#FossilFriday - explore the stunning armoured plates of a 390-million-year-old placoderm fish fossil from Manitoba! 🐟
Image shows the central and postorbital plates of Elmosteus lundarensis gen. et comb. nov. Read the full study by Jobbins et al. (2025): buff.ly/g6sEO4A

#PaleoSky #Fossils #NHM

New paper: new application of histological staining for visualization of endogenous proteins in fossil material. We can stain fossil tissue and see collagen in situ! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

New Pre-Print Alert! "Teeth Outside the Jaw: Evolution and Development of the Toothed Head Clasper in Chimaeras." We use fossil evidence, development and CT scans through ghost shark ontogeny to describe the emergence of the tenaculum! 👻🦈🦷 @karlycohen.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are looking for a PhD student to work on halibut otoliths! The position is a collaboration between Fisheries and Oceans Canada and @umanitoba.bsky.social .
emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...

I am taking up to 2 applicants for the masters program in biology at MTSU this coming fall. Projects working on cichlid ecomorphology, cichlid fossils and missing data. Experience with fish, geomorph or R a plus. Funding for stipend and travel support.

New paper alert! This was a fun study examining intraskeletal growth patterns in leopard geckos using fluorescent labeling. Labels administered in ovo are still present up to 4 years post-hatching! doi.org/10.1111/joa....