Ahoy there Skullywags!
In the latest episode of Skullywag Chats, I team up with @NarimaneChatar from @UCBerkeley to discuss an evolutionary pattern she and her team discovered in the molars of meat-munching mammals #skull #science #💀 youtu.be/6TmKAKhag7w?si… via @YouTube

So happy to have been invited by @DRexMitchell for this little chat about our recent tooth paper in @ScienceMagazine (doi.org/10.1126/scienc…) for his YouTube channel, The Skullywag Lab, check it out 🤩:
youtube.com/watch?v=6TmKAK…

#SciComm #ScienceCommunication #AcademicChatter

A new model of skull function just dropped!

It describes the skull as an arch-bridge like structure that uses tensile elements to guide arcs of compressive stress between the biting teeth and jaw joints.

Written by me! 💀💀💀

#skull #science

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A video covering our new published research on the tiny marsupial with an unusual talent 💀 #skull #science youtu.be/8H1rFsjgc38?si… via @YouTube

Our lab just published a cool paper on seed-cracking bettongs. Not just any seeds, but some of the hardest seeds out there! Two species in the same genus showing different adaptatiosn to hard biting. Very cool 💀💀🤓🤓 #skull #science academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

This was a fun little side project I worked on while doing placoderm biomechanics analysis with the Flinders Gogo team. To be presented at @CAVEPS_Palaeo 💀🤓

#Devonian #fossil #placoderm #paleontology

youtube.com/shorts/0NByEKZ…

Achievement unlocked!
h-index of 10 😎
#skull #science

I only played a very small role in this @PNASNews article by @AbbyGraceDrake, @JLosos, et al., but it's cool, so please check it out! "Copy-cat evolution: Divergence and convergence within and between cat and dog breeds." doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

What if the Rancor in @starwars was a domesticated breed similar to a pug or a bulldog? In the latest video from The Skullywag Lab, I "un-pug" the Rancor to see what a wild, undomesticated Rancor ancestor might look like!

#skull #science #starwars

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New episode on ant and termite-eating animal skulls 💀💀💀
The feeding anatomy of these species is pretty bonkers tbh. Happy to finally explore it a bit

youtu.be/Qt2iqUwujhY?si…

Just made this for The Skullywag Lab website I'm building

Come sit by the fire and enjoy some skulls 💀🤓

A new episode of Monster ID just dropped! This time, the lab identifies the Beast of Tenby 💀

youtu.be/Tr_yG9DoYJs?si…

#skull #science

Knowing what an animal eats can help biologists find it – especially when a species is as elusive as this one. @KarlVernes @DRexMitchell @WeisbeckerLab @FlindersUniNews @uninewengland theconversation.com/presumed-extin…

Some interesting findings from our new methods paper. We used the skull of the extinct desert rat-kangaroo as a case study and discovered some important details about its feeding habits @WeisbeckerLab @TheSkullywagLab
theconversation.com/presumed-extin… via @ConversationEDU

For any researchers that study skull function using comparative finite element analysis, our new paper presenting a framework for scaling muscle forces to adequately represent the hypothesis is extremely important

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

@gessiejomez @DRexMitchell @CookeSiobhan
Questions on socioecology? Rare behaviors? Skeletal lesion analysis helps! #primates #primatology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

New study!

Measaurements of deer skulls from 38 species (300 individuals) show that larger species have more diverse skull ecomorphology.

Author concludes that size imposes ecological constraints 💀🤓

mdpi.com/2948940 #mdpifossstud via @FossilsMDPI

#skull #science

New video dropped, where I turn myself into a giant - for science! 🤓💀

youtube.com/watch?v=lvvF6J…

The latest video just dropped (link in bio).

We take a look at how missing teeth in the ancestors of the marsupial lion made evolution produce one of the most weird and powerful skulls known to science! 🤓💀

Artwork by Rudolph Hima,
Music by Max Brhon

No luck on the DECRA. Moving on 🕺