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We are UCL's interdisciplinary research centre for every aspect of anatomy - comparative, evolutionary, developmental, medical and forensic. We are part of the UCL Research Department of Cell & Developmental Biology @ucl-cdb.bsky.social.
Was this the FLUFFIEST #dinosaur!? 🦖 🦕 #palaeontology youtube.com/shorts/DQsji....
This summer, our Laura Porro was interviewed by TV presenter Maddie Moate, resulting in fun, educational videos on #reptile teeth, dinosaur #diets & animal #brains!” @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl-cdb.bsky.social
You can now see more details in our longer news item on our website, here: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...
#WAD2025 #WAD #WorldAnatomyDay @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-cdb.bsky.social #anatomy #biology #palaeo #paleo #evodevo #crocodile #food #digestion #skeleton #fossil @GrantMuseum
2 rows of 3 images: the first is a diagram of snake jaws, then scans and close-ups of collagen fibres. Fast green stain in the image highlights the collagen fibres that connect the bottom jaws of a snake
Our Maricci Basa (Felice Lab) has published a first-author paper in J Anat: she describes using comparative #embryology and various #imaging techniques to investigate how #snakes are able to have such wide gapes. #anatomy #formandfunction #jaws @ucl.ac.uk #biology @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
27.10.2025 11:59 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
4 rows of 2 x diagrams of 3D models of the skull of the extinct giant marsupial, Diprotodon optatum, showing the large space taken up by air sinuses (blue) and small space taken up by the brain (pink)
Our Ryan Felice wins a @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social Research Grant with Dr Alana Sharp @livuninews.bsky.social to study the evolution of hollow spaces in the skull of mammals: do huge land animals air-fill their skulls to lighten their big heads? #anatomy @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
27.10.2025 11:39 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Mary Yacoob, our #Artist-in-Residence, has made a series of #drawings inspired by her dialogues at the Centre. Speculative illustrations of sea creatures are rendered in fine white lines on deep blue backgrounds. Click for full details:
@ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-cdb.bsky.social
Head & shoulders photo of Romain Perera
Head & shoulders photo of Laura Porro
Great news! Two of our people won #teaching awards from @ucl.ac.uk Medical School:
Romain Perera won the Top Teacher Award 2024-25 for Year 2, with
Laura Porro as runner-up. Congratulations!
More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-scie... @ucl-cdb.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
Thank you to all who came to our World Anatomy Day Event at the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social. We received 381 visitors (341 adults and 40 children); for comparison, a typical Saturday at the Grant Museum has about 230 visitors. Everyone seems to have discovered that #Anatomy is indeed Amazing!
22.10.2025 10:44 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Amazing Anatomy: Saturday 18 October 2025: Free Family Day at @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social. Explore #anatomy; celebrate World Anatomy Day (which is on 15th).
Pre-book for 11am early-bird slot, drop-in 12pm-2pm. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
#WAD @uclnews.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
Fun date for your diary: the Grant Museum is partnering with us for a day of free, hands-on, creative activities to explore #anatomy, to celebrate World Anatomy Day (ifaa.net/2025/05/05/w...).
Pre-book for 11am, or drop-in 12pm-2pm.
www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... @uclnews.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
#Research by our Ryan Felice's & Abigail Tucker's (@KCL) #labs highlights adaptations needed to allow extreme lower #jaw mobility and independence of the two sides of the jaw found in large-mouthed #snakes. @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #anatomy
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Interesting #research by our colleagues in the Dept of Earth Sciences @ucl.ac.uk with #researchers from Berlin: it's about #dinosaurs and replacement of internal #bone tissue with air to extend their #respiratory systems! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @journalofanatomy.bsky.social
09.10.2025 08:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A woman (Susan Evans), dressed in blue sitting at a computer desk bearing a microscope, holding a Mesozoic fossil reptile specimen
A woman (Susan Evans), dressed in blue sitting at a computer desk bearing a microscope, through which she is viewing a Mesozoic fossil reptile specimen
Susan Evans has just returned from the Institute of #Vertebrate #Paleontology and #Paleoanthropology, Beijing. She has been working on Mesozoic #fossil #reptiles with colleague, Dr Liping DONG, Professor (Associate). english.ivpp.cas.cn/about/Introd... @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
24.09.2025 11:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@ucl.ac.uk has again performed strongly in @ResearchEngland’s KEF5, being recognised as one of the top #universities in England for #knowledge exchange.
This assesses how #unis are performing in activities that positively impact the #economy and wider #society.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...
Prof Anjali Goswami and colleagues report, in the Journal of #Anatomy, on mammal #skull #bone junctions, which are important indicators of the #biomechanical and #developmental pressures on the skull
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@ucl.ac.uk has a new homepage (#website landing page), reflecting our new #branding and move to the Drupal 10 platform. Check it out here: www.ucl.ac.uk.
