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Thomas Cullen and I published a review of best practices when designing a paleocommunity study. Re-analyzing our own datasets under different analytical and sampling protocols showed how small decisions can have big downstream consequences. x.com/KNanglu/status…

🚨New paper in Nature Communications🚨 It is finally here! Find how the angiosperm radiation played a dual role in the diversification of insects (including pollinators) since the Cretaceous onwards 🪻🌺🐞🦋🐝🌍 nature.com/articles/s4146… Institut Botànic de Barcelona CNRS 🌍 CSIC #labpaleoecology #fossil

The Cabriéres Biota is an amazing new Ordovician-age lagerstätte, just discovered from the rocks of France, which I did art for. One of the highlights is an eoconchariid lobopodian, a group known for their plated sclerites, previously thought extinct by the end of the Cambrian.

Spending my entire PhD to discover this! I knew already!

I napoletani lo conoscono come l’Acquario, ma l’Istituto Nazionale di Biologia, Ecologia e Biotecnologie Marine è molto di più ed ospita oltre 200 specie di animali e vegetali. A #PassaggioANordOvest, alle 15.00 su Rai1, visiteremo la Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn. Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn

I would really appreciate retweets of this amazing PhD opportunity in a fabulous training network of European labs. Lots of opportunities for learning and travelling and networking. Deadline is end of June.

Very pleased to welcome our new stem mollusc Shishania aculeata published today in Science Magazine! A great collaboration led by Guangxu Zhang who discovered these amazing fossils with Xiaoya Ma and Jakob Vinther. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Many congratulations to Bryony Page, palaeontologist and Olympic gold medallist! 🦕🏅👏👏👏

Bioturbative activities of modern priapulids & potential ecosystem engineering impacts during the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Katherine Turk Senckenberg Research Wiley Earth and Space Science

Our latest study analyzed opsin diversity in metagenomic data from the TARA expedition. Despite the extensive dataset, we did not identify new opsin families biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Salvatore D'Aniello Giacinto De Vivo

Something geeky outside the science geek. The constume was designed by me starting from the in game Alakazam 3-D model! I am quite proud of it! Thanks to Giuseppe Mennellla for the amazing interpretation! #cosplay Pokémon Italia Pokémon Lucca Comics & Games

Lopatin, A.V., Sotnikova, M.V., Klimovsky, A.I. et al. Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia. Sci Rep 14, 28016 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

I am fascinated by that little light colored "beard" on the little sabercat mummy. Since Homotherium had a flanged jaw giving it a Chad-esque chin, is it possible they grew long hair there to to further increase the visual display? Was this a bearded beast in adulthood?

A Tibetan skeleton dancer, 1925. Photo by Joseph F. Rock. The photo originally appeared in the November 1928 issue of National Geographic. The original caption was: “With huge cadaver masks, imitation tiger-skin skirts, and enormous claws, this performer and his seven similarly

To support genome structure studies in non-model systems, we developed SyntenyFinder, a synteny analysis pipeline combining OrthoFinder and RIdeogram. Learn more on our GitHub: github.com/symgenoevolab/…

[New Paper] is on the COVER of Science Magazine !! The FIRST genome-phylogeny of MOLLUSCS complete with ALL classes —including the mythical "living fossil" Monoplacophora— reveals how they evolved the most diverse body forms of all animals! Read for FREE: doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Our final paper is out! 🦟🩸 We show that hematophagy evolved at least twice independently in dipterans and that four gene families linked to neuromodulation, immunity, development, and iron metabolism expanded independently in mosquitoes and sandflies. doi.org/10.1093/gbe/ev…

Elisabeth Vrba obituary: palaeontologist who solved a problem that vexed Darwin nature.com/articles/d4158…

Worm Vs. Ctenophore! A predatory #Tomopteris #worm has stalked and captured a #Ctenophore (aka “#combjelly”). Shot in the wild, while on #scuba, several miles from shore, while out over the abyss, drifting for miles in the Gulf Stream . #plankton #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug

Introducing Mosura fentoni, a new radiodont from the #BurgessShale. Paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2… This #fossil species has 3 eyes, spiny claws, wing-shaped swimming flaps, and a unique abdomen-like body region.