Our paper on the impact of the Messinian salinity crisis on Mediterranean marine biota is finally out in Science Magazine 🥳🥳🥳 Daniel García-Castellanos marta coll Francesca Bosellini Niklas Hohmann @[email protected] and many more iMARES MedSalt Salt Giant FWF Universität Wien science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Just discovered the most massive tree I've ever seen in the Amazon rainforest via satellite image—over 50 meters in crown diameter and more than 50 meters in height! 🛰🌳CTrees Ricardo Dalagnol

Working on some cool cool stuff rn

the skeleton giveth and the genome taketh away

Contender for the hardest figure captions

New from Bruno Melo, #NearLab, and 11 other Brazilian collaborators. A phylogenomic analysis of the hyper-diverse Western Hemisphere tropical Characidae with the description of four new taxonomic families academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art… Please DM for a PDF

Phylogeny & new classification of Characidae tetras and related families has been just published w/ 575 taxa, 494 species, 123 genera, 1348 UCE loci, 4 families, 29 subfamilies, 13 authors and 6y of project! Fruit from my previous postdoc FAPESP/Brazil. academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

3/9 Chase Brownstein and I working off a recent monograph of a rank-free taxonomy of ray-finned fishes have been looking at instances where current taxonomy does not reflect consistently resolved phylogenetic relationships. That monograph here..., shorturl.at/htFNM

1/9 New from Chase Brownstein Chase Brownstein and #NearLab...in press Towards a phylogenetic taxonomy of sturgeons (Acipenseriformes: Acipenseridae) Download preprint here, zenodo.org/records/136840…

3/9 Chase Brownstein and I working off a recent monograph of a rank-free taxonomy of ray-finned fishes have been looking at instances where current taxonomy does not reflect consistently resolved phylogenetic relationships. That monograph is here..., shorturl.at/htFNM

5/9 16 species previously classified as Acipenser are moved to Huso and the resurrected Sinosturio. Huso daricus is transfered to Sinosturio. Acipenser now contains three species

6/9 As noted by previous workers, the phylogeny of sturgeons shows a broad biogeographic pattern where species of Sinosturio are distributed primarily in the Pacific Basin, whereas species of Huso are Atlantic and interior Eurasia (Caspian, etc)

7/9 "Given that overharvesting and degradation of aquatic habitats have negatively impacted sturgeons and all species are threatened or endangered,..."

8/9 "an understanding of phylogenetic relationships and a taxonomy that reflects the phylogeny is crucial for the effective management and investigation of the biology of these imperiled species"

9/9 With the emergence of the 21st century phylogeny of Actinopterygii, ichthyologists will continue to be clothed in agency to propose taxonomies that reflect phylogenetic relationships annualreviews.org/content/journa…

New from myself Thomas Near - a new taxonomy of sturgeons based on phylogenetic relationships!

We presented #qunkasaura pinitiquiniestra, a new species from the #Upper Cretaceous of #cuenca (#spain) at the Museo de Paleontología de Castilla-La Mancha . After many years of work in Lo Hueco, we published one of the most complete sauropod dinosaur of Europe. nature.com/articles/s4200…

Are you a vertebrate evolutionary biologist finishing your PhD or within three years? If so, please contact me (DM) or email about the YIBS Donnelley Postodoctoral Fellowship at Yale University and Peabody Museum!

nature.com/articles/s4155… Woah! "At the deepest phylogenetic levels, ancestral habitat reconstruction analyses suggest that eukaryotes may have first evolved in non-marine habitats and that the two largest known eukaryotic assemblages arose in different habitats."

Gigantura is so cool! Specimen scanned Yale Peabody Museum and available for research + download MorphoSource (that's how I got it!)