MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

Introducing a new Permian reptile: Scyllacerta creanae With a tympanic fossa on the quadrate and no lower temporal bar, Scyllacerta challenges long-standing ideas about when-and-how hearing evolved in reptiles 🦎👂 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/pala...

New insights into Chanaresuchus bonapartei! From Triassic of Argentina, this proterochampsid shows a unique tarsal anatomy — with features not seen in other basal archosauriforms, & traits shared w/Ornithodira. Cotuli-Cereda et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday

#ZAVACEPHALE IS FINALLY OUT! 🥳 Our first definitive Early Cretaceous pachycephalosaur! (~15 my older than the previous oldest pachycephalosaurs) And the first hand material for the clade! I can't tell y'all how much of a pleasure it was to review this paper! ☺️

It's been online for a month but now in final format: a new paper I'm on is out today! We analyzed over 200 features from the bird wing and shoulder girdle skeleton to see how they're distributed across the bird family tree. academic.oup.com/iob/advance-... 🪶🧪 (📷 @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social)

It’s finally out! Our work addressing the origins of reptiles is published in PCJ! peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.... We use novel info gleaned from the scan data of dozens of stem reptiles to substantially revise our understanding of early reptile evolution #paleontology #herpetology

✝︎𝙆𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙚 - 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗮 𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗹., 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 ⚊ O primeiro #pterossauro da nossa semana. O gênero #Kariridraco! Diretamente da formação #Romualdo no Ceará, É também alguns possíveis táxons que viveram com ele. 🔽 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗰̧𝗼̃𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮́𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘀.

Our description of Milleretta rubidgei, a 252 million-year old reptile, is out! academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... #Permian #Reptile #South Africa

I am very proud of the work that went into this new Sanger Lab publication. This paper was led by postdoc Marta Marchini and a number of my lab's undergraduate students, each of which contributed unique skills or effort to the completion of this project.

So happy to see this finally published by Lüdecke et al.! Not only is this a fascinating result (Raymond Dart would be shocked!), this is an awesome new use of nitrogen isotopes www.sciencenews.org/article/earl...

Let me introduce you to Ahvaytum bahndooiveche, a new #dinosaur described yesterday that represents the oldest Laurasian dinosaur known so far! I was lucky enough to be commissioned to create the reconstruction of this taxon. Congratulations to Dr. David Lovelace and colleagues! #paleoart #sciart

Ever wondered how birds stand up? Our paper explores how emus use their muscles to stand up. We found that these large, flightless birds use large muscle fibre length changes, activations and forces. My 1st PhD chapter, out now in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A pretty solid couple of days for publishing some of my dissertation work! 🦎Our description of Milleropsis pricei, a late Permian reptile from South Africa, is out! 🚨Rethink what you know about 'parareptiles'🚨 Link here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

I am incredibly excited to share our new Open Access publication in the @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social that was released today. Please welcome *Ahvaytum bahndooiveche*, a new species of sauropodomorph(?) dinosaur from the Popo Agie Formation, WY, USA. tinyurl.com/3zx7s3mx (1/x)

Our anatomical description of Hapsidopareion is out in Papers in Palaeontology! Thanks to collaborators and mentors @gondwannabe.bsky.social, Arjan Mann, and @hanssues.bsky.social and ISU undergraduate coauthors for their massive help with segmentation! 😄https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1610

Imagine your notebook surviving for centuries to be studied by historians. This happened to transcriptions by Nicholai Miklouho-Maclay, Russian of Ukrainian Cossack descent, of a palaeontology class delivered by Ernst Haeckel (1866) This unlikely record, captures the rise of race science in Germany🧵

Oh groovy, our paper on the hindlimb biomechanics of the Triassic dinosauriform Lagosuchus is out! A quick thread for now. We uCT-scanned most of the existing skeletal material for this important outgroup to Dinosauria. We sorted through the elements and chose the best ones to make a 3D model from.

Thrilled to share: out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social (!) just in time for Thanksgiving, the dinosaurian history of how your turkey does the twist. Fibular reduction enabled mid-drumstick mobility, unlocking extreme knee long-axis rotation in theropods 🍗🦖🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08251-w

A quick little size chart put together to show the differences in proportions of some of the larger pterosaurs that were found in southern Germany during the late Jurassic. #Skiphosoura #paleoart #pterosaur

Ok, so the news is still new. I have a new paper out today naming a cool new pterosaur: Skiphosoura bavarica (Bavarian sword-tail), from the Late Jurassic of Southern Germany. The full paper is here with all the info: www.cell.com/current-biol... Artwork by @serpenillus.bsky.social.

Please welcome the new pterosaur Skiphosoura bavarica from the Late Jurassic of Europe This amazing darwinopteran is known from an incredibly complete fossil, largely preserved in 3D! Needless to say I was SUPER excited when @davehone.bsky.social commissioned me to reconstruct this amazing animal!