Back again with more cool mammal updates, this time in maybe the coolest mammal - the platypus!
Thrilled to share the second chapter of my PhD, out today in Biology Letters. We found spherical hollow melanosomes in the fur of the platypus, maybe a total vertebrate first!
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
Jessica Dobson
Super happy to share the first chapter of my PhD, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface β¨π royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Iridescence in mammals is not as rare as we thought, but itβs all created in the same way!
Jessica Dobson
π π»ββοΈ π¦ MASSIVE NEW FOSSIL DATABASE π π»ββοΈ π¦
Our FAMM (Fossil Arctic Marine Mammal) database has now been published #OpenAccess in Global Ecology and Biogeography!
Come learn about the cool stuff you can do with #Arctic #fossil material and bio-molecular archives! β’οΈ βοΈ π§¬
Link and thread below!
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