Out in @nature.com today, we shake up the ornithischian family tree. Remember those weird Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, the rhabdodontids? Well they're weird because they aren't iguanodontians. They're ceratopsians. Well, at least some of them are... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"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...

In honor of Baron Ferenc Nopcsa, the renowned dinosaur researcher and former director of the Geological Institute of Hungary, the SZTFH/SARA is organizing a memorial day. The event will take place in Budapest on October 2, 2025. Registration and program flyer: hugeo.hu/en/form/nopc...

🦴 How do proboscidean bones support such massive weight? Chapter 3 of my PhD is out, a new paper diving into their bone microanatomy! With Alexandra Houssaye @houssayecnrs.bsky.social and John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Our work with Zsófia Román (my former MSc student) is now published in @historicalbiology.bsky.social , Volume 37, Issue 3. In this paper, we have analyzed a particularly rich coprolite material using different methods to explore its paleoecological significance. 💩 🐟 🦭

蛇年快乐! Happy New Year of the snake, with Tanystropheus, a long-necked Triassic reptile

About 5% of known bird species have gone extinct over the past 130,000 years. @science.org "The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions." Read more www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hey BlueSky! Just made a quick starter pack of vertebrate SECAD researchers with accounts. Please add anyone I missed! go.bsky.app/Gm5h3Ww