Has anyone a scan or the possibility to scan skulls of Dracaena? Adult or juvenile specimens. We have difficulties to find some... Help would be more than welcome! Thanks

🦭 Walrus skulls tell a deep story! Analyzing 300+ specimens across Arctic populations shows that sex is the dominant driver of shape w/males developing compact, reinforced skulls for tusk combat, females remain more gracile. Boisville et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Introducing Nagatitan, a new, large-bodied titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Thailand, with our paper led by @es-ucl.bsky.social PhD student Perth Sethapanichsakul: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do you work on #palaeoneurology ? I’m honored to be serving as @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports collection Guest Editor on this most awesome topic, and I am eager to read your submission! #brain #evolution 🧠 Learn more about the collection and how to contribute: go.nature.com/3NSfTut

Very happy to share our latest work on small mammals’ hallucal ability! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Job Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc (and soon a lab tech) to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of walking-like behaviors in fishes at the University of Virginia. Details at: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0.... Ads for postdoc+lab tech on salamander locomotion grant coming soon! 🧪🐟🦎

Vomeronasal groove is a reliable marker for vomeronasal organ in Caniformia & its presence is confirmed in river otters. Findings challenge assumptions re. sensory regression in aquatic mammals & reveal olfactory evolution complexity Palmer et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Limited phenotypic #diversity and insular gigantism in #lagomorphs (partly) explained by evolutionary constraint placed on them by potentially competing ungulate-type herbivores (UTHs). Tomiya & Miller (2021) @sse-evolution.bsky.social Why aren’t #rabbit and #hares larger? doi.org/10.1111/evo....

Study on columellar disparity: #Birds have proportionally smaller columellae than other #sauropsids. This may facilitate higher-frequency hearing. Peacock et al 2026 @anatrecord.bsky.social Clade-wide morphological and functional variation of the sauropsid columella 👇

Evolution of primate baculum morphology! Just what I needed to begin my Tuesday morning. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Many-to-one mapping: Two strategies to crack open extremely tough-shelled seeds in rat-kangaroos. Randall et al 2025 @linneansociety.bsky.social Cracking the case: differential adaptations to hard biting dominate cranial shape in rat-kangaroos (Potoroidae: Bettongia) with divergent #diets

🐒 PhD Opportunity 🐒 I'm excited to announce that we are now welcoming applications for a 3-year fully funded PhD position at Nottingham Trent University as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project. More info: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne... Apply here: tinyurl.com/PhDNTU

New study on Tasmanian devil & other dasyurids reveals how forelimb muscle structure relates to behavior. Dissections & CT showed largely conserved musculature. Differences hint at specialization in prey processing & arboreal movement Bidaye et al: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Chauves-Souris (Les Gros Mots d'Etymothèque) Avec la participation d' @aigverte.bsky.social Alexa Sadier (dans le cadre d’un partenariat avec le laboratoire @isemevol.bsky.social @cnrs.fr - @erc.europa.eu ) youtu.be/UgwEEyhZoiY #chauvesouris #animaux #zoologie #Étymothèque #FunFact

When did the brains of domestic dogs shrink during their domestication? Cucchi Th. et al. Les premiers « proto-chiens » du Pléistocène possédait un cerveau plus volumineux que celui des loups : une capacité accrue d’adaptation comportementale en interaction avec les humains. doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Evolutionary drivers of humeral (upper wing bone) shape in hummingbirds: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... 🪶🧪 (📷Ríos-Orjuela et al.)

New #GRAVIBONE paper, 1st paper from @morganproust.bsky.social, on the microanatomical structure of all long bones in bovids in relation to their habitat and body mass. Congrats Morgan!

Sunbirds don’t drink nectar like hummingbirds. They use intralingual suction: the tongue acts like a straw, moving nectar via pressure differences rather than capillarity. A clear case of biomechanical divergence despite ecological convergence. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... @CurrentBiology #ornithology

Ce mardi 5 mai à 17h30, au séminaire "Muséums et enjeux contemporains" du @mnhn.fr, Mme Rebecca Machin discutera des biais de genre dans les collections d'histoire naturelle (et suggèrera des façons de les corriger) 🦍👨‍👧‍👧 @recherche.mnhn.fr museumenjeux.hypotheses.org/seance-5-la-...

Pour celles et ceux que ça intéressent, il existe une association "Mothers in Science" qui milite en faveur de l'égalité et de l'inclusion et propose de nombreuses actions afin d'améliorer les perspectives de carrière des femmes scientifiques avec des enfants www.mothersinscience.com

C'est le constat édifiant mené sur 13 000 scientifiques danois. En retraçant leurs carrières sur plus de 20 ans, cette nouvelle étude révèle qu'un tiers des femmes devenues mères quittent la recherche. Un effet absent chez les hommes et qui pourrait expliquer le phénomène du "tuyau percé".

