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Mark Young
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Evolutionary biologist/vertebrate palaeontologist. Work on🦤🐊 Chartered biologist status (with Royal Society of Biology). Lover of rock/metal & sci-fi/horror/fantasy 🏳️‍🌈
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First time someone has made a comic about one of my papers! This is so cool: nautil.us/how-history-...

How History Did the Dodo Wrong
How History Did the Dodo Wrong

Who are you calling inept and unfit?

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Interested in the Dodo? Here is our first paper, just published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Why was the Dodo thought to be mythological? How many species were there? This is the starting point for some really neat research. Much more to come! doi.org/10.1093/zool...

The systematics and nomenclature of the Dodo and the Solitaire (Aves: Columbidae), and an overview of columbid family-group nomina
The systematics and nomenclature of the Dodo and the Solitaire (Aves: Columbidae), and an overview of columbid family-group nomina

Abstract. The Dodo and its extinct sister species, the Solitaire, are iconic exemplars of the destructive capabilities of humanity. These secondarily terre

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Please welcome Enalioetes, a new Cretaceous metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from Germany. Enalioetes comprises a skull & the first vertebrae. The perfect preservation allowed us to reconstruct the internal skull, brain & inner ear. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....#FossilFriday#Science#Nature

Enalioetes schroederi, a Cretaceous metriorhynchid from Germany. Fossil skull and reconstruction of the internal skull cavities
Reconstruction of the brain of Enalioetes schroederi
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Mark Young
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Evolutionary biologist/vertebrate palaeontologist. Work on🦤🐊 Chartered biologist status (with Royal Society of Biology). Lover of rock/metal & sci-fi/horror/fantasy 🏳️‍🌈
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