Postdoctoral researcher @mtholyoke studying the functional morphology and evolution of reptiles and amphibians | Views are my own | she/her/hers
South Hadley, MA
Joined October 2017
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Rachel Keeffe, PhD retweeted
Beyond the party horn tongue 🥳🐸 @rmkeeffe and team x-rayed cane toads' feeding behavior to document the complex pulley system of cartilage and muscle that travels so far down their throat, it butts up against their heart.
Story:
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ALT illustration of a toad anatomy with bones and tissue defined and a long tongue fully extended
Rachel Keeffe, PhD retweeted
The Mayerl lab at @NAU is hiring! We're looking to recruit a graduate student and postdoc interested in #Physiology , #feeding , and #biomechanics. Check out the lab website or message for more christophermayerl.weebly.com…
Rachel Keeffe, PhD retweeted
A new study by @rmkeeffe + @davidcblackburn indicates the way frogs mate and fight may hold a missing clue to their mysterious skeletal evolution.
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Rachel Keeffe, PhD retweeted
You chest press, bruh?
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Rachel Keeffe, PhD retweeted
A 29 million-year-old coquí fossil takes the title of the earliest Caribbean frog ever recorded. Fittingly, the fossil was found on the island where coquís are most beloved – Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷🐸🦴
Story: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/scienc…
ALT common coqui frog that has a small light brown body with a yellower stripe down the top of its body from nose to end
ALT illustration of ancient coqui frog with a dark body
ALT segments of fossil arm bone
Rachel Keeffe, PhD retweeted
Does reproductive assurance explain the incidence of polyploidy in plants and animals? @soltislab @rmkeeffe @mcdaniellab #Letter nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
ALT Percentage of named species in major eukaryotic clades with available chromosome counts and genome size estimates.
Rachel Keeffe, PhD retweeted
Here it is, the oldest Caribbean frog! In this paper with coauthors @davidcblackburn @rmkeeffe & M.C. Vallejo-Pareja we describe a humerus of a #coquí frog (Eleutherodactylus) from the early #Oligocene of #PuertoRico! 1/6
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Rachel Keeffe, PhD retweeted
In #Florida, we're familiar with burrowing #frogs like this eastern spadefoot toad (Scaphiopus holbrookii). It has big feet with spurs and strong musculature so it can quickly burrow backwards into the soil, where it spends most of its life.
#SummerOfSpecimens
Specimen: UF 26545
ALT spadefoot toad specimen
ALT spadefoot toad specimen
Rachel Keeffe, PhD retweeted
99-million-year-old frog fossils found in Myanmar. These are the earliest direct evidence of frogs living in wet, tropical forests.
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Rachel Keeffe, PhD retweeted
Super cool talk by @rmkeeffe about burrowing frog humeri at the 2018 #FLHerpCon! Unbelievable convergence across the Anura!
Rachel Keeffe, PhD retweeted
Another long scan day but have added some cool salamanders to @MorphoSource: Check it out, @HellbenderHecht! morphosource.org/Detail/Medi…
