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91 years is a good long run for most but too short for someone like Jane Goodall. Damn.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Checkout the write up for our latest study! news.rice.edu/news/2025/an...

Thanks Kelly!

Thrilled to see our PNAS paper out! Such an amazing journey and couldn’t have asked for a better experience working with the Evans Lab 💙🐟

We have a new paper on the icefish adaptive radiation led by @mayaranevesbio.bsky.social, a new PI at UFPR 🧊🐟

New paper alert!!!🚨 in our new study we find that Antarctic icefishes added a new module in their skulls during their adaptive radiation special shout out to @mayaranevesbio.bsky.social who led this project!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A graphic promoting episode 62 of the "Gettin' Fishy With It" podcast, releasing September 19, 2025. The episode features Dr. Kory Evans, and the topic and episode title is "Fish Evolution".

Episode 62 launches this Friday! Join us as we chat with @sternarchella.bsky.social, Ichthyologist and professor of biosciences at Rice University. Dr. Evans chats with us about fish evolution, particularly through the lens of fish skulls. A fascinating discussion, fresh in your podcatcher Friday!

Join us!!! We’re hiring an Assistant Professor of Evolution! apply.interfolio.com/173889

Wing pelage is suggested to have a functional role in bats — and it’s not just to make them cuter. Check out the publication below to learn more!

#academia #academicSky #PhDSky #bats #science

NYAS Publications Bats are the only mammals capable of powered flight, and while they retain the furry coat of other small mammals, their wings, the primary flight surface, are generally thought to be hairless. We ass....

Super proud to share the first first-author paper from @ashockney24.bsky.social and our first official Rummel lab publication! Check it out here: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A bat is being released back into the night.

Loved this write-up of our fieldwork in Tanzania this summer, led by grad student Annie Finneran and undergrad Caroline Pollan. I felt very lucky to join them to catch some bats there!

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Alligator snapping turtle looking crazy

Went fishing for gar in Buffalo Bayou, didn’t catch anything but we saw this incredible alligator snapping turtle!

A swainson's hawk with a bat in its talons flies through the air.

A night heron sits on a branch with two bats in its beak.

A swarm of bats flies through Houston after leaving their roost at Waugh Dr and Buffalo Bayou

Another active night at Buffalo Bayou watching the bat emergence. The bats come out before sunset, and so do the predators, with hawks catching them mid-air and herons plucking them from their roosts

Every fish that we catch has a story, some are crazier than others. We caught this unicornfish during a night dive in Okinawa last year. The trip was memorable because we had to end the dive early when North Korea fired a missile in our general direction and we had to take cover

Modularity promotes the evolution of complex biomechanical systems

Kory Evans @sternarchella.bsky.social taking on Modularity promotes the evolution of complex biomechanical systems #JMIH25 #ASIHin3D

See you soon!

I think so

😂looked like a good one too

Our new REU student Darla found something interesting in one of her CT scans! Looks like this fish was halfway through eating a big snail and some coral rubble when @mwestneat.bsky.social caught it last summer in Okinawa!

Gold bar wrasse swimming in front of coral. Maybe aura farming, unclear

Almost home from Tanzania and reflecting on a great trip. I got to SCUBA dive in the Indian Ocean for the first time and I saw so many new species for the first time. My favorite was definitely this gold bar wrasse that I saw in Zanzibar.

Same genus!

Serval cat in Serengeti national park

Serval cat in Serengeti national park

Serval cat walking away

Safari is done. One of my favorite sightings was this Serval cat. Small cats are often reclusive and tough to spot but this one walked right up to us

Get your 3D glasses out for #3DThursday! And click the link below to see syGlass on the really big screen at the @mit.edu MIT Museum last week. (guys it's my first syGlass blog ...)

📝: www.syglass.io/blog/a-night...
🥼: Kory Evans @sternarchella.bsky.social , Rice University
🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass

Cheetah fighting a hyena on the Serengeti

Doing some safari stuff and we saw this amazing exchange between a cheetah and a hyena that was trying to steal a kill that it thought they had. There were 3 cheetahs here and the Hyena easily ran them all off

Alas it is not lol

Found this little guy in our mist nets in the Udzungwa National forest a few night ago. I thought it was a delicate spiny reed frog but I could be wrong

Really nice write-up of our collaboration with San Jacinto College! We are working together to listen to 🦇🦇🦇around Houston. Shout out to @ashockney24.bsky.social for getting this project off the ground!

Our parrotfish have OnlyFins accounts down here in Coral City😉🚦🦜🐟 #stoplightparrotfish #onlyfins #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #strikeapose #lookbackatit #parrotfish #protogynoushermaphrodite #intermediatephase #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

YouTube video by WIRED Marine Biologist Answers Fish Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED

How do fish swim together in a school? Why do orcas wear fish hats? What is the smartest animal in the ocean? Check out Marine Biologist Support with @sternarchella.bsky.social !
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