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Juan L Cantalapiedra
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Evolutionary paleobiologist interested in Cenozoic large terrestrial mammals 🐘🦒🦏 | tenured scientist at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales MNCN-CSIC | PI of the Cantalapiedra Lab
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Juan L Cantalapiedra @singerstone.bsky.social · Jan 25
Hey everyone! Since I’m new to BlueSky, I thought I’d share a quick summary of some of the main projects I’ve worked on over the past three years. Buckle up for some paleontology! 🦴⚒️💻
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🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨

It’s time to announce our Winter 2025 talk schedule 👀
We’re excited to host talks from Drs Oskar Hagen, Carrie Tyler, @singerstone.bsky.social and Johannes De Groeve!

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Flyer for the Winter schedule of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, usually the last Thursday of each month but with some dates moved this time to avoid public holidays. Scheduled for 3pm UTC. 30th October 2025 - Dr Oskar Hagen, Goethe University Frankfurt “Mechanistic biodiversity modelling with gen3sis: population-based simulations across regional and global domains to deep and shallow time” 20th November 2025 - Dr Carrie Tyler, University of Nevada, Las Vegas “The high fidelity of trophic structure in ancient marine ecosystems: from functional diversity to food webs” 18th December 2025 - Dr Juan Cantalapiedra, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales “Mammals as a key to evolutionary theory” 29th January 2026 - Dr Johannes De Groeve, University of Amsterdam “Tips for TABS (Temporal Altitudinal Biogeographic Shifts)”
September 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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1/ Large herbivores (like ancient elephants, rhinos, deer) aren’t just big plant-eaters—they’re ecosystem engineers. They shape landscapes, disperse seeds, and influence soil and fire dynamics.
But how did they evolve as climates and continents shifted?
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June 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Douglas et al. shows that up to 99% of evolutionary change occur at branching points across genes, morphology, and language. A major step for punctuated evolution, aligning with our goal of a unified framework. @nilese.bsky.social @andrejpaleo.bsky.social #EvoBio #CultEvo doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Evolution is coupled with branching across many granularities of life | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Across many scales of life, the rate of evolutionary change is often accelerated at the time when one lineage splits into two. The emergence of novel protein function can be facilitated by gene duplication (neofunctionalization); rapid morphological ...
doi.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Alberto Boscaini y Juan López Cantalapiedra hablan del auge y extinción de los perezosos gigantes. Podcast Hablando con Científicos. #hablandoconcientificos cienciaes.com/entrevistas/...
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Cienciaes.com: Auge y extinción de los perezosos gigantes. Hablamos con Alberto Boscaini y Juan López Cantalapiedra | Podcasts de Ciencia
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May 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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The emergence and demise of giant sloths | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The emergence and demise of giant sloths
The emergence of multi-tonne herbivores is a recurrent aspect of the Cenozoic mammalian radiation. Several of these giants have vanished within the past 130,000 years, but the timing and macroevolutio...
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May 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Thrilled to see our work on sloth evolution finally published @science.org! Huge thanks to Alberto Boscaini and Daniel Casali for bringing me on board for such a fascinating project! 🦥

#evolution #paleontology #paleobiology
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · May 22
Ancient sloths ranged in size from tiny climbers to ground-dwelling giants.

Now, researchers report in Science that this body size diversity was largely shaped by sloths’ habitats, and that these animals’ precipitous decline was likely a result of increasing human pressures. scim.ag/43dd0t7
The emergence and demise of giant sloths
The emergence of multi-tonne herbivores is a recurrent aspect of the Cenozoic mammalian radiation. Several of these giants have vanished within the past 130,000 years, but the timing and macroevolutio...
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May 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
singerstone.bsky.social
Just purchased a compilation of Darwin’s writings that did not make it into The Origin. His initial plan was to publish a larger book called Natural Selection. Then he rushed to deliver a shorter version (his most famous book). Some suggest it contains hints of multilevel selection…
May 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Este lunes 19, en La Botillería, hablaré de Darwin y del papel de la paleobiología en redefinir nuestra comprensión de la evolución

🍻 🦣 🦕 🐚 📚
@pintofscience.es #Pint25ES #Pint25Mad

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May 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Burgos retreat at @cenieh.bsky.social with some Amniota Lab members! Ignacio Lazagabaster, @fernandoblancos.bsky.social , @paleoiris.bsky.social @singerstone.bsky.social & @ohsanisidro.bsky.social Fossils, science, food and good vibes

#paleobiology #AmniotaLab #MACPALS
April 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
singerstone.bsky.social
Who said brontotheres weren’t selfie-ready? Check out this smiley Megacerops at the Yale Peabody Museum!
#FossilFriday
#paleobiology
April 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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🚨 Early Bird Pricing Closes TODAY🚨

It's your last chance to sign up with discounted registration for the upcoming CPEG and CPB conference!

