Chris Torres

@NSF bio postdoc in the @deeptimescience lab at @ohiou. I study birds. I really like dead birds (especially dead flamingos but also living ones, too).

[Chris Torres @Torresaurus_rex]

Check out my new Nature News and Views article about an awesome new paper from @J_BenitoMoreno @fieldpalaeo @tyrannosaura @PeiChenKuo3 et al with the strongest evidence yet that a mobile palate predates modern birds! @NatureNV

https://t.co/R5VWyxLaSY

[Chris Torres @Torresaurus_rex]

The REAL reason for the season.

[Pei-Chen Kuo @PeiChenKuo3]

https://t.co/gA09XjRbxY
I am glad to share my first first-author paper -- talking about the importance of fossils in the ancestral reconstruction under the quantitative framework and evolutionary pattern of galloanseran quadrates.

[The Anatomical Record @AnatRecord]

New research by Alexis Aranciaga Rolando, @antarcticdinos et al. reconstructs the arm muscles of mysterious meat-eating dinosaurs called megaraptorans:
https://t.co/fqHgeqjP7a

#megaraptora #theropoda #dinosaurs #paleobiology

[Field Palaeobiology Research Group @fieldpalaeo]

Grateful to the @Cambridge_Uni press office for this nice explanatory video—check out @J_BenitoMoreno's cinematographic debut! Thanks, @se_collins and @CamUni_Films! https://t.co/IpF06OB9Oj

[Chris Torres @Torresaurus_rex]

@J_BenitoMoreno @ja_tobias @Nature Let's start swapping their names and see if anyone notices.

[Chris Torres @Torresaurus_rex]

@J_BenitoMoreno It's exciting to see all those palate bones come together. Voltronavis?

[Chris Torres @Torresaurus_rex]

@fieldpalaeo Let's maximize the Twitter analytics for Janavis and speculate about the mobility of Spinosaurus' palate...

[Chris Torres @Torresaurus_rex]

Aaaand maybe give the paper itself a look, too - it's pretty cool!

[Juan Benito @J_BenitoMoreno]

Our new bird is coming out today in @Nature!

Meet Janavis finalidens, a large gull-like toothed bird with lots to say about the evolution of modern birds. Janavis’ palate overturns more than 150 years of ornithological paradigm!

https://t.co/hBy0nEYigR

[Chris Torres @Torresaurus_rex]

Hey, I know that guy.

[Julia Clarke @jclarkepaleolab]

Today at 1:45 pm, lab alumnus @Torresaurus_rex presents ongoing work from the @antarcticdinos team! Come hear about new Vegavis material and what it tells us about #bird evolution.

#2022SVP #SVP2022

[Chris Torres @Torresaurus_rex]

@EricGorscak

[Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive]

JOB ALERT! a new TT faculty hire in quantitative paleontology @NCStateSciences is posting SOON! It likely will not be posted by #2022SVP but members of the paleobiology research group (incl. myself & @terryagates) are happy to talk with prospective applicants in Toronto!

[Chris Torres @Torresaurus_rex]

@fieldpalaeo @ZoologyMuseum @christs_college @EarthSciCam Did you get any of their business cards? I'd like to pick their brains...

[Chris Torres @Torresaurus_rex]

@deeptimescience @fieldpalaeo @rfelice @ryndmrk The topic for this year's meeting: What's the deal with birds?

[Chris Torres @Torresaurus_rex]

Every day is #InternationalFlamingoDay if you try hard enough.

[Nick Crouch @NCrouch89]

Excited to have contributed to the special edition @Ecology_Letters on avian morphology

@ja_tobias and I looked at rates of evolution, finding bursts of phenotypic evolution are generally young, and associated with habitat niche stability, not diet 1/2

[Chris Torres @Torresaurus_rex]

Cool write up on some stuff I and @deeptimescience are working on at @ohiou, complete with photo of me tryna fight someone over bird skulls.

https://t.co/5AY96IHGVE

[Nick Crouch @NCrouch89]

New paper @RSocPublishing #ProcB! We quantify how assumptions of lineage formation affect scaling of a bivalve family tree and the macroevolutionary processes inferred from it

https://t.co/RMuPyR8h9L

[WitmerLab @WitmerLab]

Wing-propelled diving songbirds? Yes, dippers are the coolest!

Glad to be part of this new #OA article in @AnatRecord out today—https://t.co/lwHezxfBCp—led by Adam Smith, with @KristaLerista, @jclarkepaleolab, @KsepkaLab, @JonSMitchell, @Vert_Anatomist, Ryan Ridgely, & me. 1/6