Bone-boring Osedax worms ate deep-sea remains of ancient marine plesiosaur and mosasaur reptiles - research from Sarah Jamison-Todd Sarah Jamison-Todd Adrian Glover Adrian Glover Phil Mannion, Paul Upchurch royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Another job opening! I am hiring a postdoc in my lab at University College London to work on developing new phylogenetic comparative methods for modeling the evolution of complex phenotypes! Details here: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Happy #FossilFriday ! This is one of the cover suggestions that I provided. Pity that this was not chosen by the editors. Still so happy to publish our humble whale - the oldest mysticete in the Northern Hemisphere - in Current Biology: cell.com/current-biolog…

April 25 2024 2pm international seminar PALEVOPRIM 👉 Dr James Rule Natural History Museum 'The evolution of amphibious hearing in seals' palevoprim.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/wp-content/upl… Université de Poitiers CNRS Centre Limousin Poitou Charente Evans EvoMorph Lab

Acrophoca from Pisco Formation! #paleoart #art #digitalart

It's been a long time since I had something for #FossilFriday , but here it is. 😁
A new species of shearwater from the Pliocene of New Zealand.
Here's the article, with Alan Tennyson, Barbara Tomotani and F. Marx - doi.org/10.3390/taxono…

#paleontology #vertpaleo #birds #ornithology

Part of a commission made for CIAHN Atacama about the extant and fossil diversity of pinnipeds of Chile.

For this #FossilFriday , I am thrilled to announce my first publication! Today in Nature Communications we publish a new study enlisting phylogenetically-informed statistical models to conduct one of the most comprehensive tests of Bergmann's rule to date. 🧵

nature.com/articles/s4146…

Heyyy look!

I got my hands on an advance copy of my first ever book: A Little Gay Natural History! 🐧🌈🤯

For those in the UK, the book will be available directly through the Natural History Museum (onsite and online) from June!
amazon.com/Little-Queer-N…

Did you know weddell seals use their teeth to make breathing holes in the ice? It’s time to celebrate these mammals who make themselves comfortable outside Scott Base every year. Happy international seal day! 🦭

📸 Max Neustroski

It's #InternationalDayoftheSeal today, but as far as I'm concerned that's every day for me 🦭

Dropping more seal art for the international day of the seal!

Happy #InternationalSealDay ! This group of carnivores, seals, sea lions and walruses, display some truly fascinating adaptations and behaviours that allow them to live in water and on land

Neil the seal celebrating! happy international day of the seal!

Just out today in Palaeontology: my PhD student, Atzcalli E. Hernández Cisneros, and I explore the paleobiogeography of toothed mysticetes from the North Pacific. CICIMAR IPN The PalAss Natural History Museum of L.A. County #MarineMammals
More here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

THE BIGGEST FRESHWATER DOLPHIN INHABITED THE PERUVIAN AMAZONIA 16 MILLION YEARS AGO.
Just published in Science Advances we introduce you to Pebanista yacuruna and a problem: Why? it is the closest relative of the South Asian river dolphins (g. Platanista).
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Happy #TaxonomistAppreciationDay to all my friends & colleagues who work towards documenting the past & present diversity of our planet!
Cheers to the thrill of discovering new species whether it is in the field or in #NaturalHistory #collections !
Here's a few I've described!

From sea lions to fur seals, dive into the symphony of the sea! 🎶🌊 Want more seal-isouly silly videos like this? Follow us on TikTok at bit.ly/3mWIZIb.

Visited an all-time favorite on a recent #FossilFriday : Kolponomos, a Miocene ‘marine bear’ that may have used its jaw like a pry bar on shelled marine prey. Only a handful of skull parts are known! Holotype UC Museum of Paleo (R. Uchytel art)

Jaw story American Museum of Natural History:
amnh.org/explore/news-b…

More words of support for the South Australian Museum and against cuts to its staff.
Once again, SAMA and its collections have been critical to my research and development as a scientist. And I’m happy to say that most of my important collections live there. Hopefully forever.