Hi!
I'm not here very often, but I just launched my brand new lab website! I'm also hiring a !!! three-year !!! Postdoc. Interest form link can be found under "The Team" section.
(Current domain name is temporary haha. FormorphologyLab dot com coming soon!)
badger-mustard-h5jf.squarespace.com
Ants! Ants! Ants!
792 species of ants (!!!!!!) 3D scanned (high-throughput synchrotron X-ray microtomography) in luxurious detail:
spectrum.ieee.org/3d-scanning-...
paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
website: www.antscan.info
Phenomenal.
Poposaurus running simulations starting to get better than utterly ridiculous. Now just ridiculous.
New #DAWNDINOS paper!
We do predictive simulations of vertical height jumping in the Triassic theropod Coelophysis & extant (tinamou) bird Eudromia. Mainly as sensitivity analysis of what parameters are most important. We show how crucial tail mobility is.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...
For those who haven’t seen it yet, the award-winning documentary @whydinosaurs.bsky.social is now available free on YouTube! You should definitely watch it if you have the time. I’ve embedded the video in my review here.
dinodadreviews.com/2026/02/19/w...
A second species of non‐crocodyliform crocodylomorph from the Late Triassic fissure deposits of southwestern UK: Implications for locomotory ecological diversity in Saltoposuchidae - Bodenham - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Locomotor reassessment of Iguanodon, Ouranosaurus and Lurdusaurus (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) using osteological correlates fr.pensoft.net/articles.php...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9DW...
Oh no 😅
Sobek, the Spinosaurus, on display at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL
There is a beauty in the reverence of the long since dead
Spinosaurus
Growth dynamics, skeletochronology, and histovariability of the theropod dinosaur Berthasaura leopoldinae - Souza - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Interesting preprint suggesting that recently described fossils from Brazil described as a new ctenochasmatine pterosaur, Bakiribu, preserved within a regurgitalite, instead represent the gill arch apparatus of an actinopterygian fish:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A diminutive tyrannosaur lived alongside Tyrannosaurus rex | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A man in a Batman costume and a pregnant woman in a crowded subway car, their faces obscured by pixelation. Text on top of the image reads: "Fig. 1: An example of the experimental setting, with Batman and a woman simulating pregnancy stand in a crowded metro"
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This image is figure 2 from the paper which shows selected bones of Huayracursor jaguensis holotype.
A paper published in Nature reports the discovery of an early sauropodomorph in the Andes of La Rioja, northwestern Argentina. The finding expands the known diversity and geographic range of early dinosaurs and offers new insights into sauropodomorph evolution. go.nature.com/4984sqA #Paleosky 🧪
Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖
SVP President @stuartsumida.bsky.social speaks to Open Access Government about the importance of vertebrate paleontology and science in the United States.
www.openaccessgovernment.org/the-importan...
New paper @journalsystpal.bsky.social with Drew Moore @stonybrooku.bsky.social re-evaluating diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur phylogeny + biogeography, including illustrating synapomorphies, with implications for the early evolution of the major lineages: doi.org/10.1080/1477... @es-ucl.bsky.social
#PrehistoricPlanet - Discovering Dinosaurs Behind the Scenes | Framestore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_seC...
youtube.com/shorts/QKyGe...
BBC Learning Hub has launched Walking with Dinosaurs Virtual Field Trip Resources.
More here: edtechchronicle.com/bbc-learning...
And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
On #FossilFriday I am proud to share a new discovery - a skull of a large extinct relative of king and emperor penguins.
@atennyson.bsky.social, Daniel Thomas, Felix Marx,
and I report this magnificent skull in Journal of Paleontology:
https://
bit.ly/4ne3HQV
This week, a new megaraptor was described—found with its final meal still in its mouth!
The discovery of Joaquinraptor sheds light on megaraptoran evolution and palaeobiology 🧪🦖
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
#science #paleontology #fossilfriday #dinosaurs #megaraptor #joaquinraptor
My take at Sobek (FSAC-KK 11888), scaled to the size assumed for MSNM V4047.
#spinosaurus #spinosaurusaegypticus #kemkem #paleoart #pencildrawing
New paper led by @es-ucl.bsky.social PhD student Samantha Beeston (with @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social + others) on the evolution of postcranial pneumaticity in early sauropodomorph dinosaurs + its likely independent acquisition from that of theropods & pterosauromorphs: doi.org/10.1111/joa....
