New preprint: How macroecology affects macroevolution: the interplay between extinction intensity and trait-dependent extinction in brachiopods https://t.co/A1HekwVegL
Mark your calendars! Dr. Steve Driese will be giving a talk for Science Thursdays at the @MaybornMuseum on Thursday, January 31 from 7-8 pm (refreshments at 6:30 pm). His talk is titled “New Insights from Old Dirt”.
Paleodrama! Specimen of the Pliocene clam Astarte obliquata from the Netherlands escaped an almost certain death by a drilling snail 3(!) times. #FossilFriday#paleo#fossil#paleontology#snails https://t.co/q5k893Ct3Y
Prof. Dave Bottjer, honored by his former students, including @meclapham, with a special issue at Palaeo3 where he was an editor for sixteen years! https://t.co/ZAGEwrwJKr
Holler by reply if you are a current or former Bottjer student on Twitter!
Most sea urchins have spines covered in a layer of tissue. Pencil urchins- Eucidaris tribuloides shown here- don't. That means the spines serve as a hard substrate for other inverts (barnacles, serpulid worms, bryozoans, hydroids, etc) to settle on. A traveling habitat! #1001jars
Caught spikey-handed? "When your oral surface is caught in the cookie jar..." Cidaroid urchin predation ("constant nibbling") on a black coral: an unusual behavior (?) #Okeanos, ~400m, Isla de Mona escarpment, Puerto Rico
TOMORROW BAWG will be hosting another HIS/HER Story Panel at 3:45 pm in BSB D410. Join us as Dr. Stacy Atchley, Dr. Steve Driese, Dr. Bill Hockaday, and Dr. Liz Petsios (@PetsiosLab) tell their stories. There will be ice cream!