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Sergio

@nebreda.bsky.social
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Paleobiologist | Postdoc researcher at @jhu.edu Center for Functional Anatomy & Evolution (Baltimore, MD) | Macroevolution and EvoDevo in amniotes 📈💀🐦🐒🦎🐣🦖

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 24/02/2026
Descubierta en el yacimiento conquense de Las Hoyas una nueva especie de ave del Cretácico con pico dentado. Se asemeja a un martín pescador y entronca con el grupo biológico de los 'Longipterygidae', que hasta ahora solo se habían documentado en China
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Descubierta en el yacimiento conquense de Las Hoyas una nueva especie de ave del Cretácico con pico dentado
El Museo Paleontológico de Castilla-La Mancha (MUPA) presenta el cráneo fosilizado de un nuevo linaje de las enantiornitas, las aves con garras y dientes que poblaron el Cretácico
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SEPaleontologia @sepaleontologia.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
¡Nueva publicación de soci@s! 🗣️ Un nuevo estudio describe 𝘎𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦, una nueva especie de ave enantiornita 🪶 hallada en el yacimiento de #LasHoyas Descubre qué nos revela sobre los humedales del Cretácico en nuestra web! sepaleontologia.es/portfolio-it...
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Gorgonavis alcyone: una nueva especie de ave enantiornita para la avifauna de Las Hoyas
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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New long-snouted enantiornithean ("opposite bird") Gorgonavis alcyone: sjp.pensoft.net/article/1828... 🪶🧪 (📷 @nebreda.bsky.social et al.)
Fossilized skull of an extinct bird-like dinosaur with a pointed snout and small teeth restricted to the tip of its jaw.
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Here you can check out the original article, published in the #SwissJournalofPalaeontology 👇 sjp.pensoft.net/article/1828...
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An isolated skull from Las Hoyas (Early Cretaceous, Spain) informs the early evolution towards elongated rostra in enantiornithine birds (Aves, Ornithothoraces)
The fossil record of Early Cretaceous enantiornithine birds from the Iberian Peninsula is the most significant in the world outside of China. Despite its historical relevance, taxonomic diversity, and...
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This work has been possible thanks to the participation of researchers from @nhm.org, @uam.es, @cam.ac.uk and #UniversityofMálaga... And funding from @nhm.org, @ageinves.bsky.social, @cienciagob.bsky.social and @thepalass.bsky.social
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Also, the importance of this paleo-birding spot (which many of us would have loved to visit with binoculars) in the Early Cretaceous of Spain keeps growing. #LasHoyasFossilSite #Birdwatching
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
With its cranial proportions, this fossil reinforces the idea of the vast phenotypic diversity of the enantiornithines at the first stages of its evolutionary history, suggesting that longipterigids, one of its most specialized groups, occupied very distant spots in Eurasia🌍
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
By dressing it in its plumage, we gave it this appearance thanks to the incredible paleoart by Roc Olivé, with the help of paleo-ornithologist Juan Benito.
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
We reconstructed the cranial anatomy, showing that *Gorgonavis* had a relatively long beak and 4 small pairs of teeth at the tip, defining characteristics of enantiornithine birds belonging to the Longipterygidae group, such as Longipteryx or Rapaxavis.
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
...and after examining it through µCT-scan, we were able to confirm that it was, and that it could give us more information than we thought.
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Hidden away in the collections of the #MuseoPaleontológicoCastilla-LaMancha, we found what at first glance seemed to be the beak of a small bird...
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Say👋 to *Gorgonavis alcyone*, the newest enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous of Spain✨🐦 We welcome here the 1st adult cranial remains of a bird from the fossil site of Las Hoyas, and the 1st longipterygid out of China... Thread!!🧵👇 Paleart by Roc Olivé
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
In this study, led by Sebastián Lyons from #UniversidadNacionaldeLaPlata, we present a detailed anatomical work, combining geometric morphometrics & phylogenetic comparative methods, to explore the innovations that fine-tune this unique behavior. Published in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social !!
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
🌳🔨🐦 How do woodpeckers withstand the impact of pecking? Their most iconic behavior is possible thanks to (1) unique cranial joints and (2) bypassing a general rule of skull transformation in other birds in favor of the influence of a larger brain👇 doi.org/10.1111/joa....
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Skull evolution in woodpeckers via articular innovation and allometric decoupling facilitates pecking performance
Woodpeckers evolved reinforced cranioquadrate–mandibular articulations and distinctive cranial shapes that stabilize the skull under extreme pecking loads. These osteological innovations, together wi...
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Publicado en @journalofanatomy.bsky.social!!
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
En este estudio, liderado por Sebastian Lyons, de la #UniversidadNacionaldeLaPlata, presentamos un elaborado trabajo anatómico, combinado con morfometría geométrica y métodos filogenéticos comparativos, para estudiar las innovaciones que han refinado el comportamiento tan peculiar de estas aves.
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
🌳🔨🐦¿Cómo aguantan los pájaros carpinteros el impacto al picotear? El comportamiento más característico de este grupo es gracias a (1) articulaciones craneales únicas y (2) a que se saltan una regla general de transformación del cráneo por incrementar el tamaño del cerebro. 👇 doi.org/10.1111/joa....
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Skull evolution in woodpeckers via articular innovation and allometric decoupling facilitates pecking performance
Woodpeckers evolved reinforced cranioquadrate–mandibular articulations and distinctive cranial shapes that stabilize the skull under extreme pecking loads. These osteological innovations, together wi...
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SEPaleontologia @sepaleontologia.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
¡Nueva publicación de soci@s! 🗣️ Una investigación liderada por @nebreda.bsky.social sugiere que la evolución del vuelo en dinosaurios 🦅 ya estaba condicionada desde el embrión. 👉 Descúbrela aquí: sepaleontologia.es/portfolio-item/m… #SEPsocios #Dinosaurios #Aves
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La huella evolutiva que los dinosaurios no avianos dejaron a las aves: una historia de extremidades, macroevolución y embriología - sepaleontologia
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Many thanks for sharing our work @profaliceroberts.bsky.social !! 🙌
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Great new paper on the evolution of birds - showing how changes in forelimbs (becoming wings) and legs were linked together. I LOVE research like this which reveals the secrets of how evolution works - how development, genetics, form are all joined up: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Macroevolutionary integration underlies limb modularity in the origin of avian flight | Biology Letters
The origin of flight in avian dinosaurs has been historically an ideal framework for proposing the evolutionary relationship between form and function in limb proportions under the hypothesis of speci...
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🎉After many years since its gestation, our work is finally out in @royalsocietypublishing.org !!🦖🤝🐦 Morphological integration constrained large-scale evolution of the limbs in non-avian dinos and birds, is evo-devo behind this common pattern? Check it out here!👇 And my first post in @bsky.app !!
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Macroevolutionary integration underlies limb modularity in the origin of avian flight | Biology Letters
The origin of flight in avian dinosaurs has been historically an ideal framework for proposing the evolutionary relationship between form and function in limb proportions under the hypothesis of speci...
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