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21st-century approaches to fleshing out the past! Mission: to use the structure of past & present animals to interpret evolutionary history...and to share it!
Athens, OH Entrou em Mart 2014
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Bobcat to Boilermaker! Grace Vance, who is doing her @OhioU senior thesis on seals in our lab, will be joining Dylan Wainwright's lab at Purdue as a PhD student! Grace also will be a summer intern at Friday Harbor Labs this summer! Congratulations on all your success, Grace! 🎉
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.@OhioU undergrad researcher in our lab Klazina McKeigan spent her Spring Break in Chicago & visited the @FieldMuseum. She snapped photos with such luminaries as @SUEtheTrex, the new Chicago Archaeopteryx, & a mount of the same Majungasaurus that she's been learning in our lab!
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Another @OhioU undergrad joining our lab is @OhioBioSciences freshman Klazina McKeigan. She's in the selective @OUHCOM Early Assurance Program—she's already accepted into our med school! But for now Klazina is starting research on her other passion—dinosaurs! See ALT for details.
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Another @OhioU undergrad joining our lab is @OhioBioSciences freshman Klazina McKeigan. She's in the selective @OUHCOM Early Assurance Program—she's already accepted into our med school! But for now Klazina is starting research on her other passion—dinosaurs! See ALT for details.
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Joining our lab this semester is @OhioU sophomore Wildlife & Conservation @OhioBioSciences major Stella Kurtz. She’s taking on the mountain of Ohio bobcat skeletons that we've been preparing since the pandemic. See ALT for more info.
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Evan Doles, geology undergrad in our @OhioU Honors Tutorial College, has been digging into extant anatomy this semester to build a foundation for studying dinosaurs. Lately he’s been dissecting a common extant dinosaur, a domestic pigeon, which he finished today. 🦖🕊️
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Loren Babcock from @OhioState's Orton Geological Museum (at left) gave a great seminar today on Thomas Jefferson, Megalonyx & paleo history to the @OhioU Earth & Environmental Geosciences Department. We closed the day by bringing everyone to our lab for a fun tour! #FossilFriday
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I should check my mail more often. Nice surprise on #FossilFriday to see an actual print version of the @Nature issue with my News & Views commentary for the Nanotyrannus cover article by Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive & James Napoli @JGN_Paleo. Glad to be involved. Links in ALT🦖
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To follow up on our @SundayCTscanning with @OhioU undergrads Grace Vance & Klazina McKeigan, here are the results from the >14K CT slices: two young intact alligators, three Nile croc skulls, adult male & male pup hooded seals, and a bearded seal. Now the work begins! 🦭🐊
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#SundayCTScanning Spent the morning at @OhioHealth O'Bleness Hospital doing some research CT scanning of seals, alligators, and crocodiles with @ohiou undergrad researchers senior Grace Vance & freshman Klazina McKeigan. Stay tuned for results...! 🦭🐊
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#SundayCTScanning Spent the morning at @OhioHealth O'Bleness Hospital doing some research CT scanning of seals, alligators, and crocodiles with @ohiou undergrad researchers senior Grace Vance & freshman Klazina McKeigan. Stay tuned for results...! 🦭🐊
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So happy to finally meet Gary Vecchiarelli today after being friends on social media for years. Glad to welcome him to @OhioU & give him a lab tour. He's working on a geology master's via OU's online program. And we took in a @BobcatsHockey game while we were at it—and we won!
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Excited to see this article led by @SeishiroTada out in @AnatRecord. Triceratops and their ceratopsian kin are more than horns and frills! Check out their narial regions! doi.org/10.1002/ar.701…
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I'm a couple days late for #MuseumSelfieDay but we'll count it for #FossilFriday. Here's one of me studying a lovely specimen of Ichthyornis at the facility in Tsukuba housing the collections of Japan's National Museum of Nature & Science (the public museum is in nearby Tokyo).
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Just finished this awesome new-ish book by @MathevonNicolas on animal communication. It covers a lot of ground with a huge diversity of species—& it's a blast to read! Great for those interested in sensory ecology. (I had skulls of all the cover animals, so I snapped a photo! 😃)
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However, in a twist of fate, the chick's passing meant that Wisdom had left Midway before the tsunami, allowing her to return a month ago to start over! May we all have the resilience—and wisdom—of Wisdom in 2026. bit.ly/4qu6IxN 3/3
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If you thought 2025 was rough for us humans, an earthquake in July 2025 sent a tsunami that hit Midway late in the albatross breeding season, killing many mōlī. Wisdom had successfully mated and hatched a chick 🥹, but sadly the chick died earlier in the season 😢. 2/3
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Happy New Year from your friends at WitmerLab! 🎉
As hope for 2026, here's the beautiful skeleton of a mōlī (Laysan albatross). May it bring us all the wisdom of Wisdom, the 75-yo mōlī—the oldest known wild bird who still returns to Midway Atoll annually to nest & breed! 1/3
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