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this week=Borealestes, a docodontan mammal from I found this jaw a couple of years ago, one of many new specimens from this Middle locality (see our review of the Kilmaluag Fauna published recently: https://t.co/HbCn1UeiwF).

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2020-08-07

Hadrocodium 😁 Chinese that taught us about evolution of mammal brains linked to sense of smell, about jaw-ear transition, & was teeny weeny (art: Mark A Klingler)

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2020-03-12

Worked two historic Cloverly Fm quarries this summer with & : the Gobiconodon & Deinonychus quarries!

= top 5 coolest ever

= almost as cool as a mammal

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2019-08-17

🚨New paper published!🚨
Excited to announce my colleagues & I have published on own Borealestes! We fully describe it for the 1st time, incl. new near complete jaws & upper tooth row, all from
https://t.co/ACETeqb9tV

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2019-07-25

Meet Microdocodon! A tiny Jurassic docodon from China that has complex mammal-like hyoids! You can read more about it in our paper now available in Science !

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2019-07-19

Day 3 Tweetstorm. Here’s more from the gliding Haramiyidans papers. After examining Vilevolodon's teeth, we hypothesized that it ate softer fruit-like structures on plants like this Bennettitale.

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2019-03-04

Working on some images of the fossil we've been studying from This is a digital render of the jaw of I hope to share more pics in the coming weeks 🐀

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2018-07-12