Roy M. Farman 🦎🐸👣🩻
@roymfarman.bsky.social
Palaeontologist & Morphologist 🦴 | Amphibians🐸 and Ichnology 👣 Enthusiast | CT 💀 3D GM | Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow IPHES-CERCA/Monash, Adj. Assoc. Lecturer (UNSW). MSc, PhD.
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Awesome new paper complete with epic art: an ichthyosaur chomps a pterosaur, and is in turn chomped by a pliosaur! Based on a specimen from Richmond, Qld.
July 27, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Awesome new paper complete with epic art: an ichthyosaur chomps a pterosaur, and is in turn chomped by a pliosaur! Based on a specimen from Richmond, Qld.
Reposted by Roy M. Farman 🦎🐸👣🩻
New in @biodivlibrary.bsky.social are the chapters of "Vertebrate palaeontology of Australasia", including one of my favourite images, a giant goanna chasing a mihirung (Genyornis) www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39941042
July 24, 2026 at 8:43 AM
New in @biodivlibrary.bsky.social are the chapters of "Vertebrate palaeontology of Australasia", including one of my favourite images, a giant goanna chasing a mihirung (Genyornis) www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39941042
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Swept ashore: Transoceanic dispersals and the biogeographic origins of Australian gekkonid lizards doi.org/10.32942/X26...
July 20, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Swept ashore: Transoceanic dispersals and the biogeographic origins of Australian gekkonid lizards doi.org/10.32942/X26...
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Proud to share our latest paper in out in Nature today on the origin of #snakes. We present Tametara mirim, an articulated 3D preserved stem snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. Tametara helped us re-tell the story of snake origins in a novel way... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Exceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes - Nature
A well-preserved fossil snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil shows early ecological and brain shape disparity in the group.
www.nature.com
July 22, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Proud to share our latest paper in out in Nature today on the origin of #snakes. We present Tametara mirim, an articulated 3D preserved stem snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. Tametara helped us re-tell the story of snake origins in a novel way... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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new temnospondyl from Germany
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#artandscience #digitalart #paleontology #science #research
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#artandscience #digitalart #paleontology #science #research
July 21, 2026 at 4:48 PM
new temnospondyl from Germany
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#artandscience #digitalart #paleontology #science #research
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#artandscience #digitalart #paleontology #science #research
First European conference for me 🇪🇺 Excited to hear all about the different European vertebrates I have no idea about (🇦🇺).
Today #EAVP2026 begins. We wish all presenters a productive meeting. Attendees are welcome to share updates using the hashtag, while respecting requests not to share presentation content online.
June 29, 2026 at 10:40 AM
First European conference for me 🇪🇺 Excited to hear all about the different European vertebrates I have no idea about (🇦🇺).
Cool new research from Libros!
(PDF) First anguid record (Anguidae, Squamata) from the Late Miocene Konservat-Lagerstätte Libros (Teruel, Spain) and its palaeoenvironmental implications
PDF | For the first time, fossil evidence of anguine material is reported from the middle–late Tortonian Konservat-Lagerstätte locality of Libros... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
www.researchgate.net
June 22, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Cool new research from Libros!
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Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
First of a line or last of a dynasty? Parabos tigneresi and the evolution of eurasian bovinae in the early pliocene
The Early Pliocene maar deposits of Camp dels Ninots (Catalonia, NE Iberia) have produced an exceptionally well-preserved fossil assemblage. Among the large mammals, a large bovid stands out, represen...
dx.plos.org
June 7, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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A new genus of #giant #salamander (Urodela, Cryptobranchidae) from the #Pliocene of #Japan - peerj.com/articles/213... @peerj.bsky.social #Paleontology #Taxonomy #Zoology #Fossils #Herpetology
June 3, 2026 at 9:47 AM
A new genus of #giant #salamander (Urodela, Cryptobranchidae) from the #Pliocene of #Japan - peerj.com/articles/213... @peerj.bsky.social #Paleontology #Taxonomy #Zoology #Fossils #Herpetology
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🐸 The age structure and growth curves of invasive American bullfrogs in South Korea were recently analysed using bone cross-section analysis to improve local ecological risk assessments.
📈 Check out the full study: doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.39.e182878
📈 Check out the full study: doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.39.e182878
June 3, 2026 at 2:19 PM
🐸 The age structure and growth curves of invasive American bullfrogs in South Korea were recently analysed using bone cross-section analysis to improve local ecological risk assessments.
📈 Check out the full study: doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.39.e182878
📈 Check out the full study: doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.39.e182878
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Calling scientists whose research falls under the big umbrella of vertebrate morphology: ISVM (and ICVM conferences) has a Bluesky account! Please follow, share, & it's a great account via which to follow other morphologists you might not yet follow!
@isvmorph.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/isvm...
@isvmorph.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/isvm...
bsky.app
April 29, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Calling scientists whose research falls under the big umbrella of vertebrate morphology: ISVM (and ICVM conferences) has a Bluesky account! Please follow, share, & it's a great account via which to follow other morphologists you might not yet follow!
@isvmorph.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/isvm...
@isvmorph.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/isvm...
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Second PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity.
Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪
doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪
doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Habitat and complex life cycles promote morphological diversity in salamander limb bones
We examined the external shape and cross-sectional morphology of limb bones in 133 salamander species spanning the ecological and phylogenetic breadth of Caudata. We find that adaptations for aquatic...
doi.org
January 28, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Second PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity.
Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪
doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪
doi.org/10.1111/joa....
1 of 2 papers out this week 🐸🐸🐸🐸. This one is about three new tree frogs and Philoria godthelpi sp. nov. (Limnodynastidae) from the World Heritage Area Riversleigh, honouring Henk Godthelp who recovered many wonderful frog fossils.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New Miocene frogs from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, north-western Queensland, and their palaeoecological implications
The Riversleigh World Heritage fossil deposits in northwestern Queensland, Australia, preserve diverse vertebrate faunas spanning the last 25 million years. Fossil anurans have been recorded from R...
www.tandfonline.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
1 of 2 papers out this week 🐸🐸🐸🐸. This one is about three new tree frogs and Philoria godthelpi sp. nov. (Limnodynastidae) from the World Heritage Area Riversleigh, honouring Henk Godthelp who recovered many wonderful frog fossils.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New Riversleigh paper on some new malleodectids, including a new genus and two new species.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A new genus and two new species of malleodectid (Marsupialia, Malleodectidae) from the Middle and Late Miocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland. - Journal of Ma...
Isolated upper teeth of a new fourth species of Malleodectes, M. arenai sp. nov. and an isolated lower molar representing a new genus of diminutive malleodectid, Weirdodectes napoleoni sp. nov. are de...
link.springer.com
April 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
New Riversleigh paper on some new malleodectids, including a new genus and two new species.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A very worthy first post, great paper!
New paper in @nature.com led by @patricepottier.bsky.social! We demonstrated global vulnerability of amphibians to warming, threatening 10% of >5,000 species examined. How did we do it? See thread🧵
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
A very worthy first post, great paper!