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Journal of Anatomy @journalofanatomy.bsky.social · 19d

The hidden pattern of the primary teeth in an ancestral ray-finned fish provides a clue to how the strange lungfish dentition could have evolved simply by modifying the growth mode of bone. More information in this newly published piece from @uuvertpalaeo.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1111/joa....

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Uppsala University Vertebrate Palaeontology Group @uuvertpalaeo.bsky.social · Aug 15

A team from our lab recently joined fieldwork organised by the University of Latvia, helping to excavate fossils from the Devonian, including armoured fish (Placoderms) and early tetrapods in western Latvia.

#fossilfriday #paleontology

palaeontologists digging for fossils in soft sand

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Dana Korneisel @danakorneisel.bsky.social · Jul 23

"It is by love alone that we understand anything" -The birth of Bran, James Stephens

A new study comes from the questions you love to ask. My question "How do vertebral building blocks come together to make different anatomies?" inspired this project ❤️

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Faculti @faculti.bsky.social · Jul 16

Could a slab of ancient Australian rock rewrite everything we thought we knew about the origin of land-dwelling vertebrates? @perahlberg.bsky.social , @evobiouppsala.bsky.social @uuvertpalaeo.bsky.social , discusses: faculti.net/earliest-amn...
#natural sciences

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Faculti @faculti.bsky.social · Jul 16

Could a slab of ancient Australian rock rewrite everything we thought we knew about the origin of land-dwelling vertebrates? @perahlberg.bsky.social , @evobiouppsala.bsky.social @uuvertpalaeo.bsky.social , discusses: faculti.net/earliest-amn...
#natural sciences

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18th ISELV @iselv18.bsky.social · Jul 4

‼️To all early vertebrate enthusiasts‼️

The 18th International Symposium on Early and Lower Vertebrates #ISELV will be held in Berrechid, Morocco on 3-8 February 2026! 🐟🦈🦎🦴

We look forward to hosting you there!

For more info, see our website (link in bio)

#fish #vertebrate #palaeontology #fossils

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Dr. Melanie During @melanieduring.com · May 24

Back in Sweden to receive my diploma at the Uppsala University doctoral conferment ceremony, followed by a reception at Gustavianium and banquet at the Castle was incredibly special. I think it is only now dawning on me that I really did it, I really am Dr Melanie During.

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Uppsala University Vertebrate Palaeontology Group @uuvertpalaeo.bsky.social · May 15

Out Now in Nature! Amniote tracks from Australia push the timeline for terrestiality back 35 to 40 million years, with implications for our understanding of tetrapod evolution.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution - Nature

Analysis of a fossil trackway from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia shows prints of toes with claws, suggesting that the origin of amniotes was at least 35–40 million years earlier than pr...

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · May 14

It's out! We describe probable reptile tracks from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia. This pushes the amniote record back by some 35-40 million years and implies that the tetrapod crown group originated deep in the Late Devonian. The paper is Open Access. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution - Nature

Analysis of a fossil trackway from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia shows prints of toes with claws, suggesting that the origin of amniotes was at least 35–40 million years earlier than pr...

www.nature.com

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Springer Nature @springernature.com · May 14

Fossilized claw prints thought to belong to an amniote, an early relative of reptiles, have been found on a slab of rock from Australia dated to about 356 million years ago. The findings in @nature.com, suggest the origin of amniotes is earlier than expected:

#fossil

Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution - Nature

Analysis of a fossil trackway from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia shows prints of toes with claws, suggesting that the origin of amniotes was at least 35–40 million years earlier than previously thought.

spklr.io

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Dr. Melanie During @melanieduring.com · May 14

When it comes to understanding when animals first walked on land, finding footprints of animals that literally pressed their feet into the ground absolutely holds the key.

Congratulations to all authors including my former supervisor: @perahlberg.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution - Nature

Analysis of a fossil trackway from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia shows prints of toes with claws, suggesting that the origin of amniotes was at least 35–40 million years earlier than pr...

www.nature.com

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Matthew B. Cowen @matthewbc.bsky.social · May 2

The Biology PhD school asked me to write a blog post about my research, now it’s up and I can go back to staring at fish www.uu.se/en/departmen...

