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Open Tuatara
A quick heads-up that we just posted on our sister blog Anatomy To You, about a new open-access paper we’ve published on the skeletal anatomy of the tuatara Sphenodon. Lots of cool images you can’t see...
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“Everything” You Didn’t Know You Wanted to Know About Mammalian Kneecaps
The early, hippo-like mammal Coryphodon. I didn’t know it had a patella but it does. From Yale Peabody Museum. I’m not shy about my fondness for the patella (kneecap) of tetrapod vertebrates, and...
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Yet More Wonderful Fossilized Soft Tissue
A Confuciusornis fossil; not the one from our study but prettier (more complete). Today almost three years of collaboration come together in a publication that is a fun departure from my normal...
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Why do ostriches have two kneecaps in each knee?
Uh oh, a “why?” question in biology! There are many potential, and not mutually exclusive, answers to such questions. Ultimately there is a historical, evolutionary answer that underpins it all...
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The Bird Knee Challenge
An epiphysean Sispyhean task today: solve this mystery that has been bothering me for >15 years. It’s about bird knees. Read on. Stomach-Churning Rating: 1/10- bones and brief words. Nothing to...
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Jumbo Time
Back in November 2016 I got an exciting email from colleague Dr. Richard Thomas, who was building a team of experts for a proposed documentary on Jumbo the elephant; the famed proboscidean of the...
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A Museum Evolves
One of my favourite museums in the world, and certainly one of the best natural history museums in the UK, is Cambridge’s Museum of Zoology, AKA “University Museum of Zoology at Cambridge” (UMZC). It...
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Darwin Day 2019: Some Papers In Evolutionary Biomechanics
Today is the 210th anniversary of Charles R. Darwin’s birthday so I put together a quick post. I’d been meaning to blog about some of our latest scientific papers, so I chose those that had an explicit...
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These Are A Few of Mon Préféré Things
To me, there is no question that the Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée of Paris’s Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN) is the mecca of organismal anatomy, as their homepage...
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My Kind of Palace
If you go into central Lausanne, Switzerland, you’re likely to pass the Palais du Remine, and if you do, I recommend you go inside. I was happy I did while visiting Lausanne for the AMAM2019...
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