Matthew B. Cowen
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PhD student at Uppsala university, Sweden. 🦖🐟
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Peter
25 days ago
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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Uppsala University Vertebrate Palaeontology Group
about 2 months ago
A team from our lab recently joined fieldwork organised by the University of Latvia, helping to excavate fossils from the Devonian, including armoured fish (Placoderms) and early tetrapods in western Latvia.
#fossilfriday
#paleontology
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Clive Trueman
about 2 months ago
Subject close to my heart - finding an ammonite on the Isle of Wight as a 6 year old started my love of geology / earth history. The Island has an incredible fossil wealth and really deserves world class facilities to display and project on the world stage!
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The Onion
2 months ago
Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt
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Dana Korneisel
3 months ago
Fossil(and more?) Friday. The Staruni Woolly Rhino was incredibly preserved with its skin in a condition good enough to be taxidermied. Her horns, hooves, hair, and guts were all that was lost, but you can see the individual follicles in her skin.
#fossilfriday
#EAVP2025
#MuzeumPrzyrodnicze
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Matthew B. Cowen
School of Ocean & Earth Science
3 months ago
As part of our Faculty Inaugural Lecture Series—showcasing the work of our recently promoted Professors—Professor Clive Trueman delivered an engaging lecture, Using Chemistry to Unveil the Hidden Lives of Fishes.
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Watch here 👇
youtu.be/LujaS7cpHxc
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Professor Clive Trueman | Inaugural Lecture Series | University of Southampton
YouTube video by Environmental and Life Sciences at Southampton
https://youtu.be/LujaS7cpHxc
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Dr. Melanie During
5 months ago
When it comes to understanding when animals first walked on land, finding footprints of animals that literally pressed their feet into the ground absolutely holds the key. Congratulations to all authors including my former supervisor:
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution - Nature
Analysis of a fossil trackway from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia shows prints of toes with claws, suggesting that the origin of amniotes was at least 35–40 million years earlier than pr...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08884-5
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Matthew B. Cowen
Uppsala University Vertebrate Palaeontology Group
5 months ago
Out Now in Nature! Amniote tracks from Australia push the timeline for terrestiality back 35 to 40 million years, with implications for our understanding of tetrapod evolution.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution - Nature
Analysis of a fossil trackway from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia shows prints of toes with claws, suggesting that the origin of amniotes was at least 35–40 million years earlier than pr...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08884-5
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One minute you’re king of the gods, the next you’re sending out spam for predatory journals.
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The Biology PhD school asked me to write a blog post about my research, now it’s up and I can go back to staring at fish
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PhD blog - Uppsala University
https://www.uu.se/en/department/ecology-and-genetics/study/biology-phd-school/phd-blog
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Matthew B. Cowen
Uppsala University Vertebrate Palaeontology Group
6 months ago
We are pleased to announce the opening of our new Tomography Support Center, now available for all
@uu.se
employees and students. We welcome collaborations with anyone interested in using microCT and synchrotron scanning. Learn more here:
www.uu.se/institution/...
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PeerJ
6 months ago
PeerJ Congratulates Elsa Leflaëc & Victor López Rojas - Award winners at The 5th Palaeontological Virtual Congress Learn more about their research on the PeerJ blog
bit.ly/42EHFPA
#5thPVC
#Palaeontology
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Interesting new find, presumably washed in from the Wealden….
6 months ago
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Matthew B. Cowen
Uppsala University Vertebrate Palaeontology Group
9 months ago
A new paper for the new year 📰 How can we visualize changes in chemical composition of fossil teeth and scales?
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and colleagues discuss in:
peerj.com/articles/187...
#Palaeontology
#biogeochemistry
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Visualizing and quantifying biomineral preservation in fossil vertebrate dental remains
In this study, we attempt to illustrate fossil vertebrate dental tissue geochemistry and, by inference, its extent of diagenetic alteration, using quantitative, semi-quantitative and optical tools to ...
https://peerj.com/articles/18763/#
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Looking to read more this year? Why not start with my new article published today in @Peerj on how we can tell if original minerals are preserved in fossils.
#paleontology
#biogeochemistry
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Visualizing and quantifying biomineral preservation in fossil vertebrate dental remains
In this study, we attempt to illustrate fossil vertebrate dental tissue geochemistry and, by inference, its extent of diagenetic alteration, using quantitative, semi-quantitative and optical tools to ...
https://peerj.com/articles/18763/
9 months ago
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Matthew B. Cowen
Mario Vallejo-Marin
10 months ago
Apply for a two-year postdoctoral fellowships at Uppsala University through the Birgitta Sintring foundation. You can find and select a PI host and more about the fellowship here:
www.uu.se/en/departmen...
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The Birgitta Sintring Foundation - Uppsala University
https://www.uu.se/en/department/ecology-and-genetics/research/the-birgitta-sintring-foundation
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Matthew B. Cowen
Uppsala University Vertebrate Palaeontology Group
10 months ago
The current cover of Nature spotlights the new paper on reconstructing food webs and the rise of dinosaurs through coprolites, by Qvarnstrom et al (ft.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Matthew B. Cowen
Per Ahlberg
10 months ago
The new paper from our lab has dropped! 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy - Nature
Integrated analyses of bromalites provide robust pictures of past food webs, explaining early dinosaur evolution and the emergence of larger dinosaur faunas with new feeding patterns.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08265-4
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Matthew B. Cowen
Uppsala University Vertebrate Palaeontology Group
10 months ago
The early evolution of Tetrapods and the transition from water to land is a core focus of our research. Learn more about our ERC-funded project "Tracking our ancestors across the Devonian world" at our website:
www.uu.se/en/departmen...
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Devonian World - Uppsala University
https://www.uu.se/en/department/organismal-biology/research/devonian-world
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Per Ahlberg
11 months ago
🚨Paper alert!🚨 A major paper from our lab, on which I had a very minor role, is dropping on Wednesday. Can't say more for now, but here's a teaser:
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