Roy M. Farman 🐸
@roymfarman.bsky.social
Palaeontologist & Morphologist 🦴 | Frog 🐸 and Ichnology 👣 Enthusiast | CT 💀 3D GM | @ANU Research Officer @UNSW Adj. Assoc. Lecturer. MSc, PhD.
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Second PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity.
Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪
doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪
doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Habitat and complex life cycles promote morphological diversity in salamander limb bones
We examined the external shape and cross-sectional morphology of limb bones in 133 salamander species spanning the ecological and phylogenetic breadth of Caudata. We find that adaptations for aquatic...
doi.org
January 28, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Second PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity.
Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪
doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪
doi.org/10.1111/joa....
1 of 2 papers out this week 🐸🐸🐸🐸. This one is about three new tree frogs and Philoria godthelpi sp. nov. (Limnodynastidae) from the World Heritage Area Riversleigh, honouring Henk Godthelp who recovered many wonderful frog fossils.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New Miocene frogs from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, north-western Queensland, and their palaeoecological implications
The Riversleigh World Heritage fossil deposits in northwestern Queensland, Australia, preserve diverse vertebrate faunas spanning the last 25 million years. Fossil anurans have been recorded from R...
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May 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
1 of 2 papers out this week 🐸🐸🐸🐸. This one is about three new tree frogs and Philoria godthelpi sp. nov. (Limnodynastidae) from the World Heritage Area Riversleigh, honouring Henk Godthelp who recovered many wonderful frog fossils.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New Riversleigh paper on some new malleodectids, including a new genus and two new species.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A new genus and two new species of malleodectid (Marsupialia, Malleodectidae) from the Middle and Late Miocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland. - Journal of Ma...
Isolated upper teeth of a new fourth species of Malleodectes, M. arenai sp. nov. and an isolated lower molar representing a new genus of diminutive malleodectid, Weirdodectes napoleoni sp. nov. are de...
link.springer.com
April 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
New Riversleigh paper on some new malleodectids, including a new genus and two new species.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A very worthy first post, great paper!
New paper in @nature.com led by @patricepottier.bsky.social! We demonstrated global vulnerability of amphibians to warming, threatening 10% of >5,000 species examined. How did we do it? See thread🧵
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
A very worthy first post, great paper!