New paper out in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social ! With @CyrilETIENNE and @houssayecnrs.bsky.social, we explored how limb bone inner structure varies across bovids of different sizes and habitats.

St. George's Day! “St. George and the pterodactyl”, by Crystal Palace Dinosaur mastermind Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, ~1870 A strong call-to-arms for our country to unite against the immigrant pterosaurs (and cephalopods?!) comin’ over here and invading our many Giants Causeway-esque caves

It was a great honor and an adventure to work together with @camillebader.bsky.social on this unique Deinotherium limb bone. The analysis helped us better understand how the inner structure of this giant’s bones adapted to its enormous size. (Art: Tibor Pecsics - @griffworkshop5)

New paper out in Geodiversitas! 🦣🦴 Ever wonder what the inside of Deinotherium giganteum looks like? Find out about it here: geodiversitas.com/48/7 Big thanks to the Budapest HNHM for providing access to this unique material! With Prof. Mihaly Gasparik & @segesdimartin.bsky.social

2 PhD Opportunities! 🤩 We are recruiting two highly motivated PhD students to join an ambitious project advancing Robotic Paleontology—a rapidly emerging field that fuses paleontology, biomechanics, simulation, and robotics. nyakaturalab.com/news/ Please share!!

Was great to see our old friend Patagotitan juxtaposed with the awesome Norman architecture of Peterborough Cathedral at the grand opening of the Titanosaur exhibition last night

🚨 Job alert! #PhD in #Biomechanics × #Neuroscience to study birdsong 🎵🐤 @mecadev.bsky.social and @neuropsi.bsky.social We are pre-selecting a candidate by April 15 to compete to InLife & IPV 2026 doctoral program (interview: May 20) 🔗 Full offer: sites.google.com/site/pauline... Please share!

Pangolins possess a spectacular, dense network of diploic veins for brain drainage! In our latest study, we show that this pattern may also provide rare morphological evidence linking pangolins and carnivorans in the Ferae clade. Check it out here: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Comment les dinosaures sauropodes sont-ils devenus quadrupèdes ? en lien avec le dernier article de @rl-evobio.bsky.social

New #GRAVIBONE paper from @rl-evobio.bsky.social showing how partial long bone analyses in 3DGM reveal a hidden modularity in the evolution of the sauropod bauplan from their bipedal cousins, with L. Partout & H. Mallison. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

1-year MRes projects at the RVC are open for application! I've got 2; 1 on combining experimental data with musculoskeletal simulations to understand how broiler chickens walk while growing, & 1 #DAWNDINOS choice of fossil critters to simulate: www.rvc.ac.uk/study/postgr...

A Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on Mesozoic #Paleobotany and Ecophysiology is available at the University of Nottingham with Barry Lomax. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Vous voulez faire une thèse sur l'évolution de la tête des squamates au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle? C'est par ici: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr... Interested in a PhD on the evolution of the head shape of squamates at the Museum of Natural History of Paris? Here you go: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

Data on the postcranial skeleton of hippos are rare. So I am glad to announce this new paper on the postcranial anatomy of Miocene hippopotamoids, led by Lorenzo Scribano @isemevol.bsky.social, with F. Lihoreau, C. Nekoulnang Djetounako and J-R. Boisserie. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Glad to see published a new #GRAVIBONE paper, which is the first paper from @clementine-tetaert.bsky.social, co-1st with @camillebader.bsky.social, and with Charlene Verbeke, on ankle bone adaptation to heavy weight in proboscideans. Congrats!! Well done! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

At the RVC we are grieving the death of the Structure & Motion Lab's creator, and stalwart comrade, Professor Alan Wilson FRS, from a plane crash in Namibia on Wednesday. He was a giant in comparative biomechanics and an amazing scientist. I'm still reeling. It is utterly shocking and deeply sad.

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

Un nouvel hyrax dans le Pliocène d'Arménie découverts par des collègues du Jurassica 👏 www.jurassica.ch/fr/Infos-pra...

Welcome Armenohyrax aznavouriani! Thrilled that our latest study is out sjp.pensoft.net/article/1813... We described this new species & did the first phylogenetic analysis of pliohyracids! Thanks to my co-authors who gave me the opportunity to work on this exciting study when I was at JURASSICA!

🦕I am extremely grateful to my colleagues and The Jurassic Foundation for making this project possible, which has marked a milestone in our knowledge of European titanosaurs and which we are convinced is on its way to becoming a reference work in the field.

JOB ALERT! We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level! Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too! We look forward to receiving your applications! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Happy bday Charles Darwin (born #OTD 1809)! 🎉 Check out Charles Darwin’s Library on #BHLib, a virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Darwin, drawing on original copies & surrogates, providing full transcriptions of his annotations & marks: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/d...

🚨Job alert🚨 Curator in the Zoological Collections in Tübingen, Germany www.myscience.ch/jobs/id69219...

2 RVC faculty jobs are advertised now! Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences Comparative Biomedical Sciences Department Location: Camden (King's Cross, London) Very broad search in the CBS department's remit jobs.rvc.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... EDI-friendly

Second PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity. Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪 doi.org/10.1111/joa....

