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Juned Zariwala

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PhD Student in Diapsid Skull Evolution at the University of Lincoln.

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 9h
Congratulations to William Freimuth, Lindsay Zanno, and @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social on the long awaited update on Geminiraptor suarezarum, NOW Falcarius suarezarum. Utah's 4th therizinosaur to date, a fifth may be coming... journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 15h
honestly, relationship goals.
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My Girlfriend Turned Into a Worm (2026) | Short Film
YouTube video by Alex Herz
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 15h
Faculty curator position in vertebrate paleontology! Great opportunity to work with outstanding colleagues at LSUMNS: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...
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Assistant Professor
All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...
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Z. Jack Tseng @tsengzj.bsky.social · 14h
Vert paleo curator gig at LSU; see recently published "Vertebrate Fossils of Louisiana" for a preview of the collections and potential projects that can be developed: repository.lsu.edu/spmns/5/
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Vertebrate Fossils of Louisiana
By Suyin Ting, Lorene E. Smith, Connor D. White, et al., Published on 01/01/25
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Sandra Álvarez @sabifo4.bsky.social · 23h
Character matrices, FBD, total-evidence dating... Fancy delving into all this & more over a 3-day course on morphological phylogenetics? 🧬💻🦴 📅 Pre-register by 8 Oct, 17:00 GMT: forms.gle/PwFh8zG6hrHY... ⏰ Deadline to request travel bursaries: 1 Oct, 17:00 GMT More info 👇 tinyurl.com/52c9u7dw
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Morphological Phylogenetics Application Form
Welcome to the SystAssn-SRUK/CERU-PalAss Morphological Phylogenetics Workshop application form. The workshop will be held at University College London on November 9th-11th. We look forward to seeing ...
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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 23h
The evolution of a morphological novelty: exceptional skeleton of an early Eocene trogon (Aves: Trogoniformes) elucidates the origin of a unique foot morphology, by Gerald Mayr: buff.ly/f9YbUJM 𝘿𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙤𝙣 𝙠𝙤𝙘𝙝𝙞 gen. et sp. nov., based on a nearly complete skeleton #PaleoSky #fossilbirds #Ypresian
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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Are Early Career Researchers getting the field training they need? Or more, accurately, do they *think* they are getting the training they need?
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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I absolutely love this paper -- Menezes & Podos in Evolution demonstrate that loudness is linked to body size and gap width, but apparently not to habitat or mating system, across 123 Brazilian & US species. academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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Evolutionary drivers of vocal amplitude in birds
Birds can surpass all other terrestrial vertebrates in vocal amplitude, yet why some birds sing louder than others remains unclear. Using calibrated field
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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Calling Fossil Fans - can you think of memorable occasions when palaeontology was reported in the news - when it went well, and perhaps more pertinently, when it didn't go well?
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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨NEW MICRORAPTORINE🚨 a warm welcome to norellraptor barsboldi, a new microraptorine described from the early cretaceous jiufotang formation of china 🐉 named after the late mark norell and richard barsbold, norellraptor's holotype is a complete skeleton preserving feather impressions
several images of elements of the norellraptor holotype
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Licht, A., Martin, J.E., Chanthasit, P. et al. A revised early Jurassic to Albian chronology for dinosaur evolution in tropical Asia. Commun Earth Environ (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s432...
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A revised early Jurassic to Albian chronology for dinosaur evolution in tropical Asia - Communications Earth & Environment
Sauropodomorph-bearing assemblages from the Khorat Plateau, Thailand, begin at least 20 million years later than previously believed, with subsequent faunal turnover paralleling that observed in Laura...
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wang, X., Ji, Y., Cau, A. et al. Independent assembly of the flight apparatus in a non-avian dinosaur clade. Nat Commun 17, 10074 (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Independent assembly of the flight apparatus in a non-avian dinosaur clade - Nature Communications
Microraptorines were bird-like dinosaurs that possessed some flight adaptations. A new fossil species from the early Cretaceous, Norellraptor barsboldi, suggests that this group evolved their own flig...
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New paper! Brandon Kilbourne conducted a huge data collection effort for the limb muscle architecture (masses, fascicle lengths, pennation angles; thereby PCSAs) of mustelid mammals. We found conspicuous relationships with morphology and locomotor mode. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Muscle architecture in mustelid mammals: anatomical proxies for muscle function and their relation to locomotor habit - BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background Though skeletal adaptations for locomotion in mammals are well documented, possible limb adaptations in terms of muscle architecture have received far less study. Examining mustelid mammals...
