Really excited to share our latest paper with you! We examine patterns of skull shape evolution in an awesome group of fishes and show that they rapidly innovated following the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Selection, constraints, and contingency drive mosaic patterns of evolution during the carangarian adaptive radiation

Adaptive radiations generate remarkable morphological diversity, yet traits often diversify at different rates and modes, producing mosaic patterns of evolution. Modularity, the semiautonomous organization of traits, can shape how selection and ...

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New paper in Systematic Biology! We show how micro-synteny can help resolve a tricky fish #phylogenetic problem where traditional sequence-based analyses fall short. Genomes archive evolutionary history in more than just their basepairs. doi.org/10.1093/sysb... #fish #genomics #evolution

Our cypriniform microsynteny paper is now available online at @systbiol.bsky.social : academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Microsynteny Analysis Clarifies the Early Diversification of Cypriniform Fishes

Abstract. While genomic data are powerfully informative for phylogenetic inference, traditional sequence-based analyses can be confounded by issues like ho

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Terrible news. ANSP was the first collection I visited during my PhD...this is an incredible place with so much history.

Kory Evans Ph.D@sternarchella.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is actually heartbreaking. This museum is my favorite place in the entire city and inspired me as a child and as an adult. There’s gotta be a way to save it. www.inquirer.com/education/ac...

Do you like gobies? Check out 'Gobioids of the Americas'! www.gobynet.org

Pleased to share our latest special issue: Feeding biomechanics in vertebrates & beyond! The issue brings together studies spanning insects, fishes & mammals to explore feeding biomechanics anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494... Guest Editors: Böhmer & Winkler

New fossil fish dropped! Meet Jianghanichthys huachongensis sp. nov. Despite fragile, swampy origins, exceptional preservation of its head sensory canals is shedding new light on Cypriniformes evolution! cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.... #Paleontology #Ichthyology #Fossil #NewSpecies #Evolution

Fossil freshwater fishes from the Pliocene of northern Colombia & the palaeogeography of northern South America onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @gaballench.bsky.social @sreinales.bsky.social @agenciafapesp.bsky.social #PapersinPalaeontology #FossilFriday

Blue Sucker found to live to at least 61 years of age in the upper Missouri River link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Population dynamics and aging structure comparison reveals newfound longevity of blue suckers (Cycleptus elongatus) in a Missouri River tributary - Environmental Biology of Fishes

Blue suckers [Cycleptus elongatus (Lesueur, 1817)] are declining in much of their native range, and recent research suggests they may be longer lived than previously estimated. We compared pectoral fi...

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A big-headed ant, Pheidole fimbriata, you’ll never guess why they call it that. (Colombia)

New overview of snakehead relationships based on morphology of fossil and modern species: journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.p...

Last week's processing was all about the ghost #sharks (#chimera). These are from fisheries bycatch. Love these ancient prototypes that are still rocking it in the deep sea. Their snouts are stitched with a variety of sensors that allow them to detect buried prey.

8 hours. That’s all fish need to heal wounds 🐟⏱️ Why are they so fast compared to humans? I break down the science of rapid regeneration in a microscopy story 🔬 Watch here: youtu.be/Mt9f61adaP0 #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy

Flathead catfish...a relatively recent addition to the Susquehanna River fish fauna.

🐟 A new species of the flathead genus Elates has been described from specimens purchased at a fish market in the southern Philippines. 🧬 Its distinct identity is supported by anatomical features, such as a large eye and dark peritoneum. ➡️ Check out the full study: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1281.181028

Subterranean allopatric speciation... news.yale.edu/2026/05/21/u...

Underground evolution: Study reveals how new cavefish species emerged

A Yale-led study describing a new Southern cavefish species provides strong evidence that new species can arise in organisms adapted to live only underground.

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There are more individuals of the deep-sea fish Cyclothone than any other vertebrate genus, maybe as many as one million billion. Distinctively ornamented ichthyoliths place the origin of Cyclothone in the greenhouse world of the early Eocene, ~55.6 Ma. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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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Environmental DNA from lakes and rivers in Southeast China shows that sites with frequent tropical cyclones have more nonnative fish than less storm-prone sites, partly because flood waters and high winds facilitate species movement. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/bC5150YQEl8

Fossil fish head from the Pleistocene of Galveston, TX

‼️NEW ANGLERFISH PAPER! 🐟🎣 So excited to share the final part of my Master’s research! We explore the bizarre tacklebox of anglerfish lures and show how these fishes evolved different ways to attract prey and maybe even mates in the deep sea. 🧪🦑🌊🦇🦀 Open access paper link: doi.org/10.1643/i202...

Pleased to share a new phylogeny for the airbreathing or walking catfishes from the family Clariidae - part of my postdoctoral work at the AMNH in collaboration with Tobit Liyandja and Melanie Stiassny: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New e-fish paper: Lineage Diversity and Craniofacial Disparity of Navajini (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae) in Deep River Channels of Tropical South America from Allen, Fisher & Albert in Evolutionary Biology. doi.org/10.1007/s116...

Lineage Diversity and Craniofacial Disparity of Navajini (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae) in Deep River Channels of Tropical South America - Evolutionary Biology

The Navajini is a clade of Neotropical electric fishes specialized to inhabit deep river channels in the lowland Amazonian, with species that exhibit high craniofacial disparity and a highly conservat...

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From El Hossny et al., 2020: Spathiurus, a Cretaceous relative of bowfins. This specimen is at a museum tied to the Lebanese University. One of the university’s campuses has been bombed, and the director of the Faculty of Science has been killed You can support Lebanon here: gofund.me/40b24e072

First largescale sucker of the spring.

Out now in Contributions from me and @gilespalaeo.bsky.social, a deep dive into an early member of the sturgeon and paddlefish lineage. Bear with me, but there’s a long backstory highlighting uncertainty about the anatomy of living species and how well-studied fossils can still yield new insights.

Just published: A very unusual fish, described here as a new genus and species of loach, and the first groundwater-dwelling fish reported from Northeast India. Meet 𝑮𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒌 𝒏𝒂𝒌𝒂𝒏𝒂! Open access article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New in JFB: Alfaro huberi must have one of the strangest mating behaviors among poeciliid fishes. #TeamFish #FishSci Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Corresponding video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKWA...

Our paper describing a new species of Pascua goby from the Coral Sea has been selected as en Editors Choice Article in Fishes. Apart from being fabulous, these fish are cool because they show that the genus has two groups of species separated by >5000km of the Pacific! www.mdpi.com/3483974 #fishes

Remarkable. Report of a Brazilian spiny-rayed fish dating to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous, preceding the oldest known acanthomorphs by ~20 million years. Gondwanacanthus extends the roots of one of today's most prominent vertebrate radiations: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...