Journal of Anatomy
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Official journal of the Anatomical Society (@anat_soc). We improve understanding of anatomy through analysis of structure, function, development and evolution: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14697580
Also this month, Šulcová et al., studied how teeth attach to jaws across vertebrates. In veiled chameleons, firmly ankylosed teeth formed via a transient cell type at the tooth–bone interface showing both osteoblast- and odontoblast-like features. The authors call these theorised cells ankyloblasts
February 3, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Also this month, Šulcová et al., studied how teeth attach to jaws across vertebrates. In veiled chameleons, firmly ankylosed teeth formed via a transient cell type at the tooth–bone interface showing both osteoblast- and odontoblast-like features. The authors call these theorised cells ankyloblasts
Also this month, Manson and @nathanj.bsky.social used finite element modelling informed by neonatal MRI data, to test whether simple mechanical deformation from brain and masticatory muscle growth can predict early cranial shape change, focusing on the basicranium and face doi.org/10.1111/joa....
January 13, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Also this month, Manson and @nathanj.bsky.social used finite element modelling informed by neonatal MRI data, to test whether simple mechanical deformation from brain and masticatory muscle growth can predict early cranial shape change, focusing on the basicranium and face doi.org/10.1111/joa....
📢 We’re now on LinkedIn! You can now find the Journal of Anatomy on LinkedIn, as well as here and all the usual places. We’ll continue showcasing the latest research in Development, Evolution and Function, so come find us here 👉
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January 12, 2026 at 4:36 PM
📢 We’re now on LinkedIn! You can now find the Journal of Anatomy on LinkedIn, as well as here and all the usual places. We’ll continue showcasing the latest research in Development, Evolution and Function, so come find us here 👉
www.linkedin.com/company/jour...
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We welcome 2026 with a focus on Dynamic Anatomy. This cover image from Crompton et al., features the pelvis of StW 572, an example of A. prometheus Their new analysis shows human-like pelvic traits and supports multiple modes of bipedalism in early hominins #Paleoanthropology #evolution
January 8, 2026 at 1:17 PM
We welcome 2026 with a focus on Dynamic Anatomy. This cover image from Crompton et al., features the pelvis of StW 572, an example of A. prometheus Their new analysis shows human-like pelvic traits and supports multiple modes of bipedalism in early hominins #Paleoanthropology #evolution
Seasons Greetings from all at Journal of Anatomy - watch this space in 2026 for plenty of exciting new findings from the world of anatomical research. We hope you have a peaceful and fulfilling festive period!
December 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Seasons Greetings from all at Journal of Anatomy - watch this space in 2026 for plenty of exciting new findings from the world of anatomical research. We hope you have a peaceful and fulfilling festive period!
Predicting head injury in infants is complicated by large anatomical variability. This study analyzed skull thickness at 12,000+ locations in 266 infants (<12 mo) to identify age/sex-specific anatomical standards based on patterns of skull thickness distribution. doi.org/10.1111/joa....
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Predicting head injury in infants is complicated by large anatomical variability. This study analyzed skull thickness at 12,000+ locations in 266 infants (<12 mo) to identify age/sex-specific anatomical standards based on patterns of skull thickness distribution. doi.org/10.1111/joa....
@rjstrauch.bsky.social investigate the mandibular symphysis in whales. Toothed whales exhibited unfused, partially fused, or fully fused symphyses, while baleen whales evolved a decoupled, highly mobile symphysis that represents a novel condition unobserved in other mammalian clades.
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
@rjstrauch.bsky.social investigate the mandibular symphysis in whales. Toothed whales exhibited unfused, partially fused, or fully fused symphyses, while baleen whales evolved a decoupled, highly mobile symphysis that represents a novel condition unobserved in other mammalian clades.
This month's cover image comes from the work of @aaronhgriffing.bsky.social and colleagues, looking at the development of hemibacula. They’re chondroid-like, appear after sexual maturity, grow isometrically, and likely evolved via peramorphosis. Weird, wonderful genital bones!
November 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This month's cover image comes from the work of @aaronhgriffing.bsky.social and colleagues, looking at the development of hemibacula. They’re chondroid-like, appear after sexual maturity, grow isometrically, and likely evolved via peramorphosis. Weird, wonderful genital bones!
🐘🦣 The vertebral column of elephants is a marvel of biological engineering. The remarkable functional morphology and intervertebral mobility of the elephant backbone is explored here, comparing it with that of other large herbivores and their extinct relatives 🐘🦣 doi.org/10.1111/joa....
October 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
🐘🦣 The vertebral column of elephants is a marvel of biological engineering. The remarkable functional morphology and intervertebral mobility of the elephant backbone is explored here, comparing it with that of other large herbivores and their extinct relatives 🐘🦣 doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Rodent semicircular canal (SCC) shape and size reveal how they move! 🐀 Agile arboreal species have larger canals, while fossorial ones have smaller. SCC morphology helps predict locomotor behaviour and even reconstruct how fossil rodents moved 🦴 #Anatomy #Evolution #Rodents doi.org/10.1111/joa....
