TODAY! I am fully aware of how absurd a <24h deadline is but trust me there’s a good reason. if you’re interested in this postdoc, send me your CV immediately.🧪⚒️
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Whale Necropolis, and weird fishes. Glorious chewy carcasses, the real circle of life:
‘we report a vast whale necropolis extending 1,200 km along the floor of the Indian Ocean, comprising 5 modern whale-fall communities and 476 fossil cetaceans.’
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new preprint
On a global scale, plants did not experience a catastrophic mass extinction during the Permian–Triassic boundary (PTB). However, they still suffered losses, with extinction rates reaching around 30%. doi.org/10.64898/202...
🧬 New paper in Cell!
Analysis of 12 cave lion genomes shows that cave lions and modern lions may have diverged more than three times earlier than previously thought – as early as 1.7 million years ago!
AND…they interbred when temperatures dropped!
Paper: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Thanks for covering it, looking forward to listening!
Glad to see this little review published! Do you want to read about the challenges of integrating molecular and fossil data in plants? Check this out for free! With amazing illustrations by Emma Antonena
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
Our beautiful special issue on plant evolution is out @currentbiology.bsky.social !
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insi...
🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️
Bingcai Liu
Laura Cooper
Centre for Palaeogenetics
Mario Coiro
Anne Knowlton
Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
Jason
In this week's #FossilFiles podcast, we FINALLY discuss Prototaxites, the giant phallic Devonian life-form that might be a totally unknown branch of the tree of life. This is one of the coolest papers we've ever done. Listen here or wherever you get your pods: fossils.libsyn.com/the-mysterio...
