#Communiqué 🗞️ La découverte des plus anciens fossiles de Salamandridae connus dans le Crétacé supérieur de France, datés de 78 à 67 millions d’années, renseigne sur l’origine et l’histoire évolutive de la famille des salamandres européennes.
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Triassic pseudosuchians evolved wildly diverse skull shapes and lifestyles from terrestrial predators & herbivores to semiaquatic ambush hunters. New morphonetric analyses show convergence in shape ≠ convergence in ecology
Terras et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Finally out. More of our work on tamarins 🤩. Whole‐Epiphysis Trabecular Bone in Tamarin Limbs Suggests Effects of Leaping Distance Alongside Non‐Biomechanical Factors - Nguyen et al. - 2026 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Steininger et al. developed a subject-specific musculoskeletal modeling framework to quantify the influence of anatomical scaling features and sex on adductor moment arms.
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Beyond non-biomechanical factors, the trabecular architecture of long bone epiphyses variably underlies functional adaptations to locomotor behavior. A recent study, characterizing tamari.....
Very glad that this new #GRAVIBONE paper led by @camillebader.bsky.social and with Ursula Göhlich is out. Congrats for the great work Camille!!
John Nyakatura
Journal of Biomechanics
The final chapter of my PhD is out!!
What happens when graviportal taxa get dwarfed? We explore this in dwarf elephantids from the Mediterranean Sea, looking at the inner and outer anatomy of limb long bones. 🐘📄
With @houssayecnrs.bsky.social and U. B. Göhlich
#GRAVIBONE
doi.org/10.1111/pala...
🧵1/2 Sexual selection: Above-head wing-clapping produces loud mechanical sounds. Radius shape appears linked to this behavior.
Friscia et al 2016 J Morphology Adaptive #evolution of derived radius #morphology in Manakins (Aves, Pipridae) to support acrobatic display behavior doi.org/10.1002/jmor...
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Terrestrial vertebrates rely on their skeleton to provide structural support and allow the movement of the body. Heavy, graviportal taxa, such as extant elephants, exhibit numerous adaptive features ....
Passage de la vie terrestre à aquatique : un nouveau fossile éclaire l’évolution des dents des premiers cétacés
Prof. Christine Böhmer
Les ancêtres des cétacés vivaient sur Terre et étaient herbivores. La découverte d’un fossile vient éclairer cette incroyable évolution vers le milieu marin.
Read the full research here:
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Next, there's another study with contributions by Luke that dives into the evolution of the mammalian medial pterygoid muscle: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
New #DAWNDINOS paper! Another "here's everything relevant about a cool Triassic/early Jurassic archosauriform's locomotion that we can figure out so far, with a 3D model of it"-- this time focused on the big nasty "rauisuchian" Postosuchus. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Abstract. In stem mammals, feeding and hearing are closely linked due to jaw bones being involved in both functions. Osteological changes during the evolut
A three-dimensional model is used to analyze the locomotor biomechanics of the large Late Triassic archosaurian reptile Postosuchus kirkpatricki. The study finds that it is more uncertain than previo...
