⚠️Don't forget to join us today -  Monday 19th May - Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social (University of Leeds, UK) will be presenting his talk entitled 'Species loss, community collapse, and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction'. This will be a live broadcast via a Zoom webinar.

starting his work day

Hey it's May, gonna be nice and warm this week right?

Article spotlight from PeerJ summarizing the recent paper describing the osteology of the plesiosaur, Plesiopterys wildi, and its evolutionary relationship to other plesiosaurians! peerj.com/blog/post/11...

Walter, J.D., Massonne, T., Paiva, A.L.S. et al. Expanded phylogeny elucidates Deinosuchus relationships, crocodylian osmoregulation and body-size evolution. Commun Biol 8, 611 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Published today in Peerj: peerj.com/articles/189... #plesiosaurs #paleontology #Jurassic #Sauropterygia