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Excited for this one to get published! Ryan Felice and I investigate how integration and evolutionary rate influence the evolution of the avian neck, and it's #OpenAccess UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy BMC Biology bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… (DM for PDF)

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

A recent study by Tito Aureliano et al. evaluated the changes in the skeleton of dinosaurs of the bird lineage. It detected a progressive increase in pneumatization from the ceratosaur lineage to the branch that includes raptors. Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/joa.14…

New paper out on heritability in the vertebral column in macaques from Cayo Santiago! Caribbean Primate Research Center onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/U…

Vascular network under skin of head is found to support #respiration in a sea snake. Palci et al 2019 Royal Society Publishing Novel vascular plexus in the head of a sea #snake (Elapidae, Hydrophiinae) revealed by high-resolution computed tomography and #histology doi.org/10.1098/rsos.1…

🧵1/6 Want to know all about the knees of rhinos, horses and tapirs? Our study about variation of patellar shape in modern perissodactyls conducted together with Alexandra Houssaye has finally been published in PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environment! 🦏🐴 peerj.com/articles/18067

Late acquisition of erect hindlimb posture and function in the forerunners of therian mammals | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🐀🦷Dental microwear patterns in rats vary by tooth position and bite force. As rats mature, M3 becomes more engaged in chewing w/bite force 1.4x higher than M1. Important to use fully occluded teeth in dietary reconstructions By Dr Daniela E Winkler, Prof. Christine Böhmer et al: doi.org/10.1002/ar.255…

Pleased to share that the 2nd chapter of my PhD is OUT! Limb bone shape variation in proboscideans - how to be the biggest one in the family in #PapersinPalaeontology with Alexandra Houssaye @Delapre_Arnaud and Ursula Göhlich Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle UMR MECADEV The PalAss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp…

Late-stage #tadpole of the stem-anuran Notobatrachus from the Middle Jurassic of #Patagonia represents the oldest-known tadpole. #fossilfriday Chuliver et al 2024 Nature Portfolio The oldest tadpole reveals evolutionary stability of the anuran life cycle doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

🦴Check out our new paper describing the internal anatomy of the long-necked tanysaurians, showing that bizarre inner vertebral anatomy is not restricted to dinosaurs and pterosaurs. This is part of the PhD work of Adam Rytel. Watch out for much more! doi.org/10.1093/zoolin…

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Our team @NYITAnatomy used #microCT and #GMM to examine how changes in muscle loading affects skull development in chicks. This one is particularly special because it marks the first experimental #embryology study out of my lab 🐣 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

🦈Thrilled to share the study published in Advanced Science I am part of! It explores how stingray cartilage skeletons, covered in thousands of mineralized tiles (tesserae), grow and adapt as they expand! ⚽️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad… #MarineBiology #Stingrays Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

Review of osteoderm function and future research directions - Ebel - Journal of Zoology - Wiley Online Library …lpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jz…

Carnivore tooth wear and jaw mechanics peerj.com/articles/18435/ via PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environment