Fossil and digital evidence indicate modern crocodiles evolved flatter, weaker skulls for improved swimming, trading bite strength for streamlining as they adapted from land to water environments. doi.org/g9955t

Our new paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org is out now

We show that modern crocodiles evolved flatter and weaker skulls from domed ancestors to adapt to life in water, trading skull strength for streamlining 🐊

Read here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

#Paleontology #Crocodiles #Evolution

Now there are three sassy heads in the CVN lab!

Hi-Tech goat things are happening in the CVN lab! 👀

Constraints and adaptations in crocodyliform skull evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.09.663933v1

how's work going in your lab over the summer?

our lab:

‘Real’ #LiquidGlass wallpaper
Beach wave #ShotoniPhone 13 Pro Max using @halideapp.bsky.social
#WWDC2025 #iOS26

Late post, but l'm happy to announce that I started a postdoc in Jan at the CVN lab with @nicoleackermans.bsky.social at UA, studying the biomechanics of headbutting in goat skulls to understand how they dissipate stress from repeated impact, and its link to neurodegeneration.

New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Do you use 3D imaging like CT or MRI for research, teaching, outreach, or art? Check out our new article featuring a detailed workflow for producing 3D cinematic renderings―from tissue-level to whole-organism details―with stunning realism! doi.org/10.1016/j.is... @helsinkiuni.bsky.social