Our latest paper is out today: Oldest Gorgonopsian synapsid suggest therapsids may have originated in equatorial regions. Out in Nature Communications with several colleagues: nature.com/articles/s4146…

International humanitarian law is clear: Babies are #NotATarget. Children are #NotATarget. Civilians are #NotATarget. Hospitals are #NotATarget. Health care workers are #NotATarget. Schools are #NotATarget. Humanitarians are #NotATarget.

A New Species of the Durophagous Mosasaurid Carinodens from the Late Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco and Implications for Maastrichtian Mosasaurid Diversity Everyone lets take this data with caution. Link: mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/1… #dinosaurs #moroccan #Science #FossilSunday

Congratulations to Fernanda Torres on winning Best Female Actor – Motion Picture – Drama at the #GoldenGlobes!

The NIH has an indefinite freeze on many of their core activities. The world's leading scientific agency is responsible for funding projects that have led to everything from cancer therapies to long COVID research to Alzheimer's detection and treatment. science.org/content/articl…

I am looking for a new UK PhD student to join my lab as part of our The Leverhulme Trust funded project on enamel evolution in lizards! Find out more here: findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

Hello graduate students! Volunteer travel award applications are due March 21, 2025. In return for working two ~4h shifts, graduate student members of one or more of our societies can receive a rebate equal to 100% of the regular early student member registration fee.

Join us next Thursday, April 3 for Lauren Wilson’s Speaker Series talk, “Cretaceous Arctic Birds from the Prince Creek Formation of Northern Alaska.” Learn more and register for the Zoom talk now: tyrrellmuseum.com/whats_on/speci…

Our latest take on the still problematic Cryptovaranoides: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nice review of the FBD model and its application using fossil data: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Our new preprint on apparent evolutionary rate incongruences in squamates for discrete vs GMM data across methods, and what these patterns may reflect of their underlying phenotypic evolutionary processes: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie… w/ MCZ Paleontology & A. Brum #evolution #squamates

Our latest Paleo paper: a neotype for Calanguban alamoi (Cretaceous lizard from the Crato Fm in Brazil) The holotype had been destroyed by fire in the National Museum of Brazil in 2018. Glad to have this species name back as a true taxonomic phoenix! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

What started as a small side quest ended up much bigger than I could have anticipated. Just published: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Adaptive landscapes unveil the complex evolutionary path from sprawling to upright forelimb function and posture in mammals by Robert Brocklehurst, MCZ Paleontology , et al. dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Hupehsuchus was not a filter feeder peerj.com/articles/19666/ via PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environment

Hanging around Universidade de Brasília over the next days! But hunting much smaller creatures than this with my PhD students Daniel Vasquez-Restrepo and Izabel Salvi

Must read for everyone in phylogenomics sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A rare job opportunity for Invertebrate Zoology: fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/job…