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A good week for endocasts from the Silcox lab! Newly published paper led by on the relationship between endocranial and brain morphology in squamates. https://t.co/XJ4sMxpinh

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2023-01-06

Had to dig out some old data on the pterosaur Anhanguera, reminding me of our now ancient 2003 article on pterosaur brain endocasts—https://t.co/ZI1LTxe1lP. Here's some fresh 3D viz plus the cover art by Kyle McQuilkin & Ryan Ridgely that Nature didn't use.

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2022-08-13

Around 300,000 years ago, brain endocasts of Homo naledi (pink) were 50-67% the size of Indonesian Homo erectus (yellow), but anatomically they may not have been not too different

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2022-01-08

Brain endocasts of immature Neandertals Engis 2 (left) and Krapina 1 (right). Although brain size of each was within the adult range of variation, similar to humans kids today, they probably still would have had lots of development left

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2021-11-20

Thrilled to have this new article in out today! Aetosaur brain endocasts w/ great collaborators led by Belén von Baczko & Julia Desojo. by

Ryan Ridgely & I first scanned these fossils many yrs ago—glad to finally get this out!

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2021-10-20

New digital braincase endocasts of iconic aetosaur Desmatosuchus and neurocranial diversity in Aetosauria by M. Belén von Baczko, & colleagues:
https://t.co/2UQLxjOqHA

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2021-10-19

is an package to extract cranial articulate disarticulated models, visualize variations and much more!


All examples are fully reproducible in R!

Check it out:
https://t.co/DQNzaLwSP1

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2021-06-12

Brain endocasts of a human (green) compared with heavily reconstructed Homo naledi (gold) and Homo erectus (red), scaled to same size (left side and top views)

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2021-02-27

I am describing a new pterosaur from Scotland, large 3D skeleton from Jurassic (I know, really exciting anomaly). Heaps of new palaeoart inside. And first official look at lovely, unique specimen - along with few words on endocasts & pterosaur scansoriality. 👉👈

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2020-10-13

Spent much of 2019 thinking about and trying to rebuild Neandertal brain endocasts with my students. Hoping for more of that in 2020!

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2019-12-31

CT study of elephant bird endocasts suggests limited visual acuity & kiwi-like nocturnal lifestyle https://t.co/y2hf23ZwBJ

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2018-10-31