Recent paper published in Current Biology shows that convergent brain features evolved in flying birds and pterosaurs: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01467-8 . The study was led by Mario Bronzati and co-authored by Aki Watanabe.

Congrats to Merri on her paper published in The Anatomical Record on a newly refined protocol for bone and cartilage staining of mature and larger specimens: https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ar.70136

Congrats to Paul for his new paper on RBC size in archosaurs published in Proc B : https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1286

Lab tech Merri's protocol for bone and cartilage staining is now available as a preprint : https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.24.645048

Paul has joined our lab as a Postdoctoral Research Associate after defending his Ph.D. at University of Southern California.