Introducing our latest special issue, From Fossil to Microscope: Unraveling the Tapestry of Tissue Anatomy through Paleohistology, with this wonderful cover image from @funstonpaleo.bsky.social et al., of compacted coarse cancellous bone from the early Palaeocene taeniodont, Conoryctes comma.

Some plucky (or lucky) mammals survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Among them were our ancestors! How did they do it? Was it because of the way they grew and reproduced? Check out our new study on the cover of @journalofanatomy.bsky.social led by @funstonpaleo.bsky.social

A new paper of mine just came out in the Journal of Anatomy! Learn more about Conoryctes and why the insides of its bones are important on my website. Or, check out the open-access paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Digging into the rise of mammals gregfunston.com/2025/07/14/d...

S.P. Zack et al. (2025) New Cranial and Postcranial Remains of the Once Enigmatic Early Eocene Mammal Wyolestes (Mammalia, Ferae, Hyaenodonta) from North America, and Phylogenetic Evidence for its Interordinal Relationships Bulletin of the AMNH 475: 1-173 doi: doi.org/10.1206/0003...

I am thrilled to announce I will be joining Stony Brook University as an Assistant Professor this fall! Read more on my website: www.gregfunston.com/2025/06/25/big-news/ I feel very lucky—this has not come without a tremendous amount of support from a huge cast of people.

The new Walking With Dinosaurs is here! A quarter century ago the original inspired this geeky teenager to study dinosaurs. I hope this series does the same for a new generation! A special full circle moment to work on the series & consult with @arctomet.bsky.social & @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social

Check out my new Palaeocast blog post! This time about the evolution of the arms of oviraptorosaurs. It's a summary of the recent research by Milly Mead @funstonpaleo.bsky.social @stevebrusatte.bsky.social It features an interview with Milly too! www.palaeocast.com/evolution-of...

Very proud of my undergraduate students who presented our work at the NorCal GeoBio Symposium this past weekend! It’s been a real pleasure working with this all-star team! From right to left: Xinyu Wang, @versingh.bsky.social and Garrett Zebley.

Published yesterday in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social with open access, we demonstrate how tiny slices of isolated bones (in this case, troodontid metatarsals) can provide a wealth of information on the growth, lifestyle, and injuries of these animals. (🧵) (Troodontid art by Henry Sharpe )

Paper here, thread following onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Saw a fascinating seminar by @funstonpaleo.bsky.social today on reconstructing life history of mammals around the KP boundary. Incredible that folks can now identify gestation and weaning times from the chemical signatures of milk in fossilized teeth. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fantastic pop sci article about our recent study, written by lead author Milly Mead! It was such a pleasure working with Milly on this project—keep a close eye because she’s sure to produce more excellent work in her exciting PhD project!! theconversation.com/the-bizarre-...

The newest dinosaur discovery from Scotland! Over 100 tracks made by theropods & sauropods. In the same spot where, 170 million years later, Bonnie Prince Charlie landed on Skye to escape the English. When the Prince was on the run, he sprinted in the footsteps of dinosaurs!

Many theropods shortened their arms and lost fingers. How did they do it? Our Edinburgh student Milly Mead, in her first paper, looks into oviraptorosaurs. Arm shortening and finger loss were decoupled! @funstonpaleo.bsky.social & I are proud supervisors! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Glad to see our latest work on hadrosaur teeth is out today! Gill Gallimore, David Evans, and I did a deep dive into whether hadrosaur teeth are as useful as they seem in phylogenetics. A thread [1/14] dx.doi.org/10.1080/1477...

🚨PhD Opportunity: Come to Edinburgh and study ichthyosaurs with us! Study Scottish fossils from Skye! New ones & historic specimens! Project led by Stig Walsh, co-supervised by @davfoff.bsky.social Nick Fraser, Erin Maxwell & me. Details👇 e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...