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check out our web: https://amniota.org
#paleontology #vertebrates #morphology #3D
Amniota Lab is at #2025SVP! 🦴✨
come find us and say hi and follow this thread for all our presentations 👇
come find us and say hi and follow this thread for all our presentations 👇
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Amniota Lab is at #2025SVP! 🦴✨
come find us and say hi and follow this thread for all our presentations 👇
come find us and say hi and follow this thread for all our presentations 👇
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Guess who's back! 🦇
55 years missing: An international team led by the museum rediscovered the Turkestan long-eared bat in the Karakum Desert. Endemic species like 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘬𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 reveal how life adapts – and why protecting unique habitats matters. 🌏
📹 Christian Dietz
#biodiversity #bats
55 years missing: An international team led by the museum rediscovered the Turkestan long-eared bat in the Karakum Desert. Endemic species like 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘬𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 reveal how life adapts – and why protecting unique habitats matters. 🌏
📹 Christian Dietz
#biodiversity #bats
November 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Guess who's back! 🦇
55 years missing: An international team led by the museum rediscovered the Turkestan long-eared bat in the Karakum Desert. Endemic species like 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘬𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 reveal how life adapts – and why protecting unique habitats matters. 🌏
📹 Christian Dietz
#biodiversity #bats
55 years missing: An international team led by the museum rediscovered the Turkestan long-eared bat in the Karakum Desert. Endemic species like 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘬𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 reveal how life adapts – and why protecting unique habitats matters. 🌏
📹 Christian Dietz
#biodiversity #bats
Recent work from #AmniotaLab in Systematic Palaeontology!
Sorbelli and collaborators describe a fossil frog from Early Pleistocene Italy: a large, robust frog that likely hunted hard-shelled invertebrates!
don't miss it!👇
Sorbelli and collaborators describe a fossil frog from Early Pleistocene Italy: a large, robust frog that likely hunted hard-shelled invertebrates!
don't miss it!👇
Why extant, not extinct?
A new JSP paper by Sorbelli 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. describes an extinct 𝙇𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙖 species (Anura: Discoglossidae) from the Early Pleistocene of the Apennine Peninsula—offering fresh clues on how the genus survived in Eurasia.
Read more: buff.ly/NGVelt5 #Paleosky @amniotalab.bsky.social
A new JSP paper by Sorbelli 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. describes an extinct 𝙇𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙖 species (Anura: Discoglossidae) from the Early Pleistocene of the Apennine Peninsula—offering fresh clues on how the genus survived in Eurasia.
Read more: buff.ly/NGVelt5 #Paleosky @amniotalab.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Recent work from #AmniotaLab in Systematic Palaeontology!
Sorbelli and collaborators describe a fossil frog from Early Pleistocene Italy: a large, robust frog that likely hunted hard-shelled invertebrates!
don't miss it!👇
Sorbelli and collaborators describe a fossil frog from Early Pleistocene Italy: a large, robust frog that likely hunted hard-shelled invertebrates!
don't miss it!👇
New #AmniotaLab research!
Faysal Bibi and Jean-Renaud Boisserie describe a fossil buffalo from Ethiopia, revealing how early members of the lineage evolved into today’s African buffalo 🐃
paleo.peercommunityin.org/PCIPaleo/art...
Faysal Bibi and Jean-Renaud Boisserie describe a fossil buffalo from Ethiopia, revealing how early members of the lineage evolved into today’s African buffalo 🐃
paleo.peercommunityin.org/PCIPaleo/art...
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
New #AmniotaLab research!
Faysal Bibi and Jean-Renaud Boisserie describe a fossil buffalo from Ethiopia, revealing how early members of the lineage evolved into today’s African buffalo 🐃
paleo.peercommunityin.org/PCIPaleo/art...
Faysal Bibi and Jean-Renaud Boisserie describe a fossil buffalo from Ethiopia, revealing how early members of the lineage evolved into today’s African buffalo 🐃
paleo.peercommunityin.org/PCIPaleo/art...
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Why extant, not extinct?
A new JSP paper by Sorbelli 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. describes an extinct 𝙇𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙖 species (Anura: Discoglossidae) from the Early Pleistocene of the Apennine Peninsula—offering fresh clues on how the genus survived in Eurasia.
Read more: buff.ly/NGVelt5 #Paleosky @amniotalab.bsky.social
A new JSP paper by Sorbelli 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. describes an extinct 𝙇𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙖 species (Anura: Discoglossidae) from the Early Pleistocene of the Apennine Peninsula—offering fresh clues on how the genus survived in Eurasia.
Read more: buff.ly/NGVelt5 #Paleosky @amniotalab.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Why extant, not extinct?
