Say hello to Dickinsonia, the animal kingdom’s newest (and oldest) member bit.ly/2Noobtz

Pambdelurion is an extinct animal from the Cambrian. It is thought that they were arthropods. (Credit: Satoshi Kawasaki)

New paper co-authored by Museum researcher Imran Rahman using computer simulations to uncover the benefits of group living in a 548-million-year-old sack-like fossil, out now in Science Advances advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/ea… (art by Dave Mazierski)

An ancient organism’s feeding habits gives new meaning to “family style” meals. advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/ea…

This is what always happens when physicists "do biology".

This week’s featured #EvolutionVU trainee is Brandt Gibson, a PostDoc in the Darroch Lab! He uses a variety of experimental and computational methods to study the Edicara biota's #fossils, #biology, & #ecology. #EvoVUTrainees #evolution (more info + 📷: sites.google.com/view/brandtmgi…)

#Decomposition study of #crayfish suggests soft tissue #mineralization related to moult phase Bastian Mähler, Kathrin Janssen, Martina Menneken, Mariam Tahoun, Markus Lagos, Gabriele Bierbaum, Christa E. Müller, and Jes Rust palaeo-electronica.org/content/2020/2…

Editorial: Adding to PhD students’ woes will undermine US research and economy go.nature.com/2zFIJ91

Peggy Hughes is the largest Mako ever tagged by the Center for Sportfish Science and Conservation in the northern Gulf of Mexico. We caught up with @Shrkbio, who crawled onto the shark's back and fitted her with a SPOT-258 tag. To learn more read: bit.ly/2IYHhki

Headed to REI as soon as they open. x.com/rei/status/980…