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Thrilled to share our work is on the cover of Science Advances!

From finding the fossil with my father in 2021 to countless hours across synchrotrons worldwide. Huge thanks to
Jochen Brocks, Nathaly Archilha, Miguel Basei, and @invertebratepal.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Time for a long-overdue post—I've got lots to share lately!
Let’s start with a 🚨paper alert 🚨: a great project on the Ediacaran tubicolous taxon Corumbella, masterfully led by @beckerkerber.bsky.social (🙏 thanks Bruno!).
Takeaway: this tube was single-layered and round. doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Rebuilding Earth’s first skeletal animals: the original morphology of Corumbella (Ediacaran, Brazil) | Royal Society Open Science
The evolutionary onset of animal biomineralization in the late Ediacaran (ca 555–538 Ma) is marked by the global appearance of enigmatic tubular fossils with unresolved phylogenetic relationships. Amo...
doi.org
June 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Missed #FossilFriday, but here's my late contribution! Meet Cloudina, one of my favorite Ediacaran fossils. These tubular creatures were among the first to produce mineralized skeletons.
The top image is a composite from multispectral imaging.
December 21, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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Lets share some science! @harvardoeb.bsky.social Marc Mapalo uses limb patterning genes to understand the evolution of tardigrade legs... turns out tardigrade legs have a predominant distal identity relative to those of arthropods & onychophorans 🤯

evodevojournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
November 19, 2024 at 2:26 PM