Happy to announce that our latest study with @houssayecnrs.bsky.social is now published in the @anatrecord.bsky.social. 🐧🦆🪿 doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... How does the inner structure of the limb bones of aquatic birds relate to their locomotor abilities? 🦴

The final chapter of my PhD is out!! What happens when graviportal taxa get dwarfed? We explore this in dwarf elephantids from the Mediterranean Sea, looking at the inner and outer anatomy of limb long bones. 🐘📄 With @houssayecnrs.bsky.social and U. B. Göhlich #GRAVIBONE doi.org/10.1111/pala...

Miniature giants: investigating limb long bone structure in dwarf proboscideans

Terrestrial vertebrates rely on their skeleton to provide structural support and allow the movement of the body. Heavy, graviportal taxa, such as extant elephants, exhibit numerous adaptive features ....

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Penguins may look charmingly awkward on land, but new research shows their bodies are finely tuned for powerful, efficient movement both on land and underwater. Penguins “fly” underwater and their bodies have adapted accordingly. Hirsh et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The backstory of this important bone was forgotten. However, we were able to identify it in archival photographs and an old newsreel clip from 1961 (from 0:39, filmhiradokonline.hu/watch.php?id...), which helped us determine its place of origin and find several related fragments.

Martin Segesdi@segesdimartin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It was a great honor and an adventure to work together with @camillebader.bsky.social on this unique Deinotherium limb bone. The analysis helped us better understand how the inner structure of this giant’s bones adapted to its enormous size. (Art: Tibor Pecsics - @griffworkshop5)

It was a great honor and an adventure to work together with @camillebader.bsky.social on this unique Deinotherium limb bone. The analysis helped us better understand how the inner structure of this giant’s bones adapted to its enormous size. (Art: Tibor Pecsics - @griffworkshop5)

Camille Bader@camillebader.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New paper out in Geodiversitas! 🦣🦴 Ever wonder what the inside of Deinotherium giganteum looks like? Find out about it here: geodiversitas.com/48/7 Big thanks to the Budapest HNHM for providing access to this unique material! With Prof. Mihaly Gasparik & @segesdimartin.bsky.social

Out in @nature.com today, we shake up the ornithischian family tree. Remember those weird Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, the rhabdodontids? Well they're weird because they aren't iguanodontians. They're ceratopsians. Well, at least some of them are... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe - Nature

New results indicate that rhabdodontids and the previously described Ajkaceratops are actually distinctive European ceratopsians, a group better known from Asia and North America.

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"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...

In honor of Baron Ferenc Nopcsa, the renowned dinosaur researcher and former director of the Geological Institute of Hungary, the SZTFH/SARA is organizing a memorial day. The event will take place in Budapest on October 2, 2025. Registration and program flyer: hugeo.hu/en/form/nopc...

🦴 How do proboscidean bones support such massive weight? Chapter 3 of my PhD is out, a new paper diving into their bone microanatomy! With Alexandra Houssaye @houssayecnrs.bsky.social and John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Professor John R. Hutchinson@johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · last yr.

Oh! Another paper! From @camillebader.bsky.social Camille Bader's PhD, with Alexandra Houssaye @houssayecnrs.bsky.social. Elephant limb bone microanatomy reflects bone function and posture. Paper: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... Tons of CT scan DICOM files: figshare.com/articles/dat...

Our work with Zsófia Román (my former MSc student) is now published in @historicalbiology.bsky.social , Volume 37, Issue 3. In this paper, we have analyzed a particularly rich coprolite material using different methods to explore its paleoecological significance. 💩 🐟 🦭

Palaeontological and taphonomical investigations of the exceptionally rich concentration of Miocene vertebrate coprolites from Pécs-Danitzpuszta (Hungary, Mecsek Mts.)

Thousands of coprolites have been collected from the Upper Miocene (Tortonian/Pannonian) sands of the Pécs-Danitzpuszta sand pit, one of the most important mixed Neogene vertebrate localities in Hu...

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蛇年快乐! Happy New Year of the snake, with Tanystropheus, a long-necked Triassic reptile

About 5% of known bird species have gone extinct over the past 130,000 years. @science.org "The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions." Read more www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions

Humans have been driving a global erosion of species richness for millennia, but the consequences of past extinctions for other dimensions of biodiversity—functional and phylogenetic diversity—are poo...

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Hey BlueSky! Just made a quick starter pack of vertebrate SECAD researchers with accounts. Please add anyone I missed! go.bsky.app/Gm5h3Ww