Happy #Croctober! Glad to be a part of this #OA article led by Mark Young, Julia Schwab & Steve Brusatte on evolution of one my favorite anatomical systems—air sinuses—in extinct marine thalattosuchian crocs! 🐊 Funding: The Leverhulme Trust U.S. National Science Foundation & others doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2…

🚨New paper!🚨 Want to use data from macrostrat.org, but struggle working with APIs? Our article describing the rmacrostrat R package 📦 is now published in #Geosphere Geological Society of America Publications: doi.org/10.1130/GES028… #Geology #RStats #OpenAccess #palaeoverse

Check out our new paper on thalattosuchian sinus evolution!!!🚨 I am so happy seeing this paper lead by Mark Young published. 🐊🐊🐊Funding: The Leverhulme Trust Check it out here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

It's #FossilFriday so here are the most recent four fossils on my phone: an iguanodontian dinosaur from the Isle of Wight Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Kosmoceratops (I think!) NHMU, a sacrum of the ankylosaur Gastonia being excavated by Davide Foffa, and an ornithischian jaw from the Morrison

Come by my poster 328 this afternoon to learn about how microfossils can be useful for inferring functional traits!!! 🦎🐊

Now that #2024SVP is over it's time to release the #2025SVP Birmingham logos into the wild. Designed by the brilliant Mark Witton, the primary logo features an iconic local fossil (a rhynchosaur, first discovered in the counties surrounding Birmingham). A short 🧵

Loved working on this graphical abstract! 🥰Do yourself a favour and check this cool paper!

Our December issue is now live! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494/2… The cover article focuses on the skull of Acynodon adriaticus and extreme durophagous adaptations in Eusuchian crocodylomorphs. Marco Muscioni et al.: doi.org/10.1002/ar.255…

Six museum cabinets, generously donated by Yale Peabody Museum with shipping covered by U.S. Embassy Zimbabwe, are on their way from Yale to the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe. The collection is overflowing with fossils, and this is much-needed capacity building

🦴Check out our new paper describing the internal anatomy of the long-necked tanysaurians, showing that bizarre inner vertebral anatomy is not restricted to dinosaurs and pterosaurs. This is part of the PhD work of Adam Rytel. Watch out for much more! doi.org/10.1093/zoolin…

Unique internal anatomy of vertebrae as a key factor for neck elongation in Triassic archosauromorphs academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

We published something that can be useful: A new biomechanical approach to model cranial sutures using contact elements in linear and nonlinear Finite Element Models #FEA #biomechanics in a Niloticus crocodile skull with Josep Fortuny Laia Garcia 📒 doi.org/10.1017/pab.20…

Want to integrate research into your undergraduate teaching? Have students do applicable & meaningful exercises? Look no further, my new paper describes a case-study & best practices to have undergrad students participate in course-based research: link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

Superb news that two of our most important doctoral schemes - CENTA and MIBTP - have been renewed and will support over 400 PhD students across the Midlands over the next five years.

📢Museum researchers help reveal the evolution of the bird brain, on the cover of today's @nature! Guillermo Navalón and bird curator Field Palaeobiology Research Group investigate the most immaculate fossil bird skull from the age of dinosaurs, from the new species Navaornis hestiae! Credit: JÚLIA D'OLIVEIRA

New paper alert🚨 European Synchrotron imaging reveals new species of coelacanth. Well done to the team for this publication!

Guilherme Hermanson & I have a new paper out, a collab w researchers fr Museum für Naturkunde Berlin not on this app (afaik), incl. Jasper Ponstein as 1st author.. "Functional and character disparity are decoupled in turtle mandibles" For details, see thread on 🦋. Paper link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Cervical vertebrae of tanysaurians, were unique in their cylindrical structure, which allowed these Triassic reptiles to develop an enormously long neck. academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

My boss showing off his incredible 3D rendering and advances in dental analysis. Incredible amount of work, well done to the team🙂🙂

I am getting out of this place... it may take a while but here's where you can find me: