We had such a nice time digging some fossils at the phosphatières du Quercy 🤠🛘💪🏼. Thanks a lot for inviting me! Cool science in perspective 🤓

Very happy to share our latest work on small mammals’ hallucal ability! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Powerful or non-powerful? Revisiting hallucal grasping as a key evolutionary innovation in small arboreal mammals

Wildlife anatomy; Zoology; Evolutionary biology

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2 PhD Opportunities! 🤩 We are recruiting two highly motivated PhD students to join an ambitious project advancing Robotic Paleontology—a rapidly emerging field that fuses paleontology, biomechanics, simulation, and robotics. nyakaturalab.com/news/ Please share!!

Nyakatura-Lab for Comparative Zoology | News

See what’s been happening in the Nyakatura Lab. News: discover our latest publications, recent events, and research highlights.

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Very proud of the first paper of the PhD project of Adrian Scheidt.

Journal of Anatomy@journalofanatomy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@johnnyakatura.bsky.social et al., investigate the scaling of internal joint distance (IJD), a surrogate measure for cartilage thickness, across small- to medium-sized mammals. Elbow position had no significant effect on IJD and used these data to model the range of motion (ROM) at the elbow joint

Pangolins possess a spectacular, dense network of diploic veins for brain drainage! In our latest study, we show that this pattern may also provide rare morphological evidence linking pangolins and carnivorans in the Ferae clade. Check it out here: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

"We're going for our families, we're going for humanity" Artemis II has launched. Follow us for coverage throughout the 10-day mission go.nature.com/4c4ib1G

Artemis II mission is about to fly humans to the Moon — here’s the science they’ll do

Set to lift off this week, the NASA flight will take astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

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Super cool charity cross of the MNHN we did with some colleagues and students this Sunday morning in the Jardin des Plantes of Paris 🏃‍♀️. The sun was here to cheer us ☀️😃. @cdelrio.bsky.social @mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social @cr2p.bsky.social @mnhn.fr

🚨 Two postdoc positions open in the #LHOSA team at @palevoprim.bsky.social! Passionate about Australopithecus and hominin paleobiology? Skilled in virtual study of long bones or #GIS applied to hominin-bearing sites? Join us 👇

Our paper, based on a uniquely large dataset of vertical descent behaviours in arboreal mammals, is published in @elife.bsky.social. The findings offer fresh perspectives on reconstructing postures in early primates. You can find the accompanying press release here: elifesciences.org/for-the-pres...

Climbing behaviours of tree-dwelling critters unlock insights on early primate evolution

Researchers have published the first comparative analysis of downward climbing behaviours across a broad range of small mammal species, with insights into the evolution of primates’ arboreal upright p...

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Severine L.D. Toussaint@sevcrumb.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy to share our last article just published in eLife 😁 @johnnyakatura.bsky.social

#Communiqué 🗞️ Une étude révèle que les primates arboricoles montrent une diversité de stratégies de descentes verticales, avec des postures redressées, contrairement à d’autres mammifères qui descendent majoritairement la tête la première. 🐒 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/po...

Happy to share our last article just published in eLife 😁 @johnnyakatura.bsky.social

eLife@elife.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Kinematics and morphology reveal how mammals descend trees safely, showing posture and movement strategies that suggest early upright behaviours in ancestral primates. buff.ly/EnUkzYd

Thrilled our multi-year work on biological tilings is out in @pnasnexus.org! From virus shells to dinosaurs, seeds to fish scales—tilings are everywhere in biology. Explore the paper and our interactive catalogue (link following in next post): doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Tiled material systems: Exploring biodiversity and multifunctionality of a universal and structural motif

Abstract. Humans are drawn to patterns and hierarchies in nature, mimicking them particularly in decoration and architecture. Natural patterns, however, ar

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Looking for a master student to work on the microstructure of metapodials and phalanges in arboreal mammals!! Fully funded by the MNHN. Cool collab with @houssayecnrs.bsky.social ! Contact me for more info 😁

🚨🦜🐧Cover reveal! Thrilled to show off the cover of my upcoming book: The Story of Birds! Coming April 28. The whole history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to colossal extinct penguins & terror birds, to the 10,000+ species today. From @marinerbooks.bsky.social Preorder 👇

We had such a great time at the #SVP2025 meeting 🪨🦖. With @cr2p.bsky.social and many friends and colleagues. Total success 🤩

🎥De nouvelles vidéos vous attendent sur notre chaîne YouTube! Découvrez: 1️⃣ Des astuces pour une nouvelle destination 2️⃣ Du matériel solide pour le terrain 3️⃣ Le matériel en forêt Vous partez bientôt sur le terrain? Partagez vos vidéos et aidez la communauté! youtube.com/@ParlonsTerrain

Such a great 37th congress of the Société Francophone de Primatologie @lasfdp.bsky.social organized by @palevoprim.bsky.social in Poitiers ❤️. Although it was punctuated by the deceased of J. Goodall 😢. See you all next time xx

(FR)👉 Notre groupe évolue! Nous avons maintenant un site officiel… et un superbe logo 🎉✨ Retrouvez toutes les infos sur notre mission, notre équipe, nos objectifs, nos interventions, nos ressources en ligne et les ateliers que nous proposons sur parlonsterrain.wixsite.com/parlons-terr... 🇫🇷🇬🇧

New paper on #phalanges and #hands and #feet proportions in #primates. Just published in #OA in #JHE. Great collaboration with la Citadelle of Besançon (Museum) and the zoological and botanical park of Mulhouse, and with S. Toussaint as a first author. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Functional and behavioral variation in intrinsic hand and foot digit proportions in primates

The relative elongation of the digits on the autopods has long been considered as an adaptation for an arboreal lifestyle shared by several tetrapods.…

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