Juan L. Cantalapiedra

Evolutionary paleobiologist interested in Cenozoic large terrestrial mammals | tenured scientist @mncn_csic @CSIC | head of @Canta_Lab | member @GloCEE_EcoEvo

[Juan L. Cantalapiedra @singerstone]

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🦏🐘 Our latest paper just dropped in @NatureComms! A surprising discovery about the decline of Africa's megaherbivores. Why did the continent lose most of these giants? The answer isn't what most people assumed.

[all photos my own]

Thread 🧵👇
🔗 https://t.co/SLWthTnFD0

[Miguelón #SistemaAtapuerca @MiguelonMEH]

Mi amigo @Nunodomin me vuelve a desconcertar con hallazgos prehistóricos. Otra vez los neandertales:
Un enigmático cráneo de hace 200.000 años hallado en Ciudad Real complica aún más “el lío en el medio” de la evolución humana https://t.co/v9Mj8ZwTaj vía @el_pais

[Manuel Hernández Fernández @hdezfdez]

Lower speciation, not higher extinction, drove African megaherbivore diversity collapse
https://t.co/8319otrTrm
by @singerstone et al.

[Narimane Chatar @NarimaneChatar]

And this study was covered by @bobthesciguy for @UCBerkeley news, check it out 👇 https://t.co/5yW0bcGYJf

[Juan L. Cantalapiedra @singerstone]

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Our results offer new insights into how we interpret the disappearance of large-bodied taxa in the context of biotic crises.
[And yes, we're also waiting for the pretty version of the paper to come out 😅]

🔗 https://t.co/SLWthTnFD0

[Juan L. Cantalapiedra @singerstone]

1/7
🦏🐘 Our latest paper just dropped in @NatureComms! A surprising discovery about the decline of Africa's megaherbivores. Why did the continent lose most of these giants? The answer isn't what most people assumed.

[all photos my own]

Thread 🧵👇
🔗 https://t.co/SLWthTnFD0

[Juan L. Cantalapiedra @singerstone]

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We also found that high-crowned teeth (hypsodonty), adapted to hard, abrasive diets, are linked to lower extinction rates, making the macroevolutionary story behind megaherbivore decline far more complex than expected.

[Juan L. Cantalapiedra @singerstone]

@paleoTsimoes @Nature Amazing. Congrats, Tiago!

[Tiago R. Simões @paleoTsimoes]

Proud to share our latest paper in out in @Nature today on the origin of #snakes. We present Tametara mirim, an articulated 3D preserved stem snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil.
https://t.co/xDpmasr9E7

[Juan L. Cantalapiedra @singerstone]

@NarimaneChatar @ScienceMagazine @TIPollock @melvinvankelst @MargotMichaud00 @DavideTamagnin4 @FractalBone @UCBerkeley @InfoUMA This is amazing. Congrats, Narimane!

[Narimane Chatar @NarimaneChatar]

Excited to share our latest study highlighted on the cover of @ScienceMagazine🥳Combining a 3D dataset of 250 taxa, 3D modelling & printing and material testing; we deciphered the form-function relationship in the lower🦷of mammals 1/16🧵https://t.co/Jnd5Ovu60A

[Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales @mncn_csic]

#naturalmente💀'El surgimiento de Homo sapiens'. En este artículo Antonio Rosas explica cómo ha ido cambiando nuestro conocimiento en torno a nuestro origen y cuál es, a día de hoy, la hipótesis más plausible de cómo apareció Homo sapiens en el planeta. https://t.co/DzicOACkt8

[Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales @mncn_csic]

🤓 #recomendación 'Homo antecessor' https://t.co/c1ZXofK9sq nueva entrada del blog 'Paleoneurology' de Emiliano Bruner, investigador del #MNCN.

[Juan L. Cantalapiedra @singerstone]

@AndrejSpiridon4 Happy to see this published ;)

[Juan L. Cantalapiedra @singerstone]

@Pulgar_Panda @RichardDawkins Siendo el nombre de El Pulgar del panda tan gouldiano, creo en alguna ocasión futura estaría guay profundizar en las críticas de Gould a las ideas de Dawkins. Pueden seleccionarse los genes si no pueden interaccionar directamente con el ambiente como entes individuales?

[Narimane Chatar @NarimaneChatar]

New paper out in @JVP_vertpaleo📖While at @AMNH in '22 I found a skull labelled Pseudaelurus, a wastebasket genus for felid which turned out to be the most complete cranium of Adelphailurus kansensis, an early-diverging machairodont🦁🔪
https://t.co/gWVBr2y2x8
🎨by @Gamarraptor

[Sergi Valverde🌍(under a blue sky) @svalver]

Wow! Our article on punctuated evolution received enough views to be a Top Viewed Article at Palaeontology! @BlaiVidiella @AndrejSpiridon4 @niles_eldredge @SDuranNebreda @ralexbentley https://t.co/kp0v4KmihZ #TopViewedArticle @wileyinresearch