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The longer I'm in academia, the more I see a resemblance between our field and professional sports. But I think folks in pro sports understand and embrace the competitive aspect and difficult parts of training in a more honest and healthier way. This advice resonated:

Amazing figure made with the help of #Rstats #phytools in "Adaptations to marine environments and the evolution of slow-paced life histories in endotherms" by Sol et al. in Nature Communications: doi.org/10.1038/s41467….

This is perhaps the best thing produced by the internet in recent history.

Excited to share our new research in iScience journal ! We reveal that tortoise head scales are sculpted through two distinct developmental processes - chemical signalling and mechanical folding 🐢🔬 The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab Genetics & Evolution cell.com/iscience/fullt…

Despite rabbits being common lab models, their vertebral muscles were never fully described—until now. 54 muscles were mapped in wild rabbits & hares revealing key differences from other mammals &proposing leporid-specific terminology. Taewcharoen et al: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

Thrilled to share our new study in Evolution Journal on the brain anatomy of early whales! 🧠🐋 Beautiful paleoart by Tyler Stone brings Protocetus to life as it swam the Tethys in Egypt ~43 million years ago.

Much more about a discrete trait dependent multi-trend trended Brownian motion model in #phytools: blog.phytools.org/2025/07/more-a….

Osteoderms may form through mechanotransduction, where tension in collagen fibers triggers bone growth. In alligators, ossification aligns w/stressed fascia/tendon attachments, suggesting parallels w/trauma-induced heterotopic ossification. Dubansky et al anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

New paper today about the evolution of the wrist along the dinosaur to bird transition: a bird-like configuration appeared in predatory dinosaurs first, as suggested by new exceptionally preserved hands of oviraptors and troodontids nature.com/articles/s4158…

A Pagel '94 type correlation test with one binary trait and a second continuous character via the discretized diffusion approximation using #phytools: blog.phytools.org/2025/07/a-page….

#ICVM2025 abstracts are now published! (1 pdf to rule them all) Remember that, whatever format you're doing, the recorded presentation must be submitted by 20 July! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10974687/2…

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New paper! A nice short one. And my 1st that solely deals with mammoths. Indeed, just 2 kinds of mammoth bones: digital sesamoids & a "predigit" (prehallux/enlarged tibial sesamoid). Confirms expectations from phylogenetic character distributions. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

New paper! With Alexandra Houssaye. 3D geometric morphometrics of the femur, following on from our earlier studies of theropods and diverse archosauriforms. Here, new insights into bipedal-quadrupedal locomotion.

A neat new study reveals that the controversial species-energy relationship exists. Temperature 🌡️ directly affects species richness confirming predictions from the MTE, while rainfall 💧 indirectly affects richness through its influence on productivity | doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

New study finds split oblique eye muscle insertions (bifid tendons) are unique to certain Carnivora, especially in cats and foxes. These may aid in precise eye movements—supporting sharp, forward-facing vision in predators. Keiko Meshida et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

I just learned about Dear Fauna, a STOP MOTION, FELT animation about pleistocene. It releases in just a couple days. Let's show it some love!

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The fossil record of sharks is full of teeth and their taxonomy draws heavily on the identification of isolated specimens. IDs from traditional morphometrics were compared to IDs from geometric morphometrics. Geometric morphometrics recovered the same IDs but with more detail.

🧪🚨Another new paper alert!!🚨⚒️ The origin and evolution of air sacs in pterosaurs and their forerunners onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…