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New species of “living fossil” had jaws unlike anything seen before | Natural History Museum Tanyka amnicola was a relic of an earlier and more experimental time in the evolution of life on Earth.

🚨New species alert! 🚨

Meet Tanyka amnicola – a 275-million-year-old animal from Brazil with twisted jaws and sideways-facing teeth!

Find out more about this strange species 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

This paper carries a special satisfaction for me. Years ago, Donglei Chen and I discovered small tooth-bearing elements in Silurian vertebrate micro-residues (obtained by dissolving rock in acid) of the stem osteichthyans Andreolepis and Lophosteus. We worked out that they must be the inner dental

New paper! How weird could Permian animals get? Turns out, pretty weird. Meet the stem tetrapod Tanyka amnicola from the Pedra de Fogo Formation of northeast Brazil

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The Voyageurs Wolf Project of Northern Minnesota tags & documents grey wolf ecology & behavior: www.voyageurswolfproject.org

The video you see here is confirmatory proof:
Wolves. Love. Blueberries.

As much as 83% of a wolf's calories in summer months comes from eating berries.

Early synapsids from the Cisuralian (lower Permian) Pedra de Fogo Formation, Parnaíba Basin, Brazil: the first definitive South American “pelycosaurs” The paleotropics of Euramerica provide nearly our entire picture of Permo–Carboniferous terrestrial tetrapod evolution. The geographic sampling bias inherent in this record obscures important event...

New paper with @cisneros.bsky.social and others. We report the first pelycosaur-grade synapsid fossils from South America, which happen to also be the oldest synapsids from Gondwana.

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Lots of bittersweet feelings tonight… tomorrow I will be in Uppsala… and the day after that I start my PhD.

Exactly

New paper published this past week!

Johansson scores women's hockey Olympic tournament-leading 4th goal in Sweden's 4-0 win over France Thea Johansson scored her Olympic women’s hockey tournament-leading fourth goal and Sweden inched closer to clinching the Group B title with a 4-0 win over France at the Milan Cortina Games. Sara...

Ja!!! Skål på Sverige!!!

Heja, Sverige!!! 🏒🇸🇪

Melanie and her freshwater mosasaur on the Dutch evening news! 🧪

A cooling rack full of golden, S-shaped buns.

Saint Lucy’s Day, 13 December, means baking ‘lussekatter’ - ‘Lucy’s Cats’ - which are soft, sweet saffron buns made into shapes the significance of which is lost in antiquity. Just out of the oven! I wish 🦋 had smell-o-vision.

Andersonville in Chicago is having a bit of a Saint Lucy’s Day celebration as well! Most likely because it’s a neighborhood with strong Swedish roots.

How common is it to make them with raisins? I have seen some before with and without raisins. personal preference?

The olfactory bulb endocast as a proxy for mammalian olfaction | PNAS Olfaction is a critical sense for tetrapods, playing a key role in survival and reproduction by aiding in food detection, predator avoidance, and s...

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Large metoposaur skull on a 3D printer stage. The skull pointing upwards at a steep angle as if taking to the skies . . .

Blast off!

A new fossil fish sheds light on the rapid evolution of early lungfishes Qiao et al. report a new Early Devonian lungfish from China, Paleolophus, which bridges the morphological gap between Diabolepis and eudipnoans. Its three-dimensional preservation reveals cranial anat...

In the early Devonian #lungfishes — now considered "living fossils" — were all the rage!

A new #fish from China attests to this early diversification.
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Yesterday I picked up a fun Swedish language (Svenska) book that has been surprisingly useful and enjoyable to read. This evening my new phone case came in the mail. The rest of this evening will involve writing, segmenting, drawing and an old fashioned.

Congratulations! WOW!

Dynamic omnivory shapes the functional role of large carnivores under global change - Nature Communications Omnivores like bears can switch between plant and animal diets, potentially helping them respond to changing conditions. By combining modern and fossil data, this study shows that bears shift toward c...

Albrecht, J., Bocherens, H., Hobson, K.A. et al. Dynamic omnivory shapes the functional role of large carnivores under global change. Nat Commun 16, 10896 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Love this!

Vague update via images, but a new chapter begins next year under Prof. Per Ahlberg.

Jag är inte rädd... Jag föddes för att göra det här

Re‐evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity Hadrosaurid dinosaurs are generally regarded as “crested” or “non-crested” depending on the presence or absence of a bony cranial crest. At least one supposedly “non-crested” hadrosaur is known to ha...

Re‐evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity - Sharpe - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Happy Thanksgiving! I'm thankful for Centuriavis lioae, a 10 million year old fossil relative of turkeys. It was a lot of fun describing this stunning specimen with Catherine Early, Kate Dzikiewicz, and Amy Balanoff. The fossil is named after our amazing museum colleague Suzanne Lio.

THE MAN BEHIND THE SCIENCE: ERIK STENSIÖ, SWEDEN’S 20th CENTURY DOYEN OF THE STOCKHOLM SCHOOL

Appendicular morphology of Mesenosaurus efremovi and the earliest occurrence of a calcaneal tuberosity The Richards Spur locality in Oklahoma, U.S.A. is renowned for its diverse assemblage of early Permian terrestrial tetrapods, including the varanopid Mesenosaurus efremovi. Recent quarrying operati...

Appendicular morphology of Mesenosaurus efremovi and the earliest occurrence of a calcaneal tuberosity

Functional anatomy, jaw mechanisms, and feeding behavior of Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi, Arthrodira) - Engelman - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

ppgm: an R package for integrating neontological, palaeontological, and climate data in a phylogenetic comparative framework Understanding how changes in climate affect habitat availability for species through time is critical for macroevolutionary, ecological, and conservation research. When combined with palaeoclimate re...

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Incorporating continuous characters in joint estimation of dicynodont phylogeny Abstract. Continuous characters have received comparatively little attention in Bayesian phylogenetic estimation. This is predominantly because they cannot

Check out this new paper in Systematic Biology! Aside from the author list including leaders in the field who happen to be some of my favorite scientists, this paper discusses * both * phylogeny inference incorporating continuous characters AND dicynodont evolution. How cool is that? 🧪

NEW pub in @science.org 🥳

Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?

For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.

We provide new evidence suggesting that...

🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...