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Johannes Mรผller and Faysal Bibi research group at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social check out our web: https://amniota.org #paleontology #vertebrates #morphology #3D
Some pics from our #PALEONILE meeting today! We discussed paleo๐ฆด, geology๐ชจ, archaeology๐บ & geochronology๐ฐ๏ธ
Team from MfN, TU Berlin, LIAG Hannover, Institute of Archaeology Prague, plus Al Neelain University & Khartoum Natural History Museum, Sudan ๐ธ๐ฉ
@mfnberlin.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social
The latest publication from Khalafallah Salih about the exceptional fossil croc ๐ from #Sudan was just featured on Al Jazeera!
Don't miss it:
www.aljazeera.net/science/2025...
#PALEONILE project @mfnberlin.bsky.social
Some of our past and current #AmniotaLab members just got back from the #CPEG meeting in Zurich so happy to have met so many fantastic and inspiring people!
Huge thanks to @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social for a great conference, and for recognizing our poster as one of the best! An honor to be part of it ๐
More #AmniotaLab science! ๐ข
Khalafallah Salih et al. describe a new Late Pleistocene crocodile from #Sudan ๐
the first ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฅ๐บ๐ญ๐ถ๐ด from this period in Africa, and distinct from all known species!
Just the beginning for the #PALEONILE project ๐๐ฆด
๐ Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just out! This #AmniotaLab study led by ๐ฆ๐๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ฒ ๐ช๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ด๐ฎ๐๐ฒ on ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ช๐ด ๐ฑ๐ช๐ต๐บ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ด ๐ฆ across the Balearics finds that bite force & morphology vary within populations, but donโt scale up to macroevolutionary scales
๐ More:
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
#Evolution #Lizards #FunctionalMorphology
Great to have @evomorpholab.bsky.social visiting us!
A fantastic few days of sharing ideas, methods, and common interests.
Looking forward to more collaboration ahead!
#EvolutionaryBiology #Paleobiology #AmniotaLab
Amniota Lab members working in the collections at the Museum fรผr Naturkunde, surrounded by bones.
Some collection work at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social
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#AmniotaLab #MfNBerlin
A brown rock, with a lighter fossil insect in it. The fossil has a head with antennae (left), then a pronotum (~shiled shape plate), and then long wings with prominent veins. Under these you can make out some of the walking legs. Inset is a close up of a long structure towards the back of the animal, which it used to lay eggs in life.
For #FossilFriday meet an ancestor of today's cockroaches, mantises and termites. This lovely animal is Sysciophlebia, and lived ~295 million years ago, in what is today Germany ๐ฉ๐ช . It was 3.6cm long, and was a female. How do we know?
โ๏ธ๐งช๐ฆ๐ฆ #evosky
โ ๏ธThe website's new look โฌ๏ธ๐
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#Website #palaeontology
โ ๏ธ ๐๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ช๐ข ๐ณ๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ช is on the move in Bangladesh! ๐๐พ
A new #AmniotaLab study shows a 5-fold increase in suitable habitat since 2015 driven by climate shifts, land use, and dispersal corridors. Rising encounters raise urgent public health concerns.
๐ Read more: herpetozoa.pensoft.net/article/1434...
Malformations in Trilobites from the Silurian and Devonian of Europe.
sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2025/06/malf...
An artist's reconstruction of a pair of the small mammal Nujalikodon cassiopeiae facing one another on a rock enjoying a peaceful sunset in the Rhaetelv Formation, Greenland. There are stars in the sky to the left and trees outlined against the red of the sunset, with a passing pterosaur flying over. Artist: Pedro Andrade; CC BY NC 4.0.
The oldest definitive docodontan from central East Greenland sheds light on the origin of the clade onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @morphobank.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social
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Was uns 60 Millionen Jahre stabile รkosysteme รผber den heutigen Artenverlust lehren
www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/de/museum/me...
What 60 million years of stable ecosystems teach us about todayโs loss of species:
www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/museum/me...
