Introducing our latest special issue, From Fossil to Microscope: Unraveling the Tapestry of Tissue Anatomy through Paleohistology, with this wonderful cover image from @funstonpaleo.bsky.social et al., of compacted coarse cancellous bone from the early Palaeocene taeniodont, Conoryctes comma.

Check out our new paper on the hemibacula of Aristelliger geckos!

Unsolicited listicle: My list of the most criminally underused/underappreciated phylogenetic comparative methods. Note, I am not involved in ANY of these methods; but I see them as things people are often asking of comparative data but have been surprised at how infrequently they have been cited.

Animation process of one scene of ¨ANTEDILUVIAN¨ .
full short film available at Youtube/MarioLanzas: youtube.com/watch?v=LHsz...
#animation #makingof #vintagedinosaurs #drawnanimation #paleoart #dinosaurs #retrosaurs

ICB's Monday free read:

Applying #3D Models of Giant #Salamanders to Explore Form–Function Relationships in Early Digit-Bearing #Tetrapods

@sandyk.bsky.social , @jmhuie.bsky.social et al

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#kinematics #biology #ecology #morphology

WWD 2025 is going to have a lot of action. Both intraspecific

Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

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!
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Interested in bone histology? Temnospondyl amphibians? Check out this new paper by my PhD student, Sudipta Kalita, from his MSc work on Metoposaurus at the University of Bonn! doi.org/10.1111/joa....