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Donald Davesne
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Associate professor @sorbonne-universite.fr @isyeb.mnhn.fr. Vertebrate systematics and palaeobiology. 🐠🦴🐡 Likes ray-finned things. Born on crayfish day. He/they/il/iel
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Meet Dibango volans, a very weird fossil teleost 🐟 from the Eocene of Bolca, Italy!

Full article now available open access in @thepalass.bsky.social Papers in Palaeontology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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An enigmatic teleost fish from the Eocene of Bolca (Italy) with unusual larval-like features onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @donalddavesne.bsky.social #FossilFriday
Meet Dibango volans, a very weird fossil teleost 🐟 from the Eocene of Bolca, Italy!

Full article now available open access in @thepalass.bsky.social Papers in Palaeontology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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An enigmatic teleost fish from the Eocene of Bolca (Italy) with unusual larval-like features onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @donalddavesne.bsky.social #FossilFriday
May 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Reposted by Donald Davesne
Published in @cybiumsfi.bsky.social (2024)vol.48(4)
"An unexplored anatomic region for phylogenetics : Architecture of the epicranial portion of the dorsal fin of the Bothidae (Teleostei: Pleuronectiformes)"
Chanet, B. @isyeb.mnhn.fr
#Anatomy #Dorsal_fin #Phylogeny
🐟 doi.org/10.26028/CYB...
January 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Reposted by Donald Davesne
Phylogenomics of marine angelfishes: diagnosing sources of systematic discordance for an iconic
reef fish family (F: Pomacanthidae).

Baraf et al. 2025 preprint in Systematic Biology

An ultraconserved elements phylogeny of the marine angelfishes with a deep dive into discordance in the tree.
March 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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PhD position alert: join a diverse team of palaeontologists to study the evolution of temnospondyls! The PhD project @smnstuttgart.bsky.social will focus on bone microanatomy: lots of fun with thin-sections and CT in perspective. Whoever you are: don't hesitate to reach out!
tinyurl.com/msvntnd9
January 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Really looking forward to this book of poems - he presented an amazing poem at NAPC 2024.

Dr. Brandon Kilbourne’s “debut poetry collection [Natural History] that weaves science with a condemnation of slavery and colonialism has received a $10,000 literary award”

apnews.com/article/cave...
Research biologist based in Berlin receives $10,000 prize given to unpublished Black poets
A biologist’s debut poetry collection that weaves science with a condemnation of slavery and colonialism has received a $10,000 literary award.
apnews.com
December 20, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Very cool paper and approach! A highly recommended read!
I'm excited to finally share our review on the evolution of enameloids and enamels, now published in Biological Reviews!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
December 19, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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Came across this glorious Pac-Man impersonator, Bathophilus brevis, while measuring fishes at the Scripps collection with @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social. It just decided that all it needed in life was a huge mouth and a tail 😂
December 19, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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What would you most like to know about #lungfishes? ... Why they have such ginormous genomes? How they breathe air? How they embarrassed taxonomists?

Check out my Quick Guide, published in Current Biology today: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Lungfishes
Alice Clement introduces the lungfishes, a group of sarcopterygian fishes that uses lungs to breathe and is the living sister group to tetrapod vertebrates.
www.cell.com
December 16, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Blennies are some of my faves.
They are the perfect mix of goofy, kinda ugly and cute.

(Parablennius pilicornis - Lanzarote, Canary Islands)
December 12, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Reposted by Donald Davesne
Les bébés poissons lunes sont acérés mais mignons http://ssaft.com/Blog/dotclear/?post/2012/09/12/Oceanario
December 2, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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It would be impossible to cover bioluminescence for #25DaysOfFishmas and not discuss lanternfish. They are, by biomass, the most important group of mesopelagic fish, and are highly diverse, so I've just picked my personal favourite - Lampadena speculigera, the mirror lanternfish.
December 11, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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📺Podcast vidéo du séminaire @isyeb.bsky.social avec Isabelle Collet, Professeure à l'Université de Genève. Présentation intitulée Femmes et numérique.
A voir sur YouTube #ISYEB @mnhn.fr @sorbonne-universite.fr @cnrs.bsky.social #EPHE-PSL - #Université_des_Antilles
➡️ isyeb.mnhn.fr/fr/agenda/is...
December 3, 2024 at 7:28 AM
For my first post here, I am very pleased to announce that this week I start a permanent position as assistant professor at Sorbonne Université, Paris!
December 3, 2024 at 9:24 PM