Second, our big effort to (1) make a new fish tree (2) date it (3) define taxon names (4) build the largest fish CT scan dataset to-date (5) answer ecomorphological questions- whew! @sternarchella.bsky.social @arciladk.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Huge thanks to my wonderful co-authors @arciladk.bsky.social , Ricardo Betancur, Jim Tyler, Giorgio Carnevale, Guillermo Ortí, Melissa Rincon-Sandoval, Fernando Melendez-Vazquez, Will White, Carole Baldwin, and @mwestneat.bsky.social 🫶

I became obsessed with these questions around 2021, leading to my first Scripps (1-day) research cruise in 2024 with @arciladk.bsky.social where we collected the specimens sequenced for this project.

Huge thanks to my wonderful co-authors Will White, Ricardo Betancur, and @arciladk.bsky.social. This study was funded by the National Science Foundation- so please vote for politicians who support science!!!

New video explaining the PhD work of Fernando Melendez and research by @arciladk.bsky.social and the #fishevutionlab at @scrippsocean.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qnw...

Why did some fishes evolve to be warm-blooded? - Dahiana Arcila and Fernando Melendez

YouTube video by FishEvolutionLab-Edu

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Former and current members of the Fish Evolution Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, at #Evol2025 ❤️🐡🐟

Thrilled to share that my grad student Zach Heiple won the 2025 Ernst Mayr Award at #Evol2025 for his PhD work on how deep-sea fishes evolved their extreme tubular snouts! 🐡🎉 SSB’s top honor for the most creative student research in systematics @scrippsocean.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social

The Scripps Oceanography Marine Vertebrate Collection is home to nearly 2 million fish specimens! Collection manager @frable.bsky.social gave CBS8 a special inside look at the collection, spotlighting fish that were collected as early as 1886! Dive deeper into the Collection. ⬇️

A tour of Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Marine Vertebrate collection

The collection contains specimens of more than two million species of fish.

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