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CAVEPS final circular is now out! Read all about plenaries, events, merchandise, workshops, conference dinner and Jurassic Park in 3D! All details at caveps.org .

Glowing mammals! My thoughts on new paper by @TravouillonK - Fluorescent mammals are much more common than scientists thought newsweek.com/fluorescent-ma… Evans EvoMorph Lab

Join a panel of scientists and palaeontologists as they discuss the rise and fall of #marinemegafauna including the #megalodon and the #bluewhale. Tue 28 Nov, 6.30pm at Melbourne Museum and online. Book this @MuseumsVictoria Lecture now: brnw.ch/21wDXXb

New from Dr James Rule, Ruairidh Duncan, Felix Marx, Dr Tahlia Pollock, Alistair Evans and me! Giant baleen whales emerged from a cold southern cradle | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Check out the sketchfab 3D model here: skfb.ly/oOUVR

We are hiring! : Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Global Change Biology Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Plant Community Ecology Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Botany or Phycology careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/…

We are seeking a permanent part-time (4 days/week) Editorial Assistant to support Science at the Natural History Museum journals, the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology and Systematics and Biodiversity. This role is suitable for remote or hybrid working. Deadline of 1st July. jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job/J…

Kangaroo teeth grow forever – and keep a record of their owner’s age and sex. William Parker tells us all about it! theconversation.com/kangaroo-teeth… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

How exciting!! #megafaunaABC Catalyst on abc tonight 😁 Aaron Camens @zieglertn abc.net.au/news/science/2…

New Paper! Juvenile Jurassic mammaliaform from the Isle of Skye shows mammals grew more slowly in the time of dinosaurs. Our study in Nature uses synchrotron imaging of teeth to look at life history and growth. Thread 🧵 ... nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congrats Dr Marco Camaiti ! Excellent study on the insides of the not-so-limbed.

Heeeeey #SVP2024 attendees, do not miss the Carnivora & Co session tomorrow morning if you're still in town 🦁🐺🦦🐻🦝🦡🦨

New paper about the functioning of saber teeth led by the amazing Dr Tahlia Pollock 🥳 combining 3DGM with biomechanical testing we identified functional optimality as a key driver underpinning the repeated evolution of extreme saber-tooth morphologies 🔪🦁 cell.com/current-biolog…

Sabre teeth are a classic example of convergence. Our new study, integrating 3D shape, biomechanics, and optimality modelling, helps explain why: revealing that functional optimality was a key driver behind the repeated evolution of extreme sabre-tooth morphologies🔪🦷 Link⬇️

Out today in Current Biology: cell.com/current-biolog… Thank you to Science Graphic Design for the fab graphical abstract

Thanks to all my coauthors, Will Deakin Narimane Chatar Pablo Milla Carmona Dr Douglass Rovinsky Olga Panagiotopoulou William Parker Justin Adams Dr David Hocking Phil Donoghue Emily Rayfield Alistair Evans 🐯

The long, sharp, blade-like canines found in many extinct predators evolved at least five times throughout history. Dr Tahlia Pollock Monash University theconversation.com/new-research-r…

They’ve only waited 120Ma. A new glimpse into theropod diversity from Early Cretaceous Australia: megaraptorids, an unenlagiine, and for the first time, carcharodontosaurians. Published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Artwork by Jonathan Metzger. 1/10

Museums Victoria Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus 🍥 Ruairidh Duncan Dr Joseph Bevitt Alistair Evans Finally, if you’d like an alternative runthrough of this research, check out are article at The Conversation here: theconversation.com/carnivorous-di… 10/10

Five fossils of world's oldest known mega raptors have been found in Australia and detailed in a new Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology study. Jake Kotevski et al. say the discovery gives an insight into the group's evolutionary history and ancient ecosystem🦖 spr.ly/6014LdsSk #FossilFriday