🐋 🐻‍❄️ 🦭 MASSIVE NEW FOSSIL DATABASE 🐋 🐻‍❄️ 🦭

Our FAMM (Fossil Arctic Marine Mammal) database has now been published #OpenAccess in Global Ecology and Biogeography!

Come learn about the cool stuff you can do with #Arctic #fossil material and bio-molecular archives! ☢️ ⚛️ 🧬

Link and thread below!

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I didn’t, I was working with the mammal collection in the Royal Museum for Central Africa, so was regionally limited species wise, unfortunately. Is it something you’ve noticed in them previously? More than happy to email you a copy of the paper if you’d like to read it!

This is the back/side of a small rodent called the tropical vlei rat (Otomys tropicalis), native to Africa.

Super happy to share the first chapter of my PhD, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface ✨🐀 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Iridescence in mammals is not as rare as we thought, but it’s all created in the same way!