Fernanda Landim
@fernandalandim.bsky.social
Undergrad student at the University of São Paulo (IB-USP). Paleontologist in training www.macropaleolab.com She/her | 🇧🇷🦥.
Fósseis da megafauna ajudam a entender a perda de diversidade de mamíferos no Pampa Gado inserido no bioma menos preservado do Brasil não substitui funções ecológicas de nenhuma das espécies extintas há 12 mil anos jornal.usp.br/ciencias/fos...
Fósseis da megafauna ajudam a entender a perda de diversidade de mamíferos no Pampa
Gado inserido no bioma menos preservado do Brasil não substitui funções ecológicas de nenhuma das espécies extintas há 12 mil anos
jornal.usp.br
Great week at my alma mater, taking the course “Introduction to computed tomography and 3D Slicer as a tool for morphological study“. A course designed by users, for users, and a fantastic opportunity to learn and exchange ideas with colleagues across the natural sciences. Thanks to the organizers!🩻
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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I was delighted to present my findings on extinction patterns in sloths at the II Brazilian Congress of Evolutionary Biology (@sbbe.bsky.social), a new interdisciplinary meeting with so much potential. It was amazing to connect with so many researchers and also enjoy the wonders of Minas Gerais 🍛🧀!
💻 Our new website is now live! 💻 Over the past few months, we've been working hard to create a hub of resources designed to support the palaeontological community. 🔗 Find out more and visit the new site here: palaeoverse.org
Pesquisa realizada no Instituto de Biociências da USP revela que a introdução do gado bovino no Pampa não substitui funcionalmente a megafauna extinta no fim do Pleistoceno, resultando em um ecossistema com diversidade funcional empobrecida
Fósseis da megafauna ajudam a entender a perda de diversidade de mamíferos no Pampa
Gado inserido no bioma menos preservado do Brasil não substitui funções ecológicas de nenhuma das espécies extintas há 12 mil anos
jornal.usp.br
World, here is your Crocodile Brain Encyclopedia. Our new paper, which details the internal cranial anatomy of over 43 crocodylian species is finally out! Read here: doi.org/10.1111/joa.... @pdmannion.bsky.social
Computed tomography reveals the endocranial anatomy of Crocodylia: Implications for phylogenetic relationships and ecomorphological convergence across Crocodylomorpha
The evaluation of the endocranial anatomy of 43 crocodylian species reveals several differences, including variation in the curvature of the encephalic endocast, the size of the endosseous labyrinth ...
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Esse merece uma tradução para o português! Afinal, tem importância para a conservação das espécies do bioma menos protegido do Brasil: o Pampa! Segue o fio 👇 🎨: @funecology.bsky.social
Pedro Godoy@pedrolgodoy.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur newest paper, led by postdoc Thayara Carrasco & published in @funecology.bsky.social, tracks functional diversity loss of land mammals during the Late Pleistocene extinctions in a grassland ecosystem 🧵 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🎨: @lacerdajulio.bsky.social
Our newest paper, led by postdoc Thayara Carrasco & published in @funecology.bsky.social, tracks functional diversity loss of land mammals during the Late Pleistocene extinctions in a grassland ecosystem 🧵 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🎨: @lacerdajulio.bsky.social
Long‐term changes in functional diversity and its implications for mammalian conservation and ecological restoration in a grassland ecosystem
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Our paper on turtle origins is finally out in Current Biology, with two major implications for our understanding of reptile evolution 🐢 #Paleontology #Turtles #Evolution www.cell.com/current-biol...
Following a restitution campaign by Brazilian scientists and other stakeholders, Germany recently announced its willingness to return the contested Irritator challengeri dinosaur fossil to Brazil. eos.org/articles/ger...
Germany to Return Contested Dinosaur Fossil to Brazil - Eos
Following a long restitution campaign, both countries announced their willingness to repatriate the 110-million-year-old spinosaurid Irritator challengeri.
