Prof. Valentin Fischer

New paper out today where we test the 150-year-old hypothesis that a unique jaw torus seen in Nimravus is an adaptation to resist biting forces using FEA🦁🔪 our results highlight some functional advantage of the torus, which are amplified at larger gape👀 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Only 3 days left to help us create a gigantic statue of a mosasaur in Liège! promethea.koalect.com/project/43722

It might sound crazy but we are going to build up a life-size sculpture of Mosasaurus right in the city center of Liège! You can discover and contribute to project via this link! promethea.koalect.com/project/43722

New paper out in @CommsBio lead by @lab_raia showing that rapid cortical expansion in the prefrontal region took place early on during the evolution of primates 🐵🧠 nature.com/articles/s4200…

Really happy to have passed my PhD viva last Friday! 🎉 I would like to warmly thanks @Val_Fisch, @DrTLStubbs, Torsten Scheyer, Denis Baurain, members of my jury and all great researchers that have helped during these 4 years. It was a fantastic journey in the Mesozoic seas!

We're thrilled to announce the publication of an exciting new Special Issue on pseudosuchian paleobiology and systematics, Guest Edited by Mariana Valeria de Araujo Sena,@histo_holly, and Jorge Cubo. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494/2… Beautiful cover paleoart by Guilherme Gehr

Open full-time academic position on biomimicry @UniversiteLiege ! Details here: uliege.be/upload/docs/ap…

🚨New paper alert!🚨 De Brito et al. provide an updated description of a fossil cone of Pinus belgica, one of the oldest representatives of the pine genus in the Lower #Cretaceous Wealden facies of the Mons Basin in Belgium 🌲⛏️🔬 #openaccess doi.org/10.20341/gb.20…

Really proud to have finally submitted my Ph.D. manuscript 🥳 I would like to thanks everyone who helped during this adventure, especially @Val_Fisch, @DrTLStubbs and Torsten Scheyer for their brilliant supervision!

Two new @frsFNRS funded PhD students in the lab: @melvinvankelst will be working on the biomechanical performances of Eocene-Oligocene carnivorous mammals and @AlexisRastier will be investigating the latest Devonian turnovers in plant communities!

Excited to see our study on the evolution of Mesozoic marine reptiles across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary—featuring fossils from the iconic Marine Reptile Gallery—and recently published in @journal_evo, highlighted in the News section of the @NHM_London website! 🤩

Last paper about 🌲Pinus belgica 🎄 with @Val_Fisch and @C_Prestianni popups.uliege.be/1374-8505/inde…

@AdamRutherford Origin, biodiversity, and extinction of Cretaceous ichthyosaurs

In the spirit of freedom of academic enquiry for extraordinarily niche domains, my thesis was entitled: ‘The role of CHX10 in the development of the mammalian retina’ #ThesisTitles Your turn, go!

Who's a cute little anatomical direction chart? YOU ARE! You are a cute little anatomical direction chart!! Cerrejonisuchus by Isaure Scavezzoni, from Scavenzonni et al. 2024 (just posted on my wall).

MASSIVE new paper led by my former lab mates @IScavezzoni about the pectoral griddle of crocodylomorpha 🐊🤯 anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

The last remaining chapter of my thesis is finally published! We investigated the peculiar morphology of the pectoral girdle of two clades of aquatic crocs: Thalattosuchia & Dyrosauridae 🐊 doi.org/10.1002/ar.255… @Val_Fisch @michela_johnson @JouveStphane1

Supermassive new paper (162 pages!) led by Dr @IScavezzoni on the pectoral girdle anatomy of thalattosuchian and dyrosaurid crocodylomorphs @michela_johnson onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/R…

It was raining cats and dogs in for the last day of #SVP2024 😼

Heeeeey #SVP2024 attendees, do not miss the Carnivora & Co session tomorrow morning if you're still in town 🦁🐺🦦🐻🦝🦡🦨

The many ways toward punctuated evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa… @SDuranNebreda @BlaiVidiella @AndrejSpiridon4 @niles_eldrege @ralexbentley @svalver @wileyearthspace @IBE_Barcelona @CNRS @CSIC @ECLT_Venice