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In honor of the start of #spookyseason we hope you enjoy... "The oldest known bat skeletons and their implications for Eocene chiropteran diversification" 🦇🦇🦇 Project: bit.ly/4xQtG5L Article in @plosone.org: bit.ly/4AGBY2F #halloween #october #fall #happyhalloween #trickortreat #autumn 🧪

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A new quasipetalichthyid placoderm from the Middle Devonian of China onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology #FossilFriday @morphobank.bsky.social

Upper left: photograph of fossil specimen IVPP V26687, the placoderm Yipetalichthys maxiongensis, a natural mould of the dorsal part of the endocranium, preserving only a portion of the preorbital plate. Scale bar at lower right of photograph is 10 mm. Lower right, interpretive line drawing. Red rectangle in lower left corner is a cover image from the journal Papers in Palaeontology.

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

MorphoBank has received supplemental funding from the NSF to develop educational resources to improve AI literacy among students grades 6-12 using real scientific research data and records. 🧪 bit.ly/4hMZN0f #fossil #evolutionarybiology #biology #paleontology #openaccess #AI #aieducation

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Did you miss out on MorphoBank Connects 2026? Catch up with our video highlights... 🧪 🔸Welcome & Introduction: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii4q... 🔸MorphoBank how-to workshop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zetf... #MorphoBank #fossil #evolutionarybiology #biology #paleontology #openaccess #opendata

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Workshop - MorphoBank Connects 2026

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New alligatorid, Mandrasuchus milleri, from the Early Paleocene (Danian) of the Denver Basin supports earliest Paleocene North American alligatorid radiation 🧪 Project: bit.ly/4h5HwMs Article in @jvertpaleo.bsky.social: bit.ly/4xAEO6o #fossil #evolutionarybiology #biology #paleontology

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The time has come! MorphoBank Connects is this week, Thursday Sept. 17! 🧪 Join us for a free virtual conference to connect with other users, explore new projects, and tips for using the MorphoBank toolset. READ MORE: bit.ly/4gUd2wI REGISTER: bit.ly/3VsWB1Y

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Join us for MorphoBank Connects 2026: A virtual gathering of MorphoBank users across biology and paleontology - Phoenix Bioinformatics

You're invited to attend our free virtual conference MorphoBank Connects on Thursday September 17, 2026. Hope to see you there!

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Redescription of Sorbitorhynchus deleaskitus (Sarcopterygii, Dipnoi) from the Lower Devonian of China onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology #FossilFriday @morphobank.bsky.social

Three different images of a fossil lungfish skull. Top left: photograph of Sorbitorhynchus deleaskitus (GMC V2034.1) from the Lower Devonian of China in dorsal view. Top right: virtual rendering of the same specimen with various features including nerve canals marked in white. Bottom right: another virtual rendering of the same specimen, this time slightly enlarging rostral region, with partial transparency revealing internal canals and highlighting the path of various nerves, arteries and veins in different colours.

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Meet the speakers for MophoBank Connects 2026! 🧪 🔸 Workshop and Q&A, Tanya Berardini and Brooke Long-Fox 🔸 "The Early Evolution of the Reptile Tympanum" Kelsey Jenkins 🔸 "From Hadal Fauna to Whale Falls: Deep-Sea Biodiversity at Extreme Depths" Xikun Song REGISTER▶️ bit.ly/4rbEsSo

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"A new species of Miophyseter (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Physeteridae) from the Miocene of Japan" 🧪 Project: bit.ly/46GexbN Article in @jvertpaleo.bsky.social: bit.ly/4xzuRXH #fossil #fossilfriday #evolutionarybiology #biology #paleontology #openaccess #whale

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Register now for MorphoBank Connects 2026, a free virtual conference and workshop for researchers, students, educators, and community members. 🧪 REGISTER: bit.ly/3UBNOdO #morphology #paleontology #evolutionarybiology #biology #archaeology #paleontology #openaccess #openscience #openresearch

