Seems like white stork distribution correlates with the spread of "modern" farmlands. Sadly, even these generalists lose more and more suitable habitats. #ornithology#conservationlink.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) and the White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) are emblematic birds of high conservation interest. This article examines their range history in Europe since the end...
New study led by Michela Johnson on the histology and ontogeny of what is probably the best sampled thalattosuchian (Macrospondylus bollensis) from the Lower Jurassic of Germany. 🐊🧪 #paleobioanatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Posidonienschiefer Formation of southern Germany has yielded an array of incredible fossil vertebrates. One of the best represented clades therein is Teleosauroidea, a successful thalattosuchian ....
Let's start #Croctober on this website!! 🐊🐊🤩 Of all crocodylomorphs, Simosuchus (1) is certainly one of the weirdest. But do you know any of these other folks? Here are Caipirasuchus (2), Anatosuchus (3) Araripesuchus (4). They are all notosuchians, from Madagascar, Brazil, and Niger.
As of now, it'll be also my first single-author project. Something with early tetrapods and skulls. 🐸
I might have submitted a conference abstract for what will be my first in-person paleontology conference after...five years.
In the Triassic, crocs ruled and dinos drooled. Postosuchus helps make the point. Despite being dinosaur-like, Postosuchus was a pseudosuchian - a group containing crocodylians and their close relatives. The carnivore had an impressive bite, too, strong enough to puncture bony plates of herbivores 🧪
Liest man gewisse social media Kommentare, sind wir jetzt wohl schon so weit, dass das Wort "Unwetter" bei Sturmböen und Gewitter als Panikmache zählt. Wahrlich sonnige Aussichten.
Nice to see more of these ancient amniotes getting a redescription. sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....
The Upper Carboniferous protorothyridid amniote Brouffia orientalis from Czech Republic is redescribed. Photogrammetric scanning of the holotype and only known specimen yields considerable new informa...
First time someone has made a comic about one of my papers! This is so cool: nautil.us/how-history-...
Who are you calling inept and unfit?
Earth probably had rings during the Ordovician. This is implied by the intense asteroidal bombardment during this period, and the concentration of impact structures around the paleoequator. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...#Geology#Paleobio
