Leonardo Hostos-Olivera

Paleobiology & Conservation 🇵🇪🤠. Aquatic Carnivorans 🦦🦭🌊. Researcher in PalEo-V Lab @CayetanoHeredia 👨🏻‍💻. Master's candidate in Zoology @UNMSM_ 📚

[Aldo Benites-Palomino @paleoAldo]

Its Live! Website and registrations are now open for #SECAD2027 !!!!

We look forward to meeting you next year in Lima and hosting in the gastronomic capital of the Americas! Join us for a few special days talking on Secondarily aquatic tetrapods!

https://t.co/blgv6mK8Xp

[Agencia Andina @Agencia_Andina]

🔎🦭 ¡Perú vuelve a asombrar! Hallan fósiles de nueva especie de lobo marino https://t.co/tDobFfHwq3

📍Especie de 3 millones de años descubierta en Arequipa ayuda a entender su evolución en el hemisferio sur.

✍Por Jessica Olaechea
📹Video: Patricia Carrasco-Zúñiga

[Aldo Benites-Palomino @paleoAldo]

We are delighted to share the first circular of #SECAD2027, the meeting on Secondary Adaptations of Tetrapods to Life in Water, to be held in Lima, Peru, from 30 August to 3 September 2027. We look forward to welcoming you all!

Link:https://t.co/fKyywgvpHC

[Aldo Benites-Palomino @paleoAldo]

Honoured to share that we will host #SECAD2027 between 30.08 to 03.09 in Lima, Peru. More details soon!! Looking forward to catching up with friends and colleagues!!!

[Narimane Chatar @NarimaneChatar]

New paper about the functioning of saber teeth led by the amazing @TIPollock 🥳 combining 3DGM with biomechanical testing we identified functional optimality as a key driver underpinning the repeated evolution of extreme saber-tooth morphologies 🔪🦁 https://t.co/FmZYXaMwdM

[Narimane Chatar @NarimaneChatar]

Meet Ontocetus posti 🦭 a new species of odobenines we described in a new study led by @MathBoisville based on material from the UK & Belgium 🇬🇧🇧🇪 Want to know more about this new fossil walrus? Here is a thread 🧵1/7. 🎨by @BranArtworks https://t.co/qZvEZvZoCX

[Aldo Benites-Palomino @paleoAldo]

@secad2024 has been a wonderful experience for everyone around!!! Lots and lots of great scientists around. BUT THIS IS NOW OFFICIAL: We will be hosting #SECAD2027 at @MuseoHNUNMSM in the city of Lima Peru! #FossilFriday

[Pimiento Research Group @PimientoGroup]

Our review "The extinct marine megafauna of the Phanerozoic" is out!

This is a product of the block-course we teach each Autumn at @UZH_Science & includes the students of 2 cohorts, as well as our guest speakers & most of our research team.

https://t.co/qM6Kdwps6W

[Hugo A. Benítez 🌳 @HugoBenitezd]

Sorpresas aumentan en el Primer Congreso Chileno de Zoología. Tendremos Reunión Chilena de Morfometría Geométrica!
Sin duda esta técnica ha sido ampliamente usada en muchísimos organismos que mejor que venir a mostrar tus resultados y ser parte de este primer encuentro! #zoologia

[Leonardo Hostos-Olivera @LeoHostos]

I feel extremely happy 😁 because this is my first publication as first author, and it is also the first product generated from my bachelor's thesis. More news will be coming soon! 👨🏻‍💻🌊

[Leonardo Hostos-Olivera @LeoHostos]

This week @SpringerNature published the first international book on the #MarineOtter (Lontra felina 🦦), an endemic and endangered species that inhabits the Pacific coasts of Peru and Chile.
https://t.co/U2hiz8pFRR

[Leonardo Hostos-Olivera @LeoHostos]

Within this effort, Dr. Juan Valqui and I contributed with a chapter where we comprehensively reviewed the trophic ecology of #Lontrafelina, addressing its diet composition, biogeographical patterns and its relationship with phenotypic variability.
Link: https://t.co/THnUeqVzxD

[Aldo Benites-Palomino @paleoAldo]

THE BIGGEST FRESHWATER DOLPHIN INHABITED THE PERUVIAN AMAZONIA 16 MILLION YEARS AGO.
Just published in @ScienceAdvances we introduce you to Pebanista yacuruna and a problem: Why? it is the closest relative of the South Asian river dolphins (g. Platanista).
https://t.co/uBeocLC61g

[Leonardo Hostos-Olivera @LeoHostos]

Confirmed after a long time... There are now 14 species of extant #otters around the world!!! 🦦🌎
The Neotropical otter splits into Lontra longicaudis (South America) and Lontra annectens (Mesoamerica)

#mammals #carnivora #taxonomy #JournalofMammalogy
https://t.co/Bka8XOEz7K

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

Different ecological and #phylogenetic effects led to distinct #evolutionary patterns among the different skeletal components in #carnivorans. Read the full #BiologyLetters paper ‘Uncovering the mosaic evolution of the carnivoran skeletal system’ https://t.co/0xIvXACApC

[Dr. Bryan H. Juarez (He/They) @bhjuarez]

Collyer and Adams 2024 Evol Biol "argue that a formal hypothesis-testing framework for measurement error in morphometric data is lacking".

They develop formal methods to evaluate systematic and random error in morph!

https://t.co/uwJYa7DAvm

[Florida Museum @FloridaMuseum]

It's a wrap! 🎉🎉🎉 With the completion of #oVertTCN, the doors of natural history museum collections have been digitally unlocked allowing scientists, educators, artists & the public to interact with specimens in ways never before possible.
Story:
https://t.co/HaTp8GWB3D

[Carlos Perez Carmona @C_PCarmona]

Do you work with traits? Would you like to create these fancy plots but they are too complex?
You can do them now (along with other analyses) with 'funspace', an R package created with @GiacomoPugliel1 and Nicola Pavanetto.