🦣 New discoveries at Mammoth Site USA: 2 foot elements— “predigit” & fused sesamoids—found 1st time in extinct elephants. Long known in modern elephants they reveal ancient adaptations for supporting massive land giants Gardner et al anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday

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...

Multitaxic #dinosaur footprint assemblage from Dinosaur Park Formation incl. ceratopsid and ankylosaurian tracks Bell et al 2025 @plosone.org A ceratopsid-dominated tracksite from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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🪶🦎

Oh! Another paper! From @camillebader.bsky.social Camille Bader's PhD, with Alexandra Houssaye @houssayecnrs.bsky.social. Elephant limb bone microanatomy reflects bone function and posture. Paper: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... Tons of CT scan DICOM files: figshare.com/articles/dat...

Enlargement of sternum traits facilitated the evolution of powered flight in birds 🧪⚒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Have you ever wondered about the origin of birds restricted to specific regions? Led by doctoral student Hevana Lima, we attempt to unravel the origins of birds endemic to the Caatinga dry forests in Brazil. Check our ms out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

𝑀𝑜𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑎 𝑦𝑎𝑟𝑎, a new cryptic species of Manta Ray, is described from the Western Atlantic Ocean. The existence of an undescribed manta ray species has been suggested for over 15 years and is now formally described. 🐟🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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/...

Our August issue is now out! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494... The cover article discusses skink systematics, comparative cranial osteology of the New World Mabuyinae by Julio Ferreira-Junior et al.: doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...

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...

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

ICB free read Show Me Your #Teeth And I Will Tell You What You Eat: Differences in Tooth Enamel in #Snakes with Different Diets by Dumont, Milgram, Herrel, Shahar, Shacham, Houssin, Delapré, Cornette, @marionsegall.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/... #morphology #ecology #science #biology

3D humerus shape & functional performance data reveal multiple adaptive radiations non-mammalian synapsids Brocklehurst et al 2025 @plosbiology.org Adaptive landscapes unveil the complex evolutionary path from sprawling to upright #forelimb function and posture in #mammals doi.org/10.1371/jour...

You can read the original paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Check out our new paper! We find cavefish colonized caves 3x and global cooling events may have influenced these events. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#Bird mating dances, including walking, high stepping, stomping in place, short-distance flying, hopping, pecking, and lateral leaping inferred from a Miocene trace #fossil. Abbassi 2025 Scientific Reports Reconstructing miocene bird mating behavior from a fossil tracksite doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Signs of hypoplasia found in caudal #vertebrae of two fossil sirenian individuals of Halitherium schinzii (Oligocene) from the Rhine area in Germany and northern Belgium. Voss et al 2011 @anatrecord.bsky.social Vertebral Anomaly in Fossil Sea Cows (Mammalia, Sirenia) doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...

Our special issue The integrative Biology of the Gut is building. It addresses questions regarding the functional role of the gut, from the cellular level to its interactions with other organs & tissues, including its role in ecophysiological processes journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...

Remarkable soft tissue anatomy recorded in titanosaur (Sauropoda) tracks from the latest Cretaceous of Mongolia academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

One of earliest few pterosaur found outside Europe: Eotephradactylus mcintireae gen. et sp. nov. Kligman et al 2025 @pnas.org Unusual bone bed reveals a vertebrate community with #pterosaurs and #turtles in equatorial Pangaea before the end-Triassic #extinction doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🖼️ Brian Engh

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

New paper out today with @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social @gondwannabe.bsky.social Kimi Chapelle and Paul Upchurch. In it we describe the partial femur of a large silesaur from Zambia 🧪🦕 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Hi! I'm a palaeontologist who has just joined Bluesky. My lab recently published a paper on gorgonopsian osteohistology. doi.org/10.1111/joa....

Full article: A description of new sauropodomorph cranial material from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan Province, P. R. China www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you haven't already checked it out, you must read, "A brief history of Massospondylus" by Paul Barrett & Kimi Chapelle! A wonderful history and review of dare I say, perhaps the best Early Jurassic sauropodomorph 🏆🦕 wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/ac85b6...

Great to see this collaborative study published that recovered 20 Ma old proteins from tooth enamel of a fossil rhinocerotid! 🦏 🦷 🦏 #rhino #palaeoproteomics

#Fossil from #Triassic of #Brazil sheds light on the #evolution of the #neck in sauropodomorph #dinosaurs 🦕 Damke et al 2022 @anatrecord.bsky.social The elongated neck of sauropodomorph dinosaurs evolved gradually doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...

