BEHOLD the GARgantuan Alligator Gar!!! This is the largest Alligator Gar I’ve encountered; at over 7 feet 10 inches (240 cm) and approximately 55 inches in girth, its weight is estimated at 300 pounds (136 kg)! A true river monster, among the largest caught, tagged and safely released! #GarWeek

Happy World Anatomy Day! 🦎 What better way to celebrate than announcing our veiled chameleon head atlas! This includes an awesome collection of 3D models - skull (with sutures!), jaw and tongue muscles, and the brain - plus lesson plans for your next anatomy practical! ✨️ Links below ✨️

New piece with @stuartsumida.bsky.social, Kristi Curry-Rogers, and Kenshu Shimada, and help from @magratnj.bsky.social : theconversation.com/fossils-are-...

Feel like we need some ❤️ today so here are some close ups of the 🫀hearts🫀 from the Diffusion Diaries (read it here: doi.org/10.1093/iob/...) 1. 🦇 Schneider's leaf nosed bat 2. 🐟 bowfin 3. 🐸 midwife toad 4. 🦎 collared lizard

Here's a collage of specimens scanned and segmented at the UMMZ for the bluesky community to enjoy!

Looking for micro-CT data with existing DOI's? The UM Museum of Zoology has been building a publicly accessible repository of our scans on UM's Deep Blue Data. At the moment mammals & herps are being populated with data, but more is coming! deepblue.lib.umich.edu/data/collect...

Today my partner Miranda Cosman (not on bsky) found out that her NIH funded post-doc is being cut a year early. If you're looking for an absolutely amazing researcher to join your lab please let me know. Miranda works on skeletal phenotypic plasticity in response to exercise and diet (continued)...

If anyone is interested in leveraging the #ummz CT core lab for your research program, please check out our website for details!!!! lsa.umich.edu/ummz/ct-scan...

If you need #zoological, #paleontological, or #archeological #micro-CT data, please let me know! In addition to hundreds of existing datasets, my lab offers scanning services. Check out our rates & send in a request here: lsa.umich.edu/ummz/ct-scan...

#Education resource! Over the years I created this collection of colored skull #3Dmodels for teaching. They're available to download on MorphoSource & to view on Sketchfab. Because of recent changes to Sketchfab, I migrated them to my website: www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/work/colorso... (1/3)

Since there’s finally been a proper migration of academia to bluesky, here’s a link to my most recent paper that’ll give you a sense of what I do. If you recently followed me and we were in touch on ‘twitter’ please say hi! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Glad to see a lot of new people joining!

After years of work the Open Vertebrate TCN project ended last year. We were able to generate thousands of freely available zoological micro-CT scans for the research community. Check out the oVert paper here: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

There’s still a few months until salamanders start to emerge and march for vernal ponds, but here’s a false color Ambystoma maculatum CT render to get you through Friday. #herpetology #amphibians

While UofMichigan has some sports newsworthiness, I’d like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that the UM Museum of Zoology houses world’s largest fluid preserved snake collection, including an especially great collection of Thamnophis. #GoBlue 🐍

🎉 HERE IT IS🎉 Once again, I compiled a list of all the new species described by museum scientists this year and the results are in: a staggering 815!! Most of this was the work of two people describing an incredible number of parasitic wasps 🐝 Find out more 👇🏻🧪 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Went on a vacation to the Zoo.

Who has the largest museum collection of snakes in the world? @umichLSA ’s Museum of Zoology does! And YOU will get the chance to see that great collection at #SSAR2024 record.umich.edu/articles/mus...

Showing off the magic of micro-CT at the Sensorium Meeting at the Field Museum.

I’m several years late to the “learn to bake trend”, but here’s my entry: cinnamon raisin bread loaves.

As of a few weeks ago the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology became the worlds largest snake collection! We’re getting close to becoming the largest herpetological collection in the world too. Read all about it here: news.umich.edu/hiss-toric-f...

Used my first invite code to get @rodrigoichthys.bsky.social on board!

A full snake. #microCT

Random container + sand + fossil + CT scanner = science.

Come work with me! The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology is hiring a CT Lab Technician. Please share & apply at the link below: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Thanks for the invite @jsanderso.bsky.social! Since I’m out practice, here’s a walrus femur for my first Bluesky post.