I’m excited to share our work on brachiopods! We use phylogenomics to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships of living brachiopods and their relationships with other lophotrochozoans. Huge thanks to all my co-authors and collaborators! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This website simulates the effects of colorblindness on color schemes; I've used it to pick palettes that can still be distinguished by brightness and saturation: davidmathlogic.com/colorblind/

Coloring for Colorblindness

This interactive visual tool lets you see how accessible your color palettes are to viewers who are colorblind.

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Jeff Wilson Mantilla@diapophysis.bsky.social · 6d ago

Just a reminder that certain colors cannot be discriminated by around 5% of the population. Especially in the run-up to the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting, think about choosing colorblind-friendly colors for display. There are many resources for this, but colorbrewer2.org is great.

Another paper, this from a team featuring our own @captain-colosteid.bsky.social. A Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) tetrapod burrow from New Brunswick, Canada. www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/4/...

Congratulations to @lucyroberts.bsky.social, from our Centre!

UCL Research Department of Cell & Developmental Biology@ucl-cdb.bsky.social · 3d ago

🦴🔬 Congratulations to Lucy Roberts and collaborators on the publication of their latest paper in Nature, led by researchers from the University of Oxford and the American Museum of Natural History. @ucl-cdb.bsky.social 📖 Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Biggest Extinction You’ve Never Heard Of youtu.be/Ya99xCWXQdc?...

The Biggest Extinction You’ve Never Heard Of

YouTube video by PBS Eons

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If you need me, I’ll be staring at this alligator gar scan all day. The fish was so big that I had to drive all the way to UT Austin to scan it. This particular animal has a tooth the grew straight through its skull

How can you not love a flightless Jurassic bird that was like a carnivorous pheasant with killer claws? 🧪 🐦 🦖 🐓 My latest for @livescience.com www.livescience.com/animals/exti...

Flightless Jurassic bird was like a carnivorous pheasant with killer claws

An early bird with many dinosaur-like features discovered in China seems to have been a fast-running, land-based carnivore with killer claws.

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It's #NationalFossilDay in the US! This year the site of interest is White Sands National Park in New Mexico, US, where human footprints document the earliest confirmed record of people in the Americas. Not coincidentally, a new paper on these fossils is just out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

Happy National Fossil Day! UCMP is celebrating the educational value of fossil collections! Here are some examples of Pleistocene megafauna from Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, similar to those found in White Sands National Park. Bison humerus, Camel lower jaw, and Tetrameryx teeth.

More than 247 million years ago, as life recovered from Earth’s greatest mass extinction, a small mammal relative called Microgomphodon oligocynus was already mastering the art of digging! Published in JVP here doi.org/10.1080/0272...

Exceptionally preserved Microgomphodon oligocynus specimens elucidate ecomorphological adaptations in derived therocephalians (Synapsida: Therapsida)

Baurioid therocephalians survived the Permo-Triassic mass extinction event and gave rise to globally widespread lineages that increasingly evolved derived ‘mammal-like’ characteristics. The last su...

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Vacation is going well so far!

Congratulations to our Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners! 🎉📸 🐘 Federico Veronesi is our Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026, awarded for his mesmerising image, ‘The Aftermath’. 🪲 Oscar Whitfield’s ‘Labour of Love’ crowns him our Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026.

🚨 #postdoc alert ❤️‍🔥 I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group at @cpgsthlm.bsky.social and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social working on #woollymammoth genomics 🦣🦴🧬✨ Deadline: 30th Nov. +Info about the position 👉 www.su.se/english/divi... +info about CPG 👉 palaeogenetics.com RT pls

November SICB zoom nov 5th 9 am est with @nicoleackermans.com email sicbmedia@sicb.org to receive a link. Nicole's lab is working on a variety of thing including  goats as a model for #brain damage ​https://nicoleackermans.com/research/ #dementias #research #alzheimers #science

A new megaraptoran dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation, UK, and its implications for theropod evolution and biogeography royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

A new megaraptoran dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation, UK, and its implications for theropod evolution and biogeography

Abstract. Theropod dinosaur remains from the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, UK, are rare and often fragmentary. Here,

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Interested in corals, dispersal, and diversification dynamics? 🪸 We're offering a PhD project on how the Tethys closure shaped global marine biodiversity — supervised by me, Bridget Wade, Nadia Santodomingo & Francesca Bosellini 🗓️ Apply by 14th December 2026 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how...

