Martin Segesdi
@segesdimartin.bsky.social
PhD candidate at ELTE (Budapest) | Hungarian Nat. Hist. Mus. | Vert paleo | Aquatic bird evolution | Marine reptiles | Coprolites | Views are my own.
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"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...
September 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...
In honor of Baron Ferenc Nopcsa, the renowned dinosaur researcher and former director of the Geological Institute of Hungary, the SZTFH/SARA is organizing a memorial day.
The event will take place in Budapest on October 2, 2025.
Registration and program flyer: hugeo.hu/en/form/nopc...
The event will take place in Budapest on October 2, 2025.
Registration and program flyer: hugeo.hu/en/form/nopc...
September 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In honor of Baron Ferenc Nopcsa, the renowned dinosaur researcher and former director of the Geological Institute of Hungary, the SZTFH/SARA is organizing a memorial day.
The event will take place in Budapest on October 2, 2025.
Registration and program flyer: hugeo.hu/en/form/nopc...
The event will take place in Budapest on October 2, 2025.
Registration and program flyer: hugeo.hu/en/form/nopc...
Reposted by Martin Segesdi
🦴 How do proboscidean bones support such massive weight?
Chapter 3 of my PhD is out, a new paper diving into their bone microanatomy!
With Alexandra Houssaye @houssayecnrs.bsky.social and John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Chapter 3 of my PhD is out, a new paper diving into their bone microanatomy!
With Alexandra Houssaye @houssayecnrs.bsky.social and John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Oh! Another paper! From @camillebader.bsky.social Camille Bader's PhD, with Alexandra Houssaye @houssayecnrs.bsky.social. Elephant limb bone microanatomy reflects bone function and posture.
Paper:
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Tons of CT scan DICOM files:
figshare.com/articles/dat...
Paper:
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Tons of CT scan DICOM files:
figshare.com/articles/dat...
Long-bone microanatomy in elephants: microstructural insights into gigantic beasts
Abstract. One of the greatest challenges of terrestrial locomotion is resisting gravity. The morphological adaptive features of the limb long-bones of exta
academic.oup.com
July 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
🦴 How do proboscidean bones support such massive weight?
Chapter 3 of my PhD is out, a new paper diving into their bone microanatomy!
With Alexandra Houssaye @houssayecnrs.bsky.social and John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Chapter 3 of my PhD is out, a new paper diving into their bone microanatomy!
With Alexandra Houssaye @houssayecnrs.bsky.social and John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Our work with Zsófia Román (my former MSc student) is now published in @historicalbiology.bsky.social , Volume 37, Issue 3. In this paper, we have analyzed a particularly rich coprolite material using different methods to explore its paleoecological significance. 💩 🐟 🦭
Palaeontological and taphonomical investigations of the exceptionally rich concentration of Miocene vertebrate coprolites from Pécs-Danitzpuszta (Hungary, Mecsek Mts.)
Thousands of coprolites have been collected from the Upper Miocene (Tortonian/Pannonian) sands of the Pécs-Danitzpuszta sand pit, one of the most important mixed Neogene vertebrate localities in Hu...
www.tandfonline.com
March 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Our work with Zsófia Román (my former MSc student) is now published in @historicalbiology.bsky.social , Volume 37, Issue 3. In this paper, we have analyzed a particularly rich coprolite material using different methods to explore its paleoecological significance. 💩 🐟 🦭
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蛇年快乐! Happy New Year of the snake, with Tanystropheus, a long-necked Triassic reptile
January 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
蛇年快乐! Happy New Year of the snake, with Tanystropheus, a long-necked Triassic reptile
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About 5% of known bird species have gone extinct over the past 130,000 years. @science.org
"The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions."
Read more
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions."
Read more
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions
Humans have been driving a global erosion of species richness for millennia, but the consequences of past extinctions for other dimensions of biodiversity—functional and phylogenetic diversity—are poo...
www.science.org
December 6, 2024 at 1:11 AM
About 5% of known bird species have gone extinct over the past 130,000 years. @science.org
"The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions."
Read more
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions."
Read more
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Hey BlueSky! Just made a quick starter pack of vertebrate SECAD researchers with accounts.
Please add anyone I missed!
go.bsky.app/Gm5h3Ww
Please add anyone I missed!
go.bsky.app/Gm5h3Ww
December 16, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Hey BlueSky! Just made a quick starter pack of vertebrate SECAD researchers with accounts.
Please add anyone I missed!
go.bsky.app/Gm5h3Ww
Please add anyone I missed!
go.bsky.app/Gm5h3Ww