Griffin Lab
@griffinlabpaleo.bsky.social
Origin of major clades, ontogeny & evolution of form, evo+devo+paleo — Dept of Geosciences at Princeton University
Hess Postdoctoral Fellow Steph Lechki speaking about energetic fitness models to finish out the last day of SVP!
November 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Hess Postdoctoral Fellow Steph Lechki speaking about energetic fitness models to finish out the last day of SVP!
PhD student @lnwilson.bsky.social showing new methods for imaging embryonic bird tissues in 3D
November 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
PhD student @lnwilson.bsky.social showing new methods for imaging embryonic bird tissues in 3D
@princeton.edu Presidential postdoc Will Reyes speaking at #2025SVP on the growth and development of extinct crocodilian relatives
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 AM
@princeton.edu Presidential postdoc Will Reyes speaking at #2025SVP on the growth and development of extinct crocodilian relatives
Had a wonderful visit from collaborator Tatsuya Hirasawa from the U of Tokyo! We’ve been awarded a joint Princeton-Tokyo grant to exchange exciting new techniques in vertebrate evo-devo. Our visit to Japan will happen in March!
October 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Had a wonderful visit from collaborator Tatsuya Hirasawa from the U of Tokyo! We’ve been awarded a joint Princeton-Tokyo grant to exchange exciting new techniques in vertebrate evo-devo. Our visit to Japan will happen in March!
It’s starting to appear! Here’s the underside of the croc’s “chin”, the end of the lower jaw
October 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It’s starting to appear! Here’s the underside of the croc’s “chin”, the end of the lower jaw
Opening a field jacket in the new prep lab! Preparator Jack Wilson will work his way through the matrix to the croc skull hiding inside
October 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Opening a field jacket in the new prep lab! Preparator Jack Wilson will work his way through the matrix to the croc skull hiding inside
Had a great visit at Oklahoma State, thanks @fmachado.bsky.social for the invite and for all your hospitality!
September 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Had a great visit at Oklahoma State, thanks @fmachado.bsky.social for the invite and for all your hospitality!
An American alligator embryo roughly 13 days after the egg was laid
June 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
An American alligator embryo roughly 13 days after the egg was laid
We do something similar, but with Falcon tubes. The bases have the tube’s cap glued into them and fit on Xradia scanner chucks. The Falcon tubes themselves can then be screwed onto the whole contraption, making switching out tube-mounted samples quick & easy
June 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We do something similar, but with Falcon tubes. The bases have the tube’s cap glued into them and fit on Xradia scanner chucks. The Falcon tubes themselves can then be screwed onto the whole contraption, making switching out tube-mounted samples quick & easy
Hugely successful alligator egg run down to Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana—we’ll incubate these 250 eggs back in the lab to answer questions about archosaurian development and evolution
June 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Hugely successful alligator egg run down to Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana—we’ll incubate these 250 eggs back in the lab to answer questions about archosaurian development and evolution
Great presentations today at the Princeton Catalysis Initiative symposium—this initiative funds many cross-disciplinary projects across Princeton, including our lab’s work
May 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Great presentations today at the Princeton Catalysis Initiative symposium—this initiative funds many cross-disciplinary projects across Princeton, including our lab’s work
Now that it’s nice out, we can spend some time poking around local outcrop
May 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Now that it’s nice out, we can spend some time poking around local outcrop
The new labs in the new building are almost finished! We should move into the new space in a little over a month.
May 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The new labs in the new building are almost finished! We should move into the new space in a little over a month.
When you get a dud ostrich egg, it should at least be used for something—like lab breakfast-for-dinner!
May 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
When you get a dud ostrich egg, it should at least be used for something—like lab breakfast-for-dinner!
@lnwilson.bsky.social opened her first (of many) ostrich eggs today
May 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
@lnwilson.bsky.social opened her first (of many) ostrich eggs today
Thanks to @paleofox.bsky.social for the visit and seminar, blowing our minds with the weird and wonderful world of bird lungs
April 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Thanks to @paleofox.bsky.social for the visit and seminar, blowing our minds with the weird and wonderful world of bird lungs
For the last day of GEO104: The Age of Dinosaurs, we’re doing a live demonstration of modern dinosaur (bird) embryology. Time to open up some duck eggs!
April 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
For the last day of GEO104: The Age of Dinosaurs, we’re doing a live demonstration of modern dinosaur (bird) embryology. Time to open up some duck eggs!
Curator Mike Zondo showing fossils of Mbiresaurus and other Zimbabwean critters to the U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe!
April 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Curator Mike Zondo showing fossils of Mbiresaurus and other Zimbabwean critters to the U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe!
Ostrich eggs—just in time for Easter!
April 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Ostrich eggs—just in time for Easter!
Months after they left the Yale Peabody Museum, the fossil collection cabinets have officially arrived at the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe! These will be well-used as the museum collections have been growing rapidly in the last few years
April 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Months after they left the Yale Peabody Museum, the fossil collection cabinets have officially arrived at the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe! These will be well-used as the museum collections have been growing rapidly in the last few years
Had to visit Virginia Tech Paleo to check out their new, absolutely huge uCT scanner
January 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Had to visit Virginia Tech Paleo to check out their new, absolutely huge uCT scanner
We’re at #SICB2025! Check out @lnwilson.bsky.social’s poster today and PI Chris Griffin’s talk tomorrow morning (8:30 am, International Salon 1-2)
January 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
We’re at #SICB2025! Check out @lnwilson.bsky.social’s poster today and PI Chris Griffin’s talk tomorrow morning (8:30 am, International Salon 1-2)
Always nice to spend time at the Yale Peabody Museum
November 25, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Always nice to spend time at the Yale Peabody Museum
A quick render/quality check in Dragonfly ORS. Looking good!
November 15, 2024 at 5:27 PM
A quick render/quality check in Dragonfly ORS. Looking good!