Abi Crane
@gruiformabi.bsky.social
Palaeontology PhD student, bird nerd and dinosaur enthusiast 🦆🦕🏳️🌈 She/her
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 Want to CT scan a ‘flat’ fossil? Limited-angle CT, a simple alteration to conventional micro-CT protocol, has the potential to improve your results! Read our new paper (or continue this thread) to find out more: palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026... #paleontology
🚨NEW PAPER OUT🚨 The anatomy of bird lower jaw bones has been understudied...until now! Here, we examine avian mandibular anatomy, answering some and raising more questions about the phylogenetic affinities of key early crown-group birds. Read on! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Mandibular morphology clarifies phylogenetic relationships near the origin of crown birds - BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background The phylogenetic relationships of fossil birds near the origin of the avian crown group remain debated, in part due to a limited amount of character evidence from incomplete fossils. The av...
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What a mad couple of weeks- 3 conferences #SVP2025, #AOC2025, #CAVEPS2025 across 2 continents. 1 poster, 3 talks and 1 best student talk prize! Thanks to everyone who came to listen to me talk about dead birds 🦤
You know what they say about early birds catching worms? I’ll be talking at 8am Saturday at #2025svp all about CT scanning female bird bone and what it means for the dinosaur fossil record
#Nanotyrannus is real! Read about this awesome new paper by @jgn-paleo.bsky.social and Dr Lindsay Zonna and what it means for the future of T. rex in my article for the Conversation: theconversation.com/new-miniatur...
New ‘miniature T rex’ rewrites the history of the world’s largest predator
The fossil may help end a long-running debate in palaeontology.
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Lunchtime on Southampton Common with one of my all-time favourite UK birds 🔥🔥 #birds #ukwildlife #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #photography
🚨 My first PhD paper is out! 🚨 In it we characterise the 3D structure of medullary bone, a type of bone tissue found only in female birds and (possibly) non-bird dinosaurs. Read about it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #palaeontology #birds #dinosaurs #science #phd
Adorable great crested grebe family this weekend- amazing that they have chicks so early in the year! #birds #birding #ukwildlife
