Quel cadre !

If you want to know what happened to these newcomers, a.k.a. palaeotheres, stay tuned, as this is the topic of my current post doc in Switzerland 🇨🇭

And don’t worry, rhinos have also a role to play in this work! 🦏

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Indeed, the giant-sized and most recent species, Lophiodon lautricense, consumed more abrasive and harder items. 🌳

Lastly, the changes in dietary strategies are also related to climate cooling and new competitors. ❄️🐎

We studied lophiodontid dietary evolution over their entire stratigraphical range and found out that early lophiodontids were browsers, not frugivores as traditionally thought. 🌿

We noted a diet shift in lophiodontids associated with body mass and progressive molarisation. 🦷

I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here:
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