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Professsor/DR CNRS in Bone Functional Adaptation and Paleontology at the MNHN, Paris, France

🇿🇼 New dino alert: Musango matusadonaensis. A Late Triassic sauropodomorph from Zimbabwe! Musango adds to growing evidence that Zimbabwe preserves its own distinctive dinosaur fauna, rather than simply an extension of the better-known RSA 🇿🇦record doi.org/10.1080/1477...

A new sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Pebbly Arkose Formation (Upper Triassic: Norian) of Kariba, Zimbabwe

The Upper Triassic Pebbly Arkose Formation of the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe is yielding important evidence of a diverse terrestrial/freshwater biome. A partial, associated skeleton collected from...

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Proud to share our latest paper in out in Nature today on the origin of #snakes. We present Tametara mirim, an articulated 3D preserved stem snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. Tametara helped us re-tell the story of snake origins in a novel way... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes - Nature

A well-preserved fossil snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil shows early ecological and brain shape disparity in the group.

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First PhD paper from Romain Cottereau, directly without his two PhD supervisors @val-fisch.bsky.social and me. Congrats Romain for this nice dissection paper on a giant paddle of humpback whale and on those of its relatives with a new tissue-illuminating technique!

Prof. Valentin Fischer@val-fisch.bsky.social · 2w ago

#3: important new information on the soft tissues in the flipper of humpback whales by my Ph.D. student Romain Cottereau onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...