Bingcai Liu
@bingcailiu.bsky.social
PhD in Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (NIGPAS). Interest in the macroevolution of early land plants. See evolution by fossils.
Glad to share our new study at @natcomms.nature.com which resulted from several workshops on the early warning signs of mass extinctions and coordination of macroevolutionary vulnerability and the states of carbon cycle and temperatures. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
Our new paper introduces a fast & Bayesian state-dependent OU model in RevBayes that implements joint inference, to test adaptive macroevolutionary hypotheses. Congrats @prilau.bsky.social! Be sure to give her a follow & give her original tweet some love! Many more exciting PCMs in her future!
Priscilla Lau@prilau.bsky.social · 6d agoOur paper (also, my first first-author paper) is now available in MEE early view! In this study, we introduced a state-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model we implemented in RevBayes to test adaptive hypotheses in macroevolution. (1/3) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
An analysis of fossil mammals in Science suggests that Mexico served as a long-term evolutionary “holding pen” where North American species adapted and diversified for millions of years before sweeping into South America 2.8 million years ago. https://scim.ag/4fu2QKL
Fern-covered landscapes dried out and fuelled gigantic wildfires some 200 million years ago during the mass-extinction event that ended the Triassic period of geological history go.nature.com/45r5jzz
Wildfires rampaged across Europe in the dying days of the Triassic
Infernos ravaged continental expanses of ferns during mass extinction of land and sea animals.
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One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Environmental phylogenetics supports a steady diversification of crown eukaryotes starting from the mid-Proterozoic.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/5Lpf50Ztxar For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/AMo550Ztxas.
Cretaceous moss–cyanobacteria association reveals trophic interactions in polar forests of Antarctica Walker et al. habitualb.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌲 The Devonian was a transformative chapter in Earth's history. Forests rose. Resin evolved. Terrestrial ecosystems flourished. Plants drove many of the innovations that reshaped life on land：https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeh1266
The earliest amber from the Middle Devonian of China
Devonian amber pushes plant resin origin back 65 million years.
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📉Why are marine animals shrinking? A new study compiling ~9,000 body size records confirms the "Lilliput Effect". The biggest driver? Warming 🥵. This has major implications for our modern warming oceans. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2505564123) #ClimateChange #MarineBiology #Science #Paleontology
Homology of the dark cells of Paleozoic liverworts with the specialized oil body cells of modern liverworts (Marchantiophyta) Tremblay and Mercadal nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/BWYYSE...
🧐 How does temporal resolution alter what we think we know about Earth's biggest mass extinction event? 🐚 📉 😎 Our new preprint on the influence of temporal resolution on inferences of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction is out on @biorxiv.org 🥳 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Temporal resolution reshapes dynamics of inferred community structure and extinction selectivity across the Permian-Triassic mass extinction
The Permian-Triassic mass extinction fundamentally restructured ecosystems, yet it remains unresolved whether ecological collapse unfolded gradually or in discrete steps, and how extinction selectivit...
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bioRxiv Paleontology@biorxiv-paleo.bsky.social · last mo.Temporal resolution reshapes dynamics of inferred community structure and extinction selectivity across the Permian-Triassic mass extinction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.22.733099v1
Happy to see our paper published in @annbot.bsky.social ! It explores morphological innovation and diversity in early vascular plants.
Annals of Botany@annbot.bsky.social · last mo.🌿🪨 #PaleoBotanyWeek 🦕 Uncoupling of morphological disparity and species diversity in Zosterophyllum, with its new species from the Pridoli (Silurian) of West Junggar, Xinjiang, China by Wang and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/q76s #Paleobotany
Diversification of angiosperm reproductive strategies predated the end-Cretaceous extinction | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Diversification of angiosperm reproductive strategies predated the end-Cretaceous extinction
Angiosperm reproductive evolution is traditionally linked to the end-Cretaceous biotic crisis and subsequent ecological restructuring. Here, we report diverse and unexpectedly large diaspores (dispers...
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Our paper on the origin and evolution of phloem, a big part of my PhD work, is out in Current Biology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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📣 It's out ! ✨32✨ great #paleobotany papers in this special issue of @annbot.bsky.social on fossil #plants 🌿⛏️ edited by Mihai Tomescu, @sandyheth.bsky.social, Brian Atkinson & myself. Thank you to all the authors & all the reviewers for their contributions! 📄 academic.oup.com/aob/issue
The question of origins is forever fascinating.