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houssayecnrs.bsky.social @houssayecnrs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We describe a new freshwater mosasaur, from Provence France, with N Bardet @cr2p.bsky.social, FL Pelissier, Y Dutour, E Turini & T Torstosa in @peercomjournal.bsky.social. Welcome to Garamaudo! It seems that mosasaur evolution was more complex than we thought peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Alright, talk ready to go. Marine Reptiles 2026 meeting at Oxford University Museum of Natural History. There are SO many talks (and posters), I'm really looking forward to it. #ichthyosaurs
Talk cover slide on Robert Appleby's ichthyosaur work, showing art by Bob Nicholls and images of Cretaceous ichthyosaurs Acamptonectes and Malawania.
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Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Man Finds Rare, Massive Mastodon Tooth the Size of a Human Fist Near Lake Shore in Canada. Here’s Why It Matters
A man found rare mastodon tooth near Adams Lake in British Columbia, a fossil find researchers say could reveal new information to what is known about the history of the area.
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Joseph W. Brown @josephwb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Early-diverging lineages provide little information about ancestors academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... From @phylieu.bsky.social @sinkingdiatom.bsky.social @omearabrian.bsky.social
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Early-diverging lineages provide little information about ancestors
Abstract. Large phylogenetic trees are often unbalanced near the root, with a species-depauperate lineage sister to a far more species-rich clade. The spec
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Aaron Kufner @akufner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The second I am calling Tecovaserpeton perfectum, and it is known (not surprisingly) primarily from the Tecovas Fm in TX. Its holotype was originally named Buettneria perfecta by Case in 1922, and it is a shockingly "perfect" specimen aside from being squished and missing the tabular horns.
The holotype skull of Tecovaserpeton perfectum, another toilet-lid headed amphibian from the Upper Triassic of Texas. This specimens is exceptionally well preserved with details of nearly all of the teeth and the dorsal surface of the skull clearly visible.
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
HAI-BING WANG & YUAN-QING WANG (2026) Metatherian origin in the Early Cretaceous Mesozoic 3(3): 245-258 DOI: 10.11646/mesozoic.3.3.3 www.mapress.com/mz/article/v...
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Metatherian origin in the Early Cretaceous | Mesozoic
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Thomas Farrell @thomasfarrellpaleo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm happy to share Avannaascolex, our new palaeoscolecid(omorph) from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, Greenland 🪱 Written up with @siriuspalaeo.bsky.social @cambriannelids.bsky.social and other colleagues from KOPRI, Bristol and the NHM not on bsky www.app.pan.pl/article/item...
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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#SICB 's SPDAC @sicb-spdac.bsky.social wants you to submit to their #sticker contest🙌 Designs are due Mon, Nov 2 at midnight. People can submit designs here: forms.gle/JRhGjGxEjPX4... What does SPDAC do? sicb.org/student-post... #scientists #biology #academicsociety #artists #SciArtSeptember
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
First leptosuchomorph phytosaur (Diapsida, Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of India reveals new insights on biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
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Dr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This week we had a brilliant 175th birthday party for the official mascot of the @colezoology.bsky.social - Norman the Asian Elephant. An ex-circus elephant, Norman died in 1867, and was bought by the University in 1921 for the price of £30! Happy birthday Norman! 🎉🎁🐘🎂
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Emma Dunne @emmadnn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Love to see ecology and conservation being combined with local languages 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦪 Really highlights the importance of including languages beyond English in our research! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Lost oyster beds rediscovered thanks to Gaelic and Scots language
Scientists searched for the inclusion of the Gaelic and Scots words for oyster or oysters in place-names around Scotland's coast.
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Guillermo Navalón @gnavalon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Quite an updated and deep outlook on the main problems (and potential solutions!) in avian phylogenetics, past and present, stem and crown! Also very well written & nice to read, congrats you both (J. Benito is not in bluesky yet)!
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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Brilliant first day for our University of Birmingham field course to Dinosaur Provincial Park 🇨🇦.
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The Fossil Files Podcast @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What did the Jurassic actually sound like? A team of scientists in the UK and China used fossil insect wings, lasers, FEA, AI models, DNA and more to recreate a 'palaeo-acoustic soundscape' of a Jurassic Forest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h41...
