Morphological Evo-Devo Lab, Marsupial Lovers, 3D Nerds, Coffee Junkies. All opinions our own
Flinders University
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@DRexMitchell shows that the littlest rock wallabies pack a punch when it comes to biting hard. We call it the "Little Wallaby Syndrome". Rock wallabies are awesome to study skull adaptation because they are a recent radiation yet found across Australia. royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Why is a gecko 🦎 tail like a cactus 🌵?
Because their bulbous tail stores resources for uncertain times
Parallel evolution of expanded tails in monsoonal tropics lineages of an Australian gecko radiation in
@ZoolJLinnSoc
doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/z… flic.kr/p/DG41CE
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This Christmas, give the gift of Science by donating to Kits-Mas!
For every $600 raised, DeadlyScience will send Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learner classrooms a deadly microscopy kit.
Visit ow.ly/p6Ik50Qhg8w and donate today.
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But this review isn't just about skulls. We show how phylogenetic tests of allometry can be a problem when size correlates with phylogeny. As one reviewer said, it's like throwing the baby out with the bathwater! @DrEmSherratt @WeisbeckerLab
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We’ve known for a while that larger mammals often have longer faces (think of deer vs. moose), but we couldn't fully explain why. @DRexMitchell sized up the answer in our new open-access review. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
The gist of it is – long-faced mammals can afford it. Read up the long and short of it in our @TheConversation article:
theconversation.com/why-the-…
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Several years in the making with two of the biggest brains in the field! @WeisbeckerLab @DrEmSherratt
We unpack the who, the what, the where, the when, and the how of mammalian skull proportions and how they change with size across species.
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Ever wondered why large mammals have long faces? Biomechanics explains it 😊 Thanks for the fun discussions @DRexMitchell and @WeisbeckerLab
#allometryrules
@ConversationEDU
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Our manuscript on island biodiversity is out! Islands today are more similar to each other than they were in a pre-human past, because of 1) extinctions, 2) introductions of the very same species everywhere @newbiogeo @naturalis @SUNY 🏝️🐘=gone🐀=new
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Nice article by ABC's Emma Haskin about the newly-discovered 25 million year old koala fossils that we published on!
abc.net.au/news/2023-09-08/p… via
@ABCaustralia
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Anatomy education is a rare academic area with more jobs than qualified people. I strongly advise grad students in my research field (biological anthropology) to get solid anatomy training. It will dramatically improve prospects for livable employment.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wi…
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This week saw the launch of VAMP; the Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology.
sites.flinders.edu.au/vamp
@VAMP_Palaeo
#dinosaur #dino #dinosaurus #fossil #fossilskeleton #fossilfriday #palaeontologists #paleontology #jurassicpark #vertebrates #museums #Australia
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@VAMP_Palaeo launched tonight so now we’ve all got free digital access to hundreds of Aussie fossils 🐾🦴 huge congrats to the team @DrAliceClement @Zoelenotherium @DiprotoRon
@Zoelenotherium ambulating us through how surface scanning can help us find out about Australia's incredibly weird extinct megafauna.
Read more on theconversation.com/newly-de…
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In the world of #dataviz sometimes art meets science! 🖌👩🔬
We plotted parrot data in the ALA to celebrate #WorldParrotDay 🦜 using the dominant plumage shades for each genus 🌈 and created some accidental art in the process!
Watch out Monet 🎨 @accidental_aRt
#rstats #Rtistry
ALT map of Australia with multi-coloured data points
Don't miss this opportunity to hear from a giant in the field of Marine Mammal Research, Dr Cath Kemper!
Join us for our next meeting on Thursday June 8th. We will hear from Dr Catherine Kemper, former mammal researcher @SAMuseum on "South Australian Museum collection: an essential resource for the study & conservation of Australia’s marine mammals" 🐋🐬🦭
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We are launching tonight! 🚀 🤯
Read more about VAMP ahead of our launch party tonight in our article published today in @ConversationEDU 👀 theconversation.com/a-new-vi…
@FlindersPalaeo @wamuseum @SAMuseum @MAG_NT @FlindersCSE
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What should happen to native forests when logging ends? Ask Victoria's First Peoples theconversation.com/what-sho… via @ConversationEDU
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New research out! We found that red kangaroos living with dingoes grow up faster than red kangaroos that live safe behind the dingo fence 🦘🦘🦘
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