This is the "SEA SHEEP" (Costasiella kuroshimae) & it took the old axiom: "you are what you eat" VERY literally. It eats algae & rather than just digest them, it harvests the chloroplasts & becomes PHOTOSYNTHETIC. Solar slug! Also, some of its cousins can rip their own heads off.

DAFNEE, a useful database of academic-friendly journals in #Ecology and Evolutionary #Biology academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

On 1 January 2026, the Biodiversity Heritage Library will take flight, becoming fully independent after nearly two decades hosted by the Smithsonian Institution. Learn more on the #BHLBlog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/12/give... #GiveBHLWings #BHLTransition #GivingTuesday

Please consider supporting Biodiveristy Heritage Library, which preserves so many key historical publications you can't find anywhere else online!

#DAWNDINOS paper! We built a 3D musculoskeletal model of ~1 kg Triassic pseudosuchian archosaur Gracilisuchus. Forelimbs were a challenge. Nice articulations of ribs, vertebrae & osteoderms made a good torso & neck. Probably quadrupedal, plantigrade & not fully erect limbs. doi.org/10.1111/joa....

⚠️ Sad news for science: Philippe Taquet, the gentleman of French paleontology, passed away on Sunday, November 16. @cr2p.bsky.social @mnhn.fr @recherche.mnhn.fr @academiesciences.bsky.social

De mon côté on m'a confié le micro pour la chronique sciences. Cette fois j'ai décidé de parler du fonctionnement scandaleux de l'édition scientifique, peu connu en dehors des labos : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg2C... Mais 4 minutes c'est court, alors j'ajoute quelques ressources ci-dessous !

Philippe Taquet, chasseur de dinosaures et ancien directeur du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, est mort

RDV à 16H pour écouter @houssayecnrs.bsky.social de @mecadev.bsky.social et Guillaume Lecointre de l'@isyeb.mnhn.fr sur la paléo-bioinspiration

Analysis of 985(!!) baboon skulls' CT scan data from MorphoSource shows that >18% have slice spacing errors that propagate to downstream analyses-- an important cautionary tale on checking CT metadata vs. errors, and a goliath effort: peerj.com/articles/201...

New paper on crocodylian locomotor evolution led by Masaya Iijima, w/Richard Blob & me! More erect hindlimb postures help extant gators support their weight (esp. at ankle), & how these mechanics constrained giant Deinosuchus to a slow walk at best! The paper-- www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New bird paper led by the brilliant and talented Andrew Orkney! 🐣 We show that greater parental care is linked to greater evolutionary flexibility in how birds fly 🦅

#paleoctober2025 day 9 : Protobalanus spinicoronatus ! Despite its name, this animal is a devonian mollusk, more specifically a basal polyplacophoran. You may know its current day relatives as little criters on the beaches called "chitons" (that are not slugs with shells nor crustaceans).

To a certain amount, you can estimate the angle of the ankle joint (mean angle during stance phase) of some land mammals by measuring the angle of their tibial long axis vs. calcaneal tuber long axis, and that could be handy: peerj.com/articles/200...

PhD position available at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin on avialan ontogeny (birds and their closest non-avian dinosaur relatives)! jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/e...

Hello, microanatomy &/or salamander enthusiasts! If you’re a first-year master’s student, I might have an exciting internship for you on the microanatomy of two salamanders sp., with already great results on the humerus. What: Zeugopod microanatomy Where: SMNS Contact: [email protected]

New paper led by @es-ucl.bsky.social PhD student Samantha Beeston (with @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social + others) on the evolution of postcranial pneumaticity in early sauropodomorph dinosaurs + its likely independent acquisition from that of theropods & pterosauromorphs: doi.org/10.1111/joa....

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...

JOBS JOBS JOBS! Stony Brook are advertising two assistant professorships in vertebrate palaeo/evolution, one focused on (in the words of the SVP programme) NOT DINOSAURS and the other on evolutionary neurology: apply.interfolio.com/172502 apply.interfolio.com/172517

Quelle est la démarche des sections face aux questions relatives à la parité ? Un document de synthèse rédigé par les référents parité des sections CoNRS @cnrs.fr de la mandature 2021-2025. www.cnrs.fr/comitenation...

R.I.P. Mark Norell. One of the most memorable and distinct characters in paleontology. When he said something, it might be totally outrageous, brilliant, or something else, but it always was interesting. He had a curmudgeonly sense of humor and a winning smile. Mark was very kind to me. RIP.

We lost Mark Norell today. Dinosaur hunter extraordinaire. The coolest dude alive. My PhD supervisor. Wherever you are, raise a glass of your favorite lager or single malt, as it is what Mark would want.

Fully funded PhD position available at @univmalaga.bsky.social 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 focusing on the evolution of the vertebral column in crocodylomorphs 🐊under the supervision of @bortxaf.bsky.social & @albertomartinserra.bsky.social Application deadline: Sep 30 🚨

Kinematic and *multi-force-plate* analysis of walking in giant pandas! Quite a technical achievement in biomechanics, and certainly cute as all hell. Scientifically, no shocking findings but it's a useful study with lots of data. 18 pandas (6 = juvenile), 120 trials link.springer.com/article/10.1...