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Reconstructed katydid ancestor calls from the Jurassic
YouTube video by The Brighter Side of News
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wow! Great news for the BGSU paleobiology program. Congrats to @pegyaco.bsky.social and colleagues: www.bgsu.edu/news/2026/09...
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More than $1 million in gifts expands opportunities for BGSU paleobiology students
More than $1 million in gifts from BGSU alumna Sue Goldstein, Ph.D., ’74 and the estate of longtime professor Don C. Steinker, Ph.D., will expand research, fieldwork and professional opportunities for...
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Over a decade ago, Tom Challands and I noticed these strange rock pools on the Isle of Skye coast. Hundreds, each the size of a car tire, lined up in zig-zag sequences Dinosaur tracks! We announced the site, then handed it to Paige dePolo to describe for her Masters Now today:
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New at Tetrapod Zoology: The Splendid and Remarkable Anatomy of Hornbills .... tetzoo.com/blog/2026/9/... #birds #ornithology
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The Splendid and Remarkable Anatomy of Hornbills — Tetrapod Zoology
hornbills, hornbill, Bucerotidae, Bucerotiformes, bucerotiform, bird evolution, evolution of birds, ornithology, palaeornithology, paleornithology, bird history, ground hornbill, Bucorvus, Buceros, zo...
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Emily Higgs Art @emilyhiggs-art.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oviraptor ~ egg thief 🥚🍳 . This was a design I worked up a while ago when looking at famous fossil discoveries which included the oviraptor found sitting on top of a nest. . This design is part of a much bigger themed piece which I look forward to sharing soon
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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New Eocene proto-trogon Daniatrogon kochi, known from a nearly complete skeleton: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Unlike in modern trogons, the second toe on each foot was not rotated to point backward. 🪶🧪 (📷Mayr)
Fossilized skeleton of an extinct bird.
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Lizzy Steell @lizzysteell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨 New bird paper! 🚨 Take a look at our review paper that Juan Benito and I put together about avian systematics and the bird fossil record along with what we think are important future directions in the field 🐦 🦴 🦜🦅🦤 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A bird’s eye view of the fossil record: perspectives on avian systematics
Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented rise in avian fossil discoveries that directly inform our understanding of bird origins and evolution, the stepwise assemblage of the avian body plan,...
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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
QRP your bird art 🪶🐡
A drawing of a nightjar, an oilbird, a potoo, a frogmouth, an owlet-nightjar, and a treeswift perched on a series of branches, along with a swift and hummingbird flying above them. The way the branches and birds are arranged happens to form a diagram reflecting the evolutionary relationships among these birds.Diagram showing the evolutionary relationships among 18 species of heron found in Taiwan. A spoonbill and a sacred ibis are illustrated in a box in the lower right as examples of non-heron birds that may be mistaken for herons. Text labels are provided in both Chinese and English.A range of waterbirds from eastern North America sitting on the surface of the water, represented by a blue background. The birds are labeled not by their actual names, but by goofy nicknames (e.g., common loon = "wailing torpedo").A mosaic of cartoonized birds.
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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fantastic day out #laserScanning @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social #Ediacaran fossils from 565 million years ago! Collecting data for our @erc.europa.eu research grant understanding selection in Ediacaran early animals 😀
A team of palaeontologists laser scanner a rock surface
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Dr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A number of 🚨Science & Museum Jobs🚨 available at different levels right now for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections UK programme 🪩 #DiSSCo 🪩 fab if you're into 🌳science digitisation🌳 #ScienceJobs #MuseumJobs jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...
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DiSSCo UK Digitiser:South Kensington
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Nicolas Di-Poi @nicolasdipoi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our collaborative paper on snake coiling is now out in the latest issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on the cover! 🎉 Delighted to see our work highlighted this way. You can read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ni9h3QW8S... @helsinki-biotech.bsky.social @helsinki.fi
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 21/09/2026
📣 A date for your diaries . . . I’m looking forward to returning to Oxford's Museum of Natural History on Friday 6 November, 6–7:30pm. It’s free, and everyone’s welcome—but booking is essential. 🌈🦋🗃️ www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/darwin... #histsci #sts #queerhistory #Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social
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Darwin's Queer Theory
Queer ecology is a vibrant and rapidly evolving field, exploring the astonishing diversity of sexes and sexual repertoires found among plants and animals. For some, this has been a revelation.