A new JSP paper by Sorbelli 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. describes an extinct 𝙇𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙖 species (Anura: Discoglossidae) from the Early Pleistocene of the Apennine Peninsula—offering fresh clues on how the genus survived in Eurasia.
Read more: buff.ly/NGVelt5 #Paleosky @amniotalab.bsky.social
A new JSP paper by Sorbelli 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. describes an extinct 𝙇𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙖 species (Anura: Discoglossidae) from the Early Pleistocene of the Apennine Peninsula—offering fresh clues on how the genus survived in Eurasia.
Read more: buff.ly/NGVelt5 #Paleosky @amniotalab.bsky.social
Great to have Marianne Brasil from Western Washington University visiting #AmniotaLab to work in the collections! 🦴🔍 She studies primate evolution combining modern primate data and the fossil record.
Thank you for sharing your passion for paleoanthropology with us!
Thank you for sharing your passion for paleoanthropology with us!
September 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Great to have Marianne Brasil from Western Washington University visiting #AmniotaLab to work in the collections! 🦴🔍 She studies primate evolution combining modern primate data and the fossil record.
Thank you for sharing your passion for paleoanthropology with us!
Thank you for sharing your passion for paleoanthropology with us!
We were delighted to host Dr. Khizar Samiullah from Ghazi University 🇵🇰 at #AmniotaLab
He shared his work on Neogene mammal fossils from the classical Siwalik sequences, and highlighted the work still ahead💪
He shared his work on Neogene mammal fossils from the classical Siwalik sequences, and highlighted the work still ahead💪
September 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
We were delighted to host Dr. Khizar Samiullah from Ghazi University 🇵🇰 at #AmniotaLab
He shared his work on Neogene mammal fossils from the classical Siwalik sequences, and highlighted the work still ahead💪
He shared his work on Neogene mammal fossils from the classical Siwalik sequences, and highlighted the work still ahead💪
New #AmniotaLab study: the first digital endocast 🧠 of the five-horned ruminant 🦌 𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘹 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪 from Miocene Gargano (Italy) reveals a distinct evolutionary path among island mammals
👏 @pierreorgebin.bsky.social @robertorozzi.bsky.social
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
👏 @pierreorgebin.bsky.social @robertorozzi.bsky.social
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Virtual endocast of the Late Miocene Hoplitomeryx matthei (Artiodactyla, Hoplitomerycidae) and brain evolution in insular ruminants | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Mammals often follow peculiar evolutionary trajectories on islands, with some Pleistocene
insular large mammals exhibiting reduced relative brain size. However, the antiquity
of this phenomenon remain...
royalsocietypublishing.org
September 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
New #AmniotaLab study: the first digital endocast 🧠 of the five-horned ruminant 🦌 𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘹 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪 from Miocene Gargano (Italy) reveals a distinct evolutionary path among island mammals
👏 @pierreorgebin.bsky.social @robertorozzi.bsky.social
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
👏 @pierreorgebin.bsky.social @robertorozzi.bsky.social
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
🦌 A new #AmniotaColLab study led by Elpiniki-Maria Parparousi (with AmniotaLab’s Leonardo Sorbelli) describes a latest Early Pleistocene Dama-like deer from Cal Guardiola (NE Iberia).
🔗 Read more:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Paleontology #Pleistocene #Fossils
🔗 Read more:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Paleontology #Pleistocene #Fossils
Biochronological and paleobiogeographic implications of the Dama-like deer sample from the latest Early Pleistocene of Cal Guardiola (NE Iberia)
Different species of Dama-like deer usually included in the genus Pseudodama, occurred in the European Plio-Pleistocene. In this paper, the medium-siz…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
🦌 A new #AmniotaColLab study led by Elpiniki-Maria Parparousi (with AmniotaLab’s Leonardo Sorbelli) describes a latest Early Pleistocene Dama-like deer from Cal Guardiola (NE Iberia).
🔗 Read more:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Paleontology #Pleistocene #Fossils
🔗 Read more:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Paleontology #Pleistocene #Fossils
Some pics from our #PALEONILE meeting today! We discussed paleo🦴, geology🪨, archaeology🏺 & geochronology🕰️
Team from MfN, TU Berlin, LIAG Hannover, Institute of Archaeology Prague, plus Al Neelain University & Khartoum Natural History Museum, Sudan 🇸🇩
@mfnberlin.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social
Team from MfN, TU Berlin, LIAG Hannover, Institute of Archaeology Prague, plus Al Neelain University & Khartoum Natural History Museum, Sudan 🇸🇩
@mfnberlin.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Some pics from our #PALEONILE meeting today! We discussed paleo🦴, geology🪨, archaeology🏺 & geochronology🕰️
Team from MfN, TU Berlin, LIAG Hannover, Institute of Archaeology Prague, plus Al Neelain University & Khartoum Natural History Museum, Sudan 🇸🇩
@mfnberlin.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social
Team from MfN, TU Berlin, LIAG Hannover, Institute of Archaeology Prague, plus Al Neelain University & Khartoum Natural History Museum, Sudan 🇸🇩
@mfnberlin.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social
The latest publication from Khalafallah Salih about the exceptional fossil croc 🐊 from #Sudan was just featured on Al Jazeera!
