Ananth Srinivas

Modern crocodiles traded skull strength for streamlining as they adapted to water, study shows Crocodiles were not always the aquatic predators we know today. Living crocodiles evolved from ancient lineages that were equally at home on land as in water.

Fossil and digital evidence indicate modern crocodiles evolved flatter, weaker skulls for improved swimming, trading bite strength for streamlining as they adapted from land to water environments. doi.org/g9955t

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Full res media slides here:

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Thanks to my co-authors @emilyrayfield.bsky.social, Jen Bright, and John Cunningham, Sandra Tavares, Ismar de Souza Carvalho, Fabiano lori and Fresia Ricardi-Branco.

Many thanks to @paleovidal.bsky.social for the paleo art

@bristolpalaeo.bsky.social

12.11.2025 03:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Our new paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org is out now

We show that modern crocodiles evolved flatter and weaker skulls from domed ancestors to adapt to life in water, trading skull strength for streamlining 🐊

Read here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

#Paleontology #Crocodiles #Evolution

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Now there are three sassy heads in the CVN lab!

11.09.2025 18:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A goat skull model on a computer

Hi-Tech goat things are happening in the CVN lab! 👀

10.09.2025 19:23 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Constraints and adaptations in crocodyliform skull evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.09.663933v1

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A golden retriever sits at a computer screen

how's work going in your lab over the summer?

our lab:

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‘Real’ #LiquidGlass wallpaper
Beach wave #ShotoniPhone 13 Pro Max using @halideapp.bsky.social
#WWDC2025 #iOS26

10.06.2025 23:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Late post, but l'm happy to announce that I started a postdoc in Jan at the CVN lab with @nicoleackermans.bsky.social at UA, studying the biomechanics of headbutting in goat skulls to understand how they dissipate stress from repeated impact, and its link to neurodegeneration.

14.04.2025 15:15 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Figure showing diverse datasets analysed with SPROUT, including a skink skeleton, aardvark skull, human heart, concrete block, and foraminifera.

New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Do you use 3D imaging like CT or MRI for research, teaching, outreach, or art? Check out our new article featuring a detailed workflow for producing 3D cinematic renderings―from tissue-level to whole-organism details―with stunning realism! doi.org/10.1016/j.is... @helsinkiuni.bsky.social

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