo! We welcome an allstar cast of international speakers, who’d surely have caught the interest of the father of Finnish paleontology Björn Kurtén himself.

What a wonderful collection of weird fish! The EvoDevo of Fish Diversity satellite symposium was a huge success. Thank you to the organizers @FishEvoDevoGeno Hugo Gante 🐟🐡🦈🧬 M. Emília Santos and Vincent Laudet! I think we should do this again! 🐟🐠🐡🦈#EED2024 #Finnishfishfest

Having an amazing time at #EED2024 in Helsinki talking about my lamprey 'teeth' morphogenesis and molecular genetics work and catching up with old and new colleagues on the latest fish evo-devo research! #FinnishFishFest

A huge congratulations to palaeontologist Professor Emily Rayfield who has received the prestigious The Royal Society Gabor Medal for distinction of interdisciplinary work between the life sciences with other disciplines. Emily Rayfield University of Bristol Earth Sciences UoB Palaeobiology

This week we've been celebrating our first 10 years in the Life Sciences Building University of Bristol University of Bristol Biological Sciences, culminating in last night's soirée where our very own Liz Martin-Silverstone Liz Martin-Silverstone received the 'unsung hero' award! The next decade starts today! UoB Palaeobiology

Very happy to be involved in this paper led by the stellar Madleen Grohganz as part of her PhD UoB Palaeobiology ! Heterostracans had oral plates adapted to a mechanical function, like sediment scooping or scavenging. Congrats Madleen and co-authors! 🎉