D. Rex Mitchell

A new model of skull function just dropped! It describes the skull as an arch-bridge like structure that uses tensile elements to guide arcs of compressive stress between the biting teeth and jaw joints. Written by me! 💀💀💀 #skull #science onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/QTY2SAH2…

A video covering our new published research on the tiny marsupial with an unusual talent 💀 #skull #science youtu.be/8H1rFsjgc38?si… via @YouTube

Our lab just published a cool paper on seed-cracking bettongs. Not just any seeds, but some of the hardest seeds out there! Two species in the same genus showing different adaptatiosn to hard biting. Very cool 💀💀🤓🤓 #skull #science academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

This was a fun little side project I worked on while doing placoderm biomechanics analysis with the Flinders Gogo team. To be presented at @CAVEPS_Palaeo 💀🤓 #Devonian #fossil #placoderm #paleontology youtube.com/shorts/0NByEKZ…

Achievement unlocked! h-index of 10 😎 #skull #science

I only played a very small role in this @PNASNews article by @AbbyGraceDrake, @JLosos, et al., but it's cool, so please check it out! "Copy-cat evolution: Divergence and convergence within and between cat and dog breeds." doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

What if the Rancor in @starwars was a domesticated breed similar to a pug or a bulldog? In the latest video from The Skullywag Lab, I "un-pug" the Rancor to see what a wild, undomesticated Rancor ancestor might look like! #skull #science #starwars youtu.be/di40LOfgSoA?si…

New episode on ant and termite-eating animal skulls 💀💀💀 The feeding anatomy of these species is pretty bonkers tbh. Happy to finally explore it a bit youtu.be/Qt2iqUwujhY?si…

Just made this for The Skullywag Lab website I'm building Come sit by the fire and enjoy some skulls 💀🤓

A new episode of Monster ID just dropped! This time, the lab identifies the Beast of Tenby 💀 youtu.be/Tr_yG9DoYJs?si… #skull #science

Knowing what an animal eats can help biologists find it – especially when a species is as elusive as this one. @KarlVernes @DRexMitchell @WeisbeckerLab @FlindersUniNews @uninewengland theconversation.com/presumed-extin…

Some interesting findings from our new methods paper. We used the skull of the extinct desert rat-kangaroo as a case study and discovered some important details about its feeding habits @WeisbeckerLab @TheSkullywagLab theconversation.com/presumed-extin… via @ConversationEDU

For any researchers that study skull function using comparative finite element analysis, our new paper presenting a framework for scaling muscle forces to adequately represent the hypothesis is extremely important journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

@gessiejomez @DRexMitchell @CookeSiobhan Questions on socioecology? Rare behaviors? Skeletal lesion analysis helps! #primates #primatology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

New study! Measaurements of deer skulls from 38 species (300 individuals) show that larger species have more diverse skull ecomorphology. Author concludes that size imposes ecological constraints 💀🤓 mdpi.com/2948940 #mdpifossstud via @FossilsMDPI #skull #science

@aNATomy_Lab @TheSkullywagLab Thanks Nat! 💀🤓

@TheSkullywagLab @DRexMitchell Super fun Rex @TheSkullywagLab 😄🙌🦴💀☠️

New video dropped, where I turn myself into a giant - for science! 🤓💀 youtube.com/watch?v=lvvF6J…

The latest video just dropped (link in bio). We take a look at how missing teeth in the ancestors of the marsupial lion made evolution produce one of the most weird and powerful skulls known to science! 🤓💀 Artwork by Rudolph Hima, Music by Max Brhon

No luck on the DECRA. Moving on 🕺

@TheSkullywagLab Thanks @drphilcox!

Like rodents? New video just dropped on their crazy skulls! 🐀🐁🐭🐹💀💀💀💀 youtu.be/G2Klf3lRSGI?si…