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New R package 📦: pfwim reconstructs ancient food webs from traits + body size rules 🌿🐳🕸️ cran.r-project.org/web/packages... by @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social @jackolivershaw.bsky.social @barankarapunar.bsky.social @beckerhopper.bsky.social with lots of help from @cemac.bsky.social
🚨 New croc paper alert! Another study led by Ana Laura Paiva (PhD student I co-supervise with Max Langer) is out today in Palaeontology! We revisit a classic question with new tools: how big were notosuchians, really? 🐊📏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Art: @mirantakouvari.bsky.social
My new paper with @gdarlim.bsky.social and @hoehna.bsky.social is now out in Proceedings B! We set out to compare two different approaches to time-calibrate a molecular phylogeny: traditional node calibrations, and unresolved FBD... @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
How to date a molecular phylogeny: comparison of effective priors between node calibration and fossilized birth–death
Abstract. Time-calibrating a phylogenetic tree is a fundamental step in phylogenetic inference, as it allows the study of macroevolutionary processes such
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As of last month, I’ve joined the editorial board of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology @jvertpaleo.bsky.social as the new Phylogenetics Editor! I’m responsible for evaluating reproducibility of phylogenetic analyses submitted to the journal. 💻⚒️
One contestant irk of palaeoart is that marine reptiles are always devouring my beloved cephalopods... Well no longer! Calling palaeoartists to realise my dream of a giant octopus get vengeance for all cephalopod kind!!! My thoughts on the new paper here! 🐙 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
‘Kraken-like’ giant octopuses 100m years ago crunched bones of prey
Study of fossilised beaks shows patterns of wear and suggests some ancient species were up to 19 metres long
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Really BIG mollusc news! 🧪🦑⚒️ 🐙 Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans
Top predators drive changes in ecosystem structure. For the last ~370 million years, large-sized vertebrates have dominated the apex of the marine food chain, while invertebrates have served as smalle...
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1/10 🚨🚨🚨 New paper on dinosaur evolution! Chris Griffin and I look at why we can't seem to figure out how the major groups are related! It might be a hint about how dinosaurs came to be! Photo: Anchisaurus @yalepeabodymuseum royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
The return of Irritator challengeri to Brazil is very symbolic, restoring access to our own natural heritage. An important step toward restitution in historically colonized countries and toward building a more decolonial science.
Paul Stewens@p-stewens.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe #fossil of Irritator challengeri is finally going back to Brazil after 35 years in Germany. This is a major event for #DecolonizeScience and the #restitution of natural history specimens. Let's talk about #IrritatorBelongstoBR. [1/17]
Ecstatic to share my latest published research, the last chapter of my PhD dissertation. 🦕 Iguanodontian dinosaurs may have originated earlier than we thought. 🦖We identified a new clade of 'sail backed' iguanodontians, we formally name it Ouranosauria.
The Palaeontological Association@thepalass.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe early origin of Iguanodontia: new insights into the macroevolution, diversity & biogeography of the clade onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @morphobank.bsky.social @palaeofil.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social
🚨 Out today: our Editorial in @jvertpaleo.bsky.social on an important issue in science - the reproducibility crisis in phylogenetic analyses. In it, we analyze several years of editorial data to ask a simple question: are things improving? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
As the sole living genera of an ancient order of reptiles, tuataras are key for fossil comparisons of extinct species & modern lepidosaurs (lizards & snakes). Here, their axial skeleton is described in detail, offering new insights to this unique creature...Tuatar-ya interested? 🌍🧪👇
The axial skeleton of the tuatara (Rhynchocephalia: Sphenodon): insights on intraspecific variability, ontogeny, sexual dimorphism, and remarks on fossil taxa
Abstract. As the sole living rhynchocephalian, the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) provides important comparative information for fossil rhynchocephalians an
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I am so unbelievably proud to present 8 years of hard work: the worlds oldest octopus is not an octopus... Pohlsepia is actually a really rotten Nautiloid (but oldest soft tissue nautiloid ever found!). 🐙❌ royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
New preprint on the recent history of phylogenetic biogeography, with co-authors Isabel Sanmartín and Joel Cracraft, now up on EcoEvoRxiv: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Were dinosaurs and other terrestrial vertebrates capable of long-distance transoceanic dispersal? Through a new mechanistic energetic model, our new paper suggests this was possible: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @es-ucl.bsky.social
ENHYDROSS: A New Mechanistic Model Supports the Trans‐Oceanic Dispersal Capability of Terrestrial Vertebrates
We introduce ENHYDROSS, a new mechanistic model that uses optimal swimming speed and minimum cost of transport to estimate maximum dispersal distances and durations for vertebrates, enabling assessme...
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Very special day: congratulations to Dr. Guilherme Hermanson for defending his PhD today - my 1st PhD student 🥹This brings our Swiss SNSF Ambizione project to an official end - many papers still coming. Guilherme will start an own postdoc project joining @singerstone.bsky.social‘s lab 🐢
Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th - Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to postdoc-botany@smns-bw.de + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF
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