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Jonathan Huie
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Functional morphologist & evolutionary biologist | PhD candidate @GWBiology l NSF GRFP fellow | Full time ichthyologist 🐠 & part time herpetologist🦎| He/Him
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New paper! You can ID Anolis ecomorphs from just an arm! We (Kevin de Queiroz et al) compared the arm morphology of a fossil anole in amber to those of extant Anolis species. We can pretty confidently say the fossil belongs to a Trunk ecomorph lineage. 🧪 🦎 doi.org/10.1670/23-058

Figure showing the fossil anole arm in amber, with its great preservation of skin and soft tissue
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wow! feeling kind of bad for the lizard who lost an arm like *that*, though

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Jonathan Huie
@jmhuie.bsky.social
Functional morphologist & evolutionary biologist | PhD candidate @GWBiology l NSF GRFP fellow | Full time ichthyologist 🐠 & part time herpetologist🦎| He/Him
336 followers141 following51 posts