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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy
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We are UCL's interdisciplinary research centre for every aspect of anatomy - comparative, evolutionary, developmental, medical and forensic.

We are part of the UCL Research Department of Cell & Developmental Biology @ucl-cdb.bsky.social.
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At the 85th Annual Meeting of the Society of #Vertebrate #Paleontology, our Evans, Cox, Felice and Porro labs contributed. vertpaleo.org/svp-annual-m...

#Evolution #ecology #diversity #form #function @ucl.ac.uk @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
Group (named in post) from the Centre = nine people, standing below and in front of a brown, yellow and white slide showing the conference title and location (details in post)
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Prof Sandra Martelli is honoured to represent @ucllifesciences.bsky.social in Mumbai, Banaglore & Delhi this week, showcasing our world-renowned UG & PG study courses and meeting potential new members of our global community! www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... @ucl.ac.uk #Students #HigherEducation #study
India Open Days
Experience a taste of UCL in India as our faculty members host Open Days in Mumbai, Bangalore and New Delhi.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Was this the FLUFFIEST #dinosaur!? 🦖 🦕 #palaeontology youtube.com/shorts/DQsji....
This summer, our Laura Porro was interviewed by TV presenter Maddie Moate, resulting in fun, educational videos on #reptile teeth, dinosaur #diets & animal #brains!” @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl-cdb.bsky.social
Was this the FLUFFIEST dinosaur!? 🦖 🦕 #dinosaur #paleontology
YouTube video by Maddie Moate
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October 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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You can now see more details in our longer news item on our website, here: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

#WAD2025 #WAD #WorldAnatomyDay @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-cdb.bsky.social #anatomy #biology #palaeo #paleo #evodevo #crocodile #food #digestion #skeleton #fossil @GrantMuseum
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Our Maricci Basa (Felice Lab) has published a first-author paper in J Anat: she describes using comparative #embryology and various #imaging techniques to investigate how #snakes are able to have such wide gapes. #anatomy #formandfunction #jaws @ucl.ac.uk #biology @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
2 rows of 3 images: the first is a diagram of snake jaws, then scans and close-ups of collagen fibres. Fast green stain in the image highlights the collagen fibres that connect the bottom jaws of a snake
October 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Our Ryan Felice wins a @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social Research Grant with Dr Alana Sharp @livuninews.bsky.social to study the evolution of hollow spaces in the skull of mammals: do huge land animals air-fill their skulls to lighten their big heads? #anatomy @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
4 rows of 2 x diagrams of 3D models of the skull of the extinct giant marsupial, Diprotodon optatum, showing the large space taken up by air sinuses (blue) and small space taken up by the brain (pink)
October 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Mary Yacoob, our #Artist-in-Residence, has made a series of #drawings inspired by her dialogues at the Centre. Speculative illustrations of sea creatures are rendered in fine white lines on deep blue backgrounds. Click for full details:
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Artist-in-Residence inspired by research illustrations to imagine new sea creatures
Mary Yacoob has made a series of drawings inspired by her dialogues with researchers at the Centre. Speculative illustrations of sea creatures are rendered in fine white lines on deep blue backgrounds
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October 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Great news! Two of our people won #teaching awards from @ucl.ac.uk Medical School:
Romain Perera won the Top Teacher Award 2024-25 for Year 2, with
Laura Porro as runner-up. Congratulations!
More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-scie... @ucl-cdb.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
Head & shoulders photo of Romain Perera Head & shoulders photo of Laura Porro
October 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Thank you to all who came to our World Anatomy Day Event at the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social. We received 381 visitors (341 adults and 40 children); for comparison, a typical Saturday at the Grant Museum has about 230 visitors. Everyone seems to have discovered that #Anatomy is indeed Amazing!
Five of the staff from @UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy and @Grant Museum of Zoology, who helped host the 2025 World Anatomy Day event, Amazing Anatomy. They are standing in the museum (brown wood floor, wall panelling, cabinets having glass fronts/backs filled with specimens
October 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Amazing Anatomy: Saturday 18 October 2025: Free Family Day at @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social. Explore #anatomy; celebrate World Anatomy Day (which is on 15th).
Pre-book for 11am early-bird slot, drop-in 12pm-2pm. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
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Family Event: Amazing Anatomy
The Grant Museum has a takeover day in partnership with UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy. A day of free creative activity exploring anatomy, in celebration of World Anatomy Day. Pre-book for 11am, d...
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October 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Fun date for your diary: the Grant Museum is partnering with us for a day of free, hands-on, creative activities to explore #anatomy, to celebrate World Anatomy Day (ifaa.net/2025/05/05/w...).
Pre-book for 11am, or drop-in 12pm-2pm.
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World Anatomy Day 2025 - IFAA
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October 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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#Research by our Ryan Felice's & Abigail Tucker's (@KCL) #labs highlights adaptations needed to allow extreme lower #jaw mobility and independence of the two sides of the jaw found in large-mouthed #snakes. @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #anatomy
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The wide gape of snakes: A comparison of the developing mandibular symphysis in sauropsids
Our analysis explores the adaptations at the mandibular symphysis required to allow extreme lower jaw mobility in macrostomate snakes taking a comparative approach.
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October 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Interesting #research by our colleagues in the Dept of Earth Sciences @ucl.ac.uk with #researchers from Berlin: it's about #dinosaurs and replacement of internal #bone tissue with air to extend their #respiratory systems! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @journalofanatomy.bsky.social
New information on Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs provides support for the independent acquisition of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in avemetatarsalian lineages
PSP in early-branching sauropodomorphs probably evolved first in the neural arches of the posterior cervical vertebrae, expanding anteriorly and posteriorly along the vertebral column. The distributi...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Susan Evans has just returned from the Institute of #Vertebrate #Paleontology and #Paleoanthropology, Beijing. She has been working on Mesozoic #fossil #reptiles with colleague, Dr Liping DONG, Professor (Associate). english.ivpp.cas.cn/about/Introd... @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
A woman (Susan Evans), dressed in blue sitting at a computer desk bearing a microscope, holding a Mesozoic fossil reptile specimen A woman (Susan Evans), dressed in blue sitting at a computer desk bearing a microscope, through which she is viewing a Mesozoic fossil reptile specimen
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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@ucl.ac.uk has again performed strongly in @ResearchEngland’s KEF5, being recognised as one of the top #universities in England for #knowledge exchange.

