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Day 2 of #2025SVP announcements! We are delighted to be promoting 6 of our editorial board members: Arnau Bolet, Diego Castaneda, Masaya Iijima, Beniamino Mecozzi, Jorgo Ristevski, & Mohd Shafi Bhat, to associate editors!

Hello #2025SVP! This is the first of monthly announcements that, in January 2027, Historical Biology will be transitioning to Online-Only! Feel free to come to the Taylor & Francis booth (Booth 1, Hall 3) and meet our editor in chief Mark Young on Friday at 1630-1700 for any queries.

@historicalbiology.bsky.social is taking on new Associate Editors and Editorial Board Members! Please see the ad for further details.

Historical Biology is hiring new associate editors! We are seeking associate editors in several areas including, but not limited to, terrestrial invertebrates, marine invertebrates, taphonomy, and ichnology. See the following for more details: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

In January, we will be changing data policy to Publicly Available. Data & code for future submissions must be submitted to a public data repository. Inquiries can be directed to our editor in chief Mark Young or data editor Brooke Long-Fox. authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/data-sharing...

I'll be at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting in Birmingham (UK) next week. 🦖 We have an exciting itinerary planned including several Meet the Editor sessions. Come say hi and bring your questions to any of our editors at our booth! 🤝 #SVP2025 #2025SVP #paleontology

📣Editor spotlight Dr Mohd Shaffi Bhat is a postdoc at Auburn University. His research interests lie in the evolution of vertebrates, focusing on their morphology, taxonomy, and their bone microstructure (i.e., histology) 🦴

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For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Masaya Iijima. This is specimen XM 12-1558, from Xinhui museum in Guangdog, China. It belongs to Hanyusuchus, a large (>6 m) crocodylian that became extinct only a few hundred years ago in south China, likely due to habitat loss and hunting 🐊

Very happy to see final, printed version of 'The response to and rejection of Brian Ford's Too Big To Walk, a 21st century effort to reinstate the aquatic dinosaur hypothesis' in Historical Biology vol 37, number 9 (Oct 2025). Contact me if you want a pdf. #dinosaurs @historicalbiology.bsky.social

Team effort from @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social @plubbe.bsky.social @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social Alex Brown and @atennyson.bsky.social between Cambridge Uni, Otago Uni and Te Papa Tongarewa. Find the paper here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @historicalbiology.bsky.social (🧵2/11)

📣Editor spotlight Masaya Iijima is a researcher focusing on the comparative morphology and systematics of crocodylians to assess the biological and ecological factors behind major faunal changes, such as the Quaternary megafauna extinction 🐊

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For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Diego Castanera. This is an Ornithopod track overstepping a sauropod track in the Late Jurassic Las Cerradicas tracksite (Galve, Spain), an example of gregarious behavior among sauropod & ornithopod herds & quadrupedalism in ornithopod dinosaurs 🦕

📣Editor spotlight Diego Castanera is a Researcher at Deparment of Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). He specialises in vertebrate ichnology with emphasis on dinosaur, pterosaur, crocodylomorph, mammal and bird tracks 🦖 🐊

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For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Verónica Vennari. This is Argentiniceras noduliferum, an Early Cretaceous ammonite & index fossil specimen from the Vaca Muerta Formation in the Neuquén Basin, Argentina. 🐚

📣Editor spotlight Verónica Vennari has a PhD in Geological Sciences by the Buenos Aires University and is an Associate Researcher at CONICET. Her research focus on the systematics and biostratigraphy of Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous ammonites from Argentina 🐚

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📣Editor spotlight Dr Jorgo Ristevski is an early career palaeontologist that studies crocodyliforms. He researches the extinct crocodylian clade Mekosuchinae. He has named and described several extinct crocodyliform genera and species, including Australia's giant gavialoid Gunggamarandu maunala 🐊

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For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Letita Luci. This is a very well preserved, trigonioid bivalve Steinmanlla curacoensis (CPBA 20545.5) from the early Valanginian of Argentina. An oyster is cemented on it, a common occurrence in the Early Cretaceous🐚

📣Editor spotlight Dr Letita Luci is a researcher (CONICET) and a part-time university teacher (UBA) from Argentina. Her research focuses on Cretaceous marine hard-substrate communities settled on invertebrate shells and inorganic nodules, analyzing their taxonomy, paleoecology and taphonomy 🐚

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For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Steve Brusatte. This is the holotype of the dromeosaur Zhenyuanlong (JPM-0008). From the Early Cretaceous of China, this specimen is notable for its trails of feathers, short arms, and wings 🦖