The article by @amelinebardo.bsky.social and Anna Maria Kubicka, “ #Bilateral #asymmetry in the lower limbs in #medieval humans and #LaFerrassie #Neandertals LF1 and LF2,” has just been published in diamond open access in the BMSAP: journals.openedition.org/bmsap/17966

Lesbiennes au travail : sortir de l’invisibilité

Amaury Leroy presented his Master 2 work at the Congrès des Jeunes Chercheur·e·s du Muséum et de Sorbonne Université. Well done!

Penguins may look charmingly awkward on land, but new research shows their bodies are finely tuned for powerful, efficient movement both on land and underwater. Penguins “fly” underwater and their bodies have adapted accordingly. Hirsh et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The #fossil of Irritator challengeri is finally going back to Brazil after 35 years in Germany. This is a major event for #DecolonizeScience and the #restitution of natural history specimens. Let's talk about #IrritatorBelongstoBR. [1/17]

We wish to appoint an additional co-Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Anatomy. We're particularly interested in people with expertise in musculoskeletal anatomy. You can register your interest via the linked expression of interest form.

Remember to save the date: ICVM in Halifax, Nova Scotia (that's in Canada!), July 20-24, 2027. Keep an eye on our website for news: www.isvm-icvm.org And contact our Treasurer Tiana Kohlsdorf if you are not on our email list ("members"). Symposium proposal submissions will open up SOON!

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...

First-Ever Egg of a Mammal Ancestor Discovered! Research by myself, Julien Benoit (Wits) and Vincent Fernandez (ESRF) presents the first-ever egg of the therapsid Lystrosaurus, finally answering the question: Did the ancestors of mammals lay eggs? Yes, they did! doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The ISPH is back in Europe! The ISPH returns to Europe for its 8th edition. The symposium will take place at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, in the quiet and charming city of Leiden (the Netherlands) from 6 to 8 July 2027. isph2027.wordpress.com

and the associated Dafnee ddb on which the analysis have been made : dafnee.isem-evolution.fr Thanks @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and collaborator & @isemevol.bsky.social for hosting it ! 👏❤️

#Body reconstruction and #size estimation of #plesiosaurs by Ruizhe Jackevan Zhao: peerj.com/articles/21146 in @peerj.bsky.social relevant to #EvolutionaryStudies #MathematicalBiology #Paleontology #Zoology

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!!

New paper from @camillebader.bsky.social and @segesdimartin.bsky.social with M. Gasparik on the inner structure adaptation to weight support in Deinotherium. Congrats!

I am so unbelievably proud to present 8 years of hard work: the worlds oldest octopus is not an octopus... Pohlsepia is actually a really rotten Nautiloid (but oldest soft tissue nautiloid ever found!). 🐙❌ royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Please consider submitting your abstract to the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists conference, which will happen this summer in Vilnius! 👇 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

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

🐚 Grâce à ses découvertes de #fossiles remarquables, Mary Anning est reconnue comme pionnière en #paléontologie. Au XIXe siècle, aux prémices de cette #science encore nouvelle, ce n'était pas tout à fait le cas. Peggy Vincent, paléontologue et chercheuse CNRS au Muséum, revient sur son histoire. 📖

Ooo super cool! Look @fossilrob.bsky.social

Postdoc advert now live! Come and work with me at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social on the Mediterranean Neogene insular giant fauna. You'll also get to work with a great team: @toriherridge.bsky.social @nannonstevens.bsky.social and Jesse Hennekam

Were dinosaurs and other terrestrial vertebrates capable of long-distance transoceanic dispersal? Through a new mechanistic energetic model, our new paper suggests this was possible: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @es-ucl.bsky.social

Great PhD opportunity !! with @paulineprovini.bsky.social

Musculoskeletal function of stem tetrapod limbs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @crocodilejulia.bsky.social @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social @royalvetcollege.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...

Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th - Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to [email protected] + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF

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...

How did ancient fish perceive their environment in the deep-sea? An international team reveals that some coelacanths – fish living 240 million years ago – used their lung to detect sounds underwater. www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #fossils #paleontology

🚨 Two postdoc positions open in the #LHOSA team at @palevoprim.bsky.social! Passionate about Australopithecus and hominin paleobiology? Skilled in virtual study of long bones or #GIS applied to hominin-bearing sites? Join us 👇