This is one of those fossil specimens that when I saw it for the first time at SVP it literally made me gasp. A beautiful and very important specimen.

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...

Are you tired of people constantly overestimating body size of marine reptiles? No longer! We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians. 1/4

The death of dinosaurs dramatically re-engineered Earth's landscapes www.newscientist.com/article/2496...

Next year in Cape Town! At @ipc7.bsky.social my colleague Judith Pardo-Pérez and I organize a dedicated ichthyosaur symposium. Based on responses so far, it will feature many interesting topics and speakers. Get in touch if you want to contribute!

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...

Pour réhabiliter les contributions des femmes à l’histoire des sciences, le CNRS participe à une commission visant l’inscription de 72 femmes scientifiques sur la Tour Eiffel 🗼. Explications par la coprésidente du comité parité-égalité du CNRS. 👇 #FemmesEnScience

We studied the microanatomy and histology of vertebral centra from Grippia and Cymbospondylus from the Early Triassic of Spitsbergen. First look during covid times, then we realized we had series with all ontogenetic stages, the smallest one a 5 mm fetal vertebral centrum.

"Growth series", with foetus, of two very distinct ichthyosaurs from the Triassic! Very glad to have participated to this cool study! Thanks again Lene!

New paper in which we evaluate how we can use information on past extinction events to better contextualise the ongoing anthropogenic extinction, led by @anthropocenebio.bsky.social (with @bethanyjallen.bsky.social, @inesismartins.bsky.social, & others): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our website www.ecolplus.fr has a brand-new look ✨ Discover: - the #digitization of French natural history #collections - the equipment available - our partner institutions - a dedicated page for the latest news 👉 And it’s now available in English too!

Excited to share the first paper from my PhD! We looked at what traits help Aneides salamanders excel at climbing using museum specimens, CT scans, SEM, and more! No claws or toe pads, so how do they do it? In short, with long limbs, big feet and grippy toes! 🦎🧪 DM for PDF doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

La vidéo de la Rencontre "Au temps des dinosaures - Remonter le temps grâce à l'illustration scientifique" avec Charlène Letenneur @cr2p.bsky.social, Alain Bénéteau et moi @mecadev.bsky.social, et animée par Aurélie Luneau @franceculture.fr est maintenant disponible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGtK...

🚨🧪We’ve just published a new paper!🚨 We peered inside the bones of duck-billed dinosaurs from Patagonia to uncover secrets of their physiology. And they are VERY distinct from both carnivorous and long-necked dinosaurs 🦕🔬 [+] anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

It’s finally out! Our work addressing the origins of reptiles is published in PCJ! peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.... We use novel info gleaned from the scan data of dozens of stem reptiles to substantially revise our understanding of early reptile evolution #paleontology #herpetology

It's been online for a month but now in final format: a new paper I'm on is out today! We analyzed over 200 features from the bird wing and shoulder girdle skeleton to see how they're distributed across the bird family tree. academic.oup.com/iob/advance-... 🪶🧪 (📷 @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social)

Out today in Nature is the most exciting dinosaur paper I've ever been involved in - led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social we describe a partial skeleton of the UTTERLY BIZARRE Spicomellus from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco, the oldest known ankylosaur. (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1er article de thèse de Idriss Pelletan avec Anick Abourachid & Raphaël Cornette sur le lien entre les capacités locomotrices des oiseaux et la morphologie de leur organe lombo-sacré, montrant sa forte covariation avec le bassin & son rôle dans l'équilibre. Well done! doi.org/10.1002/jmor.70073

New paper out today lead by @tsengzj.bsky.social where we test the 150-year-old hypothesis that the unique jaw torus in Nimravus is an adaptation to resist bite forces using FEA🦁🔪our results highlight some functional advantage of the torus, which are amplified at larger gape doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Original paper: 2dgf.dk/publikatione...

Paper link here: Haridy, Y., Norris, S.C.P., Fabbri, M. et al. The origin of vertebrate teeth and evolution of sensory exoskeletons. Nature 642, 119–124 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 In Kiel (Germany) - German speaking required www.myscience.org/jobs/id31339...

Are you a palaeontologist doing exciting, novel research on the systematics of extinct organisms? Consider submitting to @journalsystpal.bsky.social. UNLIKE SOME OTHER VERTEBRATE PALAEO JOURNALS, initial submission is format-free and we accept manuscripts of any length. We are also Q1....

