Larwood Oslo 2026 begins with its icebreaker in three hours!! The bryozoans are ready! Courtesy of Carolann Schack!! #bryozoa @bryozoology.bsky.social @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social

Gearing up for my talk later this morning at the Larwood Symposium in Oslo.

Liu et al. (2026-05, Current Biology) 「カンブリア紀前期の過渡的な種は，ラディオドンタ類とupper stem-group euarthropodsの橋渡しをする」 A transitional, early Cambrian species bridges radiodonts and upper stem-group euarthropods doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... [Oreinorema bergstroemi gen. et sp. nov.] （新属新種）

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

Bicknell et al. - New exceptionally preserved arthropod from the Furongian of Canada doi.org/10.1186/s129... #Cambrian #arthropd #fossil #Canada #palaeontology

New paper. Modern hagfishes (Myxiniformes) have radically reduced eyes. When did these reductions happen, and how? Leveraging the diverse hagfish fauna from Mazon Creek, we show this happened gradually in animals occupying shallow marine environments royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Dennis Gordon from earth science NZ is ready for Larwood Oslo 2026 #bryozoa. See all you bryozoologists out there soon!! @bryozoology.bsky.social

Darkness and body size shaped end-Cretaceous marine extinction patterns www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper on turtle origins is finally out in Current Biology, with two major implications for our understanding of reptile evolution 🐢 #Paleontology #Turtles #Evolution www.cell.com/current-biol...

The phylogenetic origin of turtles www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The fate of mountain biodiversity in a warming world www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Ambystoma quetzalcoatli, a fossil axolotl from Mexico | Paleontologia Electronica palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026...

Toward a universal geometry of life: Implications for biological theory and astrobiology | Carnets de géologie (Notebooks on geology) carnetsgeol.net/cg/26/07/ind...

"review synthesizes current practices, tools and limitations in merging Earth science data with macroevolutionary models emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration and practical guidelines for resource selection and uncertainty management" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology

"oldest... eukaryotes, approximately 1.75–1.4 billion years old... their near absence from otherwise fossiliferous anoxic samples suggests a benthic habit, as planktonic eukaryotes would be expected to be present in both oxic and anoxic samples" 🧪⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#FossilFriday Not quite a fossil but one of Johann Beringer's 'lying stones' on display at the small Lügenstein Museum in Würzburg, Germany. Well worth visiting.

What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime & #Fossilfriday! Today a special thematic post about eurypterids' fossilization! We know a lot of these guys but they aren't that much of fossil material at first, so let's talk about that below!⬇️🧵 #eurypterid #arthropod #fossilization #invert #bugsky 1/5

Discovery of White Sea assemblage fossils from Laurentia | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thrilled to be part of Larwood 2026! Putting the final touches on my talk and feeling so much excitement about reuniting with brilliant colleagues and friends in Oslo. See you all very soon! 🇳🇴🙌

Check out the talks for Larwood #bryozoan meeting 1-3 June 2026 www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... Can’t wait to see old friends, meet new ones, and nerd out about our favourite animals and their evolution! @bryozoology.bsky.social Welcome to the Natural History Museum in Oslo!

Mechanisms of Late Ordovician and Late Devonian ME: "These transient P surges align with biodiversity loss, widespread anoxia, and seawater temperature declines, suggesting a link between P flux, ocean anoxia, and global climate shifts," www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio #Geology

Terrestriality as an exaptation? "aquatic member of this stem lineage and demonstrates that the loss of exopods which results in uniramous limbs pre-dated the common ancestor of the amphibious euthycarcinoids and terrestrial myriapods" royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio

From living to fossil: ancestral state reconstruction of leaf architecture in extant Lauraceae and its relevance for the fossil record | Palaeontology doi.org/10.1111/pala...

#MolluscMonday The florid chamber-dividing sutures of the ammonoid Phylloceras are here emphasised by painting one of the chambers white. The function of such complex sutures is debated.

#Molluscmonday #AAPI From my visit to Nagoya, Japan 2018 for the International Echinoderm Conference! Standing alongside a massive ammonite-which were surprisingly common in Japan!

An Increase in Animal Diversity was Facilitated by Ecologically-Driven Brain Complexity Throughout the Cambrian | BioEssays doi.org/10.1002/bies...

Biological use of molybdenum and tungsten stems back to 3.4 billion years ago | nature communications www.nature.com/articles/s41...

May the fourth be with you: Death Star specimen of the bryozoan Volviflustrellaria volvox from the Upper Cretaceous of Germany. Photograph and allusion by Leila D’Souza.

How much of the scientific literature is generated by AI? | nature news www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#MolluscMonday #UrbanGeology Trio of sectioned belemnites visible in cladding and paving stones of White Jura (Treuchtlingen Formation) at the art gallery in Takasaki, Japan. One preserves the chambered phragmocone, and another is cut very obliquely avoiding the alveolus.

Environmental structure of the graptolite morphospace | Historical Biology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Timing and origins of Mexican and Central American oak diversity | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Yesterday was crazy, today looks worse, so I need to get my #InverteFest on before it all goes down. Since it's #WormWednesday we're gonna start with the inevitable serpulids, polychaetes adapted to an epibiotic lifestyle. Encrusting tubeworms, if you prefer. 🧪⚒️

Recently discovered in Japan, the Skeleton Panda Sea Squirt was formally titled 'Clavelina ossipandae' which translates to “little bottle of panda bones.” #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/natureisbe...

A basal representative of Cetacea from the Eocene of India | nature ecology & evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One for the igneous rock enthusiasts – orbicular granite photographed at a Buddhist temple in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.

Morphological character evolution and ancestral state reconstruction in phylactolaemate bryozoans | Scientific reports www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... New morphological investigations into character evolution of phylactolaemate bryozoans

Brachiopod genome unveils the evolution of BMP signalling in bilaterian body patterning | nature communications www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unraveling the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary event across the Gulf of Mexico—High-resolution Rayon reef section, Valles-San Luis Potosi platform, Mexico | Plos One journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The ecology of Archaeopteryx | Discover Ecology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Lamellar surface area calculations support respiratory function of trilobite exopodites royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Las Lepas (Lepas anatifera) es una especie de falso Percebe que vive pegado a objetos flotantes. El otro día encontramos un árbol flotando a la deriva en #torrevieja, habían cientos de estos animales adheridos. #lepas #fotosub #buceo #submarinismo #scuba #mediterraneo

It's happening 😍#IrritatorBelongstoBR

If you've ever wished these old pieces had some truly eye-watering color, your time is coming 🐡

My first magazine as editor. I'm beyond happy. fundacionazara.org.ar/img/revista-...

Polychaete annelids from the earliest Cambrian Period | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...