Molly Tumelty
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PhD student at uni of Edinburgh⛏️🦕 | Researching ichthyosaurs🐬🦎 | Crocheter and knitter🧶 | she/her
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Edinburgh Diamond
22 days ago
Interested in partnering with Edinburgh Diamond for your book or journal and wondering if you're eligible? We just published new eligibility guidelines! Check them out:
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Eligibility | Library | Library
Find out if you're eligible to partner with Edinburgh Diamond for your book or journal.
https://library.ed.ac.uk/research-support/edinburgh-diamond/publish/eligibility
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with her undergrad Brum research on fish (now she's studying ichthyosaurs in Edinburgh)!
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Finally handed in my MSci dissertation!! The project used CT scanning to redescribe a Carboniferous ray-finned fish🐟
7 months ago
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Dr Stephan Lautenschlager
8 months ago
An interesting change from reconstructing dinosaurs and other terrestrial animals... My digital restoration and reconstruction of the cyathaspid heterostracan Anglaspis heintzi from our new paper (see below).
#FossilFish
#DigitalReconstruction
#Palaeontology
add a skeleton here at some point
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Sick day attending the BIFoR sustainability and climate change education forum and visiting BIFoR FACE!
9 months ago
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Steve Brusatte
9 months ago
Many theropods shortened their arms and lost fingers. How did they do it? Our Edinburgh student Milly Mead, in her first paper, looks into oviraptorosaurs. Arm shortening and finger loss were decoupled!
@funstonpaleo.bsky.social
& I are proud supervisors!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Forelimb reduction and digit loss were evolutionarily decoupled in oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaurs | Royal Society Open Science
Theropod forelimbs exhibit wide morphological disparity, from the elongated wings of birds to the diminutive arms of T. rex. A wealth of work has sought to understand the evolution of bird flight via ...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.242114
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Dr Stephan Lautenschlager
9 months ago
New therizinosaur fossils are always exciting. But this one is particularly weird/cool having only two fingers! Some comments from me on this new find in National Geographic
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
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This bizarre new dinosaur has something in common with modern sloths
Like T. rex and some modern sloths, this strange 90 million year old dinosaur had two fingers on each hand.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/weird-new-dinosaur-therizinosaur-claws-sloth
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Dr Elsa Panciroli
9 months ago
Back in Black. Ever wondered what colour mammals were in the time of dinosaurs? Well a sample of six
#MesozoicMammals
suggests they were *drum roll* all dark brown/black. The original goths, I love 'em more than ever. Congrats to the authors!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Mesozoic mammaliaforms illuminate the origins of pelage coloration
Pelage coloration, which serves numerous functions, is crucial to the evolution of behavior, physiology, and habitat preferences of mammals. However, little is known about the coloration of Mesozoic m...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads9734
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First publication!:)
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Is cranial anatomy indicative of fossoriality? A case study of the mammaliaform Hadrocodium wui
Determining the ecology of fossil species presents considerable challenges due to the often fragmentary preservation of specimens. The mammaliaform Hadrocodium wui from the Jurassic of China is known...
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25630
11 months ago
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
11 months ago
Tumelty, M., & Lautenschlager, S. (2025). Is cranial anatomy indicative of fossoriality? A case study of the mammaliaform Hadrocodium wui. The Anatomical Record, 1–21.
doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...
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Is cranial anatomy indicative of fossoriality? A case study of the mammaliaform Hadrocodium wui
Determining the ecology of fossil species presents considerable challenges due to the often fragmentary preservation of specimens. The mammaliaform Hadrocodium wui from the Jurassic of China is known....
https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25630
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