Ruolin WU@ruolinwu.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe broader implication extends beyond flowering plants. Many famous "rocks vs. clocks" debates may not require choosing sides. The challenge is finding better ways to let fossils and molecules speak to each other. Link to our latest: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Delighted that our new paper on #Ediacaran early animal life is now out rdcu.be/fnksl @natecoevo.nature.com We show that asexual reproduction, stoloniferous reduces competition for Ediacaran early animals 580-560 million years ago, and that this then reduces early animal diversity
Rise of modern marine fishes captured in an early Paleocene Lagerstätte | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rise of modern marine fishes captured in an early Paleocene Lagerstätte
Remarkably modern marine fish assemblages were established in the tropics within 4 Myr of the K-Pg extinction.
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Our new preprint On a global scale, plants did not experience a catastrophic mass extinction during the Permian–Triassic boundary (PTB). However, they still suffered losses, with extinction rates reaching around 30%. doi.org/10.64898/202...
A shift in organic carbon-to-total phosphorus ratios in marine siliciclastic strata from approximately 455 million years ago suggests an earlier-than-previously-thought spread of land plants and their impact on the Earth system 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Carbon/phosphorus burial ratio reveals a rapid spread of land plants during the Late Ordovician - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A shift in organic carbon to total phosphorus (Corg/Ptotal) ratios in marine siliciclastic strata from approximately 455 million years ago suggests an earlier-than-previously-thought spread of land pl...
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🚨New preprint out @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social (under review elsewhere!) 🧵 No global collapse of food webs across the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New paper in press on a Late Devonian fossil plant assemblage from Australia, with lycopsids (Leptophloeum), cladoxylopsids (Denglongia), and progymnosperm (Archaeopteris/Callixylon) remains 🌿⛏️ #paleobotany #FossilFriday doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
Our new paper is online! We found that 1) today's shark & ray diversity was already reached ~100Ma; 2) that the K/Pg extinction was not catastrophic; 3) that the max diversity was reached ~50Ma; and 4) that today's diversity is depleted compared to the past. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Revealing the hidden patterns of shark and ray diversity over the past 145 million years
Gardiner et al. reconstruct the diversity of sharks and rays across the past 145 million years using deep learning and an extensive dataset. Their results unveil previously hidden patterns, including ...
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New paper by @pimientoc.bsky.social & team: #biodiversity of sharks and rays over time. As predators they shape marine ecosystems. Many of the ~1200 living species are in danger, mainly from overfishing, and in need of conservation action. more on shark conservation👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...
Challenges and Priorities in Shark and Ray Conservation
Dulvy and colleagues delineate five key challenges to shark conservation, describe their approach for determining priority species and fisheries, and discuss the implications for conservation.
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Catalina Pimiento 🆓🇵🇸@pimientoc.bsky.social · 7mo agoNew paper is out 🔓! We reconstructed the 145-myr diversity of sharks & rays using deep learning, unveiling hidden patterns: - modern diversity levels by the Cretaceous 📈 - small decline in the K/Pg 🤏 - a peak in the Eocene 🌄 - a long-term decline towards the present � www.cell.com/current-biol...
Excited to share our new investigation of Prototaxites! We found no support for a fungal affinity and instead suggest it is best considered an entirely extinct complex eukaryotic lineage Great team effort @transitionalform.bsky.social Corentin Loron, and many others! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
If you’re interested in extinction risk, please check out our new paper in @science.org led by my former PhD student Cooper: www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Contingent responses of diversity and disparity of different animal groups to the P-Tr mass extinction: "Ammonoids...brachiopods exhibit refilling of vacated morphospace of shell outlines, Ostracods underwent adaptive radiation" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
Why does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
We are very pleased to share our new research, investigating the morphology of Zosterophyllum.
Uncoupling of morphological disparity and species diversity in Zosterophyllum, with its new species from the Pridoli (Silurian) of West Junggar, Xinjiang, China
AbstractBackground and Aims. Zosterophyllum, a diverse genus in the global flora spanning the Silurian to Devonian periods, has been extensively documented
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