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 👇

Super journée d’échanges au Labo de Planétologie et Géosciences @univ-nantes.fr hier avec des présentations d'anciens ATER devenus paléontologues: O. Maridet @Jurassica Museum, G. Métais @cr2p.bsky.social, P. Bayle @pacea.bsky.social, L. Costeur @NHM Basel & moi-même @mecadev.bsky.social.

Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences & the University of Warsaw invite participats for paleontological excavations, in July-August. Accommodation and meals are provided. The digs uncover Triassic vertebrates in Polish Silesia. Details in thread 🧵

New paper out lead by @just-fre.bsky.social, with @rboman.bsky.social, @palaeotheoryum.bsky.social, and @val-fisch.bsky.social 🥳Using FEA, we studied the feeding behavior of 16 species of sympatric marine reptiles from the Western Interior Seaway 🦎 Check this out ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/pala...

Evaluation of variation in Solnhofen avialans suggests that Alcmonavis and Ostromia are the same as Archaeopteryx: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... 🪶🧪 (📷O'Connor & Marugán-Lobón)

L'appel à communication pour l'édition 2026 du congrès de l'Association Paléontologique Française est ouvert : apf2026.sciencesconf.org L'APF 2026 aura lieu à Paris du 1er au 6 juin 2026 au @mnhn.fr et à @sorbonne-universite.fr @recherche.mnhn.fr

New lab paper, this time on phocid limb morphometrics! Lead by former EDDyLab postdoc Dr. Leonard Dewaele, with @narimanechatar.bsky.social, Prof. Mark Uhen, master student Jacques Klassen, and yours truly anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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....

A few weeks ago CBC reporter Sheena Goodyear reached out to me for comment on the new Spinosaurus paper. I said I couldn’t, because of Epstein connection Nathan Myhrvold’s involvement with it. We got to talking about how paleontology - especially dinosaur research- remains hostile to women. 🧪

Very excited to announce that our Leverhulme grant on insular gigantism was successful! 3 year project with @toriherridge.bsky.social @nannonstevens.bsky.social and Jesse Hennekam. Postdoc advert coming soon, but feel free to contact me via email for more details.

Join us for our first CNB virtual mini symposium 🐓🏃🏻‍♀️! future events suited to additional time zones coming soon; join our mailing list on our website (link in flyer) to stay in the loop.

📖🔓 Promue depuis bientôt dix ans, la science ouverte s’est durablement implantée. Loin de se cantonner à la seule question des données et publications scientifiques, elle a transformé en profondeur les pratiques de recherche. Explications ⤵️

We all know lemurs like to move it move it, but how did they evolve to do this? Using fossil limbs of Malagasy sloth-lemurs & koala-lemurs, this paper uncovers the potential use of internal bone structure for reconstructing locomotor evolution! 🌍🧪👇

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....

Magnifiques illustrations de Julien Norwood!!

🦊 L'élimination massive des espèces jugées "nuisibles" en France : une politique inefficace et coûteuse ! C'est ce que démontre une nouvelle étude, menée par des chercheurs du Muséum. 👉 www.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite... © MNHN - J. Quintavalle, S. Pagani #Biodiversité #animaux

🦖🦕 Une étude inédite, portée par un scientifique du Muséum, nous livre de nouveaux indices sur l’évolution de la locomotion chez les #dinosaures ornithopodes ! Un sujet controversé depuis plus d'un siècle. 👉 www.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite... #Paléontologie 📷 Ouranosaurus © D. Eskridge - Adobe Stock

New paper! How weird could Permian animals get? Turns out, pretty weird. Meet the stem tetrapod Tanyka amnicola from the Pedra de Fogo Formation of northeast Brazil royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

A tiny fossil fish (less than 3cm long) from the 436-million-year-old Chongqing Fish Bed represents the earliest articulated remains of any bony fish in the fossil record, and informs our understanding on the origins of all bony fishes today.🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This explains why i got an email from @fossilrob.bsky.social containing only the words "fossil butthole!!'" earlier

12 mars 2026 14h - O. Otero, @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social (@palevoprim.bsky.social) et collègues animeront la table ronde "femmes de sciences, femmes en sciences" à l'INSPE @univpoitiers.bsky.social palevoprim.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/2026/03/03/1... @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Join Kelsey (@kelseytstilson.bsky.social) at the #SEBconference in Florence. Submit your abstract now ⬇️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Check out our workshops sessions ⬇️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Book your place now ⬇️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

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!

