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An overview of the oldest & most comprehensive avifauna of the early Eocene British London Clay onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday #PapersinPalaeontology
Evolution of tooth reduction and loss in Mesozoic avialans: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🪶🧪 (📷Zhou et al.)
A phylogenetics methods GOAT
Hesham is a remarkable colleague who has established an outstanding program at Mansoura University dedicated on training the next generation of Egyptian paleontologists to study the rich fossil record of Egypt. You can learn more about Hesham here: explorers.nationalgeographic.org/directory/he...
Soon we were developing collaborative work on the fossil record of marine fishes in Egypt. The first project focused on an assemblage from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a rapid increase in global temperature around 56 Ma (and a potential deep-time analogue to contemporary climate change).
And there's an intriguing hint that low latitudes might have been important for the early diversification of percomorphs. They make up a greater proportion of taxa in faunas closer to the equator during the Paleocene, before becoming a major faunal component at all latitudes in the Eocene.
Meet the long-eared hedgehog! Inhabiting parts of Central Asia, this omnivore feeds on fruit, insects, & small vertebrates. It has been observed rubbing its spines against toads, suggesting it might be using their toxins for its own self-defense.
Photo: vladimirblinov ,CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
Busy past week or so for my mammal paleo colleagues at UMMP w/ new papers in Journal of Mammalian Evolution, Evolution, and Journal of Paleontology! Details below . . .
CT technician position available at the U-M Museum of Zoology/Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