October 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Rodent semicircular canal (SCC) shape and size reveal how they move! 🐀 Agile arboreal species have larger canals, while fossorial ones have smaller. SCC morphology helps predict locomotor behaviour and even reconstruct how fossil rodents moved 🦴 #Anatomy #Evolution #Rodents doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Striking diversity in the size, density, and distribution of taste papillae across 11 elasmobranch species reveals how sharks, skates, and rays taste their way to better feeding strategies. Atkinson & Collin, whose study graces our new cover, explain more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14697580...
October 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Striking diversity in the size, density, and distribution of taste papillae across 11 elasmobranch species reveals how sharks, skates, and rays taste their way to better feeding strategies. Atkinson & Collin, whose study graces our new cover, explain more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14697580...
The hidden pattern of the primary teeth in an ancestral ray-finned fish provides a clue to how the strange lungfish dentition could have evolved simply by modifying the growth mode of bone. More information in this newly published piece from @uuvertpalaeo.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1111/joa....
September 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The hidden pattern of the primary teeth in an ancestral ray-finned fish provides a clue to how the strange lungfish dentition could have evolved simply by modifying the growth mode of bone. More information in this newly published piece from @uuvertpalaeo.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Continuing our celebration of #fossilfriday, Maíllo and colleagues perform osteohistology of an ornithopod from Aliaga (Spain), finding it matured at ~7 years and died aged 9–12. This first use of the three-front model in an #ornithopod reveals strong bone-to-bone variability doi.org/10.1111/joa....
September 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Continuing our celebration of #fossilfriday, Maíllo and colleagues perform osteohistology of an ornithopod from Aliaga (Spain), finding it matured at ~7 years and died aged 9–12. This first use of the three-front model in an #ornithopod reveals strong bone-to-bone variability doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Also in this month's #specialissue and celebrating #fossilfriday 🦴 is this paper from Chinsamy and Valenciano identifying multiple exostoses and an osteochondroma in a Pliocene canid 🐕🦊 from Langebaanweg, South Africa doi.org/10.1111/joa....
September 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Also in this month's #specialissue and celebrating #fossilfriday 🦴 is this paper from Chinsamy and Valenciano identifying multiple exostoses and an osteochondroma in a Pliocene canid 🐕🦊 from Langebaanweg, South Africa doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Introducing our latest special issue, From Fossil to Microscope: Unraveling the Tapestry of Tissue Anatomy through Paleohistology, with this wonderful cover image from @funstonpaleo.bsky.social et al., of compacted coarse cancellous bone from the early Palaeocene taeniodont, Conoryctes comma.
September 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Introducing our latest special issue, From Fossil to Microscope: Unraveling the Tapestry of Tissue Anatomy through Paleohistology, with this wonderful cover image from @funstonpaleo.bsky.social et al., of compacted coarse cancellous bone from the early Palaeocene taeniodont, Conoryctes comma.
📰 Cranial scans in South Africans revealed higher facial asymmetry in female and Black individuals, especially in nasal and temporal regions. These shape shifts may not skew IDs but should be considered in anthropological analyses of ancestry, health, and human variation 📰:
July 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
📰 Cranial scans in South Africans revealed higher facial asymmetry in female and Black individuals, especially in nasal and temporal regions. These shape shifts may not skew IDs but should be considered in anthropological analyses of ancestry, health, and human variation 📰:
Also in this edition, Enriquez et al., found that epidermal scale shapes and relative scale sizes are mostly retained through growth in both dinosaurs and modern reptiles, suggesting that the enlarged 'feature scales' of some dinosaurs were not used in visual displays: doi.org/10.1111/joa....
July 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Also in this edition, Enriquez et al., found that epidermal scale shapes and relative scale sizes are mostly retained through growth in both dinosaurs and modern reptiles, suggesting that the enlarged 'feature scales' of some dinosaurs were not used in visual displays: doi.org/10.1111/joa....
🚨New issue alert 🚨 with a cover image
from Cerda et al. showing dental plate histology of †Ischyodus dolloi, revealing dental plates packed with tritors; hypermineralised structures made of whitlockin, a form of dentine far stronger than the usual material found in teeth doi.org/10.1111/joa....
from Cerda et al. showing dental plate histology of †Ischyodus dolloi, revealing dental plates packed with tritors; hypermineralised structures made of whitlockin, a form of dentine far stronger than the usual material found in teeth doi.org/10.1111/joa....
July 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🚨New issue alert 🚨 with a cover image
from Cerda et al. showing dental plate histology of †Ischyodus dolloi, revealing dental plates packed with tritors; hypermineralised structures made of whitlockin, a form of dentine far stronger than the usual material found in teeth doi.org/10.1111/joa....
from Cerda et al. showing dental plate histology of †Ischyodus dolloi, revealing dental plates packed with tritors; hypermineralised structures made of whitlockin, a form of dentine far stronger than the usual material found in teeth doi.org/10.1111/joa....
