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Jessica Dobson

@jessica-dobson.bsky.social

PhD student at Ghent University researching the evolution and diversity of colours in mammals🐼🐯

Jessica Dobson @jessica-dobson.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Back again with more cool mammal updates, this time in maybe the coolest mammal - the platypus! Thrilled to share the second chapter of my PhD, out today in Biology Letters. We found spherical hollow melanosomes in the fur of the platypus, maybe a total vertebrate first! doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

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Dr Nicholas Freymueller @smilodontology.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

🐋 🐻‍❄️ 🦭 MASSIVE NEW FOSSIL DATABASE 🐋 🐻‍❄️ 🦭 Our FAMM (Fossil Arctic Marine Mammal) database has now been published #OpenAccess in Global Ecology and Biogeography! Come learn about the cool stuff you can do with #Arctic #fossil material and bio-molecular archives! ☢️ ⚛️ 🧬 Link and thread below! 🧵 1/🦴

Pan-Arctic map of data coverage in the Fossil Arctic Marine Mammal database. Shown is a bivariate choropleth map denoting species richness and number of fossils in 200km x 200 km grid cells

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Jessica Dobson @jessica-dobson.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Super happy to share the first chapter of my PhD, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface ✨🐀 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Iridescence in mammals is not as rare as we thought, but it’s all created in the same way!

Rainbow-like colours in the fur of a tropical rat (Otomys tropicalis)

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