So glad to have been able to contribute to this project, what an incredible group of fishes! Take a look if you like cool life history strategies and kinematics #goby

New paper out in New Phytologist I wrote with Stuart McDaniel and Jon Spoelhof of Soltis Lab @UF on polyploid incidence in plants and animals. Was fun collaborating on a paper about such a broad group of organisms. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

Does reproductive assurance explain the incidence of polyploidy in plants and animals? Soltis Lab @UF Rachel Keeffe, PhD Stuart McDaniel #Letter nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

A 29 million-year-old coquí fossil takes the title of the earliest Caribbean frog ever recorded. Fittingly, the fossil was found on the island where coquís are most beloved – Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷🐸🦴 Story: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/coqui-…

Here it is, the oldest Caribbean frog! In this paper with coauthors @davidcblackburn Rachel Keeffe, PhD & M.C. Vallejo-Pareja we describe a humerus of a #coquí frog (Eleutherodactylus) from the early #Oligocene of #PuertoRico! 1/6 t.ly/yZJOV #OpenAccess #CaribbeanPaleobiology

I'm excited to share some of the work I've been doing on burrowing frog pectoral anatomy! This paper includes a literature review of burrowing behavior in frogs as well as morphometrics of the humerus across all frog families.

Check out this fun article about the new burrowing frog paper @davidcblackburn and I published in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society! Very fun working with Halle Newman Florida Museum for this one.

You chest press, bruh? popsci.com/story/animals/…

Saw two juvenile diamondbacks over the weekend near St. Augustine--such gorgeous animals! Diamondbacks are one of the six venomous #snake species in FL. #herping #rattlesnake

We know the frog tongue is great at stretching out to catch food, but what happens after the mouth is closed? Come check out my #SICB+ talk to find out! Exciting XROMM animations and videos abound, and transcripts are included! #SICB2022

My defense seminar is happening this Friday at 12PM - 1PM EST! Tune in if you'd like to learn about why frog arms, tongues, and hyoids are so amazing!

A new study by Rachel Keeffe, PhD + @davidcblackburn indicates the way frogs mate and fight may hold a missing clue to their mysterious skeletal evolution. 💪🐸 floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/frog-f…

New paper on the function of bone fusion in the frog forelimb (authored by myself and @davidcblackburn) is now open access in the Journal of Anatomy! Frog arms still have a lot to teach us about frog evolution, come check it out! doi.org/10.1111/joa.13…

The Mayerl lab at NAU is hiring! We're looking to recruit a graduate student and postdoc interested in #Physiology , #feeding , and #biomechanics. Check out the lab website or message for more christophermayerl.weebly.com/join-the-lab.h…

Beyond the party horn tongue 🥳🐸 Rachel Keeffe, PhD and team x-rayed cane toads' feeding behavior to document the complex pulley system of cartilage and muscle that travels so far down their throat, it butts up against their heart. Story: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/a-hard…

I'm excited to share our recent publication in [email protected] on feeding mechanics in toads! Think you know frog tongues? There is a lot more to them than meets the eye!

Check out how far back the tongue tip (gold sphere) reaches during swallowing in cane toads! What does this mean for our understanding of frog feeding? Read more about this cool behavior here: academic.oup.com/iob/article/4/…