Applications open for the TREE NERC DTP in London www.trees-dla.ac.uk/news/we-are-... We have a cool PhD project on echinoderm fossils and genome architecture evolutions with @imranrahman.bsky.social Feel free to drop a line to inquire!

I was reminded today of the wonder of the venomous-headbutting frog Corythomantis greeningi. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... This is another example of the awesomeness of natural history!

This Frog Uses Its Spiky Face to Deliver a Venomous Headbutt

When Carlos Jared was first ‘stung’ by the venomous face of the Greening’s frog, he didn’t realise what had happened. He had picked up one of the small creatures, and it started thrashing about as if ...

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NEW PALEO JOB!! The Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) in Johannesburg is hiring a Director. Famous for human origins, dinosaur evolution, and most importantly (😅) Permo-Triassic tetrapods, this is a huge opportunity to lead one of the world’s greatest paleo institutes. Please share!

PhD applications are now open via @treesdla.bsky.social (14th Dec deadline), including this project @es-ucl.bsky.social supervised by @rnf.bsky.social & I on early crocodylian evolution & end-Cretaceous extinction selectivity: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/ear...

Biomechanical analyses point to dense collagen fibre architecture in an Ediacaran frond royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Biomechanical analyses point to dense collagen fibre architecture in an Ediacaran frond

Abstract. Ediacaran macrofossils record the earliest large and complex organisms on Earth. Despite extensive study, fundamental aspects of their internal a

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Finally finished my Kunbarrasaurus ieversi skull sculpture. So here's a skull diagram. Planning to 3d print it at life size as well. #sciart #paleoart #paleontology

New Jurassic paravian dinosaur Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Recovered as more closely related to modern birds than Archaeopteryx, but appears to have been flightless, and had dromaeosaurid-like serrated teeth and an enlarged "killing claw" on the foot. 🪶🧪 (📷Xu et al.)

New paper alert! My talented postdoc Dana Korneisel has just published a paper from her PhD project in Nature. First and corresponding author! Experiments using sturgeon (which have a vertebral column with a persisting notochord) indicate that early tetrapods didn't really have a mobile neck.🧪

How early tetrapods got their neck www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How early tetrapods got their neck

As fish evolved into four-limbed creatures, their skull separated from their shoulders to form a neck. Now we learn that this early neck was surprisingly rigid.

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Very happy to see this finally out! Thanks to all my amazing co-authors for this multi-year effort that we manage to wrap up! Coordinated transformations of the labyrinth and occiput during the dinosaur–bird transition | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Coordinated transformations of the labyrinth and occiput during the dinosaur–bird transition | PNAS

Evolutionary shape changes of the vertebrate semicircular canals (SCCs) are often ascribed to evolutionary transitions in locomotion, including the...

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The video on this is amazing. 🐝❗ www.science.org/content/arti...

Honey bees inject venom with a two-stroke stinger

Unlike other poisonous animals, bees use a strange set of pistons to pump toxin

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The 10th John Day Fossil Beds National Monument special issue paper is out! Dana Reuter, Samantha Hopkins, Edward Byrd Davis, and myself looked at food webs and at how community structure changed through the long geologic record of the park. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Reconstructed functional diversity and food-web structure reveal mammalian community shifts through the Oligo-Miocene in Oregon | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core

Reconstructed functional diversity and food-web structure reveal mammalian community shifts through the Oligo-Miocene in Oregon

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We encourage the nurturing of the innate human appreciation of biodiversity, but we reaffirm the message that the biodiversity that makes our world so fascinating, beautiful and functional is vanishing unnoticed at an unprecedented rate. 👏🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?

There have been five Mass Extinction events in the history of Earth's biodiversity, all caused by dramatic but natural phenomena. It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may be underway, t...

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Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Laura, a traditional painter working in abstracted surreal fantasy themes. Most of my work is in watercolor. Lately it's been a lot of "getting lost in the woods, and how to find your way" Website fallenlights.net Patreon patreon.com/fallenlights Email laura@fallenlights.net