If you're attending the Anatomy Connected meeting in Albuquerque #Anatomy26 come check my talk on Monday at 2:30 pm! 🦷

I haven't post anything for #FossilFriday in a while but this week while visiting the Field Museum collections I finally got the chance to see the holotype of Thylacosmilus 😍

Exploring factors shaping the craniomandibular shape of extant walrus Schematic of walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) skull and mandible morphological changes across ontogeny, sex, and subspecies. Shows juvenile similarity in both sexes, male delayed hypermorphic growth with e....

New study lead by Mathieu Boisville out in @anatrecord.bsky.social 🥳using GMM we explored factors shaping the craniomandibular shape of extant walrus, disantangling ontogeny, sexual dimorphism and geographic variation doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

In Chicago this week visiting the Field Museum collections to scan some fossils of carnivorous mammals with PhD student Melvin Vankelst 😍 🦝 🐻 🦁 🦦

New paper out lead by @just-fre.bsky.social, with @rboman.bsky.social, @palaeotheoryum.bsky.social, and @val-fisch.bsky.social 🥳Using FEA, we studied the feeding behavior of 16 species of sympatric marine reptiles from the Western Interior Seaway 🦎 Check this out ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/pala...

Long bone variability in true seals (Mammalia, Phocidae), with implications for understanding their fossil record Historically, humeri and femora have been treated as diagnostic elements for fossil phocid (Carnivora, Pinnipedia, Phocidae) identification. This resulted in the naming of a plethora of extinct phoci...

New lab paper, this time on phocid limb morphometrics! Lead by former EDDyLab postdoc Dr. Leonard Dewaele, with @narimanechatar.bsky.social, Prof. Mark Uhen, master student Jacques Klassen, and yours truly

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Distinct feeding biomechanics in Late Cretaceous marine reptiles from the Western Interior Seaway Sympatry of numerous predatory marine reptiles appears to be the rule rather than the exception in many Mesozoic formations, implying that these lineages are likely to have evolved some form of ecolo...

New lab paper! We've applied fancy FEA to Cretaceous marine reptiles of the Western Interior Seaway.
Lead by @just-fre.bsky.social, with @rboman.bsky.social, @narimanechatar.bsky.social, @palaeotheoryum.bsky.social, and me.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Interested in the shape variation of phocid long bones? Check out our new study led by Leonard Dewaele in @anatrecord.bsky.social 🦴Using 3DGM, we show that long bones capture variation between subfamilies but fail at species level, calling for caution in fossil taxonomy doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

The @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
Annual Meeting #2025SVP was an absolute blast! Great to reconnect with European colleagues this year, and to hang out with EDDy Lab folks again. I presented some of our ongoing work on #teeth #biomechanics. Stay tuned, more toothy madness on the way! 🦷

Had a blast for the first #SVP2025 day yesterday with an amazing carnivora session 🦁🐻🦝🦦
What an amazing way to start the meeting 🤩

Analysis of 985(!!) baboon skulls' CT scan data from MorphoSource shows that >18% have slice spacing errors that propagate to downstream analyses-- an important cautionary tale on checking CT metadata vs. errors, and a goliath effort: peerj.com/articles/201...

Collections Study Grants Collections study grants provide financial assistance for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to study the collections of the University of Washington Burke Museum (UWBM).

New Collection Study Grants for students and postdocs to come visit the @burkemuseum.bsky.social! Applications due 12/15/25. www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...

We’d also like to highlight research conducted with fossils from this locality by international scholars who are utilizing new technology like 3D scanning which allows us to work with fossils in new ways and have a digital record that increases accessibility to these fossils.

Post-doc @narimanechatar.bsky.social is working with extinct sabertoothed cat-like carnivores from John Day, scanning a cast of Pogonodon platycopsis, housed in the UCMP. 3D scanning allows her to compare the shape and mechanical performances of its cranium and jaw. tinyurl.com/pogcranium

Image of three brown and black fossil jaw fragments of extinct weasel relatives, Leptarctus, with short but sharp cusps. Open access paper at https://doi.org/10.5070/P9.48360

Celebrating #NationalFossilDay with a new paper describing specimens of the most whimsical of weasel relatives, leptarctine ("slender bear") mustelids, from the collections of @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social.

