"Shifts in global climate have probably played a more central role in regulating the strength and efficiency of Earth’s biological carbon pump over time than any biotic innovation after the rise of oxygenic photosynthesis" -- wow!
You wanna hear about the largest cowrie ever found and the iterative evolution of gigantic cypraeid gastropods? Check us out at PalAss20, 16-18 Dec!! 😀🐚🌎
For #FossilFriday, check out the images of this amazing #Pleistocene griffon #vulture, entombed in an Italian pyroclastic deposit, and preserved as a space in the block. Iurino et al. (2014) scanned the block and were able to reconstruct the animal in 3D!! #vultures#birds More..
Together with #Silvia Danise 👩🏻 and Andrea Tintori 🧔🏼 presenting the Ladinian fauna of Monte Pelsa (Belluno Dolomites) in relationship with the Mid-Late Triassic marine evolutionary radiation 😀🐚🐠🏔
Do you want to know a bit more about microbial communities associated with shallow-water bone-eating worms (genus Osedax)? If yes, thus check our recently published paper rdcu.be/b6owy, with @OliviaHewitt and @DiezVives