🔎 ¿Buscas museos y colecciones paleontológicas en España?
En la web de la SEP tienes disponible un buscador. Una herramienta útil para investigadoras/es, estudiantes y amantes del patrimonio fósil.
Descúbrelo: https://sepaleontologia.es/buscador-museos-y-colecciones/
#Paleontología #Patrimonio
Descubierta en el yacimiento conquense de Las Hoyas una nueva especie de ave del Cretácico con pico dentado. Se asemeja a un martín pescador y entronca con el grupo biológico de los 'Longipterygidae', que hasta ahora solo se habían documentado en China
By dressing it in its plumage, we gave it this appearance thanks to the incredible paleoart by Roc Olivé, with the help of paleo-ornithologist Juan Benito.
Here you can check out the original article, published in the #SwissJournalofPalaeontology 👇
sjp.pensoft.net/article/1828...
Say👋 to *Gorgonavis alcyone*, the newest enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous of Spain✨🐦
We welcome here the 1st adult cranial remains of a bird from the fossil site of Las Hoyas, and the 1st longipterygid out of China...
Thread!!🧵👇
Paleart by Roc Olivé
These microevolutionary trends mirror patterns seen across millions of years of squamate evolution, highlighting tooth complexity as a powerful link between micro and macroevolution
🔗 Read more 👇
Recently published #AmniotaLabCollab!
How does development shape evolution? Using 3D skull data, this study shows that neural crest cells drive rapid skull changes within species of lizards.
More #AmniotaLab research!
Using micro-CT scans, Tomás Fornari and Johannes Müller show that the skull bones 🦴 of fully aquatic frogs 🐸 carry signals of both shared lifestyle and deep evolutionary history👇
New #AmniotaLab research!
How well do computer models really predict bite force in living animals?
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 has just published this paper from her PhD, testing digital jaw models against real bite-force measurements in #lizards 🦎
2. Working at @mncn-csic.bsky.social in exciting projects!
Some pics from these last weeks in Spain
1. At @sesbe-org.bsky.social meeting with great colleagues and friends 📸
9️⃣ 📄 Open-access paper in Journal of Biogeography:
“Biome Specialisation in Squirrels: Phylogenetic and Geographic Patterns”
👉 doi.org/10.1111/jbi....
🐿️🌍 If you’re interested in how climate, evolution, and biodiversity connect… this paper is for you.
8️⃣ 🚨 Conservation message:
Regions like the Sunda Shelf are top priorities:
✔️ Many specialists
✔️ High endemism
✔️ High sensitivity to climate change
7️⃣ 🧠 Take-home message:
Past climate changes produced faunas dominated by specialists, especially in fragmented biomes.
Specialization can boost biodiversity… but also increases vulnerability.
6️⃣ 🌳 Interestingly, these species-rich regions show low phylogenetic diversity:
many species, but closely related 👉 a signal of rapid past speciation.
5️⃣ 🗺️ Where are the main hotspots?
Southeast Asia — especially Borneo — stands out with extremely high species richness… and most species there are endemic specialists.
4️⃣ 🌱 But not all biomes behave the same.
Tropical rainforests and steppes host more specialists than expected.
Deserts and tundra do not (partly because they host very few species).
3️⃣ 📊 The key result:
👉 There are far more specialist squirrels than expected by chance.
This supports the idea that specialization is not (only) an evolutionary dead end.
2️⃣ According to the resource-use hypothesis (Elisabeth Vrba), specialists should generate more species during climate change, because their populations fragment more easily.
👉 But does this actually happen in nature? We tested it using squirrels.
1️⃣ Not all squirrels are generalists.
Many species are biome specialists, restricted to a single habitat (rainforest, steppe, etc.)
🧵 Why are there so many habitat-specialist squirrels?
A new global study explores how habitat specialization has shaped squirrel evolution 👇🐿️🌍
Biome specialization in squirrels: phylogenetic and geographic patterns doi.org/10.1111/jbi....
by @paleoiris.bsky.social et al.
Our job adverts are now live! 🤩
We are hiring a Research Software Engineer and a Community Engagement Coordinator to support @palaeoverse.bsky.social over the next two years, based at UCL.
Apply by January 18th 2026, ideally to start in March 2026 🗓️
More info and links below 👇
Beyond excited to announce that as of today I officially started a Ramón y Cajal 5-year senior fellowship (tenure-track) at University of Alcalá in Madrid, if you are interested in birds & vertebrate macroevolution & you like sun & good food, hit me up to explore postdoc or PhD opportunities!
Some of our past and current #AmniotaLab members just got back from the #CPEG meeting in Zurich so happy to have met so many fantastic and inspiring people!
Huge thanks to @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social for a great conference, and for recognizing our poster as one of the best! An honor to be part of it 🙌
No, it is not a dream. This actually happened!!! We had a *fantastic* #CPEGCPB26 meeting and I cannot articulate any other adjective to describe it until I recover from it. Thanks to everyone who attended and everyone who helped making this happen. @kristinakocakova.bsky.social
🎬The theme for this year is: "From Capture to Creation: Intelligent 3D Scene Representation", but we welcome papers and talks from all areas of visual media production related to film, games, and broadcast.
For a more comprehensive list of topics check: www.cvmp-conference.org/2025/call-fo...
📣𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲!
Submit your full (10p), short (1p) papers, demos, industry talks on media production to #CVMP2025
📝Full Papers: 25 July 2025
🎥Industry Talks: 19 September 2025
📜Short Papers: 05 September 2025
🤖Demos: 05 September 2025
More info: www.cvmp-conference.org/2025/call-fo...
Some pictures of our latest lab meeting. So many of us, we had to bring in an extra table!
Always a joy to gather as the #AmniotaLab and share science, laughs, and plans for what’s next.
Es un gusto presentar:
"Blood, Sweat, and Research: Menstruation’s Impact on Fieldwork in Natural Science"
www.revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...