Their teeth are so much fun to look at! 🦷
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(Cover image by P. Holroyd)

Marine origins and freshwater radiations of the otophysan fishes Otophysans, known for their enhanced hearing enabled by the complex Weberian apparatus, comprise two-thirds of extant freshwater fish species. Previously, they were thought to have originated in fresh...

New study lead by
@liujuan.bsky.social out today in @science.org 🥳 Otophysan (e.g. carp, catfish, eels) didn't originate from fresh water but instead first evolved in a marine ecosystem, colonizing fresh water multiple times🐟 @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New in @science.org, meet Acronichthys maccagnoi, a new species from Late Creatacous Canada that changes what we know about the origins and evolution of one of the most successful fish groups on Earth.

New paper showing that ichthyosaurs ate vampyromorph coleoids. Did they like it ? No idea 🤷‍♂️

@universitedeliege.bsky.social @naturmusee.bsky.social @just-fre.bsky.social
@peerj.bsky.social

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NEWS: 4 years PhD studentship at the University of Malaga (Spain). Evolution of the backbone and limbs of crocodylomorphs, supervised by Professor Borja Figueirido @bortxaf.bsky.social and myself. More information here👇 #paleobiology #biomechanics

Fully funded PhD position available at
@univmalaga.bsky.social 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 focusing on the evolution of the vertebral column in crocodylomorphs 🐊under the supervision of @bortxaf.bsky.social & @albertomartinserra.bsky.social
Application deadline: Sep 30 🚨

Brand new paper about meshing in computational fluid dynamics simulations for organic geometries in paleobiology published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social offering both practical guidance and structured comparison of meshing techniques in #CFD

➡️https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.70146

GitHub - MiguelDLM/MyoGeneratorRemix: Blender add-on to create volumetric muscles Blender add-on to create volumetric muscles . Contribute to MiguelDLM/MyoGeneratorRemix development by creating an account on GitHub.

✨ Key improvements: – Works with modern Blender versions – 2 “lofting” methods for complex muscle shapes – Mesh resolution control – More accurate parameter calculations – Automatic muscle texture – Fewer bugs, better stability

🔗 Available here: github.com/MiguelDLM/my...

New paper out today lead by @tsengzj.bsky.social where we test the 150-year-old hypothesis that the unique jaw torus in Nimravus is an adaptation to resist bite forces using FEA🦁🔪our results highlight some functional advantage of the torus, which are amplified at larger gape doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Abstract accepted for a talk at #SVP2025 - #2025SVP in Birmingham 🇬🇧 See y'all there if you wanna learn about fun stuffs we did to learn more about teeth form-function 🦷🥩🌿

Can you spot the Black Sabbath ref in the title? 😎🤘🎸
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

Assistant Teaching Professor - Human Anatomy- Department of Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

The Department of Integrative Biology @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor of Human Anatomy! Open until September 19. Please share with anatomy/paleo/func-morph colleagues and friends. Happy to answer any questions. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05053

1) Are you an Assistant Professor studying evolutionary biology?

2) Are you in the US?

3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa?

4) Are you available to travel September 4-6?

If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.

International Cat Day: Paleontology facts about our favorite felids On August 8, researchers from ULiège share key insights into how our feline friends evolved before becoming the domestic cats we know today.

INTERNATIONAL CAT DAY 🐈 A paleontological look at our favorite felines ! Did you know the very first known feline lived in France nearly 30 million years ago? Learn more 👇
Special thanks to @valentinfischer.bsky.social @narimanechatar.bsky.social and team !
www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_204630...

(finally) back in in Liège for a few days after two conference in a row.
Had an amazing time at @eavpalaeo.bsky.social #EAVP2025 and @sebiology.bsky.social #SEBCONFERENCE 🤩

Hey @sebiology.bsky.social attendees! Don't forget the A2 - Experimental palaeo session in Nightingale 1&2 tomorrow morning 🤩🦖🦾 #SEBCONFERENCE #SEB2025

So proud of Nicolas who just won the @eavpalaeo.bsky.social best poster award this year in Kraków 🇵🇱🤩🥟
I had the chance to co-supervise Nicolas for his BSc thesis last semester at @maastrichtu.bsky.social
We looked into the functional anatomy of proboscideans long bones using FEA 🦴🐘🦣