Very interesting study by @feikosaur.bsky.social and Erin Maxwell about ichthyosaur fetuses!

New #DAWNDINOS paper! We do predictive simulations of vertical height jumping in the Triassic theropod Coelophysis & extant (tinamou) bird Eudromia. Mainly as sensitivity analysis of what parameters are most important. We show how crucial tail mobility is. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

🦕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.

New paper on the internal anatomy of the skull of the Early Cretaceous crocodyliform Pholidosaurus, with evidence for oceanic capability, led by Sapienza Università di Roma PhD student Leonardo Barbini, with @palaeoburke.bsky.social (@es-ucl.bsky.social): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper: a review of how skeletal muscles support long-distance bird migration, highlighting their plasticity, coordination via endocrine signals, and interactions with other organ systems. ➡️ vist.ly/4sdqf #ornithology #birds #migration #physiology #signals #adaptation #evolution

💪 Les muscles peuvent représenter jusqu’à la moitié de notre masse corporelle et assurent des fonctions vitales comme la locomotion, la respiration et le maintien de la posture. Comment fonctionnent-ils exactement ? Rémi Mounier, chercheur en physiologie au CNRS, nous en dit plus...

Nouvelle actualité MNHN autour de la publication #GRAVIBONE de @jordangonet.bsky.social. www.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite...

Nouvelle publication de Séverine Toussaint (@sevcrumb.bsky.social) parue dans @elife.bsky.social. Cette étude apporte un éclairage inédit sur l’évolution des capacités locomotrices des primates et sur l’importance de la morphologie dans la descente verticale.

The mandibles and tusks of Platybelodon were specialized for cutting low-growing vegetation, which may expksin why they thrived there during a perioid if cooling and drying when other proboscideans declined. elifesciences.org/articles/90908

Quand les recherches du MNHN décollent vers l'espace ! Trop cool !

Meet Galahadosuchus jonesi, a new crocodylomorph from the Late Triassic of the UK, described by @es-ucl.bsky.social & @nhm-london.bsky.social PhD student Ewan Bodenham (with @stephanspiekman.bsky.social, @tweetisaurus.bsky.social & Paul Upchurch): anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The earliest reptile body impressions with scaly skin Cabarzichnus pulchrus n. igen. n. isp. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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...

Our latest paper is just out 🤩! If you enjoy functional morphology and comparative biomechanics, Adrian's work on the internal joint spacing and its implications for modelling range of motion in the joints of mammals, will be something for you. Cheers! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Il y a 25 ans, le CNRS créait la Mission pour la place des femmes, pionnière pour l’égalité femmes-hommes en France. Quelles sont les avancées majeures en matière d’égalité professionnelle ? Réponses à l’occasion de la journée #FemmesEnScience. 👩‍🔬

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

EXPOSITION "L'énergie du Vivant – exposition sur le biomimétisme" à Paris Saclay @univparissaclay.bsky.social avec, entre autres, la présentation des travaux d'Anick Abourachid #MECADEV sur la stabilité des oiseaux.

#MSCA success rates now below 10%, yet the work that goes into writing this application is immense. Beyond the obvious increase in funding we need to find ways to lighten the time investment as well. Thousands of researchers spend weeks if not months working on this.

New #GRAVIBONE paper by @jordangonet.bsky.social on ornithopod posture and locomotion. Congrats Jordan :)

Good lord. This is quite the thread.

Finally, another fuzzy ornithischian: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... This is a big deal for dinosaur #paleoart, confirming some of what we've been doing for a while now, but also showing that we've probably underestimated how weird the integuments of these animals could be.