📣Editor spotlight Prof Steve Brusatte is a professor of vertebrate palaeontology at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in the evolution of dinosaurs, pterosaurs & mammals. He is a keen science communicator who has written best-selling books & is the consultant on the Jurassic World films 🦖

Our newest #ScienceCommunication editorial covers the holotype of the enigmatic 'Ichthyosaurus' torrei... a specimen that was lost with only photos, CT scans & documentation left to extract data. Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1080/0891... Read the original paper: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

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For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Rodrigo Temp Müller. Macrocollum itaquii was the first complete dinosaur discovered in Brazil. Measuring about 3.5 meters in length and dating back 225 million years, it is the oldest long-necked sauropodomorph known worldwide 🦕

📣Editor spotlight Dr Rodrigo Temp Müller is a Brazilian vertebrate paleontologist at the Federal University of Santa Maria. His research focuses on the evolution and systematics of Triassic archosaurs, particularly early dinosaurs and their relatives 🦖

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For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Jordan Bestwick. This is Istiodactylus, a pterosaur that lived 120 million years ago in what is now the Isle of Wight & characterised by densely packed, triangular & serrated teeth that are hypothesised to have helped deflesh dinosaur carcasses.

📣Editor spotlight Dr Jordan Bestwick is a post doc at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His main areas of research include pterosaur–bird competition, reconstructing diets of extinct reptiles via microwear analysis, and the faunal compositions of the Triassic site of Frick, north Switzerland 🐦

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For #FossilFriday, we have, from our editor Daniel Field, 2 artist recreations of Asteriornis maastrichtensis (left), & Janavis finalidens (right). Asteriornis is among the earliest known crown bird fossils & Janavis is among the world's youngest known toothed stem birds. Art by Phillip Krzeminski 🐦

📣Editor spotlight Dr Daniel Field is the Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Strickland Curator of Ornithology at the University of Cambridge. He is passionate about avian evolution and science outreach, and enjoys photographing Earth’s vertebrate biodiversity in the field 📸 🐦

For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Arnau Bolet. Here, we have IPS60464, the holotype of Blanus mendezi, a Miocene species of worm lizard. It represents the only complete skull of a fossil amphisbaenian from Europe, where the fossil record mainly consists of vertebrae and jaws 🦎

@historicalbiology.bsky.social now has online Collections. One where I highlight papers that are thought-provoking or advance a field. The other is edited by our Science Communication Editor (@cooperpalaeo.bsky.social) - which brings together his SciComm series. www.tandfonline.com/journals/ghb...

Our newest #ScienceCommunication editorial covers a remarkable dinosaur specimen; but one that also has a troubled history in smuggling & private collections. Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1080/0891... Read the original paper: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

📣Editor spotlight Dr Arnau Bolet specializes in the study of Jurassic-Pleistocene fossil lizards, with a particular interest on those from the Iberian Peninsula, broad studies of squamate evolution and morphology, and contributions to the study of Catalan Permo-Triassic assemblages 🦎

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For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Cecilia Cataldo. This fossil is the gastropod Paleoanculosa macrochilinoides (CNAM-PI 24522) from the Lower Cretaceous of Argentina. These fossils notably show repaired shell damage as a result of attacks by an unknown durophagous predator 🐚

📣Editor spotlight Dr Cecilia Cataldo, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, graduated as a paleontologist from the University of Buenos Aires with a PhD in geology. She works as a researcher at CONICET studying Cretaceous marine gastropods, with a focus on the Lower Cretaceous of South America 🐚

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My @historicalbiology.bsky.social review of Weedon & Chapman's 2022 #Ichthyosaurs from the Early Jurassic of Britain is now online -- these are exciting times for those interested in this charismatic group! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Pdf available for those who want it (of the review!)

For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Ana Paula Carignano. This fossil is UNC-PMIC 71 (Neuquenocypris calfucurensis), a right valve of the Upper Cretaceous ostracod from Patagonia. It inhabited lacustrine paleoenvironments 🐚

📣Editor spotlight Dr Ana Paula Carignano is a micropaleontologist at the Museo de La Plata, Argentina. Her research focuses on Mesozoic non-marine ostracods as well as marine Upper Cretaceous ostracods from Patagonia 🦐

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For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Roger Thomas. This fossil is USNM 617253cp; showing the Early Cambrian stem-gastropod Pelagiella exigua from the Kinzers Formation in Pennsylvania, USA 🐚