Takins are native to the high-altitude regions of the Hengduan and Himalaya mountain ranges. All 4 subspecies are found in China. The #takin prefers to inhabit cold, high-altitude areas above 2,500 meters and migrates vertically with changes in season and temperature.

I'm well aware that extrapolating sizes from fragmentary remains highly subjected to allometry is misleading but excuse me holy shit

Evidence for tactile organs in the bill tips of penguins and albatrosses: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Congratulations to Carla du Toit and colleagues!

Predator becomes prey: Martial eagle predation of lion cubs in the greater Mara region, Kenya | doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7… | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology

NEW PAPER!🚨Very pleased to announce that the first paper from my PhD on mammalian jaw joint evolution has been published today in nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… Graphical abstract by Science Graphic Design

Most birds use a funny running style: grounded running. It's a paradox: GR costs more energy than normal running, but animals usually minimize costs. Do birds waste energy? We resolve this with a model of the emu (the best bird). 1st PhD chapter, out in Science Advances 1/17

Man, if only that house cat was indoors like it's supposed to be, this could've been avoided

EXCUUSE ME PRINCESS? This is gorgeous

The cranial morphology of Melanosuchus still surprises me every time I see it again. Not only is it incredibly "dense", but the orbital fenestrae are absurdly gigantic compared to those of other crocodilians. #Croctober

I'm screwed...

Its out! New material from the holotype specimen of Taurovenator: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

If you guys thought the """"neck lock""" interconnecting neural spines of Acrocanthosaurus were cool (left), check out the neck of Taurovenator(right)

RAPTORIAL AVISAURIDS New enantiornithine diversity in the Hell Creek Formation and the functional morphology of the avisaurid tarsometatarsus (*Avisaurus darwini* sp. nov & *Magnusavis ekalakaensis* gen. et sp. nov.) journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… Art by Ville Sinkkonen

3D microCT scans show the full body anatomy of the myriapod Arthropleura science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I cringed at the atmospheric oxygen mention (Arthropleura itself is exactly one of the strongest counterarguments to that), but this is actually very fascinating.

A real shame, hopefully they'll be able to solve this

#みんなでつくるTwitter古生物図鑑 アースロプレウラ Arthropleura 石炭紀Visean期~ペルム紀Sakmarian期 ヨーロッパ、北アメリカ 推定最大体長約2.5m 陸 多足類 Myriapoda Pectinopoda 基盤的ヤスデ類 Stem-Diplopoda アースロプレウラ亜綱 Arthropleuridea アースロプレウラ目 Arthropleurida

Ha! Darren on the Italian TV

I'm planning to switch over to bsky. If everything goes well, I'll keep checking here from time to time, but for other interactions see you over there