Early bird pricing ends TODAY at MIDNIGHT (CET) 🕒

Don’t miss out and register now ⬇️
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| Crossing the Paleontological-Ecological Gap & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium | Zurich, 2025 | UZH
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March 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Looking forward to give my perspective on the recent prehistoric #megafauna #extinctions on the Cambridge Prisms' Real World Challenges Seminar Series on Wednesday cassyni.com/events/Pp9Mi... 🦣 ✝️ 🦏 ✝️ 🐎 ✝️🐂 ✝️🐆 #Pleistocene #Holocene #paleoecology #ecosystems #rewilding #mammals
March 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Excellent article in the Spanish newspaper @elpais about Elisabeth Vrba's legacy. @nilese.bsky.social @andrejpaleo.bsky.social @blaividiella.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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📢 Hoy en El País se publica un artículo en honor a Elisabeth Vrba, una de las científicas que más han inspirado mi carrera. He tenido el privilegio de participar en su creación junto a @singerstone.bsky.social y @hdezfdez.bsky.social 👇🔗
elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
Elisabeth Vrba, la mosquetera que revolucionó la paleobiología
En febrero falleció la paleobióloga Elisabeth Vrba, que logró integrar la teoría evolutiva, el neodarwinismo, con las nuevas evidencias derivadas del estudio del registro fósil
elpais.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Hoy @argomezcano.bsky.social @hdezfdez.bsky.social y yo publicamos en @elpais.com sobre Elisabeth Vrba, la paleobióloga revolucionaria, que falleció el pasado mes de febrero

#paleontología #evolución

elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
Elisabeth Vrba, la mosquetera que revolucionó la paleobiología
En febrero falleció la paleobióloga Elisabeth Vrba, que logró integrar la teoría evolutiva, el neodarwinismo, con las nuevas evidencias derivadas del estudio del registro fósil
elpais.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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just starting our trip across US, first stop the Field Museum. Here @ohsanisidro.bsky.social warming up before doing some deadlifts 💪🏋🏻
January 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

Extended deadlines and changes to keynote speakers!

🗓️ Abstract deadline EXTENDED: Feb 15th, 2025
🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025

4th circular with full details below!
👉https://cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html

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January 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.

Smashed records.

Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Planning on joining us in Birmingham for #2025SVP #SVP2025? Interested in buying merchandise featuring our heavy metal inspired logos designed by @markwitton.bsky.social? We're exploring what merchandise options should be available - please reply to this post & let us know your thoughts!
January 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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#FossilFriday A small herd of the oreodont Miniochoerus, nestling in death. At the Tate Geological Museum in Wyoming.
Articulated skeletons of the small oreodont Miniochoerus
January 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
singerstone.bsky.social
Hey everyone! Since I’m new to BlueSky, I thought I’d share a quick summary of some of the main projects I’ve worked on over the past three years. Buckle up for some paleontology! 🦴⚒️💻
January 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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For this #FossilFriday I pick this collection of horse bones and this old note I recently found in and old cabinet at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin

#paleontology #paleobiology #fossils
November 29, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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Co-authored with @sternarchella.bsky.social, Luke Tornabene, Dahiana Arcila, Ricardo Betancur-R, Pam Hart, @asantaquiteria.bsky.social, and an outstanding @riceuniversity.bsky.social undergraduate co-leader Rose Faucher
#TeamFish #deepsea #marinebiology #evolution
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November 27, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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Fee waivers!!! 🥳

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November 26, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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Stockholm is looking for a senior curator in paleontology! Come be my neighbor! Stockholm is a lovely city! recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
Senior Curator (Researcher) in paleontology
• Independent research and publishing at a high international level in collection-based paleontology, systematics and evolution, stratigraphy, and paleoecology. Presentation of research findings at na...
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November 23, 2024 at 4:07 PM