Dr. Heather F. Smith

I'm deeply honored to be designated a Fellow of the American Association for Anatomy! AAA has been an incredible resource throughout my career, and I'm proud and humbled to be recognized. Congratulations to all the 2023 award recipients! Press release: anatomy.org/AAA/News-Journ…

Check out our new August issue! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494/2… The cover features a new 3D anatomical atlas of the heads of the veiled chameleon, Chamaeleo calyptratus by Alice Leavey et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

⭐ We're pleased to share that our Impact Factor has increased to 2.6! While IF is only one bibliometric measure of journal influence, it's still encouraging to see a positive trajectory Thank you to our authors, reviewers, editorials & readers for their contributions & support!

🚨New pub!🚨 #FossilFriday New postcranial remains of an early prozostrodont from Brazil: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar… #Triassic #Paleontology #cynodonts

📣 New issue out now! The Anatomical Record (Vol. 309, Issue 7) From duck-billed dinosaur bone microstructure 🦖 to dire wolf debates 🐺 and rare cetacean anatomy 🐬—explore the latest in evolutionary & integrative anatomy. 🔗 anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494/2…

🐉 Had a blast doing STEM outreach at Phoenix Fan Fusion! We brought real animal skulls for a “Predator vs Prey” game & 3D‑printed a Gungan, Predator alien & dragon‑looking Pachycephalosaurus Turns out Predator isn’t built for predation and Gungans are basically all cartilage!

Just published this note, which provides some more info on that juvenile Gryposaurus skeleton we published in @AnatRecord a short while back: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar… #CMNPalaeo

Drivers of tail evolution in squamates and their implications for the fossorial origin of snakes. Study by Olivia Binfield et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

What a fantastic few days at GSA Rocky Mountain Section meeting! Our Campanian Crucible session delivered ten sharp, engaging talks spanning geochronology, dinosaurs, turtles, and Campanian mammals & 4 excellent posters. Huge thanks to all presenters, poster authors & attendees!

Our June issue is now out! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494/2… The cover article by Taylor et al. features a new bone and cartilage staining protocol for large avian specimens: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

Meet the bony spur-thighed tortoise, a new species of an extinct tortoise that lived in a challenging place some 4.16–3.98 Ma, in the South Caucasus (Armenia), with continuous volcanic eruptions and pyroclastic flows that buried and fossilized the specimens.

The session brings together research on vertebrate diversification, endemism & ecosystem structure in Campanian Laramidia. Talks highlight fossil assemblages from Alaska to Texas, w/advances in geochronology, paleoenvironmental reconstructions & interpretations of WIS dynamics

Excited to invite everyone to our GSA session “The Campanian Crucible: A synthesis of vertebrate paleobiogeography and ecosystem dynamics in Laramidia" 🗓️ May 19 ⏰ 8:00–11:40 AM 📍 Alvarado C 🏔️ GSA Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, Albuquerque Awesome logo design by Tut Tran 🤘

Shout out to my awesome Midwestern University research students who rocked their presentations at the Anatomy Connected conference last week! #Anatomy26

Congratulations to Dr. Courtney Miller for winning American Association for Anatomy 2026 Early Career Publication award in The Anatomical Record for her paper, "Early life functional transitions impact craniofacial morphology in osteogenesis imperfecta": anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

And that’s a wrap on Anatomy Connected 2026! Thanks to @AnatomyOrg for another amazing conference. It’s always an honor to represent @AnatRecord, and a joy to hear about the latest exciting research in our field & connect with colleagues and friends

Great symposium at Anatomy Connected yesterday on navigating the publication landscape and ethical publishing behavior by the 3 @AnatomyOrg journals. Thanks to the AAA Scientific Affairs Committee for inviting us, and all who came out!

If you're attending Anatomy Connected 2026, check out our session on navigating the publication landscape in anatomical sciences with presentations by the Editors-in-Chief of all 3 @AnatomyOrg journals! Friday 4/17 4:00-5:30pm in Ruidoso/San Miguel 220/215

I am honored to have our #cassowary #biofluorescence study highlighted in the @NatGeoAnimals story that came out today! Thank you to writer, @toochoicetaylor and @NatGeo for having interest in our research! @NYITCOMResearch @NYITCOMAR @diceCT @TetZoo nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

Proud of my Midwestern University research students who did a fabulous job presenting their research at the on-campus Kenneth A Suarez Research Day on Friday!

Fun visit last week to the American Museum of Natural History! Such impressive displays of giant fossil turtles, dinos, and more. #FossilFriday