February 2024 - Paleontology in Review

This was a big month in paleontology, and for us, so apologies for being late.
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00:10 Quantifying the effects of exceptional fossil preservation on the global availability of phylogenetic data
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04:05 The decline and fall of the mammalian stem
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05:06 Tikitherium copei is a Neogene shrew
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05:59 Hunting strategies in Permian synapsids ecomorphology
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07:02 Earliest evidence of Inostrancevia in the southern hemisphere
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07:50 A new recumbirostran ‘microsaur’- Bromerpeton subcolossus
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08:44 Earth's earliest forest from the Middle Devonian
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09:45 The evolutionary history of Coleoptera
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10:32 Forged soft tissues in Tridentinosaurus antiquus
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11:38 The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes
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13:01 Tetrapod tracks from the Middle/Late Triassic of Morocco
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14:03 Revision of Australia’s earliest reported dinosaur trackway
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14:57 The first mamenchisaurid from southern China- Jingia dongxingensis
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15:18 The first gladius-bearing coleoid cephalopods
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16:02 The Diet of Metriorhynchus
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17:00 Marine archosauromorph- Dinocephalosaurus orientalis
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17:37 Reassessment of the enigmatic “Prestosuchus” loricatus
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19:01 Locomotion and the early Mesozoic success of Archosauromorpha
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20:04 Reassessment of Bagaraatan ostromi
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20:50 Two-fingered oviraptorid Oksoko avarsan
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21:32 A caenagnathid tibia from New Mexico
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22:13 A new small duckbilled dinosaur- Minqaria bata
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23:12 A cretaceous frog with eggs
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24:51 New Remains of Kentriodon
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25:33 Downsizing Perucetus colossus
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26:43 Aureia rerehua, a new platanistoid dolphin
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27:25 Articular surface interactions distinguish dinosaurian locomotor joint poses
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28:05 Critical steps in the formation of the modern avian shoulder joint
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28:51 Functional constraints on the number and shape of flight feathers
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29:58 First Edentulous Enantiornithine from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Avifauna
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30:51 Were terror birds the apex continental predators of Antarctica?
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31:35 A new basal spinosaurid- Riojavenatrix lacustris
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[@JohnSmith-of2gu]

The KZbin Algorthim has blessed me, it's beautiful to see this comprehensive, non-sensationalize, summary of recent scientific work!

[@RaptorChatter]

That's our goal!

[@patreekotime4578]

It is always really impressive the way you weave a narrative through all of these different studies!

[@josephmcphee9143]

Great summary of the month as usual. Thanks for the effort you put into these videos

[@joeshmoe8345]

Thanks a bunch for sharing this with us Big Dog!

[@tinyelvenmitten1774]

Thank you again for these amazing summary-videos! I love watching these!

[@catarinacorreia2747]

Thank you so much for sharing these

[@RobertGotschall-y2f]

An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles Wickersham's Conscience

[@Tuishimi]

Nicely done!

[@jthomas8263]

Well Callaghan, Bagaraatan Ostromi is a Juvenile Indeterminate Tyrannosaurid.

[@compicadoem]

I was looking forward to the video

[@Turdfergusen382]

Let’s go!

[@nickrr5234]

Very interesting as always - thanks. The news seems to focus quite heavily on the mesozoic rather than the paleozoic. Is this intentional (e.g. focusing on dinosaurs etc) or is it because there are more fossils being found for this period?

[@RaptorChatter]

It's because it's different. A fossil rhino, even an early one is "just another mammal, we see those all the time". A dinosaur is totally unique, and other than birds nobody has ever seen one, so it seems exciting. Because of this funding exists to study dinosaurs, and a handful of other groups.

[@mrJety89]

oh hey look a violin plot

[@mrJety89]

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[@arjanmann7240]

Microsaurs are not related to living amphibians, that’s almost certainly temnospondyls. Microsaurs probably are either early amniotes or on the amniote stem.

[@RaptorChatter]

From what I've seen they are generally considered as Temnospondyls, but I know there's a lot of debate that far down the tree. I know of at least one person working on a lot of the base of the amniote amphibian split, so hopefully there will be better in the future.

[@whiteegretx]

Thanks for the recap. Now I can argue with people on Facebook. 😊

[@RaptorChatter]

I don't get on facebook because I like arguing too much.

[@whiteegretx]

@@RaptorChatter - It's a trap

[@grantboardman7880]

You gonna be at ANAS this Saturday?

[@RaptorChatter]

That's the plan, with a poster!

[@grantboardman7880]

Cool, it'll be good to chat at your poster. I'm judging some of the student posters and I have the first talk of the morning.

[@vincentboccarossa2313]

Please adjust the pictures in the background so they aren’t off kilter. Love the vids

[@Sepi-chu_loves_moths]

Ooouughh i juat noticed tbat your paintings are tilted :/ its distracting 😅

[@RaptorChatter]

We're working on it. It worked on our old camera, but this one is more accurate. Them being off made them look aligned on the old one.

[@damiangillessen5762]

Is it just me or does the paitings in the background being out of alignment really trigger your OCD? 😅😅