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Nicola

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Evolutionary palaeobiologist, admirer of nature, (pent)athlete #RuminantsRule

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Nicola @heckeberg.bsky.social · Jul 16

Great to see this collaborative study published that recovered 20 Ma old proteins from tooth enamel of a fossil rhinocerotid!
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#rhino #palaeoproteomics

Phylogenetically informative proteins from an Early Miocene rhinocerotid - Nature

Protein sequences from fossil tooth enamel of a rhinocerotid from Canada’s High Arctic are used to develop phylogenetic frameworks from a specimen too old to preserve ancient DNA.

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Nicola @heckeberg.bsky.social · Jun 20

So nice to be a small part of this extensive reference book on deer!
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#mammals #deer #RuminantsRule

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Deer of the World

This book is the first reference work ever published on the systematics, ecology, conservation status and management of all the world's deer species.

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Nicola @heckeberg.bsky.social · Jun 15

Very exciting to see this long-term collaboration published!

Fernando Blanco @fernandoblancos.bsky.social · Jun 5

🦏🦣🦌 LARGE paper alert!!! We tracked 60 million years of large herbivore evolution—over 3,000 fossil species—to uncover how ecosystems have changed and reorganized through time. What we found might help us understand the next big tipping point 🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two major ecological shifts shaped 60 million years of ungulate faunal evolution - Nature Communications

Here, the authors analyze a fossil dataset spanning 60 million years to investigate ecological stability. Their network analysis identifies prolonged stability interrupted by two major functional tran...