The emerging sturgeon model and stiff necks of early tetrapods - paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Heads up! : @danakorneisel.bsky.social and Colleagues explores what drove the separation of the head and shoulders in Early Tetrapods and the role of neck mobility, using modern animals as an analogue. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Could not be more pleased to share the culmination of my "sturgeon project" out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... I and my co-authors estimate neck mobility in some of the first vertebrates on the road to conquering life on land. We found that the necks were surprisingly stiff!

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Second new paper this week: Reconstructing the oral apparatus of the Silurian heterostracan Athenaegis. Led by @lisaschnetz.bsky.social and in collaboration with many colleagues, including @euphanerops.bsky.social (who rendered the animation) and @nitroshutter.bsky.social

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The 19th International Symposium on Early and Lower Vertebrates will be held in Uppsala from the 1st to the 6th of July 2027! Sign up to the mailing list here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/sKN4rRqr7f

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