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Awesome collaboration with @AlexaLamprecht and Graham Slater! Highlights include evidence for a constraint in symmetrical gait patterns, rapid evolutionary rate shifts in mammalian locomotion, and plenty of avenues for future research. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.109…

The phylogenetic relationships of geoemydid turtles from the Eocene Messel Pit Quarry: a first assessment using methods for continuous and discrete characters peerj.com/articles/11805/ via PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environment

A positive relationship between functional redundancy and temperature in Cenozoic marine ecosystems science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

#PLOSBiology: Macroevolutionary thermodynamics: Temperature and the tempo of evolution in the tropics dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Mass extinctions alter extinction and origination dynamics with respect to body size | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Decreasing Phanerozoic extinction intensity as a consequence of Earth surface oxygenation and metazoan ecophysiology pnas.org/content/118/41…

(1/3) UPDATE: We are so excited to announce that the UCLA Planetarium will be resuming IN-PERSON shows starting NEXT WEDNESDAY 11/10 @ 7PM! We will be following UCLA & LA County COVID Protocols -

Join us in 24 hours for the second talk in our series on the fossilized birth-death process: Rachel Warnock speaking on "The fossilized birth-death process in paleobiology: Comparison to quantitative palaeontological approaches" youtube.com/watch?v=UiMsFX…

Happy #FossilFriday and a very Merycochoerus/Merychyus/Merycoidodon to you! Mery means "ruminant like" in latin so the majority of oreodont names are repetitive and also extremely seasonally appropriate! #Fossils #Paleontology #Science #Geology #Oligocene #Cenozoic #Oreodont

Fast production of large, time‐calibrated, informal supertrees with tree.merger onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Diversification dynamics of cheilostome bryozoans based on a Bayesian analysis of the fossil record onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Studying speciation and extinction dynamics from phylogenies: addressing identifiability issues sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

General statistical model shows that macroevolutionary patterns and processes are consistent with Darwinian gradualism nature.com/articles/s4146…

We're hiring! Tenure track faculty job (assistant/associate professor) in the anatomical sciences. Applicants with research programs in postcranial biomechanics or neuroanatomy are encouraged to apply. #anatomyjobs physanth.org/jobs/3282/

The supermassive #BlackHole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, Sagittarius A*, has been imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). Chandra and many other telescopes observed Sagittarius A* simultaneously. Explore Sagittarius A* like never before: s.si.edu/OurSMBH ⚫

Excited to read this new one by UCLA EEB colleague Zapata Lab Fast Likelihood Calculations for Automatic Identification of Macroevolutionary Rate Heterogeneity in Continuous and Discrete Traits academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance…

Webb’s first full-color images are now the world’s to enjoy! We hope you found them as meaningful and beautiful as we did. Here’s to many years of Webb science — we can’t wait to see what’s next as we continue to #UnfoldtheUniverse! go.nasa.gov/3ccf2lf

1. Make way for the king of the solar system! 👑 New Webb images of Jupiter highlight the planet's features, including its turbulent Great Red Spot (shown in white here), in amazing detail. These images were processed by citizen scientist Judy Schmidt: go.nasa.gov/3K9zMqC

Check out the bright waves, swirls, and vortices in Jupiter’s atmosphere — as well as the dark ring system, one million times fainter than the planet! Two moons of Jupiter, including one that’s only about 12 miles (20 km) across, are on the left.