We're pleased to share the abstracts from the 2025 International Symposium on Morphological Sciences held earlier this year in Lisbon, Portugal. It was an honor to sponsor and support this excellent conference: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494...

Phx folks, fundraiser for AZ Natural History Museum Sat 9/27. Come by to enjoy live music, local brews, science themed games & chat w/me & other paleontologists about fossils! Proceeds will fund fieldwork, research, education & new exhibits! 🎸🦖🎶🦕 www.arizonamuseumofnaturalhistory.org/get-involved...

We are excited to announce the publication of a new Special Issue "Looking into Chinese Fossils: Paleobiology, Evolution and Biodiversity" organized by Drs. He Chen, Tong Bao, & Hong Pang bringing together leading research institutions across China anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494...

🐺 Happy to share our recent article, “The dire wolf resurrection that wasn’t” anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Thanks to my awesome co-authors Annie Burrows, Adam Hartstone-Rose, and Mike Jensen-Seaman!

Thanks to @asbmr.bsky.social for hosting a fantastic session on effective science communication today. My slides and resources can be found below. Please share with your research groups! tinyurl.com/tku9xnfx

Really touched to receive an award for mentorship of student researchers from the medical school, “a professor who pursues knowledge, believes in students’ dreams with unwavering curiosity and dedication and mentors students to reach the next plateau”.

This #FossilFriday, a contingent from the Menefee Paleo Project is out scouting the field site in preparation for our upcoming fall field season. Preview of a lovely osteoderm from Deinosuchus, a giant Late Cretaceous eusuchian (crocodyliform) that grew up to ~10.5 m in length.

New study on duck-billed dinosaur Huallasaurus australis reveals no evidence of invasive air sacs in Ornithischia. CT scans show dense vertebrae, suggesting these dinos used a “pelvic bellows” breathing system—unlike saurischians. Aureliano et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Abstracts for the 2025 Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists conference held at the AzMNH have now been published in PaleoBios! escholarship.org/uc/item/4x65... Paleo folks, I highly recommend this fun conference. Serving on the host committee this year was a great experience!

📢 Call for Papers! AR Special Issue: Evolution of Birth Difficulties ✨ Focus: Obstetrical dilemma, pelvic anatomy, neonatal & primate adaptations 📅 LOI: Sept 1 | 📝 Manuscript: Dec 1 Guest Editors: Nicole Torres Tamayo & Cédric Cordey anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/as...

Calling Midwest Anatomists and Paleontologists! Deadlines Extended! Sept 1st for Talks and Posters! Sept 12th for registration. Look forward to seeing you here! @anatomyorg.bsky.social @paleosoc.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social www.anatomy.org/.../Meetings...

🦖📢 Call for Papers! The Anatomical Record Special Issue: South Asian Paleobiology 🌏 ✨ Theme: Fossil vertebrates & evolution on a drifting continent 📅 LOI: Oct 1, 2025 | 📝 Manuscript: Dec 1, 2025 #Paleontology #Evolution #CallForPapers anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/as...

SVP abstract accepted! Looking forward to talking turtles with everyone in Birmingham 🐢

Join us in congratulating AR's editor-in-chief, @heatherfsmith.bsky.social, and guest editors, Drs. Felipe L. Pinheiro, and @leonardokerber.bsky.social for winning an APEX award for special issue: The Dawn of an Era: Comparative and Functional Anatomy of Triassic Tetrapods! @anatrecord.bsky.social

Our September issue is now live! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494... The cover article by Sven Sachs et al. describes the early-diverging plesiosauroid Seeleyosaurus guilelmiimperatoris from the Lower Jurassic of Germany: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We're excited to be a sponsor the 2025 International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology. Dont miss our sponsored symposium "Kings and Queens of the Air: How Archosaurs Grew Wins and Controlled the Skies" on Friday August 8th 8:00-11:40am EDT. www.xcdsystem.com/icvm/program...

If you’re attending #ICVM2025, don’t miss my co-author Leigha Lynch’s @squeacslab.bsky.social presentation on bony labyrinth morphology of North American river otters. Presentation streaming on demand & today Aug 7 at 2:55pm EDT www.xcdsystem.com/icvm/program...

The Menefee Paleontological Project submitted 3 abstracts for GSA 2025! Stay tuned to learn more about new Campanian assemblages of chondrichthyans & actinopterygians from Cliff House Sandstone. Goblin sharks, nurse sharks, angel sharks, rays, and more! 🦈🐟

My lab's awesome summer veterinary research scholars are off to a conference in Spokane to present the results of their summer projects dissecting and segmenting CT scans of the manus of the three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus) and tamandua (Tamandua mexicana).

We are honored on #FossilFriday to receive an Apex publication award for our Special Issue on comparative and functional anatomy of Triassic tetrapods: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494... Editors Felipe Pinheiro, Flávio Pretto & Leonardo Kerber. Cover artwork by Márcio L. Castro

Thanks to partipants & attendees of our recent symposia at International Symposium of Morphological Sciences. AAA journal EiCs Heather F. Smith & Jason Organ (Anatomical Sciences Education) spoke about editorial practices, & we sponsored a session on ethical frontiers in anatomy.

