Paleontologist and international fellow at Japan National Museum of Nature and Science. Morphology, ecology, ecosystem evolution. Love of all things cat-like.
Paul Z. Barrett PhD
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Not that previous studies haven’t delved into the dexterous forelimbs of many extinct canid species with only recent acquisition of pursuit predation, but it still is challenging for many paleontologists and general public to wrap their heads around.
📣Workshop Spotlight
R for Paleobiologists: preparing and exploring fossil data for analysis with the palaeoverse R package
@palaeoverse.bsky.social
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Something incredibly important about this paper is the recognition of how a huge swath of dog evolution didn’t involve them moving like the familiar wolves, foxes and pets of today. Think more like weasels or badgers for the smaller ones, while bears for the largest Miocene species.
New study on Tasmanian devil & other dasyurids reveals how forelimb muscle structure relates to behavior. Dissections & CT showed largely conserved musculature. Differences hint at specialization in prey processing & arboreal movement
Bidaye et al: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Homotherium studies
Our newest paper, led by postdoc Thayara Carrasco & published in @funecology.bsky.social, tracks functional diversity loss of land mammals during the Late Pleistocene extinctions in a grassland ecosystem 🧵
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
🎨: @lacerdajulio.bsky.social
Nature research paper: A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone
go.nature.com/4v1yiFk
Elsevier: we will join the lawsuit against Meta for copyright infringement for AI training.
Elsevier: Yes, this AI representation of an ear is an accurate representation for this mathematical model.
Fig. 1. Schematic figure representing (...) the cochlea.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
