Javier Castro Terol
@javiercastrobio.bsky.social
Avian Palaeobiology and Evolution Predoc Researcher at the University of Málaga. 📩 javiercastro@uma.es
Micro-CT reconstruction reveals new information about the phylogenetic position and locomotion of the Early Cretaceous bird #Iberomesornis romerali by Castro-Terol et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Dinosaurios (#Aves) del #Cretácico Inferior de #Cuenca
New information on the anatomy of Iberomesornis: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🪶🧪 (📷Castro-Terol et al.)
Javier Castro-Terol, Alejandro Pérez-Ramos, Jingmai K. O’Connor, José Luis Sanz & F. J. Serrano (2025) Micro-CT reconstruction reveals new information about the phylogenetic position and locomotion of the Early Cretaceous bird Iberomesornis romerali Geobios www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Today's stop and the rest of the week is Karlsruhe. Busy with such a quantity of fossils!
🦅✨ Yesterday at #26CEO, F. J. Serrano delivered a fascinating closing talk on the evolution of powered flight in birds. 🔍 How did flight shape avian diversification and help modern birds survive mass extinctions? 🧐 Exciting insights! #FlapEvolProject #Paleontology
🚀 #FlapEvolProject debuta en #26CEO con aportaciones de Costa-Pérez y un servidor, explorando la evolución del sinsacro en las aves 🦴🦢 y la disparidad morfológica del húmero en Enantiornithes. 🔍✨ Mañana, más sobre la evolución del vuelo con la conferencia de clausura de F. J. Serrano. 🦅🎤
¡¡CONCURSO !! ¿Quieres ganar el libro “Aves de Europa”, de Lynx Ediciones? Participar en el sorteo es muy fácil: - Dinos qué especie de pájaro europeo te gustaría más poder observar - Sigue las cuentas @elherrerillo.bsky.social y @lynxnaturebooks.bsky.social - Haz retuit
'Dino Birds' airs on @pbs.org in N. America tomorrow (9pm, 5th Feb.). Follow research from our lab and colleagues around the world revealing the origin of birds. Hope you enjoy it! www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi... @stevebrusatte.bsky.social @gnavalon.bsky.social @ksepkalab.bsky.social
Dino Birds
Fossils reveal how birds survived the killer asteroid and became today’s only living dinosaurs.
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PostDoc position in evolutionary genomics available with Dan MacQueen at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, part of our BBSRC sLoLa on rediploidisation following whole genome duplication
Post-doctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genomics
Two post-doctoral researcher positions are available that will play key roles in delivering an exciting new 4-year multi-partner BBSRC research project focussed on understanding genome evolution follo...
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Something for (sub) #FossilFriday! Saw a beautiful pair of solitaire skeletons at the Hunterian. These birds were basically the island of Rodrigues' equivalent of a dodo. Also large, also flightless, also driven to extinction by European colonists 🦤🧪🦉
Salir de la facultad un viernes por la tarde es como atravesar las Quebradas de los Túmulos. No queda nadie... vivo.
#NHMLAC is currently accepting applications for the next cohort of #UNLAB postbaccalaureate researchers! Apply to spend a year working with a curator on a biodiversity research project in L.A.—view program details, eligibility requirements, and more: nhm.org/how-apply-un...
If you need a summary of recent advances in the field of bird paleontology, my labmates at @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social have a new paper out reviewing the origins of the avian brain, palate, wing skeleton, and air-filled bones! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🪶🧪 (📷Field et al.)
So, you want to be a palaeontologist and study prehistoric life, but don't know where to start? Maybe you worry you're not good enough? That you can't do field work? Or you can't afford it? Let me take you through different options for making it in the field 👇(🧵)
IV Edición 'Koprolitos de Oro': elegimos los mejores #cómics, #películas y #videojuegos con referencias paleontológicas que nos ha dejado 2024: ▶️ koprolitos.blogspot.com/2024/12/iv-e... Para ello, necesitamos vuestra ayuda. Vota a tus favoritos aquí: forms.gle/v1jh1rexqLHm...
Sharks eating dinosaurs! At the charming National Museum in Prague. Totally morbid paleoart. But based on one of the few Czech dinosaur fossils, an ornithopod bone crisscrossed with the razor blade bites of sharks.
Check out the mesmerizing moment - a crocodile embryo hatching from its egg! 🥚🐊 Our new research in @natureportfolio.bsky.social reveals how compressive forces, rather than gene interactions, sculpt their intricate head scales - learn more here ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪
This is the face of a shark! I've stained the mineralised tissues to show that their teeth and scales are both made of the same enamel-like material 🦈 🦷 🧪
After the Moa, another bird for this mammal-heavy series. Which makes me wonder if we have any paleolithic depictions of now extinct reptiles... #paleoart #SciArt #artbyjulio
No hay nada como una vigorosa brisa de aire gélido por la mañana.
I have a new paper out on the evolution of hearing in toothed whales! It looks like a narrow range of high-frequency auditory sensitivity in some living dolphins and porpoises may be an ancestral physiology rather than novel specializations in select groups. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Variation in whale (Cetacea) inner ear anatomy reveals the early evolution of “specialized” high‐frequency hearing sensitivity
Our findings support sensitivity to low-frequency sound in the archaeocete Zygorhiza kochii and an early toothed mysticete cf. Aetiocetus. Narrow-band high-frequency hearing was present in Oligocene ...
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Since today is International Cheetah Day—and as it happens to be my favorite felid—I’ve decided to write this thread highlighting its remarkable adaptations. Let’s delve into the evolutionary marvels of the fastest land animal:
We've put together a CRAN Task View for the palaeontological community - a curated list of R packages relevant for palaeontological research 📦🦕. You can install the CRAN Task View via: ctv::install.views("Paleontology") Docs: cran.r-project.org/web/views/Pa... #Paleontology #Rstats #Palaeoverse
CRAN Task View: Paleontology
Overview
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Achim Zeileis@zeileis.org · 2y agoNew CRAN Task View: Paleontology #rstats #dataviz By William Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social, Lewis A. Jones @lewisajones.bsky.social, Erin Dillon, Pedro Godoy, Harriet Drage, Christopher Dean, Bruna Farina URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Paleont...
🚨PhD Opportunity: Come to Edinburgh and study ichthyosaurs with us! Study Scottish fossils from Skye! New ones & historic specimens! Project led by Stig Walsh, co-supervised by @davfoff.bsky.social Nick Fraser, Erin Maxwell & me. Details👇 e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...
Hoy en Calle Málaga, Mijas. Los viandantes graban a un buitre leonado.
Though only about half of the world’s rhino species have gone extinct since the late Pleistocene, to get the full story, we should take a look at how massively their distributions have shrunk. Even in historical times, Sumatran and Javan rhinoes were more fittingly southeast Asian rhinos.
Leaping Balaur bondoc #paleoart for #FossilFriday. This image follows the interpretation that Balaur was an omnivorous bird, not a "double-clawed" dromaeosaur. The skull is unknown, so the head is based on Sapeornis. Originally created for the first @palaeogames.bsky.social book. #sciart
