Palaeontologist 🦕 | Triassic marine reptiles 🦎➡️🐬 | Asst Prof at @IPaleoPAN 🇵🇱🇪🇺
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New paper out now in @fossil_record! Together with @Feikosaur, @GBindellini, E. Maxwell and C. Dal Sasso, we describe the foetus of the Middle Triassic #ichthyosaur Besanosaurus leptorhynchus from Monte San Giorgio 🇮🇹 with insights into ichthyosaur taxonomy and reproduction! 👇
Jun 1
aby ichthyosaur alert! Here we describe the Besanosaurus foetus in detail. The holotype of Besanosaurus was thought to preserve embryonic material earlier, but here it is in detail. It is a single foetus. lying in tail-first presentation.fr.pensoft.net/article/18312…
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Jun 13
Live Cymbospondylus reactions
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To give you a sense of scale, Cymbospondylus petrinus, the best known species, could reach the size of a killer whale - here's me with a cast of a partial skeleton from the collections of the @RoyalTyrrell. But one species could even reach twice this size! #SurvivingEarth
#SPOILERS The Middle Triassic ichthyosaur Cymbospondylus is featured in #SurvivingEarth! It's only the second (after BBC's Sea Monsters) portrayal of this animal on TV and, oh, wow, it's awesome! 🤩 The head w/muscles filling in the temporal fenestrae looks great! 1/4
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#SPOILERS The Middle Triassic ichthyosaur Cymbospondylus is featured in #SurvivingEarth! It's only the second (after BBC's Sea Monsters) portrayal of this animal on TV and, oh, wow, it's awesome! 🤩 The head w/muscles filling in the temporal fenestrae looks great! 1/4
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The individual is seen swimming into/out of a shallow lagoon - we know Cymbospondylus could do that as there are specimens known from the Monte San Giorgio lagoon, but only from time intervals when the lagoon had a good connection with deeper waters 3/4
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Not really sure if the animal had the capacity to crawl onto land to hunt for prey like modern killer whales (and even if it did, nothosaurs and tanyatropheids would have probably been more likely targets), but it's an interesting hypothesis! Fantastic cameo! 🤩 4/4
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CYMBOSPONDYLUS 🗣️🔊🔊🔊
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Jun 11
🚨Out today in @Nature our new paper uses deep learning to map four decades of global human migration.
By building the first comprehensive dataset of global annual flows (1990-2023), we reveal that migration has nearly tripled since 2000.
🔗nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Jun 12
Body size evolution through shifting climatic conditions in Mesozoic dinosaurs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #FossilFriday
ALT Four plots showing estimated change in femoral circumference between ancestor and descendant dinosaurs (vertical axis) as a function of change in mean annual precipitation (horizontal axis). Clockwise from top left: all ornithischians; ornithischians following the Cenomanian/Turonian Boundary; sauropodomorphs following the Jenkyns Event; all sauropodomorphs. Dinosaur silhouettes from PhyloPic: Scelidosaurus (Gareth Monger, CC BY 3.0); Triceratops (Jagged Fang Designs, CC0 1.0); Plateosaurus (Mike Taylor, CC0 1.0); Diplodocus (Jagged Fang Designs, CC0 1.0). Dark blue rectangle in top right corner is a cover image from the journal Palaeontology.
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Jun 12
Proponuję zacząć od usunięcia z Rady @NCN_PL wszystkich, ktorzy nigdy nie mieli grantu ERC.
Rada #NCN zapowiada zmiany w zasadach udziału w konkursach NCN. Mają one dostosować reguły do rosnącej liczby wniosków i zwiększających się kosztów realizacji projektów przy ograniczonym budżecie Centrum. ncn.gov.pl/aktualnosci/2026-…
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Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in the Museum?
Dig into the ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and other marine reptiles we look after ⬇️
ALT From a portable lift, Dr Marc Jones takes a photo of a scale bar next to the skull of an Attenborosaurus specimen mounted on the wall of our Fossil Marine Reptile Gallery.
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ONE DAY AWAY FROM #SurvivingEarth ...
Permian and Triassic creatures have never looked this beautiful!
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Jun 10
Poza tym, że profesor Chacińska ma naprawdę imponujące osiągnięcia (nie próbuję udawać, że rozumiem jej artykuły, ale to są topowe pisma - w maju Science Advances jako senior author...) jest też naukowcem bardzo projakościowym, znanym z przypominania o konieczności wspierania jakości w krajowej nauce. Mi Agnieszka, którą mam przyjemność znać osobiście, bardzo pomogła w reformie mojego instytutu, gdy byłem dyrektorem. Oby więcej takich liderek - znakomita decyzja Prezydium @PAN_akademia
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Jun 10
A new paracrocodylomorph archosaurian from the Chañares Formation (Argentina) & revision of key loricatan features onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #PapersinPalaeontology @Lautaro_RB @museodelaplata @SecTurLaRioja @turismoycult @CONICETDialoga @MorphoSource @MorphoBank @WileyEcology
ALT Artist's reconstruction of the Triassic paracrocodylomorph Shakajlura riojanensis, from the Chanares Formation, Argentina, by Lautaro R. Blanco. Red rectangle in bottom right corner is a cover image from the journal Papers in Palaeontology.
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Jun 10
🦖 The first 'T. rex leather’ bag up for auction in Paris
Scientists and fashion brand Enfin Levé have brought the first “T. rex leather” bag to life, something sure to delight Jurassic Park fans. The unique bag will be auctioned on June 11 in Paris, with an estimated price between €300,000 and €500,000.
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Jun 10
Um novo arcossauriforme eucrocópodo do Triássico Médio do Sul do Brasil e a filogenia de Euparkeriidae nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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The scale of the Megaloceros horns is incredible (Zoology museum of the Jagellonian University). They grown them in a single year and then shed it, and repeated the cycle next year. How on Earth they acquired sufficient amount of minerals and nutrients?
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Von Baer's Law.
Baleen whales face at first resembles that of a seal, thus recapitulating primitive ancestral mammalian morphology. Later, turns to this alien 'pelycan'.
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Za najniższą krajową nie da się być doskonałym w nauce (...) Albo otworzymy się na prywatne finansowanie, albo zostaniemy na obrzeżach nauki – mówi dziś w FA prof. Joanna Tyrowicz @GRAPE_ORG @UniWarszawski
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Jun 9
Um novo arcossauro paracrocodilomorfo de grande porte da Zona de Assembleia de Tarjadia (Ladiniano Superior ao Carniano Inferior) da Formação Chañares (Argentina) e uma revisão das características-chave de Loricata onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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