Don't miss this thread! A new publication from #AmniotaLab led by @fernandoblancos.bsky.social. Enormous work!๐ฆ๐
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9/ This paper is the result of over 7 years of workโa true collective effort. Huge thanks to all my co-authors for making this possible! @ohsanisidro.bsky.social @singerstone.bsky.social @amniotalab.bsky.social et al.
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Illustration of a complete skeleton of a large Titanothere, Megacerops robustus, a prehistoric mammal, shown in natural size. The skeleton displays a prominent skull with large teeth, an elongated spine with numerous ribs, strong limb bones with visible joints, and distinct hooved toes. The image, from 1895, is labeled as Bulletin No. 9, Plate No. 35 from the South Dakota School of Mines, depicting the fossil found in Corral Canyon, Black Hills region, South Dakota. The drawing emphasizes anatomical details and skeletal structure in a side view.
๐ฆด The Badland formations of the Black Hills region
Rapid City, S.D.[The Daily Journal]1910.
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๐จ PhD Opportunity!
Join Mozes Blomโs group at @mfnberlin.bsky.social to study the demographic history of New Guinea bird populations ๐ฆ๐ด
#PhD #Ornithology #Evolution #Genomics
๐๏ธApply by 11.06.2025
More info ๐
Fossil bone now identified as the pelvis of Dimetrodon teutonis
Researchers from the ongoing Bromacker project excavating at the fossil site
CT scans at #mfnberlin revealed a pelvis from #Bromacker as ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ถ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ด, shedding light on its anatomy and movement. The 290-million-year-old site still holds much undiscovered knowledge, calling for more #research! Learn more: bit.ly/dimetrodon-p... ๐จ Credits: T. Martens (1), A. End (2) ๐ธ
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Some members of the #AmniotaLab are exploring the paleontological collections in London this week!
Stay tuned for more cool paleo stuff
Skeleton of the Cretaceous enanitornithine bird Longipteryx
#FossilFriday The long-snouted Cretaceous enantiornithine bird Longipteryx chaoyangensis
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Some pictures of our latest lab meeting. So many of us, we had to bring in an extra table!
Always a joy to gather as the #AmniotaLab and share science, laughs, and plans for whatโs next.
It was such a pleasure to host Marco Cherin and Beatrice Azzarร from the THOR project last week at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social!
Great conversations, shared curiosity, and wonderful company.
Looking forward to the next one ๐ Come back soon!
๐พ Just in! Our latest #AmniotaLabCollab ๐๐
The most complete ๐๐ถ๐ค๐บ๐ฐ๐ฏ skeleton in Europe, from the Late Miocene site of Verduno, Italy ๐ฎ๐น offers new insights into canid evolution!
#Paleontology #Canidae #Fossils #AmniotaColLab
๐ Read more:
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
The Natural History Museum Denmark is hiring a new Tenure-Track Assistant Professor and Curator of (Vertebrate) Palaeontology! Could it be you or someone you knowโฝ spread the word! Really excited to have a new colleague to work on our amazing collections! ๐งช๐๏ธ
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
#News&Views in @nature.com from Faysal Bibi spotlights a fascinating study: Ancient Arabia wasnโt always dry๐๏ธ
Wetter periods over the past 7 million years may have opened key migration routes for animals and early humans ๐ถโโ๏ธ๐
๐https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00905-7
Who said brontotheres werenโt selfie-ready? Check out this smiley Megacerops at the Yale Peabody Museum!
#FossilFriday
#paleobiology
Burgos retreat at @cenieh.bsky.social with some Amniota Lab members! Ignacio Lazagabaster, @fernandoblancos.bsky.social , @paleoiris.bsky.social @singerstone.bsky.social & @ohsanisidro.bsky.social Fossils, science, food and good vibes
#paleobiology #AmniotaLab #MACPALS
๐ข New #AmniotaLab study!
Donโt miss it if you're interested in how soil structure shapes burrowing reptiles๐ฆ This study shows that head shape variation in amphisbaenians correlates with microhabitat and soil composition
๐ Read more: doi.org/10.1111/jzo....
#Herpetology #Evolution #AmniotaCollab
