I would like to thank my coauthors @eric-snively.bsky.social, Danny Barta, Paul Gignac, Ryan Felice for their collective effort in this research project, the advice and feedback of @histo-holly.bsky.social and paleo students/staff of OSUMedicine, the reviewers and @anatrecord.bsky.social.
Great work by my graduate student Abdullah Gohar on bear femur and rib histology published today in the Journal of Anatomy!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Correcting the Scientific American headline: T.rex did stop growing, and our research in PeerJ suggests that happened around 40 years of age:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/t-re...
So very happy that after 11 years of research and data collection, this paper is finally out! Couldn't have done it without my coauthors, Nathan Myhrvold and Jack Horner!
peerj.com/articles/204...
And it looks epic
Mounted skeleton of the Eocene fossil whale Zygorhiza, as mounted at the old Hall of the Ancient Seas at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
#FossilFriday To round out #FossilFridayAtoZ, the Eocene whale Zygorhiza, at the old Hall of the Ancient Seas at the National Museum of Natural History
Great description of the work by Danison et al. 2024, the status of #Saurophaganax, and the scientific method at work: testing hypotheses, retesting later with more data, and knowing a hypothesis could be tested again in the future.
svpow.com/2024/12/22/a...
Huge congrats to Andy and team!
‘Tis the season!!! Yippee ki yay!
My people!!