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Autumn #MorphoBank newsletter comes out in October! Be sure to sign up through our parent nonprofit @phoenixbio.bsky.social. ✉️ SIGN UP: phoenixbioinfo.org/contact/#optin #evolutionarybiology #biology #archaeology #paleontology #openaccess #openscience #openresearch

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Is Coccodontoidea valid? Systematic placement of the armoured Lebanese pycnodonts within Pycnodontiformes & utility of homoplasy in resolving relationships using cladistic principles onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday @datadryad.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Diagrams highlighting (in red) new characters and character states used in the phylogenetic analysis of Lebanese pycnodonts. Red rectangle in upper left corner is a cover image from the journal Papers in Palaeontology.

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Is Coccodontoidea valid? The systematic placement of the armoured Lebanese pycnodonts within Pycnodontiformes and the utility of homoplasy in resolving relationships using cladistic principles 🧪 MorphoBank: bit.ly/4y4cASn Article: bit.ly/4xpByM5 @thepalass.bsky.social #fossil #paleontology

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects 🧪 @nature.com Letter to the editor: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #scholcomm #researchinfrastructure #database #science #nature #biology

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"A phylogeny and revised classification of clupeomorph fishes (Teleostei, Otomorpha)." 🧪 On MorphoBank: www.morphobank.org/project/6455... In Zoosystema: doi.org/10.5252/zoos... #fossil #fossilfriday #evolutionarybiology #biology #paleontology #openaccess #Phylogenetics

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Armored fish reveals life before largest mass extinction Leolepis matogrossensis gen. et sp. nov., an upper Permian actinopterygian fish from the Corumbataí Formation, in the vicinity of the Araguainha impact crater, State of Mato Grosso, mid-Western Brazil🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Photograph of UFMT-353, holotype and only known specimen of the new genus and species from the Corumbataí Formation, Passa Dois Group, Paraná Basin described below. Scale bar=10mm.

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Cranial and postcranial remains of a new species of Cimolodon from the Upper Cretaceous El Gallo Formation of Baja California, México" 🧪 🔎EXPLORE THE PROJECT ON MORPHOBANK: www.morphobank.org/project/6279... #fossil #paleontology #evolutionarybiology #biology #Cretaceous #newspecies

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Be sure to explore the MorphoBank project behind this paper! 🧪 www.morphobank.org/project/6161... #fossil #paleontology #evolutionarybiology #biology #climatechange @springernature.com

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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New paper out in JSP! Barrett 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. report a new sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Pebbly Arkose Formation (Upper Triassic: Norian) of Kariba, Zimbabwe: 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙨𝙖𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙨 buff.ly/1jFjasf 🦕 A partial skeleton with distinctive features to 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙬𝙖 𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙨. #PaleoSky #Dinosaur #Musango

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Submit your abstract for MorphoBank Connects by Monday Aug. 17! 🧪 SUBMIT: bit.ly/4bqEWgH #evolutionarybiology #biology #archaeology #paleontology

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"A polyphyodont, semiaquatic eutriconodontan mammal from the Early Cretaceous of China" 🧪 www.morphobank.org/project/5134... #fossilfriday #fossil #paleontology #Diphyodonty #Cretaceous

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Bataspis crux, a galeaspid (jawless stem gnathostome) from the Lochkovian of Yunnan with a batwing-shaped head adapted for hydrodynamic efficiency onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @morphobank.bsky.social

Top left: a photograph of the holotype of Bataspis crux (IVPP V30969) the headshield of a Devonian fish, more complete on the right hand side, showing the extended, curved cornual process. Scale bar in lower right corner is 1 cm.
Bottom right: a life restoration of Bataspis crux rapidly moving away up and to the right from a eurypterid on the left of the scene. Artist: Dinghua Yang.
Blue rectangle at top right is a cover image from the journal Palaeontology.

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

How do you use #MorphoBank? Share your experience and expertise with the community with a 15-minute presentation at MorphoBank Connects 2026! 🧪 SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT ➡️ bit.ly/4bqEWgH #evolutionarybiology #biology #archaeology #paleontology

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Pebbly Arkose Formation (Upper Triassic: Norian) of Kariba, Zimbabwe" 🧪 🔎 Project on MorphoBank: bit.ly/4g5PoNf 📖 Article in "Journal of systematic Paleontology" bit.ly/4h3Jz3W #fossilfriday #dinosaur #fossil #paleontology @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

NEW SPECIES ALERT 🧪 A new species of Enchodus from the Western Interior Seaway of North America. Plus a taxonomic revision of Enchodus dirus, Leidy, 1857. 🔎Project on MorphoBank: bit.ly/4wtaf2Z 📑Article in @jvertpaleo.bsky.social: bit.ly/3TmYUmw #evolutionarybiology #biology #paleontology

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The genus Coryphodon in Europe: new exceptional material from Le Quesnoy (northern France, early Eocene, MP7) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social @cr2p.bsky.social @nilschabrol.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @morphobank.bsky.social

Palaeogeographic map of Western Europe at the beginning of the Eocene, showing the location of Le Quesnoy, now in Oise, France. Darker shades indicate emergent land, white colour is open marine. Paler grey indicates a shallow marine or lagoonal environment.
On the right, examples of three Corophydon teeth from the site; from top to bottom: upper M3; lower p4; fragment of a premaxilla with an upper I3 (scale bar in the middle is 1 cm).
Red rectangle in upper right corner is a cover image from the journal Papers in Palaeontology.

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Cranial anatomy of the early rhynchosaur Howesia browni: implications for rhynchosaur skull evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @stephanspiekman.bsky.social @morphobank.bsky.social #PapersinPalaeontology

Top left: photograph of a fossil reptile skull: the rhyncosaur Howesia browni SAM-PK-K10180 in right lateral view. Below and to the right is a digitised reconstruction of the same skull, showing the individual bones in different colours. Scale bar between the two images is 20 mm.
Upper right: reduced strict consensus tree of rhynchosaur interrelationships.
Red rectangle in lower left corner is a cover image from the journal Papers in Palaeontology.

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The early origin of Iguanodontia: new insights on the macroevolution, diversity and biogeography of the clade 🧪 MORPHOBANK: bit.ly/4fqlFON ARTICLE: bit.ly/4aNqWNT @thepalass.bsky.social #evolutionarybiology #biology #paleontology #openaccess #fossil #fossilfriday

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone 🧪 On Morphobank ➡️ bit.ly/44IzVMB In Nature ➡️ bit.ly/4gjN6Ld @nature.com #fossilfriday #biology #biodiversity #whale

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Thinking about submitting to MorphoBank Connects 2026? Watch the 2025 presentations to get inspired! 🧪 Proposals are due by July 31, 2026. 📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhtt... #evolutionarybiology #biology #archaeology #paleontology #morphobank #morphology

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

New FlyBase commentary: Using AI to get FlyBase data. I'm going to post some brief talking points, but please read the whole thing: flybase.org/commentaries...

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Using AI to get FlyBase data

FlyBase: a database for drosophila genetics and molecular biology

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Join us for the 2nd annual #MorphoBank Connects virtual conference Sept. 17-18. 🧪 Submit a proposal here ▶️ bit.ly/4en8ygW Register here ▶️ bit.ly/3QkEvNL #evolutionarybiology #biology #archaeology #paleontology #treeoflife

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Explore the project on #MorphoBank! 🧪 www.morphobank.org/project/6097...

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MorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"e-evaluation of the Wealden crocodyliform Koumpiodontosuchus Sweetman" from researchers at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 🧪 Project: bit.ly/4eGVO3N Article in @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social: bit.ly/4gfUKG8 #evolutionarybiology #opendata #paleontology #morphology #phylogenetics #taxonomy #cretaceous

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