Venanzio Munyaka
@munyaka.bsky.social
📤 25
📥 20
📝 0
Baylor Geosciences PhD Candidate | Eastern African Paleobotany and Ape evolution
reposted by
Venanzio Munyaka
McNulty Lab
about 1 month ago
We hired a local artist to paint a mural of what the Early Miocene on Rusinga Island may have looked like. Here he is at work! This will be just inside of the entrance at the Rusinga Island Prehistory Organization's Interpretive Centre!
0
5
1
reposted by
Venanzio Munyaka
Andrew Flynn
6 months ago
Our new paper is out in
@science.org
#ScienceResearch
Our understanding of the dinosaurs at the very end of the Cretaceous is limited by few localities. What dinosaur biogeographic patterns were present leading up the K/Pg boundary? What can these tell us about end Cretaceous dinosaur communities
2
27
6
reposted by
Venanzio Munyaka
Dan Peppe
6 months ago
Excited to share the results of collaborative research in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico published today in
@science.org
that provides new age constraints for the Naashobito dinosaurs from New Mexico, like the giant sauropod, Alamosaurus:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
3
76
22
reposted by
Venanzio Munyaka
Kevin Uno
9 months ago
Check out our new paper, led by former postdoc and current colleague Daniel Green on 18 Ma proteins in fossil teeth! Tim Cleland, a proteomics wizard, did the measurements. What's the take home? We hope to use protein fingerprints to study mammal and hominin phylogenetics!
bit.ly/OldProteome
loading . . .
Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift - Nature
The isolation of dental proteins from fossils deposited 1.5 million to 18 million years ago in the Turkana Basin in Kenya, a tropical region, demonstrate the promise of dental enamel for palaeoproteom...
https://bit.ly/OldProteome
2
6
6
reposted by
Venanzio Munyaka
Jon Hendricks
10 months ago
🚨Postdoc Opportunity in Invert Paleontology🚨 Milwaukee Public Museum is searching for a postdoc to assist with a research project focused on Plio-Pleistocene to Recent mollusks from the southeastern United States. Details available at:
www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
Please share
#FossilFriday
0
8
14
reposted by
Venanzio Munyaka
Dan Peppe
10 months ago
Another great summary of our recently published work on the climate, ecology, and environment of the early Miocene in western Kenya
@munyaka.bsky.social
@mcnultylab.bsky.social
urls.grow.me/7Gl5Oyr91N
loading . . .
Early apes lived in a constantly changing world of fire and ash
Apes lived in this changing environment, which helped shape their evolution.Their behavior and diet were influenced by the landscape.
https://urls.grow.me/7Gl5Oyr91N
0
4
3
reposted by
Venanzio Munyaka
McNulty Lab
10 months ago
A summary of our new paper, featuring the brilliant work of
@munyaka.bsky.social
and
@danpeppe.bsky.social
. Always new surprises from the fossil record!
add a skeleton here at some point
1
11
5
reposted by
Venanzio Munyaka
Eos
10 months ago
Early apes lived in a land of forest fires, floods, and volcanoes, according to new early Miocene fossils. Research by
@mcnultylab.bsky.social
,
@danpeppe.bsky.social
,
@munyaka.bsky.social
,
@paleosol.bsky.social
,
@susycote.bsky.social
,
@abigail-hall.bsky.social
& colleagues.
eos.org/research-spo...
loading . . .
Early Apes Evolved in Tropical Forests Disturbed by Fires and Volcanoes - Eos
Fossils discovered at an early Miocene site in Kenya include a new type of early ape and offer clues about the environment inhabited by human ancestors.
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/early-apes-evolved-in-tropical-forests-disturbed-by-fires-and-volcanoes
0
14
10
reposted by
Venanzio Munyaka
McNulty Lab
10 months ago
Congratulations to
@munyaka.bsky.social
on this outstanding dissertation research! Special thanks to his advisor
@danpeppe.bsky.social
and to the other authors for a great collaboration:
#paleoanthropology
∩
#paleontology
∩
#geology
∩
#forestry
!
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
0
7
2
you reached the end!!
feeds!
log in