Super happy to share the first chapter of my PhD, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface ✨🐀 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Iridescence in mammals is not as rare as we thought, but it’s all created in the same way!
I didn’t, I was working with the mammal collection in the Royal Museum for Central Africa, so was regionally limited species wise, unfortunately. Is it something you’ve noticed in them previously? More than happy to email you a copy of the paper if you’d like to read it!
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!
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