We are a group of evolutionary paleobiologists obsessed with hoofy, horny, Cenozoic stuff 🐘🦣🦏 🦓 🦛🦒 🦌🐃 | based at @UAHes & @mfnberlin
Joined September 2020
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8 Jun 2023
Joint efforts of @AmniotaLab and @Canta_Lab in a new study just published in @ScienceMagazine today
8 Jun 2023
Today @ScienceMagazine we present new results that shed light on the processes behind the waning of #megaherbivores diversity in Africa.
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
[by Faysal Bibi @AmniotaLab & Juan L. Cantalapiedra @singerstone @GloCEE_EcoEvo]
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[artwork by Julius Csotonyi]
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CantaLab retweeted
22 Dec 2025
Last Thursday I shared some of our recent projects in the Palaeoverse channel, exploring phylogenetic methods and the exciting new wave of Bayesian diversification models.
#paleobiology #paleontology #macroevolution
youtu.be/vd-E4E6iFNg?si=3n2O…
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CantaLab retweeted
31 Aug 2025
1/ 🧠✨ Happy to see this paper out @PNASNexus. It is the product of a very interesting interdisciplinary collaboration I had the opportunity to be a part of.
👉 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/a…
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CantaLab retweeted
22 May 2025
I am delighted to announce the release of our latest paper on the evolution of giant #sloths in @ScienceMagazine: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
An effort that lasted years, spanned continents, and put together a team of great scientists and friends. @CONICETDialoga @Exactas_UBA
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CantaLab retweeted
22 May 2025
Thrilled to see our work on sloth evolution finally published! Huge thanks to @abpaleo and @danielcasali13 for bringing me on board for such a fascinating project! 🦥
#evolution #paleontology #paleobiology
22 May 2025
Ancient sloths ranged in size from tiny climbers to ground-dwelling giants.
Now, researchers report in Science that this body size diversity was largely shaped by sloths’ habitats, and that these animals’ precipitous decline was likely a result of increasing human pressures. scim.ag/4jcJ84M
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17 May 2025
Este lunes 19, en La Botillería, hablaré de Darwin y del papel de la paleobiología en redefinir nuestra comprensión de la evolución
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@pintofscienceES #Pint25ES #Pint25Mad
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13 May 2025
It's finally out! Together with Allison Yi Hsiang and @fieldpalaeo, we explored relative homoplasy in a range of bird matrices and introduce a new parsimony measure, the relative homoplasy index (RHI) (1/n)
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/…
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13 May 2025
La evolución del vuelo en los dinosaurios estuvo condicionada por el desarrollo embrionario
uam.es/uam/investigacion/cul…
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8 May 2025
El día 19 nos vemos en La Borillería. Estaremos hablando de paleontología y evolución
7 May 2025
📣El CSIC se suma a la X edición de @pintofscienceES con charlas en el Café Gijón y La Botillería, en Madrid.
Las charlas, que se celebran los días 19, 20 y 21 de mayo, están relacionadas con biología, nutrición, materiales, neurociencia o paleontología
➡️ csic.es/es/actualidad-del-cs…
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CantaLab retweeted
12 May 2025
📢@pintofscienceES ¡En una semana nos vemos en La Botillería (Plaza Oriente, 4)! A las 18:30h.
19:Mirlos, Darwin en esteroides y microorganismos. pintofscience.es/event/pinte…
20:Microbioma, ADN ambiental y lobos. pintofscience.es/event/pinte…
21:Fartets y arqueas. pintofscience.es/event/pinte…
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¡Vuelve la excavación en Somosaguas! Del 8 al 20 de sept. 2025 (mañanas 10-13:30 / tardes 15-18:30).
Si estudias en la UCM y quieres participar, preinscríbete antes del 30 de mayo: forms.gle/u85a7ZaogWafcqGm8
🔍 2 ECTS con 10 turnos completados.
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CantaLab retweeted
4 Apr 2025
Who said brontotheres weren’t selfie-ready? Check out this smiley Megacerops at @yalepeabody!
#FossilFriday
#paleobiology
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CantaLab retweeted
19 Mar 2025
Hoy @argcPALEO @hdezfdez y yo publicamos sobre Elisabeth Vrba, la paleobióloga revolucionaria, que falleció el pasado mes de febrero
@elpais_espana
elpais.com/ciencia/2025-03-1…
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CantaLab retweeted
10 Feb 2025
With concepts like exaptation and insights into multi-level selection, Elisabeth Vrba helped to make evolutionary thinking a truly fun and exiting endeavour. Undoubtedly one of the most inspiring and influential figures in my career. ¡¡Gracias, Elisabeth!! 🙏
10 Feb 2025
I am deeply saddened to have learned of the death, on Feb 5, 2025, of Elisabeth Vrba—a fantastically creative scientist and a warm, wonderful human being. She leaves us a legacy of original macroevolutionary thinking that is still fresh and illuminating.
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CantaLab retweeted
10 Feb 2025
I am deeply saddened to have learned of the death, on Feb 5, 2025, of Elisabeth Vrba—a fantastically creative scientist and a warm, wonderful human being. She leaves us a legacy of original macroevolutionary thinking that is still fresh and illuminating.
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CantaLab retweeted
8 Feb 2025
Yesterday was a true #fossilfriday @CarnegieMNH for @OSanisidro Matt Mihlbachler and me. With the best possible help from @PaleoFeathers
#paleontology #museum #research
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Here we are! Plenty of energy to #play with the families and children from #Pontevedra! Come with us to be a survivor of the evolution and to paint your own fossil! @uvigo @CIM_Uvigo @UCC_UVigo
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CantaLab retweeted
1 Jun 2024
The Iberian fossil record has yielded the longest time series of data on mammalian trophic networks to date 🐅 🐆 🐘 🦏 🦛 🦒 🦓🐃 🦌 ⏳
30 May 2024
Super proud of João Nascimento's first PhD paper in @Ecology_Letters.
We reconstructed a 20 Myr timeseries of predator-prey networks and show that lower prey availability, increased predator extinction risk.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
@FernandoBlancoS @singerstone @XoleDomingo
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15 May 2024
Our study on dinosaur climatic niche evolution and thermophysiology is out now in @CurrentBiology! (1/18) Artwork by @DavideBonadonna #dinosaurs 🪶 🦖 🌡️ Link: cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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CantaLab retweeted
18 Mar 2024
We've just advertised a permanent academic position @ES_UCL @ucl: this is a lectureship (=assistant professor) in any Earth Sciences subject (closing date: 30th April): ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search… ucl.ac.uk/earth-sciences/
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