PaleoMammalogy•2025 Taotienimravus songi • A New ecomorph of Nimravidae, and the early Macrocarnivorous Niche Exploration in Carnivora
doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1686
#Ecomorphology #Eocene #Evolution #Mammalogy #Nimravidae #Oligocene #PaleoEcology #Paleomammalogy #Paleontology #Phylogenetics

Premolar Ecomorphology in Anthropoid Primates: A Machine Learning Approach Key Findings Anthropoid premolar anatomy and topography varies with diet: folivores and highly insectivorous species tend to have sharp premolars with tall cusps, while hard-object feeders tend to ha...

New paper out! We identified features of primate premolars that correspond with diet and explored their usefulness for predicting dietary habits of extinct species. #primates #research #ecomorphology @siobhancooke.bsky.social

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Behavioral novelties and morphological #exaptation underlie #trophic novelty in an anemone-feeding fish zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ecomorphology

"Clustering crocodylian dental morphology: Insights into functional adaptations, diet, and ontogeny", new paper by J. Testin and D. D'Amore published in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social:

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#crocodiles #ecomorphology #heterodonty #teeth

Intrapopulational variation in head shape correlates with soil structure heterogeneity in a head‐first burrowing amphisbaenian, Trogonophis wiegmanni Morphological traits evolve to solve ecological requirements. Amphisbaenians are fossorial reptiles with different snout shapes for burrowing head-first underground, but how these head shapes have or...

Intrapopulational variation in #headshape correlates with #soil structure heterogeneity in a head-first #burrowing #amphisbaenian zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ecomorphology #Trogonophis

🎉 Published online today! 🐟 Thrilled to share FAM Lab PhD candidate Jennifer Hoeflich's thesis research! Using 3D GMM, she discovered that stream velocity & substrate influence ossicle morphology, suggesting acoustic adaptations to microhabitats. 🌊🪨🔬 #EcoMorphology #Ichthyology #Paleontology

Morphological evolution and functional consequences of giantism in tyrannosauroid dinosaurs Evolutionary biology; Natural sciences; Paleobiology

Interesting new #ecomorphology paper from the Bristol Palaeobiology Research Group on the jaw #biomechanics of tyrannosaur dinosaurs 🦖

How did biting performance change as tyrannosaurs evolved larger body sizes?

Read here:
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#Paleontology #Dinosaur #Science #SciComm

SEB Conference Prague 2024

Reminder (Please Share & RT): Abstracts for SEB2024 meeting in Prague are due March 8th. If you work on #Biomechanics, #FunctionalMorphology, or #Ecomorphology in #plants or #animals, please submit to session A21, which I am programming, at: www.sebiology.org/events/seb-c...

Fin Shape, Asymmetry, and Evolutionary #Ecomorphology in #Triggerfishes and #Filefishes
(Superfamily: Balistoidea). #morphology
🔓 (Preprint)
📷 Morphometrics digitization scheme demonstrated on the #triggerfish 𝐵𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑝𝑢𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠.