New content dropped! Comparing herbivore and carnivore skulls 💀💀💀 youtu.be/GamzOeblLS0?si…

Interesting paper on Anolis lizard skulls! "Our results demonstrate that traits not directly tied to the adaptive shift of a lineage into unique ecological spaces may undergo exceptional patterns of change as the clade diversifies." rdcu.be/d5wfO

Not all giraffe skulls are the same! journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

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In the latest video from The lab, let's build a plausible unicorn! youtu.be/L09bmjB3UgM?si…

Bending of the face in bat skulls likely represents a trade-off between echolocation and biting mechanics. Cool paper - love me some bat research! 🦇academic.oup.com/biolinnean/art…

Identifying monsters! In this video, I break down the processes of underwater decomposition and then show how the Montauk Monster was identified 💀 youtu.be/pqNpRHSI5cc?si…

For any researchers that study skull function using comparative finite element analysis, our new paper presenting a framework for scaling muscle forces to adequately represent the hypothesis is extremely important journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

Some interesting findings from our new methods paper. We used the skull of the extinct desert rat-kangaroo as a case study and discovered some important details about its feeding habits Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) TheSkullywagLab theconversation.com/presumed-extin… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Amazing job opportunity to work American Museum of Natural History on a new Stegosaurus specimen: careers.amnh.org/postings/4384

Some nice coverage of our reasearch and story by the team at BBC Wildlife Magazine 💀🤓🤩 discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/m…

Nice paper using FEA to look at fenestration in rabbit skulls! 🐰💀anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

A new episode of Monster ID just dropped! This time, the lab identifies the Beast of Tenby 💀 youtu.be/Tr_yG9DoYJs?si… #skull #science

Just made this for The Skullywag Lab website I'm building Come sit by the fire and enjoy some skulls 💀🤓

New episode on ant and termite-eating animal skulls 💀💀💀 The feeding anatomy of these species is pretty bonkers tbh. Happy to finally explore it a bit youtu.be/Qt2iqUwujhY?si…

What if the Rancor in Star Wars was a domesticated breed similar to a pug or a bulldog? In the latest video from The Skullywag Lab, I "un-pug" the Rancor to see what a wild, undomesticated Rancor ancestor might look like! #skull #science #starwars youtu.be/di40LOfgSoA?si…

I only played a very small role in this PNASNews article by Dr. Abby Grace Drake, Jonathan B. Losos, et al., but it's cool, so please check it out! "Copy-cat evolution: Divergence and convergence within and between cat and dog breeds." doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Published today in Biological Reviews: "New perspectives on body size and shape evolution in dinosaurs" - the biggest paper from my PhD (my favourite chapter, too). doi.org/10.1111/brv.70… Here's a thread outlining some of our key findings. (1/10)

This marine, mollusc-feeding relative of bears from the Miocene had sabretooth-style skull mechanics for dislodging prey 💀 youtu.be/vbyUgSG69nw?si…

Joy! A new place to find cool bones to look at! Well done, team Ozboneviz: an Australian precedent in FAIR 3D imagery and extended biodiversity collections academic.oup.com/bioscience/art…