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Dr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social · 9h

Bacteria 🦠 🧫 play a crucial role in how animals become fossils!
Read about how decay experiments demonstrate that bacteria from the gut dominate the thanatomicrobiome (the internal microbiome of decay) and probably control fossilisation in our new paper!

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The relationship between microbial community succession, decay, and anatomical character loss in non‐biomineralized animals

A fundamental assumption of hypothesis-driven decay experiments is that, during decay, the loss of anatomy follows a sequence broadly controlled by the intrinsic compositional properties of tissues. ...

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 3h

Hechenleitner, E.M., Martinelli, A.G., Rocher, S. et al. A long-necked early dinosaur from a newly discovered Upper Triassic basin in the Andes. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A long-necked early dinosaur from a newly discovered Upper Triassic basin in the Andes - Nature

Discovery of a nearly complete skeleton of Huayracursor jaguensis, a Carnian dinosaur from the Northern Precordillera Basin in northwestern Argentina provides evidence of increased body size and early...

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Dr. Ornella Bertrand @ornellabertrand.bsky.social · 9h

New paper out! It was an honor to collaborate with the legend Leah Krubitzer on this review to show that paleontologists and neurobiologists working together can only improve our understanding of brain evolution 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Full access to the paper: rdcu.be/eK167

The functional adaptations of mammalian brain structures through a behavioural ecology lens - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

Palaeontologists and comparative neurobiologists share a common interest in the evolution of the mammalian brain, but often fail to realize the benefits of this shared interest. This Review draws thes...

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 1d

Functional morphology & biomechanics of an ontogenetic series of the Triassic cynodont Brasilodon quadrangularis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cjsalcidopaleo.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social

Four images of a fossil lower jaw bone. Top row: left, photograph of fossil specimen UFRGS-PV-1043-T (Brasilodon quadrangularis); right, scanned specimen segmented into a 3D model. Bottom row: left, coloured areas show where loads (coloured areas representing muscle masses) and constraints (arrows) are applied; results of finite element analysis.

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · 21h

You gave a talk in French?!

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Dr Suresh Singh @palaeosingh.bsky.social · 22h

New paper by Martínez et al. describing a new basal theropod #dinosaur 🦖 from the Late #Triassic of Argentina 🇦🇷 alongside an analysis of faunal assemblages that helps clarify how early dinosaurs diversified & expanded their ecological roles ⬇️

#Paleontology #Science

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The authors report a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Triassic Period of Argentina. Despite being one of the earliest theropods, Anteavis crurilongus has derived features more in line with Ne...

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · 27d

It’s never too late to squeeze in a pelycosaur talk

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · 27d

Really looking forward to it! Is technical session 6 supposed to be non-dinosaur archosauromorphs or reptiles more widely?

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Joe Keating @evopalaeo.bsky.social · 29d

Incredibly proud and also very emotional to see this new paper published in @systbiol.bsky.social. The study was lead by Pierre Cockx, who sadly passed away in July.
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · Sep 12

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

Multicolored CT model of a fossil cichlid skeleton. Image credit: Austin Babut (project technician).

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Sep 6

I’d love a copy of the aulacephalodon paper

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Aug 22

High up in the mountains of Lebanon this #FossilFriday looking for exceptionally well preserved fossil fishes. I’ve managed to come across this little guy, first time someone’s seen him in 100 million years

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Aug 9

My book review of the Secret History of Sharks by John Long is out now on palaeocast 🦈🦈🦈https://www.palaeocast.com/a-palaeontologists-book-review-of-a-secret-history-of-sharks/

It's a brilliant read, I highly recommened it. Check out my review to see why (and also to see a video of a whale shark!)

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Chase Brownstein @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social · Aug 9

1/16 🚨🚨 New paper!! I am thrilled to share our study that uses fossils, genomes, and a bit of geology to investigate how many times cavefishes evolved, and how they can help us figure out the ages of caves themselves! Link: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

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Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Aug 7

Check out our new paper in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social!

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Factors impacting the complexity of the leporid intracranial joint

Anatomy of the intracranial joint and the 2D semi-landmarks used to capture complexity in the intracranial joint. (a) The intracranial joint can be seen here (in red) between the parietal and occipit....

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Prof. Valentin Fischer @val-fisch.bsky.social · Aug 8

New paper where we applied FEA on marine reptiles teeth, with Joshua White & Matthew McCurry @australianmuseum.bsky.social. @universitedeliege.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Measuring the load-bearing capacity of Mesozoic marine reptile teeth using Finite Element Analysis

Paleontologists have long inferred the dietary preferences of Mesozoic marine reptiles based on skull and tooth morphologies. Previous researchers have hypothesized that different marine reptile to...

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Aug 7

Genuinely so exciting to see this memoir out, and really nice to see your paper in it! Can’t wait to give it all a read, congrats!

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Henry Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · Aug 7

As of this morning, SVP Memoir 23 - Vertebrate Evolution in the Permian Rift Basins of Tanzania and Zambia - has been published!!! What's inside? Let's dig in:

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Aug 1

You’ll all have seen the many announcements and PR pieces from #ColossalBiosciences. There are reasons to be concerned about the general message promoted by CB, one being that it is seen >by some< (US politicians in particular) as meaning that we can devalue conservation. A 🧵 1/n

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Bill Ryerson @billryerson.bsky.social · Jul 30

New Comparative Anatomy Textbook! Completely free to read and open access!

doi.org/10.59319/YHF...

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · Jul 31

New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Jul 26

Really sad that we’ve lost Ziad Rahbani. One of the biggest names in Arab music, almost unmatched in the influence he had. I imagine many of my mutuals have no idea who he was, you should totally give his work a listen

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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · Jul 23

Lots of unloveable oddballs there too (looking at you, Tetragonias)

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Stephan Spiekman @stephanspiekman.bsky.social · Jul 23

I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨Our new study: Tiny teeth, big story.

During the last few 100,000s of years of the Cretaceous, before the asteroid hit, a great diversity of theropods was living near what is now Barcelona.

Dinosaurs were strong, up until their tragic end! Our paper:

doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...

Redirecting

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