Looking forward to presenting on Sunday (15:30, Richmond Building) at PalAss @thepalass.bsky.social in Portsmouth on climatic drivers of crocodile-line archosaurs macroevolution @alexh-palaeo.bsky.social @pdmannion.bsky.social #PalAss25 #conference #portsmouth

New lab paper by our new PhD student @alexisrastier.bsky.social !

We'll be hosting a joint Crossing the Palaeontological–Ecological Gap (CPEG) meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium @ucl.ac.uk in London in August 2027, which aims to bridge spatial and temporal gradients between palaeontology, ecology, and conservation: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

#Oops: The seminal paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted. ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper, validity of the research findings…"

#Paleobotany #Devonian #Fern Last week, I attended the EMBO workshop in Vienna on early land plants and terrestrialisation. There, I presented my research on rhacophytalean evolution, focusing on a reappraisal of the genus Cephalopteris from the latest Famennian of Bjørnøya. 🌿🌿

A new analysis of Dunkleosteus terrelli reveals its massive jaws were far more cartilage-rich than once thought, reshaping ideas about muscle layout, bite mechanics & feeding style. Time to rethink this Devonian apex predator. Engelman et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that one of my thesis projects was just published in @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on phys.org! In this paper, we use an old statistical approach developed by the US Navy in WW2 to predict the aquatic habits of various dinosaurs and marine reptiles 🦖🐊

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Happy #FossilFriday! Interested in fossil data handling & building analysis-ready databases? New paper out today in Palaeontology @thepalass.bsky.social with @palaeoverse.bsky.social team led by @lewisajones.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Hope it helps! 💻📊📈🦐🦪🦣🐚🪸🦕🦖🐋🐊🐟🦑🐢🐍🦎🐦‍⬛🦂

‪ Nouvelle expo dans le jardin du @mnhn.fr sur les Savanturières, avec, parmi les chercheuses exposées, une paléontologue ! Nathalie Bardet @cr2p.bsky.social

Post-doc @narimanechatar.bsky.social is working with extinct sabertoothed cat-like carnivores from John Day, scanning a cast of Pogonodon platycopsis, housed in the UCMP. 3D scanning allows her to compare the shape and mechanical performances of its cranium and jaw. tinyurl.com/pogcranium

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

We're excited to share a new Special Issue on sabretooth taxa, broadly defined. From defining what makes a sabertooth/tusk to exploring fossil taxa and saber function. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494... Volume edited by Hartstone-Rose, Werdelin & Pollock

Benson, R.B.J., Walsh, S.A., Griffiths, E.F. et al. Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

A new ichthyosaur species is discovered! Welcome Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis! fr.pensoft.net/article/1542... Huge congratulations to @spichergael.bsky.social for leading this project.

I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

this exists it is called thinking

Ditch the Megalosaurus, we want a full size Ichthyosaurus!

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

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

UMMP 57588: specimen showing the Late Devonian genera Archaeopteris (fronds) and Callixylon (trunks, branches) belonged to the same plant. This critical discovery by UMMP curator Charles Beck illuminated the structure of trees contributing to some of the planet's most ancient forests. #FossilFriday

LOVE papers about gut contents! Vampyromorph coleoid predation by an ichthyosaurian from the Early Jurassic Lagerstätte of Bascharage, #Luxembourg Valentin Fischer et al peerj.com/articles/197... (Seen thanks to @arctomet.bsky.social!)

Gut contents: the trace fossils that answer the question "What was for dinner?", even if dinner was 180 million years ago. 🧪

New paper showing that ichthyosaurs ate vampyromorph coleoids. Did they like it ? No idea 🤷‍♂️ @universitedeliege.bsky.social @naturmusee.bsky.social @just-fre.bsky.social @peerj.bsky.social peerj.com/articles/19786

"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 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...

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....

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...

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...

Geologic Periods xkcd.com/3120/

Grateful for the chance to present my #marinereptiles research at both #EAVP2025 and #SEB2025 over the past weeks. Huge thanks to the organisers, and all my coauthors for their support and guidance! Looking forward to the next conferences!

Today is the day! #SEBExPalaeo will be live at #SEBCONFERENCE 9h30 in Nightingale 1&2 (follow signs for Bird Rooms) Looking forward to seeing you for plenty of experimental #palaeontology #palaeobotany #3D #modelling and fun discussions!

new lab paper, lead by Dr. Greg Abrams! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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 :)

🎉New lab paper lead by @just-fre.bsky.social based on his master thesis work! Francesco and his colleagues describe new allodaposuchid material from the latest Cretaceous of Spain (as well as the importance of postcranial anatomy for croc phylogenies 😉). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Glad to have contributed to this paper led by Annabelle Aish, which highlights the great potential of Palaeobioinspiration! @recherche.mnhn.fr

Happy Birthday, Mary Anning! This 195-million-year-old marine reptile was discovered in Lyme Regis at some time before 1836 by the British palaeontologist Mary Anning (1799–1847).

Only 3 days left to help us create a gigantic mosasaur statue in Liège! promethea.koalect.com/project/43722

Hi Bluesky! Finally putting this account to use. I'm an early-career paleontologist working on aquatic animals, especially marine reptiles 🐊🌊. Excited to connect with others in paleo, evo-bio, and anyone interested in ancient ecosystems!

New on Bluesky, and already excited to share some big news — my first co-authored paper is out (and in OA)! You can find the link in the thread below. Thanks to everyone involved in this project!

Merci pour tous les bons moments partagés. Tu vas nous manquer, Pierre. Thank you for the wonderful moments we shared. We will miss you Pierre.

Does technology recapitulate biological evolution? The rise of information technology provides a unique framework to answer this question. Check this @royalsocietypublishing.org paper by @svalver.bsky.social @nilese.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

We have passed the first objective of our campain to build a lifesize mosasaur in Liège! 🎉🎉🎉 Check the video and the link below to learn more about the project and make it come true! Help the project: promethea.koalect.com/project/43722 @universitedeliege.bsky.social

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Turns out Le Pen is not mightier than the fraud.

www.nature.com/articles/d41... So let me get this straight 1. Academics spend decades building the PDB openly 2. A company trains AlphaFold on it, releases limited code under pressure 3. Academics work hard to create fully open versions 4. Companies then use the open models to build closed products

It might sound crazy but we are going to build up a life-size sculpture of Mosasaurus right in the city center of Liège! You can discover and contribute to project via this link! promethea.koalect.com/project/43722 @universitedeliege.bsky.social

For this #FossilFriday meet Sarkastodon mongoliensis from the Eocene of Inner Mongolia from @natural-history.bsky.social we scanned with PhD student Melvin Vankeslt. First described in 1938 by W. Granger this oxyaenid was absolutely MASSIVE 😱

PhD alert: Je cherche un candidat pour travailler sur l'évolution morphologique et fonctionnelle de la tête des squamates apodes. Le projet implique de la biologie évolutive, des expériences et simulations mécaniques et des bestioles à écailles! @mnhn.fr @mecadev.bsky.social adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...