Excited to share our new paper in Science Advances! Led by Dr Wei Wang at #IVPP in Beijing, it presents a complete skeleton of #Austronaga, the most marine of all archosauromorphs. To boot, this fossil preserves the oldest complete digestive tract of any reptile! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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🇿🇼 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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📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Our latest: Hummingbird and hawkmoth wing shape: Analyzing functional convergence in analogous structures, by Benton Walters @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social, with help from Yuming Liu, Iman Fadel @ferronhg.bsky.social @emilyrayfield.bsky.social and myself.
Hummingbird and Hawkmoth Wing Shape: Analyzing Functional Convergence in Analogous Structures
Synopsis. Similar wing planform shapes have independently evolved in both hummingbirds and hawkmoths, indicating convergence. Functional analysis of bird w
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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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🦇 Bat tracheal chambers may be key evolutionary innovation behind echolocation diversity by supporting higher-frequency calls & helping drive evolution of specialized echolocation, contributing to bats’ remarkable ecological success Brualla et al anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Philippe Grandcolas, directeur de recherche au CNRS, détaille les connaissances et zones d’ombre concernant l’acétamipride et le flupyradifurone. ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/bY9
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!
#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/...
New paper from @segesdimartin.bsky.social, this time about adaptive features in the microanatomy of aquatic bird limb bones. Congrats :)
Happy to announce that our latest study with @houssayecnrs.bsky.social is now published in the @anatrecord.bsky.social. 🐧🦆🪿 doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... How does the inner structure of the limb bones of aquatic birds relate to their locomotor abilities? 🦴
J'ai été interviewée par La Croix pour tester un jeu de société avec des espèces éteintes et c'était très sympa. "on a joué à « First Giants » avec une paléontologue" www.la-croix.com/art-de-vivre...
« Il y a même un mosasaure, donc je suis ravie » : on a joué à « First Giants » avec une paléontologue
Parce qu’on ne met jamais assez de jeu dans nos vies, La Croix a proposé, pour la troisième année consécutive, à des personnalités diverses de s’essayer à des jeux de société en rapport avec leur acti...
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Come join the ichthyosaur symposium at @ipc7.bsky.social with keynote from @val-fisch.bsky.social and a gathering of the best of ichthyosaur research worldwide! Deadline July 13 for abstracts 🤩
📢 Great news! We've extended the deadline for abstract submissions! We can't wait to see your latest research! 📅 New deadline: 13 July 2026 🌐 Submit your abstract 👉 www.ipc7.site #IPC7 #Palaeontology #Abstracts #Conference2026 #CapeTown #FossilScience
🐰 What drives body shape evolution in rabbits, hares, and pikas? Changes in rib length & thoracolumbar region are main drivers of body shape diversity. Body size—not burrowing or locomotion—best predicts body shape & limb proportions Brice et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
If you want an up-to-date summary of whale and dolphin evolution, have a read of my new review paper in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com! I’ve tried to cover as much research as possible in this, so apologies if I’ve missed you! doi.org/10.1038/s443...
The evolution and diversification of Cetacea - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Cetaceans are a highly diverse and enigmatic group of animals with a well-documented evolutionary history. This Review describes the macroevolutionary and palaeobiological history of Cetacea, from the...
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Excited to share our latest study highlighted on the cover of @science.org 🥳Combining a 3D dataset representing 250 taxa spanning the whole Cenozoic, 3D modelling & printing and material testing; we deciphered the form-function relationship in the lower 🦷 of mammals www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
How did seals evolve to hear on land and underwater? This #ProcB study found a specialised ear tissue enables amphibious hearing in pinnipeds, revealing this unique adaptation evolved more than 26 million years ago. doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #Evolution #Palaeontology
How do leading tools compare for reconstructing CT muscle architecture? Xfiber & Goodfibes produce similar fiber length/orientation results in high-quality scans but Goodfibes is more sensitive to lower resolution & curved fascicles Zobek et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
PeerJ Rib microstructure in thunniform ichthyosaurs and toothed whales peerj.com/articles/214... @peerj.bsky.social
Savez-vous ce qu'est une ostéothèque ? 🦴 Une ostéothèque rassemble des restes osseux humains et animaux soigneusement conservés et documentés. Artehis est un outil précieux pour les archéologues, qui leur permet d'identifier des vestiges fragmentaires et de mieux comprendre les sociétés du passé.
Artehis, la bibliothèque où les os ont leur mot à dire | CNRS
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Do you use (musculoskeletal) physics simulations with contact spheres? Then my new paper in @jbiomech.bsky.social is for you! This is my first single-author paper, and the third published chapter from my PhD at @uugeo.bsky.social 🥳 Paper (open access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social 70201 "Musculo-skeletal variation in the forelimb of two highly specialised diggers (genus Talpa)" cross-team collaboration for ISYEB ! Klein, E., Houssin, C., Delapre, A., Nicolas, V., Cornette, R. @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al. doi-org.inee.bib.cnrs.fr/10.1111/joa....
Dear Friends, I just published an insightful review on neural crest evolutionary origin and later transformations. “Co-option and innovation in neural crest evolution”: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Co-option and innovation in neural crest evolution
Neural crest evolution reassembled ancient programs in pigment cell lineage, resulting in vertebrate innovations.
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[DERNIERS JOURS 📢] Jusqu'au 9 juillet 2026 à 13h, le CNRS recrute. 356 postes sont à pourvoir sur concours. #RejoignezLeCNRS 🫵, une institution d’excellence acteur du progrès scientifique et technologique. Accédez aux offres et candidatez 👉 carrieres.cnrs.fr/concours-ext...
🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Join @palevoprim.bsky.social as part of the #ReVol project (@cnrs.fr & Wits Joint PhD Programme)! Spend 3 years investigating the southern African fossil cercopithecoids to reconstruct past ecology and behavior through skeletal morphology and dental microwear.
Saviez-vous qu’il est possible d’étudier des vomis ou des crottes fossilisés datant d’il y a près de 300 millions d’années ? Et que l'étude de ces fossiles nous en apprend sur le régime alimentaire de prédécesseurs des dinosaures ? Étonnant 😱
Étonnant ! Enquête sur le plus ancien vomi terrestre
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🚴Dans quelques jours démarre le Tour de France de la biodiversité ! Du 4 au 26 juillet, embarquez pour un voyage au cœur des écosystèmes qui accompagnent le Tour de France. 21 étapes pour découvrir la France autrement. 👉 www.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite...
Le CNRS vous présente son rapport d’activité 2025, qui illustre son engagement pour éclairer les grands défis sociétaux et construire le monde de demain. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite/re...
Our new paper led by @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social & Mark Evans @bas.ac.uk on a sauropod from Antarctica 🦕 that represents the earliest collected dinosaur fossil from this continent: www.app.pan.pl/article/item... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @es-ucl.bsky.social
A titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
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Un an après son adoption, le schéma DD&RS du CNRS accélère la transformation des pratiques de recherche en intégrant transition environnementale et responsabilité sociétale. Un levier pour améliorer à la fois la recherche et les conditions de travail.
RSE : « Transformer les pratiques pour une recherche dans de meilleures conditions de travail »
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Ce matin @camillebader.bsky.social #MECADEV a parlé de son étude sur les éléphants nains à Avec sciences sur @franceculture.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...