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
More #DinoConUK 2026 testimonials from guests and vendors who were in attendance. Thanks to @tomjurassic.bsky.social for brilliant videography -- and stay tuned for #DinoCon 2027 breaking news, we swear it's coming soon :) Multiple guest appearances in this video...
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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This Wednesday at 1pm Eastern, join us for a Q&A all about Hummingbirds w/scientist Alyssa Sargent! Alyssa's work has taken her around the world studying bird behavior! In this session she'll introduce her work, then we'll open it up for audience questions. RSVP here givebutter.com/hummingbirds...
a poorly made canvas graphic, very simple, with a picture of Alyssa, who is a glasses-clad long haired woman with a bird on her head. A hummingbird says "it's a q&a" and the title says hummingbirds with Alyssa sargent. a word blob says "Learn about Alyssa;s work on bird behavior then ask her questions"
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The Anatomical Record @anatrecord.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Spiderman? No it’s a Spidersnake! Micro-CT analysis of the holotype of Pseudocerastes urarachnoides reveals striking variation along its vertebral column, especially in the tail—but no skeletal element beneath the spider-like appendages. Study by Georgalis et al.: doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...
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Ausarchosaur @ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The holotype of Harpesaurus modiglianii was collected in 1891, and the species was never seen again for another 129 years in 2018. The holotype's color changed to a bluish grey as it was preserved in alcohol, and this was erroneously taken to be its actual color in life.
Technically public domain where I live, but the artist is Armando Baliani: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harpesaurus_modiglianii_%E2%80%93_Baliani,_1933_(no_signatures).png
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UCL Research Department of Cell & Developmental Biology @ucl-cdb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
UCL CDB’s Technology Platforms provide researchers with cutting-edge facilities, from advanced microscopy and molecular biology to zebrafish and metabolic research support, helping drive scientific discovery and innovation. www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...
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Technology Platforms
We host several facilities which support researchers with technical expertise and provide essential services both within the department and across the Division of Biosciences and UCL.
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Laura Porro @laurabporro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Very excited that former Bristol student Julia May has published her Master's work on feeding mechanics using finite element modelling in salamanders! Co-authored by @emilyrayfield.bsky.social and myself in Journal of Morphology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Comparative Morphology and Mechanics of Aquatic and Terrestrial Feeding Salamanders
Jaw muscle size, bite force, and skull strength are driven by multiple factors, not just the difference between the two habitats. Necturus produces higher bite forces than Salamandra, but the stress ...
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just back from a great day at Birdworld in Surrey (UK), which has a spectacular collection of hornbills, as well as parrots, pigeons, waterfowl, waders and more. More photos to come. #birds #ornithology
Visayan Tarictic hornbill on branch.Male and female Blyth's hornbill in tree.Southern ground hornbill scratching with left foot.Red-legged series face.
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
African ape carpal morphology is not too specialized to represent the ancestral hominin carpus - Hunter - Journal of Anatomy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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African ape carpal morphology is not too specialized to represent the ancestral hominin carpus
Knuckle walking is one hypothesized behavior of the Pan-Homo last common ancestor. We analyzed carpal morphology, including Euclidean distances between behavioral pairs, to investigate whether the ca...
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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cute story for the CBBC, hopefully inspiring more children to find a passion for science www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...
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Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda: 240-million-year-old fossil from Tanzania
Experts say the discovery could help them better understand when and where dinosaurs first appeared on Earth.
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Omar Rafael Regalado Fernández @mathchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A side project I have been working on over the last couple of weeks has finally matured into a paper. The contradictory views about the fossil record of Mexican dinosaurs seem to be a database management problem. www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
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Frontiers | A hundred years of dinosaur research in Mexico: skeletal completeness and phylogenetic information of the dinosaur fossil record in Mexico
The dinosaur fossil record from Mexico is sparsely documented since most of it is fragmentary remains with little taxonomic information and a lot of it conti...
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Okay, this is getting used in a lecture at some point... xkcd.com/3300/
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Tyrannosaurus
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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gondwanan royalty for today’s #FossilFriday Dinodontosaurus tener from Brazil, Dinodontosaurus brevirostris from Argentina, and Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda from Tanzania They probably didn’t think of themselves as royalty tbf, just very hungry
Photo courtesy of Christian KammererPhoto courtesy of Christian KammererPhotos courtesy of Jonathan Jackson, edited by me
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