Oriol Monclús Gonzalo

Very grateful for these last years I spent at the ICP doing my PhD. Yesterday was great 🙂
New adventures to come 🦧🦍🦴

Also, congrats for the Sahelanthropus paper, is great to have a new study about this enigmatic taxon :)

In any case, we clearly need to examine additional regions of the skeleton to obtain a more comprehensive picture of its behavior (more studies are in preparation!).

Hi Jeffrey, yes: Pliobates is a clear example of the mosaic, stepwise (and often parallel) evolution of the catarrhine postcranium, and it nicely illustrates the complexity involved in reconstructing locomotor repertoires in fossil catarrhines, including Miocene apes

Paper alert!!🚨 Ape-like adaptations in the radius of Pliobates 🐒
Check out the amazing paper of @julsam.bsky.social !👇👇👇

Comparison of ankle dorsiflexion using XROMM and external angular kinematics in a quadrupedally walking macaque Summary: Different approaches to measuring ankle dorsiflexion capture different underlying kinematics. Evidence indicates that dorsiflexion at the talocrural joint is actively limited during walking i...

First official postdoc paper out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! We compare different approaches to studying kinematics in a macaque ankle and note that the talocrural joint seems to contribute minimally to dorsiflexion of the foot during stance phase. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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The radiation and geographic expansion of primates through diverse climates | PNAS One of the most influential hypotheses about primate evolution postulates that their origin, radiation, and major dispersals were associated with e...

🌍❄️ New paper out! Early primates didn’t just thrive in tropical forests, they evolved and dispersed through cold & temperate climates 🐒🧊
Enjoyed being part of this collaboration led by @avaria_jorge! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Els astràgals d'antropomorfs fòssils expliquen la seva història: un nou fòssil informa sobre l'evolució de la locomoció en els hominoïdeus Un article publicat a l’American Journal of Biological Anthropology per un equip internacional liderat per investigadors de l’Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA) descriu un n...

També en català!👇
www.uab.cat/web/detall-d...

Fossil ape tali tell their tale: A new fossil informs about hominoid locomotor evolution A research article published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology by an international team led by researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA) descr...

Fossil ape tali tell their tale 🦧
Check out our new dissemination paper on the isolated dryopith talus from Abocador de Can Mata and its important implications for the evolution of locomotor behaviors in modern apes 👇
www.uab.cat/web/news-det...

Paper alert!!! 🐒🦍🦧🚨🚨🚨Must read this summer! Check out the amazing paper of @euarchont.bsky.social ! Many thanks again for including me in this study! 👇👇👇

Reconstruction of the locomotor repertoire of early primates in the light of astragalar and calcaneal shape The locomotor behavior of the earliest euprimates is key to our understanding of the origin and early diversification of the group. Postcranial traits…

New paper on early primate locomotion! 🐒
Based on tarsal shape, we reconstruct the locomotor repertoire of several early primates, providing the most extensive taxonomic scope to date. 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With David M. Alba, @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social and Judit Marigó

#Nakali🇰🇪 🦍⚒️🦴

Thrilled to be awarded a Research Grant from the @leakeyfoundation.org

I’m happy to count on a great team, some of them are on @bsky.app 👇🏽
@dmartinperea.bsky.social
@albavicente.bsky.social

Congratulations to the other amazing awardees 👏🏼
leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...

#Fieldwork
Week 2 on the move! New excavators and new fossils already 🦴🦴🦴

#BPpostdoc @ICP_MCrusafont @gencat

A Dryopithecine Talus From Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès‐Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula): Morphometric Affinities and Evolutionary Implications for Hominoid Locomotion Objectives The functional interpretation of postcranial remains of Middle Miocene great apes from Europe (dryopithecines) suggests a combination of quadrupedalism and orthograde behaviors without mo.....

New paper alert! 🦧
Described a new dryopithecine talus from the Vallès-Penedès basin to inform about crown hominoid locomotor evolution 👇
doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...
with Shubham Pal, @tpuschel.bsky.social , @a-urciuoli.bsky.social , Víctor Vinuesa, Josep M. Robles, Sergio Almécija and David M. Alba

Ens haurem de distreure d'alguna manera...

Road to STL! 🔜

the text that annoyed Trump is from the AABA Statement on Race & Racism... share it widely...BioAnth doing the work-- bioanth.org/about/aaba-s....

🧵 1/2 PhD Opportunity! Join my new HEAR lab
@ the University of Zurich (Sept 2025) to research hominin hearing evolution. 4yr contract, SNSF funded. Focus: cochlear anatomy, computational modeling, fossil hearing. shorturl.at/ohH44

@a-urciuoli.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student to study hominin hearing evolution! Ears are great (I'm not biased at all): uzhcareer.ch/de/jobs/deta...

#Outreach
Next week I will be talking about #Nakali🇰🇪 as part of the paleotalk series that the @ICP_MCrusafont organises

🦍🦏🐖🦛🐘 and more!

#BPpostdoc @gencat

Elisabeth Vrba, la mosquetera que revolucionó la paleobiología En febrero falleció la paleobióloga Elisabeth Vrba, que logró integrar la teoría evolutiva, el neodarwinismo, con las nuevas evidencias derivadas del estudio del registro fósil

📢 Hoy en El País se publica un artículo en honor a Elisabeth Vrba, una de las científicas que más han inspirado mi carrera. He tenido el privilegio de participar en su creación junto a @singerstone.bsky.social y @hdezfdez.bsky.social 👇🔗
elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

Ulnar morphology of Pliobates cataloniae (Pliopithecoidea: Crouzeliidae): Insights into catarrhine locomotor diversity and forelimb evolution Pliobates cataloniae is a small-bodied crouzeliid pliopithecoid from the Miocene (∼11.6 Ma) of Abocador de Can Mata (ACM; Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Ibe…

Very happy to have participated in this study on the ulnar morphology of the enigmatic crouzeliid Pliobates cataloniae 😁🐒 @julsam.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This afternoon at #AABA2025 I had the pleasure to present my work on the description and functional analysis of the most complete dryopithecine talus recovered so far. It's being an amazing experience in Baltimore! (Still haven't tried the very renowned crab cakes though!)

New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and their ancestors challenges the widely accepted theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of their genetic diversity 🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...