Don't miss it:
www.aljazeera.net/science/2025...
#PALEONILE project @mfnberlin.bsky.social
Don't miss it:
www.aljazeera.net/science/2025...
#PALEONILE project @mfnberlin.bsky.social
"تمساح السودان".. اكتشاف نادر على نهر عطبرة عمره 90 ألف سنة
كشفت دراسة حديثة عن أول سجل لتمساح منقرض من العصر البليستوسيني المتأخر في أفريقيا، ما يعيد رسم خريطة تنوع جنس “كروكودايلوس” خلال هذه الحقبة.
https://www.aljazeera.net/science/2025/8/5/تمساح-السودان-اكتشاف-نادر-على-نهر
August 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The latest publication from Khalafallah Salih about the exceptional fossil croc 🐊 from #Sudan was just featured on Al Jazeera!
Don't miss it:
www.aljazeera.net/science/2025...
#PALEONILE project @mfnberlin.bsky.social
Don't miss it:
www.aljazeera.net/science/2025...
#PALEONILE project @mfnberlin.bsky.social
Some of our past and current #AmniotaLab members just got back from the #CPEG meeting in Zurich so happy to have met so many fantastic and inspiring people!
Huge thanks to @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social for a great conference, and for recognizing our poster as one of the best! An honor to be part of it 🙌
Huge thanks to @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social for a great conference, and for recognizing our poster as one of the best! An honor to be part of it 🙌
August 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Some of our past and current #AmniotaLab members just got back from the #CPEG meeting in Zurich so happy to have met so many fantastic and inspiring people!
Huge thanks to @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social for a great conference, and for recognizing our poster as one of the best! An honor to be part of it 🙌
Huge thanks to @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social for a great conference, and for recognizing our poster as one of the best! An honor to be part of it 🙌
More #AmniotaLab science! 📢
Khalafallah Salih et al. describe a new Late Pleistocene crocodile from #Sudan 🐊
the first 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘺𝘭𝘶𝘴 from this period in Africa, and distinct from all known species!
Just the beginning for the #PALEONILE project 🌍🦴
🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Khalafallah Salih et al. describe a new Late Pleistocene crocodile from #Sudan 🐊
the first 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘺𝘭𝘶𝘴 from this period in Africa, and distinct from all known species!
Just the beginning for the #PALEONILE project 🌍🦴
🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A new late Pleistocene fossil crocodile from Sudan reveals hidden diversity of Crocodylus in Africa - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A new late Pleistocene fossil crocodile from Sudan reveals hidden diversity of Crocodylus in Africa
www.nature.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
More #AmniotaLab science! 📢
Khalafallah Salih et al. describe a new Late Pleistocene crocodile from #Sudan 🐊
the first 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘺𝘭𝘶𝘴 from this period in Africa, and distinct from all known species!
Just the beginning for the #PALEONILE project 🌍🦴
🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Khalafallah Salih et al. describe a new Late Pleistocene crocodile from #Sudan 🐊
the first 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘺𝘭𝘶𝘴 from this period in Africa, and distinct from all known species!
Just the beginning for the #PALEONILE project 🌍🦴
🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just out! This #AmniotaLab study led by 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 on 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘺𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 🦎 across the Balearics finds that bite force & morphology vary within populations, but don’t scale up to macroevolutionary scales
🔗 More:
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
#Evolution #Lizards #FunctionalMorphology
🔗 More:
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
#Evolution #Lizards #FunctionalMorphology
August 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Just out! This #AmniotaLab study led by 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 on 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘺𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 🦎 across the Balearics finds that bite force & morphology vary within populations, but don’t scale up to macroevolutionary scales
🔗 More:
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
#Evolution #Lizards #FunctionalMorphology
🔗 More:
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
#Evolution #Lizards #FunctionalMorphology
Great to have @evomorpholab.bsky.social visiting us!
A fantastic few days of sharing ideas, methods, and common interests.
Looking forward to more collaboration ahead!
#EvolutionaryBiology #Paleobiology #AmniotaLab
A fantastic few days of sharing ideas, methods, and common interests.
Looking forward to more collaboration ahead!
#EvolutionaryBiology #Paleobiology #AmniotaLab
July 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Great to have @evomorpholab.bsky.social visiting us!
A fantastic few days of sharing ideas, methods, and common interests.
