Looking forward to speaking at Mt. Sinai today about how turtle evolution offers unique insights into the biology of skeletal form, function, and adaptation! #FossilFriday

I recently had the opportunity to visit the tracksite of Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado to see the beautiful fossilized tracks from hadrosaurs, sauropods, ornithomimids, and crocodilians. #FossilFriday

Thank you to the Geology club at Glendale Community College for the invitation to speak with them about paleontology and turtle evolution. Such a fun group!

Excellent museum research trip earlier this week to the collections at Denver Museum of Nature & Science to study Cretaceous turtles and dinosaurs

A great few days at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists conference representing The Anatomical Record! It was a pleasure connecting with authors (past, present, and emerging) at the AR booth, and hearing about the latest in biological anthropology research.

📢 Call for Papers! We invite submissions for special issue “Development, Evolution, and Comparative Anatomy of the Larynx.” This issue aims to highlight interdisciplinary work exploring the development, evolution, and structure–function relationships of the larynx across species. 📅 Deadline: Sep 15

TBI is not just for humans! In 2023 I organized a symposium for researchers studying head impacts in non-model species. The result, a thematic issue in @anatrecord.bsky.social combining 7 papers, from helmeted hornbills to muskoxen. The introduction came out today! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... 🧵 🧪

From evolution of eyes & ears to cutting-edge imaging of sensory anatomy, new issue explores how vertebrate senses guide adaptive responses in a complex world. Shared theme: sensing cues in an expansive environment shaped vertebrate radiation anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494...

🦖 Free Webinar: 200 Years of Vertebrate Paleontology in South Asia Join Dr. Advait Jukar for a fascinating look at the history and future of vertebrate paleontology in South Asia. 📅 March 11 | 12-1 PM ET 🔗 Register: anatomy.org/ANATOMY/Meet...

New research reveals first comprehensive hypothesis of soft-tissue anatomy in ceratopsid dinosaurs. Reconstruction of Triceratops’ nasal nerves, glands & respiratory turbinates suggests unique innervation and head-cooling adaptations. Tada et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🦖Bristol Channel reveals a new early croc relative! Bodenham et al describe Galahadosuchus jonesi, sister to Terrestrisuchus gracilis and part of Saltoposuchidae—a swift, erect runner from just before the end-Triassic extinction. 🔗 anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Incredibly proud of my talented Menefee Paleo team who absolutely crushed it at WAVP 2026. Harry Brand won the early career podium presentation award, and Jessie Silverstein won the early career poster award Thanks to Andy Farke & the amazing team at @alfpaleo.bsky.social for an awesome conference!

Excellent collections visit to the Raymond Alf Museum! We're describing a new geoemydid (pond turtle) from the Fayum, Egypt

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Thanks to the amazing mentors and role models who supported and inspired me along the way. Here’s to the next generation of scientists who will uncover the stories still buried in beneath the surface!

Thrilled to share that our new #OA paper is out in @anatrecord.bsky.social! You like horned dinosaurs including famous Triceratops? we provide the the first comprehensive hypothesis on their soft‐tissue anatomy, based on detailed comparisons with living reptiles! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

Our latest issue is live! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494... The cover features an exciting new Homo habilis specimen from Ileret, Kenya by Fred Grine and colleagues: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Cool specimens at the Tucson gem and mineral show

The Menefee Paleo Project’s abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the 2026 WAVP conference. Our contributions will feature turtle provinciality in the Campanian of Laramidia, Tsaya Canyon actinopterygians, Menefee coprolites & fossil turtle shell taphonomy & ichnotaxa. #FossilFriday

When scaled at equalized forces and skull lengths, tyrannosauroids had lower stress magnitudes than non-tyrannosauroid theropods, indicative of specialized predation capability. New research by Evan Johnson-Ransom et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our latest issue is now available! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494... The cover article by Deanna Goldstein et al. reports details on whole-bone shape of hominoid manual proximal phalanges: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🐢 🐟 Abstracts submitted! The Menefee Paleo Project is gearing up for Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists conference w/new findings on Menefee turtle shell taphonomy & traces, Tsaya Canyon actinopterygians (ray-finned fishes), Campanian turtle provinciality & first Menefee coprolites

🦦✨Congratulations to MWU research students for their excellent #SICB2026 presentations, incl. student doctors James Bates & Blake Andrea who presented on how cranial morphology in otters & other mustelids shapes movement, sensing & survival. Exciting new research out of @squeacslab.bsky.social's lab

Iliopsoas muscle plays major role in lumbopelvic posture & gait in humans, & its distal tendon is often implicated in hip pain. Our latest project examined its tendon morphology measuring landmarks to understand how tendon shape relates to surrounding bone architecture www.cureus.com/articles/438...

KNM-ER 64061, most complete Homo habilis skeleton yet (Koobi Fora) shows primitive limb proportions: long forearms, thick cortices, small body mass & ~160 cm stature. Upper limbs like early Homo, but proportions differ from H. erectus Grine et al anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Happy New Year from the AR family! Please enjoy our top 9 article posts from 2025. 1. Dunkelosteus 2. Seeleyosaurus 3. Trucidocynodon 4. Special Issue on paleohistology of pseudosuchians 5. Megantereon 6. Falcarius 7. Basking sharks 8. Dinodontosaurus 9. Opossums

🦦 If you're attending SICB 2026, don't miss my team’s presentations exploring how the cranial morphology of otters and other mustelids reflects how they move, sense, and survive in their environment. #SICB2026

Wrapping up 2025 with a look back at the Top 9 IG moments that made the year unforgettable. From fieldwork and fossil discoveries to conference presentations and Anatomical Record milestones, it was a fun year. Looking forward more turtley discoveries, outreach, and paleo adventures in 2026!

🐢Happy to share that published proceedings from the 2024 international Turtle Evolution Symposium (TES) are now available! It was an awesome conference in Switzerland full of exciting research, lively discussions & an amazing global community of turtle researchers: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Fun group data collection day for the Menefee Paleo Project, evaluating taphonomy & trace marks on our fossil turtles. By documenting preservation, abrasion, bite marks, ectoparasite borings & other traces, we’re reconstructing ecological pressures turtles faced & post‑depositional history 🐢

Excited to announce our latest article on open science in non-clinical CT data! Open science is transforming image-based research by making data and processes more accessible. 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Our January issue just dropped! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494... 🦈Cover article by Estevan Eltink et al. covers morphology & paleoecology of Priohybodus arambourgi, a hybodontiform shark w/serrated teeth from Jurassic of Brazil: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Softshell turtle evolution is hard to decode. New analyses of 312 specimens show filtering rare & growth-related variation improves phylogeny—but some branches remain fuzzy. Molecular or total-evidence frameworks still needed🐢 Girard & Joyce: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Fun holiday celebration of the Southwest Paleontology Society at the Arizona Museum of Natural History! First an entertaining lecture by Gavin McCullough exploring how paleontology has been portrayed in movies over the decades. Then we drank hot cocoa among festively decked out fossil exhibits

Midwestern University anatomy team & our awesome veterinary medicine students were proud to represent MWU’s new Zoological Medical Institute during an outreach event at the Phoenix Zoo. We brought a collection of real animal skulls & visitors guessed the species. 🦁🦒🐢

🐱🦁 Webinar announcement! Join @anatrecord.bsky.social Dec 10 (12–1pm ET) for a webinar on sabertooth cats, building on AR’s recent special issue. Hear early-career researchers discuss Smilodon ontogeny, bite force + gape, and new insights into Homotherium. Registration: anatomy.org/ANATOMY/Meet...

🐱🦁 Join us Dec 10 (12–1pm ET) for a webinar building on our sabertooth anatomy special issue! Hear early-career researchers discuss Smilodon ontogeny, bite force + gape, and new insights into Homotherium. Talks by Narimane Chatar, Ashley Deutsch & John Moretti. Register: anatomy.org/ANATOMY/Meet...

New lessons from a dinosaur mummy from Canada with a soft-tissue crest; scarred skin, slow burial, balloon-headed hadrosaurs, and a new species? Research by Henry Sharpe et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🦖 Attention Campanian researchers: Andrew A. Farke, Brent Adrian, & I are inviting abstract submissions for “The Campanian Crucible”, a topical session at the 76th Annual Meeting of the GSA Rocky Mountain Section in Albuquerque, NM (May 17–20, 2026).

Learning about turtle husbandry and conservation at the Turtle and Tortoise Preservation Group conference today! 🐢❤️

🦎✨ New research delivers the 1st full 3D anatomical atlases of the veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus)! Open-access atlases + lesson plans offer powerful new tools for studying reptile evolution and teaching comparative anatomy. Leavey et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

One of the most touching moments from #2025SVP: turtle paleontologists from Taiwan, Yi-Lu Liaw & Cheng-Hsiu Tsai, gifted me this beautiful wooden engraving featuring their newly described Early Pleistocene loggerhead turtle— a thank-you for reviewing their manuscript & helping it reach publication

🐢 Grateful to be part of this amazing community of turtle researchers at #2025SVP. Feeling energized from the incredible presentations & discussions. Thank you all for the insights, support, and shared passion for these fascinating critters. Here’s to more turtley collaborations & discoveries ahead!

Talking turtles today at #2025SVP! 🐢

Enjoying the cool paleo talks & posters and catching up with everyone at #2025SVP!

If you're attending #2025SVP, come by my poster to hear about Campanian plastomenid turtles from the Menefee Formation (Friday 11/14 4:30-6:30pm)!

Sneak peak of my poster on Campanian plastomenid turtle fossils from the San Juan Basin (NM) for the upcoming Society of Vertebrate Paleontology conference. Looking forward to seeing paleo folks in Birmingham, UK!

Enjoying the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) 2025 conference in Christchurch, New Zealand!

This Halloween, meet the real masters of the night! 🦇 This study by Quinn et al. shows that Seba’s short-tailed bats use tiny sensory hairs on their wings to fine-tune flight — changing wingbeat and shape mid-air! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Congratulations to student doctor Colton Lane and crew for this new publication on anatomical variation in coronary vasculature! Our study of 167 human hearts found no significant correlation b/w coronary artery dominance & cardiac venous drainage dominance www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Productive trip to Wiley HQ for the annual AAA journal strategy meeting. Looking forward to the next 5 years with @anatrecord.bsky.social!