The Weberian apparatus boosts hearing in otophysan fish via modified bones and ligaments. Using advanced imaging and histology, a study from @jakeleyhr.bsky.social and
@remorphevolab.bsky.social reveals new insights into the elusive first intercostal ligament and its role in this acoustic system
@remorphevolab.bsky.social reveals new insights into the elusive first intercostal ligament and its role in this acoustic system
July 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The Weberian apparatus boosts hearing in otophysan fish via modified bones and ligaments. Using advanced imaging and histology, a study from @jakeleyhr.bsky.social and
@remorphevolab.bsky.social reveals new insights into the elusive first intercostal ligament and its role in this acoustic system
@remorphevolab.bsky.social reveals new insights into the elusive first intercostal ligament and its role in this acoustic system
🦷 A common embryological, developmental, and genetic background is shared between dentine and cortical bone. @mathilde-augoyard.bsky.social and team found coordinated variation between their volumes in human limb bones and teeth, suggesting shared factors influencing their postnatal development 🦴
June 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🦷 A common embryological, developmental, and genetic background is shared between dentine and cortical bone. @mathilde-augoyard.bsky.social and team found coordinated variation between their volumes in human limb bones and teeth, suggesting shared factors influencing their postnatal development 🦴
We welcome Volume 247 with this fantastic image from work by Sosa et al. This study provides the first comprehensive description of the hindlimb musculature of the #Emperor #Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) across different ontogenetic stages. doi.org/10.1111/joa....
June 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
We welcome Volume 247 with this fantastic image from work by Sosa et al. This study provides the first comprehensive description of the hindlimb musculature of the #Emperor #Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) across different ontogenetic stages. doi.org/10.1111/joa....
🦭🔥Hot off the press! 🔥🦭 Check out this exciting work from @robyngrant.bsky.social and colleagues looking at the wonderful world of whiskers! #anatomy #comparative #whiskers
Check out our new paper in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social with @cbrassey.bsky.social using FEA and bend tests to show that seal whiskers are stiffer - in both shape and material - than terrestrial species.
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Determining modulus of elasticity using finite element analysis and non‐destructive testing: Are aquatic animal whiskers stiffer?
The values of the modulus of elasticity (E) for each species whiskers were obtained when the FE model was aligned to the maximum displacement values of the experiment. Grey seal E values were larger ...
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June 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
🦭🔥Hot off the press! 🔥🦭 Check out this exciting work from @robyngrant.bsky.social and colleagues looking at the wonderful world of whiskers! #anatomy #comparative #whiskers
Our @journalofanatomy.bsky.social paper of the year is "Microanatomy of the human tunnel of Corti structures and cochlear partition-tonotopic variations and transcellular signaling" by Giese et al.
June 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Our @journalofanatomy.bsky.social paper of the year is "Microanatomy of the human tunnel of Corti structures and cochlear partition-tonotopic variations and transcellular signaling" by Giese et al.
🥳New issue means new cover image🥳
Ochronotic #pigmentation is shown within the perichondrium surrounding hyaline #cartilage from the secondary #bronchus of an individual with #alkaptonuria.
Hughes et al.'s investigation of alkaptonuria, available now: doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Ochronotic #pigmentation is shown within the perichondrium surrounding hyaline #cartilage from the secondary #bronchus of an individual with #alkaptonuria.
Hughes et al.'s investigation of alkaptonuria, available now: doi.org/10.1111/joa....
May 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🥳New issue means new cover image🥳
Ochronotic #pigmentation is shown within the perichondrium surrounding hyaline #cartilage from the secondary #bronchus of an individual with #alkaptonuria.
Hughes et al.'s investigation of alkaptonuria, available now: doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Ochronotic #pigmentation is shown within the perichondrium surrounding hyaline #cartilage from the secondary #bronchus of an individual with #alkaptonuria.
Hughes et al.'s investigation of alkaptonuria, available now: doi.org/10.1111/joa....
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Our latest paper on fibulas 🦴 has finally a home in the @journalofanatomy.bsky.social! We studied trabecular architecture to check if it records arboreal habits 🌳 in #primates 🐒🦧🦍... (1/2) 🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth
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The relationship between primate distal fibula trabecular architecture and arboreality, phylogeny and size
The fibula, despite being traditionally overlooked compared to the femur and the tibia, has recently received attention in primate functional morphology due to its correlation with the degree of arbo....
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May 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Our latest paper on fibulas 🦴 has finally a home in the @journalofanatomy.bsky.social! We studied trabecular architecture to check if it records arboreal habits 🌳 in #primates 🐒🦧🦍... (1/2) 🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth
dx.doi.org/10.1111/joa....
dx.doi.org/10.1111/joa....