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Raul Orencio Gomez
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Biologist/Paleontologist at UBA/CONICET 🇦🇷, studying bones and fossils of 🐸🐍🦎🐦. MEP Lab Head. Illustrator and content creator.
Biólogo/Paleontólogo estudiando huesos y fósiles de 🐸🐍🦎🐦. Dirijo el MEP Lab. Ilustrador y creador de contenido.
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jimeloism.bsky.social
The first empirical paper from @themanybirds.bsky.social is out in @PLOSBiology! 🎉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Thanks to our amazing collaborators, we tested neophobia in 130+ species across 25 taxonomic orders!🕊️🦜🐓🦚🦉🦆🐦🐧🦅
A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia
Neophobia (the aversive response to novelty) varies considerably across species and individuals, and can impact adaptability and survival. This study assesses neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 bird ...
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October 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Craniofacial modularity and the evolution of cranial kinesis in the adaptive radiation of Furnariidae (Aves: Passeriformes)
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Craniofacial modularity and the evolution of cranial kinesis in the adaptive radiation of Furnariidae (Aves: Passeriformes)
Abstract. The role of phenotypic modularity in the evolution of skull morphology in birds has been a subject of debate in recent years. Furnariids (ovenbir
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January 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Love birds? Want to draw them? This 1 minute vid is a good starting point

#pencildrawing #dibujosalapiz #aves #birds #pajaros #lapiz #tutorial #dibujo

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January 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Quién es el sapo concho de Bad Bunny? 🐸
Te lo cuento en este video 👀
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January 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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biotay.bsky.social
Bizarre Beasts (@bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social) have dedicated their latest video to the amazing intelligence of birds, and they include a big feature on my experiments with the cockatoos at the Goffin Lab. They've even made a Goffin pin! : )

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What Makes An Animal Smart?
Thanks to Opera for sponsoring this video. Click here https://opr.as/01-Opera-browser-bizarrebeasts to upgrade your browser for free!Many birds are capable o...
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January 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Siento que malgasté 2 intentos

🐌 Animal #531 🦓
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
🟥🟥🟥🟧🟧🟨🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7

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#metazooa
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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January 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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For the first #FossilFriday of 2025, here's my annual thread looking back on the #temnospondyl research that came out last year! In general, papers were skewed towards anatomical descriptions of specifically European taxa that were predominantly from Triassic deposits.

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Artistic reconstruction of Stenokranio by Frederik Spindler. A rather stout temnospondyl is depicted as standing up, facing to the right and with mouth agape in a sort of smile. Its large tongue and many teeth are visible. The torso and limbs are round and cylindrical, with webbed feet. The eyes face upward and to the sides, with faint cranial ridges from the skull visible through the skin. Associated with Werneburg et al. (2024) Known and inferred distributions of temnospondyls across Pangea during the Middle-Late Triassic based on the combination of empirical data and this study's modeling. In the Middle Triassic, capitosaurs have the widest range, with trematosaurs being more restricted to central Europe and plagiosaurs to north-central Europe. In the Late Triassic, metoposaurids have the widest range, with capitosaurs and plagiosaurids restricted to central/north-central Europe. From Moreno et al. (2024) Composite reconstruction of the skull of the Late Triassic stereospondyl Ninumbeehan dookoodukah via CT analyses of multiple skulls. The skull is longer than wide and generally triangular, though with a blunted tip of the snout. In lateral view, it angles upwards posteriorly such that the back of the skull is much taller than the snout. The typical interpterygoid vacuities of temnospondyls occur on the palate. The lower jaw is also reconstructed, featuring the typical suite of elements found in temnospondyls. From So et al. (2024) The holotype skull of the early Permian eryopid Clamorosaurus nocturnus from Russia. The skull is incomplete anteriorly and flattened, with associated postcrania skrewn behind it. Typical eryopid features like a tall suborbital bar and broad posterior skull are discernible. From Werneburg & Witzmann (2024)
January 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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#2024recap
Full of exciting discoveries, #fossils 🦴, #frogs 🐸, #lizards 🦎, #snakes 🐍 and #birds 🐦.
It has been a difficult year for Argentine #science 🇦🇷, but here we are resisting together with colleagues and friends... and papers!
December 30, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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biotay.bsky.social
1/4 Intelligence without tool-using capabilities

There has been much debate about whether tool use in nature is the result of advanced general cognition or whether it is due to particular adaptations.

(paper) https://buff.ly/4f1M6XP by @jimeloism.bsky.social
December 7, 2024 at 10:57 AM
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jimeloism.bsky.social
I'm so happy to announce that my beautiful & charismatic jays have been published 🐤New research on #cognition in Plush-crested jays, a corvid member. Thanks to my co-authors and #AnimalCognitionJournal
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 6, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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themanybirds.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce that ManyBirds Study 1 “Evolutionary drivers of neophobia across the avian clade” is now available in pre-print: doi.org/10.31219/osf... and been submitted for peer-review publication. 1/
November 25, 2024 at 12:34 PM