First fossil evidence of pediculochelid mites two new species from Middle Cretaceous and Late Eocene amber revealing morphological stasis over at least 99 million years #Acari #Cretaceous doi.org/10.24349/uxz4-… 🕷️

Last, in BMC : the oldest arthropod association in amber informs on how the lifecycle has evolved in phoretic acariform mites. By Hemen Sendi from SAV, Purdue Biological Sciences, Institute of Natural Sciences Belgium, Prof. Dany Azar, Géosciences Rennes #mites #socialinsects bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

How cool, out in Ecology! The ecology of modern laubierinid snails reveals they are symbiotic of living crinoids and, because acting like extinct Paleozoic platyceratid snails, are their only known modern analogous. #symbioses #gastropods #fossils🐌 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Nice synthesis on diversity and significance of biotic interactions in nature throughout evolutionary history by Mario X. Ruiz-González Mario X. Ruiz-Gonzalez from Universitat Politècnica de València turia.uv.es/index.php/sjpa… 🪱🌲🦠

First paper is out ! A big thanks to Samuel Zamora for this opporunity ! doi.org/10.1017/jpa.20…

New paper out in Palaeoworld with Vincent Perrichot (and wonderful illustration from Laura Bruneau) ! ✍️The first fossil species of Trichopria Ashmead, 1893 (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) from the Miocene Zhangpu biota ⛓️sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Géosciences Rennes OSUR-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers Rennes

1/ Last! How 125 myo isopods from 🇱🇧 inform on the inland evolutionary trajectory of animals nowadays strictly subterannean. Géosciences Rennes , with Mario Schädel from Universität Tübingen, researchers from Lebanese University and Belspo support to Institute of Natural Sciences Belgium #crustacea royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

2/ With the far inland Jezzine freshwater lake reconstruction at Lower Cretaceous - its numerous coelacanths, pleuropholids, mayflie larvae, gastropods and the cymothoid Dysopodus gezei - by Kiabugboy - Lebanese dysodiles paleoenvironment 🇱🇧 #Cretaceous #paleontology #isopods

Mild parasitism on echinoderms from the Cambrian of Australia ! 🇦🇺 in Scientific Reports nature.com/articles/s4159…

Oldest ant known to science, found in the Crato 🐜🇧🇷 ! cell.com/current-biolog…

Awesome science on fossilized gut contents and the skin of sauropod dinosaurs, with brushite identified as main phosphate component. 🦕#paleontology #fossilpoop #softtissues #organicchemsitry #sauropods #cretaceous cell.com/current-biolog…

Fossilized gill soft tissues in Mesozoic freshwater unionoid bivalves. 🦪app.pan.pl/article/item/a…

Bayesian modelling of the fossil record enlightens the evolutionary history of Hemiptera. Congrats to all authors, especially ISYEBsp ones.

Soft-tissue fossilizing in the ferricrete - iron oxide preservation. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Tilia pollen identified on bumble bees from the Oligocene of Western Germany 🐝🌳! - 24 million years of pollination interaction between European linden flowers and bumble bees nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

BIG DAY TODAY FOR PARASITOLOGY 🪱 The first leech body fossil (previous occurences being triassic cocoons 🥚) - recovered as a stem-Hirudinida from the Silurian period (>435 ma). 🥳 Out in peerj.com/articles/19962/

Out in IScience: "A 480 million year old parasitic spionid annelid"....or so many other type of extant or extinct annelid? I find this one moderately convincing (though interesting ofc !) 🪱 #parasitism #fossil #annelids #Fezouata 🇲🇦 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…