New paper! How weird could Permian animals get? Turns out, pretty weird. Meet the stem tetrapod Tanyka amnicola from the Pedra de Fogo Formation of northeast Brazil
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Last week, amidst the hoopla over a new Speen, @fishfetisher.bsky.social suggested a review of naming papers in fancy journals in response to a post by @daveyfwright.bsky.social - I got bored after work and now I have (some) data!
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#FossilFriday
#CharismaticTaxaAreOverrated
"Show me the best"/"Perfection" meme with Michael Fassbender showing three sail-backed tetrapods, the new Spinosaurus mirabilis (art by Dani Navarro), Dimetrodon (art by Danielle Dufault), and Platyhystrix (art by u/SaurArch on Pinterest), from top to bottom. Corresponding text is "show me the best sail-backed tetrapod" (Spinosaurus), "I said the best sail-backed tetrapod" (Dimetrodon), and "perfection" (Platyhystrix)
Looks like it's that time of the year to pull this out again (with updated speen art)
#FossilFriday #TemnospondylsDidItBetter
these are so great! thank you!
I know there's a lot of drawbacks...but sometimes I do have to pinch myself that I get to work with these things! Hope all is well Andy!
A picture of Ramon Nagesan, standing in the dry collections area of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Skeletal specimens and collections drawers can be seen in the background.
I'm glad my choices have lead me to a career in Natural History Collections and Museums in general. That's all, that's the post.
BEHOLD the GARgantuan Alligator Gar!!!
This is the largest Alligator Gar Iβve encountered; at over 7 feet 10 inches (240 cm) and approximately 55 inches in girth, its weight is estimated at 300 pounds (136 kg)!
A true river monster, among the largest caught, tagged and safely released! #GarWeek
Happy World Anatomy Day! π¦
What better way to celebrate than announcing our veiled chameleon head atlas! This includes an awesome collection of 3D models - skull (with sutures!), jaw and tongue muscles, and the brain - plus lesson plans for your next anatomy practical! β¨οΈ Links below β¨οΈ
Also my anxiety about making this post may lead me to deleting it later.
New piece with @stuartsumida.bsky.social, Kristi Curry-Rogers, and Kenshu Shimada, and help from @magratnj.bsky.social : theconversation.com/fossils-are-...
Feel like we need some β€οΈ today so here are some close ups of the π«heartsπ« from the Diffusion Diaries (read it here: doi.org/10.1093/iob/...)
1. π¦ Schneider's leaf nosed bat
2. π bowfin
3. πΈ midwife toad
4. π¦ collared lizard
9 images of animals rendered in 3d from CT scans. top row: a mouse skeleton, a Jamaican fruit bat skin, a Jamaican fruit bat skeleton, snake skull second row: a shrew muscle image, a snake brain, a bowfin fish bottom row: a bat skull, a rodent skull
Here's a collage of specimens scanned and segmented at the UMMZ for the bluesky community to enjoy!
Within each collection, you can search by specimen i.d number, or genus/species.
Looking for micro-CT data with existing DOI's? The UM Museum of Zoology has been building a publicly accessible repository of our scans on UM's Deep Blue Data. At the moment mammals & herps are being populated with data, but more is coming! deepblue.lib.umich.edu/data/collect...
Miranda's contact info on her current lab page: jepsen.lab.medicine.umich.edu/team
Miranda Cosman's linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/miranda-n...
Her google scholar page: scholar.google.com/citations?us...
Miranda uses micro-CT, pq-CT, nano-CT to analyze trabecular and cortical bone anatomy in humans and great apes to understand skeletal development in response to ontogeny and aging. She's proficient in R, working on learning python and machine learning algorithms.
Today my partner Miranda Cosman (not on bsky) found out that her NIH funded post-doc is being cut a year early. If you're looking for an absolutely amazing researcher to join your lab please let me know. Miranda works on skeletal phenotypic plasticity in response to exercise and diet (continued)...
If anyone is interested in leveraging the #ummz CT core lab for your research program, please check out our website for details!!!!
lsa.umich.edu/ummz/ct-scan...
If you need #zoological, #paleontological, or #archeological #micro-CT data, please let me know! In addition to hundreds of existing datasets, my lab offers scanning services. Check out our rates & send in a request here: lsa.umich.edu/ummz/ct-scan...
A screenshot of a website displaying 8 colored skull models of amphibians and reptiles, along with buttons that will allow the user to navigate to 3D models for each skull.
#Education resource! Over the years I created this collection of colored skull #3Dmodels for teaching. They're available to download on MorphoSource & to view on Sketchfab. Because of recent changes to Sketchfab, I migrated them to my website: www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/work/colorso... (1/3)
Thank you! We were hoping it would have some utility for anyone wanting to jump into diceCT that needed to make decisions & write letters for specimen access, etc.
Since thereβs finally been a proper migration of academia to bluesky, hereβs a link to my most recent paper thatβll give you a sense of what I do. If you recently followed me and we were in touch on βtwitterβ please say hi!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Glad to see a lot of new people joining!
After years of work the Open Vertebrate TCN project ended last year. We were able to generate thousands of freely available zoological micro-CT scans for the research community. Check out the oVert paper here:
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
False color 3rd render of Ambystoma maculatum generated from a CT scan.
Thereβs still a few months until salamanders start to emerge and march for vernal ponds, but hereβs a false color Ambystoma maculatum CT render to get you through Friday. #herpetology #amphibians
Just had this exact conversation with my two undergrads yesterday. Itβs absolutely a fact.
Thanks!
Hello! That sounds great! Please do add me, and thank you.
