Shay Rice
@sfrice.bsky.social
MSc student @ U Florida / FMNH 🐊
mammal paleontologist 🦌🦏🦣🦴⛏️
student of large herbivores
geologist + ecology fan 🏞🏔♻️
mammal paleontologist 🦌🦏🦣🦴⛏️
student of large herbivores
geologist + ecology fan 🏞🏔♻️
Reposted by Shay Rice
I can't get over how delightful that Tiktaalik is
October 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I can't get over how delightful that Tiktaalik is
Reposted by Shay Rice
Carrie Tyler (@unlv.edu) and Michal Kowalewski (Florida Museum) constructed and analyzed a massive dataset of marine fossils to demonstrated for the first time that functional diversity can be accurately inferred from the marine fossil record.
Study: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Study: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
September 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Carrie Tyler (@unlv.edu) and Michal Kowalewski (Florida Museum) constructed and analyzed a massive dataset of marine fossils to demonstrated for the first time that functional diversity can be accurately inferred from the marine fossil record.
Study: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Study: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Reposted by Shay Rice
It suggests early ankylosaur armour could have been used to show off to mates, like a peacock's tail feathers.
Later ankylosaurs might have moved to more functional armour as more advanced predators evolved.
Discover what else this amazing ankylosaur reveals 👇 (4/4)
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Later ankylosaurs might have moved to more functional armour as more advanced predators evolved.
Discover what else this amazing ankylosaur reveals 👇 (4/4)
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
“Bizarre” armoured dinosaur Spicomellus afer rewrites ankylosaur evolution | Natural History Museum
The world’s most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than first realised.
www.nhm.ac.uk
August 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It suggests early ankylosaur armour could have been used to show off to mates, like a peacock's tail feathers.
Later ankylosaurs might have moved to more functional armour as more advanced predators evolved.
Discover what else this amazing ankylosaur reveals 👇 (4/4)
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Later ankylosaurs might have moved to more functional armour as more advanced predators evolved.
Discover what else this amazing ankylosaur reveals 👇 (4/4)
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...