Apolline Alfsen

Fossil brain 🧠🧟 of a 45-million-year-old cetacean! We are proud to publish‪ @journal-evo.bsky.social l the result of Elena Berger’s Bachelor’s thesis @smnstuttgart.bsky.social. Thread 👇
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02.07.2025 14:08 — 👍 25    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0

👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩

31.03.2025 09:49 — 👍 27    🔁 31    💬 1    📌 6

Humerus shape evolved in cetaceans under relaxed selection and random drift: a new paper by Maria Ghazali and the whole @schmalhausenm.bsky.social team in the Communications Biology, the research on living and fossil whales and dolphins, 3D morphology and genetics

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

29.03.2025 14:22 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Such a great idea!!
youtu.be/79FD5mKVt0E

28.03.2025 11:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Three-dimensional models of the skeleton of M. pontica

Redescription of a chunky Miocene seal by Otriazhyi et al
"Monachopsis pontica: isolated in a shrinking sea and adapting to its changing conditions"
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

27.03.2025 14:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The model of the exceptional skull of the extinct pygmy right whale is finally out (and openly accessible)!
www.morphomuseum.com/Articles/vie...

12.03.2025 04:20 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Did giant ice age beasts carve these vast caves in South America? Researchers are investigating who — or what — cut ancient tunnels in sandstone in Brazil and nearby nations.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

29.01.2025 07:44 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Example of Middle Jurassic mammal fossils from Skye, published by Elsa Panciroli et al. 2024.

Cuillin Hills, the view from our field site on the Isle of Skye.

📣 Come work with us! Three year Research Associate position to work as part of Leverhulme Trust funded project collecting and studying amazing Jurassic mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. PhD not necessary; CT segmentation skills essential. Contact me for details:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK473/r...

17.01.2025 09:27 — 👍 108    🔁 66    💬 2    📌 4

A great PhD opportunity just opened up in Stuttgart!

17.01.2025 14:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

SEB Annual Conference Antwerp 2025 Abstract submissions will open from Monday 6th January until Friday 7th March 2025

Abstract submission for @sebiology.bsky.social 2025 in Antwerp is officially OPEN 🦾 Submit your abstract now for the session A2: "Experimental Palaeobiology - Bringing Fossils Back to Life" 🦖🦕abstract submissions are open until Friday 7th March #SEB2025 www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

08.01.2025 13:55 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

The fish-to-tetrapod transition and the conquest of land by vertebrates The evolutionary transition of vertebrates (the animals with a backbone) from water to land is a major chapter in animal evolution. The vertebrates conquered the land about 370 million years ago, givi...

Special journal issue focused on the fish-tetrapod water-land transition: fr.pensoft.net/issue/4580/

01.01.2025 06:33 — 👍 29    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1

Una investigación sobre un cetáceo de Perú con mayor peso corporal conocido hasta ahora, Premio Nacional en Paleontología 2024 - Eco de Teruel El premio PALEONTUROLOGÍA, convocado por la Fundación Dinópolis, cumple su vigesimosegunda edición, en la que han participado 53 investigadores de diversos países.  El jurado del Premio Internacional ...

#Perucetus won the PALEONTUROLOGÍA 2024 award, many thanks Fundación Dinópolis!
ecodeteruel.tv/una-investig...

19.12.2024 08:12 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

You can never have enough early whale reconstructions. #ArchaeocetesAreAwesome

19.12.2024 02:19 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hey BlueSky! Just made a quick starter pack of vertebrate SECAD researchers with accounts.

Please add anyone I missed!

go.bsky.app/Gm5h3Ww

16.12.2024 21:15 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0