Deep Shubhra Biswas

Conservation biologist/Paleo guy/Artist | 📍PhD candidate @ Fossil lab508, NTU 🇮🇳 | 🇹🇼 I find art in nature🌿🐘

[SolanTHM @SolanTHM69420]

Accurate Stegoceratops anyone?
Full name
Stegoceratops phorarmatus – Armed Bearer Roofed Horned Face

[Yi-Yang Cho @yycho14]

Our paper on the Taiwan main island's very first Python records led by @TSAI_NTU508 @liaw_lu is out in Historical Biology!
So glad to be part of this as co-first author and also thanks @mobeichi @DeepShubhraBis1 for working together!
https://t.co/SE7qkXptwj

[CH TSAI 蔡政修 @TSAI_NTU508]

Happy #FossilFriday! So happy to see that the editor at Historical Biology wrote an article to introduce our Python publication:

New fossil shows that pythons used to live in Taiwan and that nothing has taken their niche since their disappearance
https://t.co/agXHblQoAV

[CH TSAI 蔡政修 @TSAI_NTU508]

New publication! So pleased to publish the first fossil pinniped from Taiwan - a Pleistocene sea lion (Zalophus) in JVP - open access:
https://t.co/L8xCpIEOYe
with my coauthors @ChengHanSun, @DeepShubhraBis1, @liaw_lu, @yycho14, and Naoki Kohno!

[CH TSAI 蔡政修 @TSAI_NTU508]

Happy #FossilFriday! The large crocodile, Toyotamaphimeia taiwanicus from the Pleistocene of Taiwan, probably had enough food! Now, we are safe to see this beast in Tainan - on a special exhibition!

[CH TSAI 蔡政修 @TSAI_NTU508]

Happy #FossilFriday! Congratulations to Deep for passing the oral exam, which was part of his PhD qualifying exams - Deep is now the PhD candidate and plans to finalize his PhD project next year! Stay tuned for more progress on elephant paleontology!

[CH TSAI 蔡政修 @TSAI_NTU508]

Happy belated #FossilFriday! By analyzing the stable isotopes (carbon and oxygen) from the molars of Palaeoloxodon, we showed that they lived in a C4-dominated ecosystem, similar to the African savanna, in RSOS. Open access: https://t.co/MuGVklZ47i

[CH TSAI 蔡政修 @TSAI_NTU508]

Happy #WildWednesday! So happy that our new paper just came out in RSOS today - open access: https://t.co/xGKlT243MI
It's pretty wild to know that we had an African-like savanna in the Far East! Second paper from Deep's PhD project - excellent work!

[CH TSAI 蔡政修 @TSAI_NTU508]

Happy #FossilFriday! The second paper from Deep's PhD project (Palaeoloxodon, a large elephant from Taiwan) has been accepted in the Royal Society journal. I recently reviewed two manuscripts for the Royal Society, which gave us a 400 GBP discount. Not too bad - stay tuned!

[CH TSAI 蔡政修 @TSAI_NTU508]

Happy #FossilFriday! So happy to receive the acceptance letter - the second paper from Deep's PhD project! This accepted manuscript will reveal the diet of Palaeoloxodon (a giant elephant) and its associated Pleistocene environment in the Far East! Stay tuned - coming out soon!

[CH TSAI 蔡政修 @TSAI_NTU508]

Happy #FossilFriday! Today, Deep presented part of his PhD research on the body size and diet of Palaeoloxodon from the Pleistocene of Taiwan. We just submitted the second manuscript from Deep's PhD research - stay tuned for more fun paleo progress!

[Yi-Yang Cho @yycho14]

Astonishing view of the Penghu Islands, the locality that also bears the holotype of Penghusuchus pani.
Please check our poster presentation(B336) today at 4:30 p.m. with @TSAI_NTU508: Miocene crocodylians from Taiwan! We have NEW materials from Taiwan! #2024SVP

[CH TSAI 蔡政修 @TSAI_NTU508]

Very depressed because I failed a grant proposal. Still, happy #FossilFriday! So happy to see this fantastic illustration done by Deep to celebrate our new publication on Palaeoloxodon from the Pleistocene of Taiwan!

[Deep Shubhra Biswas @DeepShubhraBis1]

Super glad to share our findings on the colossal proboscideans from Taiwan!!

[CH TSAI 蔡政修 @TSAI_NTU508]

New publication - Happy #FossilFriday! Congratulations to my PhD student Deep for his first paleo paper! Palaeoloxodon - more than 13 tonnes - more than twice the extant African elephants - gigantic elephants in the Pleistocene of Taiwan! Open-access: https://t.co/6CNOekQMOy

[Gutsick Gibbon @Gutsick_Gibbon]

So I finished Darwin’s Origin of Species last night and I am not joking when I say this man debunked many modern creationist arguments in 1872 (last edition, my edition).

Common Design,
Created Kinds,
Irreducible Complexity…

And yet we still hear them!

[CH TSAI 蔡政修 @TSAI_NTU508]

Revision submitted! Stay tuned for the gigantic Palaeoloxodon from the Pleistocene of Taiwan - with my PhD student, Deep - congratulations on his first paleo paper!