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Molly Tumelty

@mollytumelty.bsky.social
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PhD student at uni of Edinburgh⛏️🦕 | Researching ichthyosaurs🐬🦎 | Crocheter and knitter🧶 | she/her

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Dr Stephan Lautenschlager @palaeostephan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Second new paper this week: Reconstructing the oral apparatus of the Silurian heterostracan Athenaegis. Led by @lisaschnetz.bsky.social and in collaboration with many colleagues, including @euphanerops.bsky.social (who rendered the animation) and @nitroshutter.bsky.social
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Paleontological Society @paleosoc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Check out this week’s PaleoArt Highlight!🎨 🦈Here we have an acrylic painting of the prehistoric shark Dracopristis hoffmanorum! Thank you to Joshua Ballze for sending in this fantastic piece!🖌️ If you’d like to see your Paleoart featured, fill out this form: tinyurl.com/PSPaleoArt🔗
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Edinburgh Diamond @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Interested in partnering with Edinburgh Diamond for your book or journal and wondering if you're eligible? We just published new eligibility guidelines! Check them out: library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...
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Find out if you're eligible to partner with Edinburgh Diamond for your book or journal.
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
@mollytumelty.bsky.social with her undergrad Brum research on fish (now she's studying ichthyosaurs in Edinburgh)!
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Molly Tumelty @mollytumelty.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Finally handed in my MSci dissertation!! The project used CT scanning to redescribe a Carboniferous ray-finned fish🐟
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Dr Stephan Lautenschlager @palaeostephan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
An interesting change from reconstructing dinosaurs and other terrestrial animals... My digital restoration and reconstruction of the cyathaspid heterostracan Anglaspis heintzi from our new paper (see below). #FossilFish #DigitalReconstruction #Palaeontology
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Molly Tumelty @mollytumelty.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Sick day attending the BIFoR sustainability and climate change education forum and visiting BIFoR FACE!
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Many theropods shortened their arms and lost fingers. How did they do it? Our Edinburgh student Milly Mead, in her first paper, looks into oviraptorosaurs. Arm shortening and finger loss were decoupled! @funstonpaleo.bsky.social & I are proud supervisors! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Forelimb reduction and digit loss were evolutionarily decoupled in oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaurs | Royal Society Open Science
Theropod forelimbs exhibit wide morphological disparity, from the elongated wings of birds to the diminutive arms of T. rex. A wealth of work has sought to understand the evolution of bird flight via ...
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Dr Stephan Lautenschlager @palaeostephan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
New therizinosaur fossils are always exciting. But this one is particularly weird/cool having only two fingers! Some comments from me on this new find in National Geographic www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
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This bizarre new dinosaur has something in common with modern sloths
Like T. rex and some modern sloths, this strange 90 million year old dinosaur had two fingers on each hand.
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Dr Elsa Panciroli @elsa-panciroli.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Back in Black. Ever wondered what colour mammals were in the time of dinosaurs? Well a sample of six #MesozoicMammals suggests they were *drum roll* all dark brown/black. The original goths, I love 'em more than ever. Congrats to the authors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Mesozoic mammaliaforms illuminate the origins of pelage coloration
Pelage coloration, which serves numerous functions, is crucial to the evolution of behavior, physiology, and habitat preferences of mammals. However, little is known about the coloration of Mesozoic m...
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Molly Tumelty @mollytumelty.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
First publication!:) anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Is cranial anatomy indicative of fossoriality? A case study of the mammaliaform Hadrocodium wui
Determining the ecology of fossil species presents considerable challenges due to the often fragmentary preservation of specimens. The mammaliaform Hadrocodium wui from the Jurassic of China is known...
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Tumelty, M., & Lautenschlager, S. (2025). Is cranial anatomy indicative of fossoriality? A case study of the mammaliaform Hadrocodium wui. The Anatomical Record, 1–21. doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...
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Is cranial anatomy indicative of fossoriality? A case study of the mammaliaform Hadrocodium wui
Determining the ecology of fossil species presents considerable challenges due to the often fragmentary preservation of specimens. The mammaliaform Hadrocodium wui from the Jurassic of China is known....
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