Extremely rare: foetus provides insights into the #anatomy of pygmy sperm whales. Bennati-Madureira et al 2025 @anatrecord.bsky.social Anatomical description of a pygmy sperm #whale, Kogia breviceps (Cetacea: Kogiidae), pre-term calf using #CT scan and 3D reconstructions doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...

We now have protein sequences from rhino enamel that are >20 million years old! I am extremely excited and grateful to have been part of this project. The incredible thing: these sequences are informative enough to place this ancient species in the rhino tree! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oh woah -- this fossil looks extraordinary. Shri rapax, a new, Mongolian #Velociraptor-like dromaeosaurid with robust hands and indications of a powerful bite. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #dinosaurs #Cretaceous

More #vertebrae after metamorphosis Vaglia et al 2010 Acta Zoologica. Evolving possibilities: postembryonic axial elongation in #salamanders with biphasic (Eurcyea cirrigera, E. longicauda, E. quadridigitata) and paedomorphic life cycles (E. nana and Ambystoma mexicanum) doi.org/10.1111/j.14...

Evolutionary trends in the emergence of skeletal cell types doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Amor Damatac et al.

Rothier, P.S., Herrel, A., Benson, R.B.J. et al. Body mass evolution as a driver of morphological and ecological diversity in terrestrial mammals. BMC Ecol Evo 25, 69 (2025). doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Bland, Joshua et al. 2025. Comparison of diverse mandibular mechanics during biting in Devonian lungfishes. iScience, Volume 28, Issue 7, 112970.🐟🧪 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Glad to share a new paper led by @yara_haridy and @NeilShubin Lab on the early evolution of teeth! Modern and fossil data point at an ancestrally sensorial function for the earliest dentine www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to have co-written a News & Views with P. Janvier on Haridy et al.’s recent Nature paper. They reveal that Anatolepis, once thought to have the oldest dental tissue, is actually Cambrian arthropod sensory armor! Paper: nature.com/articles/s41... N&V: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New paper today about the evolution of the wrist along the dinosaur to bird transition: a bird-like configuration appeared in predatory dinosaurs first, as suggested by new exceptionally preserved hands of oviraptors and troodontids www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ready for tiny birds from above the Arctic Circle? Our new paper on the Cretaceous origins of Arctic nesting drops today in Science. This project was led by @lnwilson.bsky.social‬ and features amazing fossils recovered by Pat Druckenmiller’s field program in the Prince Creek Formation of Alaska.

Bert, H., Woodward, H., Rinder, N. et al. Neonatal state and degree of necessity for parental care in Maiasaura based on inferred neonatal metabolic rates. Sci Rep 15, 24827 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🦈🚨 New Paper! 🚨🦈 I am really excited to share the first chapter of my masters thesis which was just published! In this study we used an archived collection of white #shark vertebrae to investigate the population structure and ecological role of white sharks in AUS using stable isotope analysis. 🌊🦑🧪

The project that we presented @sebiology.bsky.social on #island #evolution in #mice 🐭🏝️ is available as open access publication. Check it out if you're interested in craniomandibular #anatomy, #morphology and #teeth in #rodents 👇[1/2]

3D reconstruction of the #human #ankle joint during late embryonic and early fetal periods, before joint cavity formation. Takakuwa et al 2025 @anatrecord.bsky.social Changes in the position of skeletal elements of the ankle and foot during late embryonic and fetal periods doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

Ever wondered how morphology is affected by climate? Our new paper in Ecography shows sex-specific shifts in body size of European #bats in response to temperature & rainfall across space, but no clear temporal changes due to high variability 🌍🌐🧪 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Fossil hominoids compared to 105 atlases of extant catarrhines & platyrrhines: Miocene specimens fall within range of variation of Pan and Hylobates. Beaudet et al 2025 Scientific Reports New insights into the first cervical #vertebrae of Otavipithecus and Nacholapithecus doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Read the paper for free here: sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu...

Looking forward to seeing you at tonight's poster session and/or tomorrow's talk @sebiology.bsky.social Opportunists in the marine realm: Are dietary specializations reflected in the feeding apparatus of grey seals and harbor #seals?

New morsoravid (proto-passerine) Consoravis turdirostris: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Another spectacular fossil from the Green River Formation (Eocene of Wyoming)! 🪶🧪 (📷 @ksepkalab.bsky.social et al.)

Urban selection on phenotype: Decreased tooth length in chipmunks, flatter skulls in voles. Feijo et al 2025 @sicb.bsky.social Limited cranial shifts in city-dwelling #rodents after a century of urbanization doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 📷https://phys.org/news/2025-06-chicago-rodents-evolving-city.amp