Soon, similar changes will be made to @ucllifesciences.bsky.social, @ucl-cdb.bsky.social and our own webpages.@uclnews.bsky.social
A study (with our @drphilcox.bsky.social) in #rabbits & #hares, found: those adapted for running have greater facial tilt & simpler #skull joints versus those with scrambling or hopping-based #locomotion, which could help with hinge-like mobility. @ucl.ac.uk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
11.08.2025 10:52 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A pale blue square block, having top, centre a logo depicting the LEAF silver award (see post for explanation). Underneath in black lettering are stated (line-by-line): Awarded to: Centre for Integrative Anatomy (lime green highlight): In recognition of exemplary actions undertaken to improve the sustainability practices as part of the LEAF framework Awarded by: Kathering Howett {KH was the auditor}
YAY! We have achieved Silver status in June's #Laboratory Efficient Assessment by @ucl.ac.uk's Katherine Howett. Thank you to all Centre members who worked hard to achieve such #sustainable #labs. Info: stainabilityexchange.ac.uk/leaf_a_new_a... @sustainableucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social
07.07.2025 12:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Job Vacancy - Anatomy Tutor needed to deliver practical-based #anatomy teaching to under/post-graduate students, using cadaveric and prosected material, Anatomage table and #imaging resources. Max.12 h pw, September2025-May2026: www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/...
@ucl.ac.uk,@ucllifesciences.bsky.social
David Attenborough sits in a chair facing away from the camera. He is surrounded by screens showing gorillas in a green, leafy environment.
Today’s the day - Our Story with David Attenborough is officially open! 🎉
Watch as the walls and floor burst into life around you in this 360° cinematic experience featuring Sir David Attenborough!
Book your tickets now 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibi...
A flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, featuring a cartoon of an open laptop with the Palaeoverse logo on, and a picture of Dr Collins with pink hair, wearing glasses and a checked shirt
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️26th June 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️
Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Katie Collins from the Natural History Museum, UK, on “Both round and upward: Spiral morphometry and how to compare things that are the same, but different” 🐚
Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
In our #research, we see how #climate or #environmental changes affect the #animal world. Interested/concerned? In/near London? Perhaps book this FREE session @nhm-london.bsky.social THIS Thursday, 25Jun. More info at: www.nhm.ac.uk/events/creat... @sustainableucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social
23.06.2025 10:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A large, colour picture of the inside of the Grant Museum having superimposed thereon a mock-up of a wasp flying low over a grassy meadow - the pic being set above two smaller images: to the left a yellow and black depiction of 'World of Wasps' and to the right a close-up of a wasp on a white flower
Creating a buzz: prepare to appreciate those #picnic pests! Wasps purr!! @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social hosts the World of #Wasps from 25 June 2025. Evening and #family events. #summer #wasp #exhibition #science #FamilyFun #insect @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-cdb.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #nature
19.06.2025 13:09 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Mobile phone screenshot of schematic map of Gunnersbury Park showing route Kat Gregory ran (around the periphery - a red line) marked with her various personal bests and showing she completed both the Couch to 5K and also ran for 1 hour straight (distance 5.72km, average pace 10.3/km)
Congratulations to our Kat Gregory, who has just completed her 'Couch to 5k'. Kat, a PhD student with @rfelices.bsky.social, only started #running with *our Running Club in March 2025, so it's a great achievement!
*Anyone from @ucl-cdb.bsky.social welcome - contact r.marek@ucl.ac.uk for info.
A white poster with UCL logo in black and details of the location of the PGR student symposium on Thurs 19 June 2025 in the JZ Young Lecture Theatre (LT) with refreshments etc in the opposite LT, Gavin de Beer
Four of our postgraduate #researchers (#PGRs) are talking about their work to @ucl-cdb.bsky.social's PGR #Student Symposium: Kat Gregory & Matt Mitchell (supervised by Ryan Felice), Atena Soltanian (Phil Cox), & Patrick Hennessey (Laura Porro). Topics range from #chickens to giant #crocodiles!
13.06.2025 15:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Poster from UCL Faculty of Life Sciences headed in olive green, under which are images of cyanotypes (whole image to left in blue and white, partial detail to right in blue & green on dark background) under which is a substantially blue and white panel detailing the event, speakers and background info - all available more accessibly via the online link.
Our #Artist-in-Residence, Mary Yacoob, has produced new large-scale #cyanotype prints reimagining of #scientific visual data from @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #researchers. Faculty private #exhibition details here: tinyurl.com/YacoobUCL
#artandscience #art #artwork @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-cdb.bsky.social
Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay2025 - highly appropriate that yesterday we had our #LEAF audit to ensure our labs work as sustainably as possible. The focus is on #plastics - let's reduce production: reduce demand, so recycle, reuse and find alternatives @ucl.ac.uk
www.worldenvironmentday.global
We love #functional #morphology in our Centre (relating an animal's shape to how it moves, eats ...). Here's an interesting article & great images on #elephantine #giants, and the trade-off between size/range of #locomotion. #elephant #mammoth #biology
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#Climate change threatens crops & wildlife. Could our #research into ancient animals help us to build resilience vs climate impacts? Podcast on ideas from the Peruvian ‘Potato Guardians’ & UK Natural History Museum below.
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#anatomy #biomedicalimaging #comparativeanatomy #biology
25.04.2025 10:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lozenge-shaped blue-mauve banner having a blue/green glob held by a brown hand to the right edge, with the words World Anatomy Day (orange), Global Perspectives of Anatomy (white), 15 October 2025 (orange) arrayed to the left side
News! 2025's World Anatomy Day is on 15 October, focusing on 'global perspectives of #anatomy – recognising differences while celebrating similarities within the international anatomy community. We'll be celebrating - watch this space! @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk #WAD2025
25.04.2025 10:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
