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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

Let’s look at Charmander real quick. It’s the “Lizard Pokemon”, so obviously it’s not a snake, right?
Well, if we believe Chimchar is the Monkey, even though Chimps aren’t similar to Monkeys, but both are Primates, then Lizard and Snakes could also fit, since both are Squamates.

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2022-03-02

Un reptil anguimorfo gigante del Superior español, nuevo trabajo de A. Cabezuelo et al. publicado en

https://t.co/tsu41DMayy

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2021-11-22

Quick Gnathomortis stadtmani portrait !
Fossil evidence shows that the teeth of mosasaurs, like those of other squamates, were concealed by their gums. The gums retract when they bite on their prey to reveal the teeth.

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2021-05-12

Séance d'étude sur les squamates : iquanes, lézards, serpents...

Un peu de couleur pour changer, c'était dommage de rester en noir et blanc pour le Draco ^^

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2021-03-09

We just published in Communications Biology the oldest fossil lizard in South America, pushing back squamate arrival in SA by 20Myr, and showing cosmopolitanism of early squamates in South America! https://t.co/BoKlE0oZaa

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2020-04-29

Today is the day we celebrate the Serpentes, those long, scaly, cold-blooded, legless squamates. In celebration, we present a few chromolithographs and wood engravings of snakes doing what snakes do: threatening, crushing, swallowing things, and just hanging out, looking cool.

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2019-07-17

Interested in morphological evolution, squamates, or skulls? Check out my new paper on the diversification of the gecko quadrate bone published in ! Link to paper: https://t.co/owZY8nyYfE

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2018-10-11

Soon, very soon we will be able to share the first episode of our podcast SquaMates. Here is our logo, with drawings by the FAMOUS

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2018-06-22

The dragons of Idlewood are all dorky little squamates, as they should be. https://t.co/ztWbWfmHT4

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2017-12-31