Joshua White

PhD student at ANU, investigating the diet of extinct marine reptiles. Passionate vertebrate palaeontologist in-training. 🦕🦖

[Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology @JVP_vertpaleo]

🚨New Pub!🚨Measuring the load-bearing capacity of Mesozoic marine reptile teeth using Finite Element Analysis🦷🏋by White et al.

https://t.co/iGRz3VwTjh

[Joshua White @Josh_mark_white]

I'm excited to share that one of my thesis chapters, measuring the load-bearing capacity of marine reptile teeth, is finally published in @JVP_vertpaleo.

Feel free to read about it below.
https://t.co/b4eSd0SWOm

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Another great example of Zev Landes work! I had the honour of geting myself illustrated talking about my latest research at the 2023 @CAVEPS_Palaeo conference.

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Had a blast @CAVEPS_Palaeo sharing my PhD progress.

Cheers @Lazarus__Taxon for the photo.

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A quick visit to the Natural History Museum LA before returning home after a fun week of presentations, discussions and everything inbetween #2023SVP

[Joshua White @Josh_mark_white]

In case you missed my first pub talk last month, here's your chance to watch some great sci-comm by various local researchers.
I got the chance to talk about my one-sided realtionship with Eric, the opalised plesiosaur 🦕🦖

https://t.co/HAzwkPsexa

[Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology @JVP_vertpaleo]

🚨New Pub!🚨A new chigutisaurid (Brachyopoidea, Temnospondyli) with soft tissue preservation from the Triassic Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia🦎🇦🇺by Hart et al.

https://t.co/CAsoMlCeEO

[AMRI @AustmusResearch]

What did the most complete, opalised vertebrate fossil in Australia eat?
PhD candidate Joshua White, @PhysicsANU & @AustmusResearch, tells us how cutting edge technology was used to reconstruct Eric the plesiosaur's diet @austmus.
👉https://t.co/scS6q0tsFy

[Science & Medicine at ANU @scienceANU]

“We believe our study is the first in Australia to use x-rays to study the gut contents of a prehistoric marine reptile," says PhD candidate Joshua White from @PhysicsANU and @AustmusResearch. Find out more the diet of this 2.5m sea creature, AKA Eric: https://t.co/oUFhugUruM

[Joshua White @Josh_mark_white]

We used CT data to identify additional fish bones not visible on the exterior surface, to help reconstruct the diet of this extinct marine reptile 🦖🦕
This open access article can be found here. (2/2)
https://t.co/qCSsBj9duw

[Joshua White @Josh_mark_white]

I'm happy to announce that my first #PhD chapter is now published in Alcheringa. Supervised by Tim Denham and @MatthewRMcCurry with the help of Aleese Barron, I used micro-CT images to look inside the gut content of an opalised plesiosaur on display at the @austmus (1/2)

[Joshua White @Josh_mark_white]

When you go to a #catcafe and the cats actually come to you.

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Here are some oddly satisfying gastroliths for your #FossilFriday

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@Ebelosaurus That is some gorgeous imagery, excited to see the work this will produce.

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@DHO29881155 Oops, you're right my mistake, this is in fact a cast of a Kronosaurus sp.
However, given how taxonomy of Mesozoic marine reptiles change depending on the season, who knows what it will be next week.

[Joshua White @Josh_mark_white]

Don't think there's a better way to start the day than scanning a cast of Kronosaurus from Melbourne Museum.

[Australian Museum @austmus]

What did the “Beast of Huli" eat? The diet of this bizarre extinct marsupial, which had similarities to both giant wombats and pandas, has remained a mystery. Until now. https://t.co/JWJ5Y23NE9

@AustmusResearch Image: Peter Schouten.

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Feel free to check out this @AustmusResearch blog about my first publication!

[AMRI @AustmusResearch]

What did the “Beast of Huli" eat? The diet of this bizarre extinct marsupial has remained a mystery. PhD student Joshua White @austmus @scienceANU with co-authors, examined the teeth of this species to help answer these questions👇
https://t.co/obRpi548Jr

[Lachlan Hart @Lazarus__Taxon]

Super happy to share the first publication out of my PhD. Cool little tooth, cool little story!
https://t.co/6jtoQB0pGe

PM me for a full copy!

[Joshua White @Josh_mark_white]

Despite the similarity to today's giant panda, our results show that H. tomasettii did not possess the dental complexity to process fibrous bamboo, and likely had a diet similar to other extinct diprotodontids.

[Joshua White @Josh_mark_white]

I can officially say that I'm somewhat of scientist with the release of my first, first author publication with the help of @MatthewRMcCurry, @DeSantisLab, @DrTeethAl and @Lwilso9 published in P3. @AustmusResearch
https://t.co/xBlEzZf4OX

[Joshua White @Josh_mark_white]

Together, we evaluated the diet of a bizarre, panda-like diprotodontid, named Hulitherium tomasettii by using a combination of dental complexity and dental microwear texture analysis.