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⚠️Don't forget to join us today - Monday 19th May - Dr Alex Dunhill @dralexdunhill.bsky.social (University of Leeds, UK) will be presenting his talk entitled 'Species loss, community collapse, and ecosystem recovery during times of mass extinction'. This will be a live broadcast via a Zoom webinar.
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Hey it's May, gonna be nice and warm this week right?
Article spotlight from PeerJ summarizing the recent paper describing the osteology of the plesiosaur, Plesiopterys wildi, and its evolutionary relationship to other plesiosaurians! peerj.com/blog/post/11...
Article Spotlight: A new specimen of Plesiopterys wildi reveals the diversification of cryptoclidian precursors | PeerJ Blog
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Walter, J.D., Massonne, T., Paiva, A.L.S. et al. Expanded phylogeny elucidates Deinosuchus relationships, crocodylian osmoregulation and body-size evolution. Commun Biol 8, 611 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Expanded phylogeny elucidates Deinosuchus relationships, crocodylian osmoregulation and body-size evolution - Communications Biology
An expanded phylogeny elucidates the evolutionary relationships of the “terror crocodile” Deinosuchus, shedding light on osmoregulation in crocodyliforms and body-size evolution patterns in the group.
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Published today in Peerj: peerj.com/articles/189... #plesiosaurs #paleontology #Jurassic #Sauropterygia
A new specimen of Plesiopterys wildi reveals the diversification of cryptoclidian precursors and possible endemism within European Early Jurassic plesiosaur assemblages
Background A virtually complete and articulated plesiosaur skeleton (MH 7) is described from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) Posidonienschiefer Formation near Holzmaden in southern Germany. Plesiosaur r...
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