This assesses how #unis are performing in activities that positively impact the #economy and wider #society.

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UCL rated as a leading university for knowledge exchange five years in a row
UCL has been recognised as one of the top universities in England for knowledge exchange in Research England’s Knowledge Exchange Framework 2025 (KEF5), which came out today.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Prof Anjali Goswami and colleagues report, in the Journal of #Anatomy, on mammal #skull #bone junctions, which are important indicators of the #biomechanical and #developmental pressures on the skull
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September 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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@ucl.ac.uk has a new homepage (#website landing page), reflecting our new #branding and move to the Drupal 10 platform. Check it out here: www.ucl.ac.uk.

Soon, similar changes will be made to @ucllifesciences.bsky.social, @ucl-cdb.bsky.social and our own webpages.@uclnews.bsky.social
Welcome to UCL
Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, UCL is London's leading multidisciplinary university, with more than 18,000 staff and 51,000 students from over 150 different countries.
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August 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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A study (with our @drphilcox.bsky.social) in #rabbits & #hares, found: those adapted for running have greater facial tilt & simpler #skull joints versus those with scrambling or hopping-based #locomotion, which could help with hinge-like mobility. @ucl.ac.uk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Factors impacting the complexity of the leporid intracranial joint
Anatomy of the intracranial joint and the 2D semi-landmarks used to capture complexity in the intracranial joint. (a) The intracranial joint can be seen here (in red) between the parietal and occipit...
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August 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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YAY! We have achieved Silver status in June's #Laboratory Efficient Assessment by @ucl.ac.uk's Katherine Howett. Thank you to all Centre members who worked hard to achieve such #sustainable #labs. Info: stainabilityexchange.ac.uk/leaf_a_new_a... @sustainableucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social
A pale blue square block, having top, centre a logo depicting the LEAF silver award (see post for explanation). Underneath in black lettering are stated (line-by-line): Awarded to: Centre for Integrative Anatomy (lime green highlight): In recognition of exemplary actions undertaken to improve the sustainability practices as part of the LEAF framework Awarded by: Kathering Howett {KH was the auditor}
July 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Job Vacancy - Anatomy Tutor needed to deliver practical-based #anatomy teaching to under/post-graduate students, using cadaveric and prosected material, Anatomage table and #imaging resources. Max.12 h pw, September2025-May2026: www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/...
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Job Vacancy - Anatomy Tutor (max. 12 h pw, September 2025-May 2026)
Anatomy Tutor(s) needed to deliver practical-based anatomy teaching to undergraduate and postgraduate students, using cadaveric and prosected material, Anatomage table and imaging resources.
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June 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Today’s the day - Our Story with David Attenborough is officially open! 🎉

Watch as the walls and floor burst into life around you in this 360° cinematic experience featuring Sir David Attenborough!

Book your tickets now 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibi...
David Attenborough sits in a chair facing away from the camera. He is surrounded by screens showing gorillas in a green, leafy environment.
June 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️26th June 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Katie Collins from the Natural History Museum, UK, on “Both round and upward: Spiral morphometry and how to compare things that are the same, but different” 🐚

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
A flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, featuring a cartoon of an open laptop with the Palaeoverse logo on, and a picture of Dr Collins with pink hair, wearing glasses and a checked shirt
June 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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In our #research, we see how #climate or #environmental changes affect the #animal world. Interested/concerned? In/near London? Perhaps book this FREE session @nhm-london.bsky.social THIS Thursday, 25Jun. More info at: www.nhm.ac.uk/events/creat... @sustainableucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social
Creating Change: Climate Action Night | Natural History Museum
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June 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Creating a buzz: prepare to appreciate those #picnic pests! Wasps purr!! @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social hosts the World of #Wasps from 25 June 2025. Evening and #family events. #summer #wasp #exhibition #science #FamilyFun #insect @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-cdb.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #nature
A large, colour picture of the inside of the Grant Museum having superimposed thereon a mock-up of a wasp flying low over a grassy meadow - the pic being set above two smaller images: to the left a yellow and black depiction of 'World of Wasps' and to the right a close-up of a wasp on a white flower
June 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Congratulations to our Kat Gregory, who has just completed her 'Couch to 5k'. Kat, a PhD student with @rfelices.bsky.social, only started #running with *our Running Club in March 2025, so it's a great achievement!
*Anyone from @ucl-cdb.bsky.social welcome - contact r.marek@ucl.ac.uk for info.
Mobile phone screenshot of schematic map of Gunnersbury Park showing route Kat Gregory ran (around the periphery - a red line) marked with her various personal bests and showing she completed both the Couch to 5K and also ran for 1 hour straight (distance 5.72km, average pace 10.3/km)
June 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM