This artwork was created last year for @jeremywyman.bsky.social and @sandyheth.bsky.social, to accompany their paper 'Comparative rhizotaxy of fossil and living isoetalean rhizomorphs reveals development through rootlet intercalation within a triangular lattice'. #paleoart #paleobotany #paleontology

The very first Dr from the group! Congratulations Laura @transitionalform.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social for passing your viva yesterday!! 🎉🎉 Thanks so much @seanhmcmahon.bsky.social and Paul Kenrick for acting as examiners

Five holly leaves from the same tree 🌳 If holly is allowed to grow into a tree it is highly likely to do the same Holly evolved to fight back against the large herbivores that used to roam the Earth. The higher the tree grows the smoother the leaves get Photo: Emmanuel Lattes

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social First architectural analysis of a non-arborescent cladoxlopsid identifies two possible growth habits for the Carboniferous Cladoxylon taeniatum ​ @thibault-durieux.bsky.social, @aldpaleo.bsky.social, CJ Harper www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #PlantScience

This new work investigates rhizotaxy on 3 rhizomorphic lycopsids including the unusual Mississippian-aged Oxroadia. We highlight the development of rhizotaxy on a juvenile Oxroadia as well as on the extant Isoetes. If you’re interested check out academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... @annbot.bsky.social

Huge congratulations @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social for publishing the results of your masters thesis @annbot.bsky.social The work includes a new reconstruction of the Carboniferous isoetalean Oxroadia by the brilliant @palaeojules.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

Excited to share our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social where we describe evidence of a Jurassic nurse log from Scotland! Great work led by @anajusagasti.bsky.social Sophie Burne and @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social 🧵 👇 1/6 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social @anajusagasti.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social is featured today in the Sunday Post! Thanks Sally McDonald for your piece helping to promote and communicate Scotland’s rich fossil heritage nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

And also some exclusive behind the scenes photos of me and @jeremywyman.bsky.social beautifying a patch of moss (hiding the tracheophytes) for our Prototaxites photo shoot

Rafael @rafadscruz.bsky.social and I are excited to share our new paper about fern fiddlehead evolution @currentbiology.bsky.social Read the paper at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks @palaeojules.bsky.social for the wonderful reconstructions!