Rare as hen's teeth: an Assistant Curator job, with our fantastic team at National Museums Scotland! Closing date 24th August #museums #museumjobs careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553

Hi Everyone. This was just published on the "Conversation" website. An important discussion of "who owns history". theconversation.com/fossils-are-...

New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New paper where we applied FEA on marine reptiles teeth, with Joshua White & Matthew McCurry @australianmuseum.bsky.social. @universitedeliege.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And new #GRAVIBONE paper by @rl-evobio.bsky.social and collaborators on the ankle of sauropodomorph dinosaurs. Well-done Rémi!

also! really interesting paper on the origins of skeletal pneumaticity in pterosauromorpha by aureliano et al., open access :3 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New #GRAVIBONE paper from @camillebader.bsky.social with Rémy Gilardet, Nicolas Rinder, @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social & @toriherridge.bsky.social on the long bone microanatomy of elephants. Well done Camille :) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎

New #GRAVIBONE #DAWNDINOS paper from Romain Pintore with @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social on the link between femoral morphology and locomotion and body size in ornithopod dinosaurs. Congrats Romain! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper by Guilherme Hermanson & me out: we explore ontogenetic shell shape change in turtles to check if there is a size threshold at which turtles reach adult shapes. This started for a different (in prep) study & was a fun little project w preliminary data link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Convergent reduction of olfactory genes and olfactory bulb size in mammalian species at altitude: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Semi-autonomous tracking algorithms: in situ measurements of fiber lengths & orientation in #chicken #embryo. Molnar‪ @crocodilejulia.bsky.social et al 2025 @anatrecord.bsky.social Quantifying #muscle architecture in embryos using diceCT and algorithmic fascicle tracking doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

Despite rabbits being common lab models, their vertebral muscles were never fully described. 54 muscles were mapped in wild rabbits & hares, revealing key differences from other mammals & proposing leporid-specific terminology Taewcharoen et al: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Nouvelle publication dans Geodiversitas avec la contribution de nos collègues du @cr2p.bsky.social

New paper day! Phil Bell led a great study on some *INSANELY COOL* titanosaur tracks our expedition found in Mongolia. The scales in particular are extra awesome - they're like little pyramids, and they *may* have helped with scratch digging and/or walking on sandy surfaces!

Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🦕❌ De nombreuses idées fausses, issues de l’imaginaire collectif, persistent concernant les #dinosaures... À l’occasion de la sortie du nouvel opus de la saga #JurassicWorld, retour sur 10 idées reçues ! 👉 www.mnhn.fr/fr/10-idees-... #paléontologie

Gabriel Attal a censuré les commentaires qui n'allaient pas dans son sens lorsqu'il a justifié son vote sur la loi Duplomb. Philippe Grandcolas, directeur de recherche au CNRS, répond à ses arguments point par point : bonpote.com/loi-duplomb-...

Registration is now open for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting 2025 in Birmingham! Register now for the best possible rates! #SVP2025 #2025SVP vertpaleo.org/2025-registr...

Celebrating the first anniversary of Fern the Diplodocus in our garden @nhm-london.bsky.social , here's a little movie explaining exactly how we did it, starring yours truly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Xb...

Junior Professor Chair at MNHN Paris : Integrative Taxonomy for Describing Biological Diversity odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/procedures/r... filesender.renater.fr?s=download&t...

Le plus passionnant des reptiles marins !! ... et ce n'est pas parce que je travaille avec LA spécialiste des mosasaures depuis des année ;) :)

This is a good time to remember that Moas, Emus, and the other ratites diverged so long ago, they FLEW to different continents, and then lost the ability to fly and became giants independently. You can't just sprinkle a few variants to make one into the other. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Un peu de science pour les vacances? Saviez-vous que se nourrir et boire, ces gestes si simples et naturels que nous partageons avec les autres vertébrés, sont soutenus par des stratégies ou des mécanismes complexes? "Manger et boire" de Vincent Bels @isyeb.mnhn.fr 📖 isyeb.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite...

Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year? I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥 Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...

Very glad that Juliette Vendanger obtained funding for her PhD from ED227 to work with Nathalie Bardet and myself on mosasaurs. Looking forward to working all together :)