Looking forward to more collaboration ahead!
#EvolutionaryBiology #Paleobiology #AmniotaLab
A fantastic few days of sharing ideas, methods, and common interests.
Looking forward to more collaboration ahead!
#EvolutionaryBiology #Paleobiology #AmniotaLab
July 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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For #FossilFriday meet an ancestor of today's cockroaches, mantises and termites. This lovely animal is Sysciophlebia, and lived ~295 million years ago, in what is today Germany 🇩🇪 . It was 3.6cm long, and was a female. How do we know?
⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
July 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
For #FossilFriday meet an ancestor of today's cockroaches, mantises and termites. This lovely animal is Sysciophlebia, and lived ~295 million years ago, in what is today Germany 🇩🇪 . It was 3.6cm long, and was a female. How do we know?
⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
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July 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
⚠️ 𝘋𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘪𝘢 𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘪 is on the move in Bangladesh! 🐍🌾
A new #AmniotaLab study shows a 5-fold increase in suitable habitat since 2015 driven by climate shifts, land use, and dispersal corridors. Rising encounters raise urgent public health concerns.
🔗 Read more: herpetozoa.pensoft.net/article/1434...
A new #AmniotaLab study shows a 5-fold increase in suitable habitat since 2015 driven by climate shifts, land use, and dispersal corridors. Rising encounters raise urgent public health concerns.
🔗 Read more: herpetozoa.pensoft.net/article/1434...
Expanding habitat suitability under changing climate and land use may drive rapid expansion of Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii) in Bangladesh
Eco-climatic and other environmental gradients significantly influence the geographic distribution of reptiles. In Bangladesh, the known range of Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii) has expanded extensi...
herpetozoa.pensoft.net
June 18, 2025 at 6:12 AM
⚠️ 𝘋𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘪𝘢 𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘪 is on the move in Bangladesh! 🐍🌾
A new #AmniotaLab study shows a 5-fold increase in suitable habitat since 2015 driven by climate shifts, land use, and dispersal corridors. Rising encounters raise urgent public health concerns.
🔗 Read more: herpetozoa.pensoft.net/article/1434...
A new #AmniotaLab study shows a 5-fold increase in suitable habitat since 2015 driven by climate shifts, land use, and dispersal corridors. Rising encounters raise urgent public health concerns.
🔗 Read more: herpetozoa.pensoft.net/article/1434...
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Malformations in Trilobites from the Silurian and Devonian of Europe.
sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2025/06/malf...
sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2025/06/malf...
June 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Malformations in Trilobites from the Silurian and Devonian of Europe.
sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2025/06/malf...
sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2025/06/malf...
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The oldest definitive docodontan from central East Greenland sheds light on the origin of the clade onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @morphobank.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The oldest definitive docodontan from central East Greenland sheds light on the origin of the clade onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @morphobank.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social
What 60 million years of stable ecosystems teach us about today’s loss of species:
www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/museum/me...
www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/museum/me...
Was uns 60 Millionen Jahre stabile Ökosysteme über den heutigen Artenverlust lehren
Eine neue Studie unter Leitung der Universität Göteborg mit Beteiligung von Forschenden aus dem Museum für Naturkunde Berlin und Spanien zeigt, wie große urzeitliche Pflanzenfresser auf tiefgreifende ...
www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin
June 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
What 60 million years of stable ecosystems teach us about today’s loss of species:
www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/museum/me...
www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/museum/me...
Don't miss this thread! A new publication from #AmniotaLab led by @fernandoblancos.bsky.social. Enormous work!🦏🐘
🦏🦣🦌 LARGE paper alert!!! We tracked 60 million years of large herbivore evolution—over 3,000 fossil species—to uncover how ecosystems have changed and reorganized through time. What we found might help us understand the next big tipping point 🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two major ecological shifts shaped 60 million years of ungulate faunal evolution - Nature Communications
Here, the authors analyze a fossil dataset spanning 60 million years to investigate ecological stability. Their network analysis identifies prolonged stability interrupted by two major functional tran...
www.nature.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Don't miss this thread! A new publication from #AmniotaLab led by @fernandoblancos.bsky.social. Enormous work!🦏🐘
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9/ This paper is the result of over 7 years of work—a true collective effort. Huge thanks to all my co-authors for making this possible! @ohsanisidro.bsky.social @singerstone.bsky.social @amniotalab.bsky.social et al.
📸 @singerstone.bsky.social
📸 @singerstone.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
9/ This paper is the result of over 7 years of work—a true collective effort. Huge thanks to all my co-authors for making this possible! @ohsanisidro.bsky.social @singerstone.bsky.social @amniotalab.bsky.social et al.
📸 @singerstone.bsky.social
📸 @singerstone.bsky.social