Asst. Prof. of #Anatomy, #Paleontologist @OSUVertPaleo @OSUMedicine | #Dinosaurs 🦖🦕#Histology 🦴🔬 #Ontogeny #FossilEggs 🥚🐣🐥 | He/him | Opinions my own.

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NEW PAPER: Our large-scale osteohistological analysis of a population of the Late Triassic theropod dinosaur Coelophysis bauri from the famous Ghost Ranch, New Mexico quarry is now published in @SciReports! Gorgeous new artwork by @ChrisDPiazza. 🧵/20 nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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1/10 🚨🚨🚨 New paper on dinosaur evolution! Chris Griffin and I look at why we can't seem to figure out how the major groups are related! It might be a hint about how dinosaurs came to be! Photo: Anchisaurus @yalepeabody #dinosaurs #biology doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.01…
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#FossilFriday Specimens of the Triassic theropod Coelophysis from Ghost Ranch, NM @NMMNHS_Paleo
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🦕 A new species of baby #dinosaur discovered from South Korea's Aphae Island has been named after one of the most beloved cartoon characters in the country: Dooly. Check out our latest blog post to learn all about this exciting discovery: blog.pensoft.net/2026/03/19/…
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For #FossilFriday I’m pleased to announce our new paper on investigating the cranial performance and evolution of feeding behavior in tyrannosauroids and other theropods. Here’s a thread on some of our major findings. #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Tyrannosaurus #Theropods
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New paper from our team, led by @EJR_Paleo_MSc!
When scaled at equalized forces and skull lengths, tyrannosauroids had lower stress magnitudes than non-tyrannosauroid theropods, indicative of specialized predation capability. New research by Evan Johnson-Ransom et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Johnson-Ransom, E., Gignac, P., Barta, D. E., Felice, R. N., & Snively, E. (2026). Comparative cranial biomechanics reveal macroevolutionary trends in theropod dinosaurs, with emphasis on Tyrannosauroidea. The Anatomical Record, 1–41. doi.org/10.1002/ar.70126
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New research on juvenile Redondasaurus fossils from Chinle Fm. reveals that immature phytosaurs show a mosaic of traits seen in both early and late-diverging species. Links b/w growth & morphological evolution in Phytosauria Goldsmith & Stocker: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Mark Norell obituary: palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

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OSU-CHS Student Abdullah Gohar’s study of 43-million-year-old whale fossils reveals these ancient creatures had large brains and keen smell - before they were fully aquatic. Full story here: bit.ly/4ojDamh #Paleontology #Research

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2 Aug 2025
🩺 Today, #OSUMedicineCN #Classof2029 received their #WhiteCoat—marking the start of their journey to serve, heal & uplift communities across #Oklahoma Our mission is clear: train doctors who stay & serve where they’re needed most🧡 #RuralHealth #TribalHealth @OSUMedicine
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23 Jul 2025
How femoral morphology informs our understanding of the evolution of ornithopod locomotion and body size onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @RomainPintore @MorphoSource @wileyearthspace
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Go Erika! I’m looking forward to this, I’ve learned so much from serving on your PhD committee. Almost there!
Soooooo it’s happening! I’ll be defending my PhD dissertation next week, April 23rd @ 9:30am EST- if you would like to attend (in person or via zoom) to learn about #phytosaurs and some #crocodylians please send a DM for more details
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Congratulations to RGGS Comp Bio PhD alum Eugenia Gold for her tenure promotion to Associate Professor at Suffolk University, Boston!
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Many theropods shortened their arms and lost fingers. How did they do it? Our @GeosciencesEd student Milly Mead, in her first paper, looks into oviraptorosaurs. Turns out, arm shortening and finger loss were decoupled! royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Happy to see that our description of two beautiful specimens of the enigmatic oviraptorid dinosaur, Conchoraptor, was just published in AMNH Novitates: bioone.org/journals/american… (We're aware of the formatting issue in some figures, and are working on amending)
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Finishing off my Zimbabwe themed posts with this model of Syntarsus on display in the NHMZ 🇿🇼🦖
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For #FossilFriday here’s part of the type specimen of the Zimbabwean dinosaur Syntarsus, housed in the NHMZ, one of the most abundantly and well preserved early theropods known currently 🦖🇿🇼
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In January 2024 I had the pleasure of presenting at the 200 years of dinosaurs meeting at the @NHM_London. Today, our invited review in the @RSocPublishing Biology Letters was published! royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Great description of the work by Danison et al. 2024, the status of #Saurophaganax, and the scientific method at work: testing hypotheses, retesting later with more data, and knowing a hypothesis could be tested again in the future. svpow.com/2024/12/22/about-t…
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