Representing @anatrecord.bsky.social at the International Symposium on Morphological Sciences #SMS2025

If you're attending the International Symposium for Morphological Sciences this week, don't miss our exciting sessions! Details in the below images and at www.isms2025.org/program/deta...

⚒️🧪 🚨New paper alert!! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Histovariability and fossil diagenesis of Pissarrachampsa (Pseudosuchia, Notosuchia, Baurusuchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Southeast Brazil #Paleontology #Histology #Biodiversity

Collections visit to Carnegie Mammals. Measuring limb bones in African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) and other extant canids.

Day 1 of the annual Anatomical Record editorial board meeting in the beautiful Cathedral of Learning (U Pittsburgh). Thanks to my awesome board for a productive discussion and strategic planning!

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...

If you’ll be in Lisbon for the International Symposium on Morphological Sciences (ISMS) 2025, don’t miss our symposium on publishing in anatomical sciences! We'll be discussing peer review, editorial practices, and how to navigate anatomical illustrations in scholarly publishing. July 24 11am

Huge thanks to everyone who came out last night for an incredible public outreach event with the Menefee Paleontology Project! We brought fossiliferous sandstone blocks from our recent fieldwork—packed with Campanian-aged shark and marine reptile teeth—to the Southwest Paleontology Society meeting.

Just signed my contract for another 5 years as Editor-in-Chief of @anatrecord.bsky.social! Looking forward to more exciting journal projects & developments. Thank you to the American Association for Anatomy for trusting me to run the journal. It has truly been the professional honor of my lifetime!

Hawaii's beaches are one of the few places in the world that sea turtles regularly come ashore to bask. Green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) are often seen resting and warming up on the black sand beaches during the day.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate turtle skeletons? 🐢🦴🤯 The original model of this gopher tortoise skeleton on Sketchfab (skfb.ly/ooVZS) is a crowd favorite & I've received requests for a downloadable version lately, so I uploaded a new one to MorphoSource: www.morphosource.org/concern/medi...

Thanks to ASU for featuring our recent description of the new Maastrichtian marine turtle Asmodochelys leviathan! news.asu.edu/20250610-sci...

Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know they’ve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Can’t believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in ‪@science.org (and on the cover)! 🧵 Art: Gabriel Ugueto ‪@serpenillus.bsky.social

Final #fossilfriday of the field season for the Menefee Paleontology Project. We found some cool fossils and made some exciting discoveries. Stay tuned! #MenefeeProject25

@heatherfsmith.bsky.social and colleagues published on a new Maastrichtian ctenochelyid sea turtle, Asmodochelys leviathan. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Introducing Asmodochelys leviathan, a new giant marine turtle from the Maastrichtian of Texas! sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.... This new 72-million-year-old species was one of the sole survivors of an extinct lineage that patrolled the gulf coast of North America near the end of the Cretaceous

"Herring bone" cross bedding pattern here suggests tidal channels = This area was likely an ancient beach during the Campanian

Happy #FossilFriday from the Menefee-Cliff House sandstone contact. Mapping the contact through the sections and finding some cool fossil shark teeth in the process

Clam Rock > Glam rock (This is a Cretaceous oyster bed)

Fun little interview with the Guardian's Science Weekly about my appendix research: www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

Happy Menefee Monday from the field! 🦖🐢⛏️

Excellent quick collections visit at New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. Many thanks to the amazing museum paleo staff for their help and support! Now, off to the field! 🦖🐢🦕

We're excited to share a new special issue, "New paleontological research in turtles and other vertebrates" Guest Edited by Adán Pérez-García & Francisco Ortega: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494... #FossilFriday

New truck, new field season! Rolling out to the Menefee to find some Campanian fossils. 🦖🐢🦕 Badlands or bust! 🤘

⚡ 15-minute lightning talks ⚡ Join Drs. Woodward, Cubo & Sena as they share new research on pseudosuchian & archosaur paleobiology and evolution! 🦖 📅 May 5 | 🕛 12 PM ET 🔗 Register: ow.ly/hCbG50VJX7P #Anatomy26 #anatomy #science #research #education #AAA

Don't miss our next exciting webinar: "Pseudosuchia: Masters of Survival and Diversification", presented by Drs. Holly Woodward, Mariana Valéria de Araújo Sena, and Jorge Cubo on Monday May 5 at 12pm EDT. Free registration here: anatomy.org/ANATOMY/Meet...

#WithoutNSF my lab won’t receive the critical funding it needs to continue studying how ancient pathogens adapted to human hosts. #NSF supports our country's leadership in science and innovation. #SupportNSF #SaveNSF www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxOE...

Excited to share our new paper on Campanian turtles from the Menefee Fm. (NM): peerj.com/articles/193... We report 11 turtle taxa, including baenids, trionychids and plastomenids, Adocus, Naomichelys, and Basilemys. Results support latitudinal provinciality & basin-scale endemism

Hey it's international bat appreciation day 🦇 Here's a rendering of a skeleton of a Daubenton's free tailed bat I scanned for #oVertTCN. This AMNH specimen was collected in the Congo in 1910! This poor girl has quite a few broken bones 😢 See if you can spot them www.morphosource.org/media/000519...