PhD blog - Uppsala University

www.uu.se

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · Apr 23

#StGeorge and the Pterodactyl (1873), by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins of @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social fame, to illustrate his suggestion that #dragon 🐲 legends may have been inspired by encounters with living pterosaurs #StGeorgesDay

Not sure how the octopus fits in 🐙

An old monochrome painting of a knight, Saint George, mounted on a horse about to clout a nearby pterosaur on the head with a mace. The setting is Fingal's Cave on the island of Staffa in Scotland, with columnar basalt all around. For some reason an octopus beneath the horse also appears to be aiding the pterosaur in its fight.

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Uppsala University Vertebrate Palaeontology Group @uuvertpalaeo.bsky.social · Apr 11

We are pleased to announce the opening of our new Tomography Support Center, now available for all @uu.se employees and students. We welcome collaborations with anyone interested in using microCT and synchrotron scanning.

Learn more here: www.uu.se/institution/...

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Uppsala University Vertebrate Palaeontology Group @uuvertpalaeo.bsky.social · Apr 10

Congratulations!

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PeerJ @peerj.bsky.social · Apr 10

PeerJ Congratulates Elsa Leflaëc & Victor López Rojas - Award winners at The 5th Palaeontological Virtual Congress

Learn more about their research on the PeerJ blog bit.ly/42EHFPA

#5thPVC #Palaeontology

@palaeovc.bsky.social

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Carina Schlebusch @cschlebu.bsky.social · Apr 7

We have a new preprint! Mapping and analyzing nearly 5,000 full mitogenomes across Africa.
First major update on mtDNA distribution since Salas et al. 2002, "The making of the African mtDNA landscape." Congrats to Imke Lankheet and thanks to all collaborators!

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Revisiting the African mtDNA Landscape: A Continental Update from Complete Mitochondrial Genomes

Africa harbors the richest diversity of mitochondrial DNA lineages, reflecting its central role in human evolutionary history. Early studies of mtDNA variation provided the first genetic evidence for ...

www.biorxiv.org

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · Apr 3

It is #WorldAquaticAnimalDay today! While fish are far from the only ones hanging out in the water, we're having a look at some of the dried specimens in our collection, and what they are still teaching us.

Check out the secrets hidden within our collections here:
www.linnean.org/news...

A beige graphic with a collection of dried, brown fish specimens arranged below the text "Plenty of fish in the... Linnean collection".

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Uppsala University Vertebrate Palaeontology Group @uuvertpalaeo.bsky.social · Apr 1

Update from our expedition to Mars: No new early Tetrapods.

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Dana Korneisel @danakorneisel.bsky.social · Mar 21

It is a very happy #fossilfriday as I sent back a revised manuscript last night, a years-in-the-making review that is the reason I find my phone full of pictures like this every time I've been to a museum:
"Asiatosuchus" depressifrons anterior cervical vertebrae (sans proatlas)

Atlas, axis, and cervical vertebra 3 of a fossil crocodylian

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · Mar 19

It is #TaxonomistAppreciationDay today! A big day for Carl Linnaeus, who we happen to care about (just a little.)
100 years before Darwin's evolutionary theory was published, Linnaeus was classifying animals based on shared traits. He created #SystemaNaturae in 1735, and we still use it to this day!

Systema Naturae, a double page spread chart, tightly packed with names of animal species. It is split into Quadrapedia, Aves, Amphibia, Pieces, Insecta and Vermes.

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Dr. Melanie During @melanieduring.com · Mar 6

New paper released! Chapter 5 of my PhD, co-led by Jordan Matelsky.

Among other techniques I spend a great deal of time studying fossils using X-ray or soecifically synchrotron radiation techniques, similar to the methods used in radiology at hospitals to make internal injuries visible.

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · Mar 6

#paleo science!!! We built ML fossil segmentation tools to save paleontologists time and money. Everything is online and open-source!

Amazing collab with @melanieduring.com + @kordinglab.bsky.social @perahlberg.bsky.social at @uuvertpalaeo.bsky.social @upenn.edu @jhuapl.bsky.social @jhu.edu @ki.se!

Dr. Melanie During @melanieduring.com · Mar 6

New paper released! Chapter 5 of my PhD, co-led by Jordan Matelsky.

Among other techniques I spend a great deal of time studying fossils using X-ray or soecifically synchrotron radiation techniques, similar to the methods used in radiology at hospitals to make internal injuries visible.

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Uppsala University Vertebrate Palaeontology Group @uuvertpalaeo.bsky.social · Mar 3

An old friend to many of us.

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · Feb 7

#FossilFriday Everyone's favorite tristichopterid sarcopterygian, Eusthenopteron! At the Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Skeleton of the extinct fish Eusthenopteron

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