Research group @ICP_MCrusafont led by @FortunyPaleoBio | @iCERCA center | Vertebrate anatomy, comparative morphology, evolution, computational biomechanics
UAB (Catalonia, Spain)
Joined March 2021
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🚨 Our new paper is out in @iScience_CP! 🐟
3D morphometrics, CFD & Pareto optimality reveal high-performing designs that early vertebrates never evolved—challenging models of evolutionary constraint.
@Macro_Fun @BristolPalaeo @CellPressNews
🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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New in Journal of Anatomy!
How do hybrid giant salamanders catch prey?
High-speed video of salamanders in our lab shows that hybrids still suck in water and prey, just like non-hybrids.
🎥 Footage from our experiments!
doi.org/10.1111/joa.70262
#GiantSalamander
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Our new paper is out!
I’m happy to share that our latest research on giant salamanders has been published in Journal of Anatomy!
In this study, we investigated how hybrids between native Japanese giant salamanders and introduced Chinese giant salamanders capture their prey.
Using high-speed cameras, we found that these hybrids retain a fascinating feeding mechanism called suction feeding—they rapidly open their mouths and suck in water along with their prey!
The video below was recorded during our experiments with giant salamanders housed in my laboratory.
Check out our paper here:
doi.org/10.1111/joa.70262
#GiantSalamander #Herpetology #JournalOfAnatomy
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🦎 New paper published in @JournalofAnat using high-speed videography, we show that hybrid giant salamanders retain the conserved suction-feeding mechanism of Andrias. With @FortunyPaleoBio @Comp_PaleoBio
+ info: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Happy to share our latest paper with @Comp_PaleoBio! We combine nanoindentation and biomechanical modelling to investigate skull bone stiffness in Gallotia lizards, including extinct giant species, and its implications for palaeobiological inference.
📰sjp.pensoft.net/article/1930…
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¡Súper feliz de compartir el último trabajo en el que colaboro con el increíble equipo de @Comp_PaleoBio ! 🦎✨
¿Cómo sabíamos lo "fuerte" que era la mordida de los animales extintos si no podemos medir sus huesos directamente? 👇
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🚨 New research in Scientific Reports! 🚨: Investigating a Devonian vertebrate assemblage with synchrotron microtomography of coprolites!💩 🦴— using fossilised poop and synchrotron microtomography to explore the diet and ecology of Devonian vertebrates!
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🚨The call is open!
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🦷🔬 Looking for PhD candidates with an engineering or a biological background. Fully funded PhD at @universitatURV on biomechanics & mechanical properties of vertebrate teeth with @FortunyPaleoBio
➡️Call opens in May here: urv.cat/en/research/support/…
➡️DM or email me for info.
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🦷🔬 Looking for PhD candidates with an engineering or a biological background. Fully funded PhD at @universitatURV on biomechanics & mechanical properties of vertebrate teeth with @FortunyPaleoBio
➡️Call opens in May here: urv.cat/en/research/support/…
➡️DM or email me for info.
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Busquem un/a Cap de Museu!
📌 Tasques: Gestió museogràfica, exposicions, divulgació i coordinació d’equip
🎯 Requisits: Màster Gestió Patrimoni/Museologia o similars, experiència en museus, català, castellà i anglès
📅 Data límit: 07/04/2026
📨 Aplica! bit.ly/40k4w12
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#JobOffer We are looking for a project manager!
Responsibilities include managing research projects, supporting fundraising, coordinating volunteers, and liaising with companies/institutions
📅 Apply by 31/03/2026
👉Information & applications: bit.ly/4r4eU7W
🦷Funded PhD position in evolutionary paleobiology (teeth, biomechanics & life history) at @ICP_MCrusafont
Supervisors: @FortunyPaleoBio & @NacarinoCarmen .
➡️Applications from women researchers encouraged.
🗓️ 22/02/2026 [icp.cat/index.php/ca/icp-6/t…]
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📣 We’re thrilled to announce that the 4th Circular of the IPC7 is now available!
You'll find updated information on:
✅ Travel Grants
✅ Accommodation
✅ Abstract submission
✅ Plenary speakers
📥 Download the circular via our website -> ipc7.site
@Co_Biologists
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What's in a name?
🗳️ A new fossil lizard is named with the participation of local residents
Did you defend your PhD in 2024–25? Looking for a #postdoc in #vertebratepaleontology? Interested in #Paleozoic #Mesozoic #tetrapods & #Paleobiology? Come join us & apply for the "Juan de la Cierva" 3-year postdoctoral contracts!
📩 [email protected] Pls rt!
@ICP_MCrusafont
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Footprints left by an animal 280 million years ago have been discovered in the Serra de Tramuntana, Mallorca
These are fossilized gorgonopsian tracks, a Permian predator considered the earliest known ancestor of mammals
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IPC7 will host 29 themed symposia plus one open general symposium.
🌟 Today we feature:
Pangea in crisis: life on land during the Permian–Triassic
For participation or further details, contact the conveners:
@ESI_FossilLab
@ICP_MCrusafont
@Comp_PaleoBio
👇
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🎓🦎 Today we're attending the PhD thesis defense of Chabier de Jaime (@Comp_PaleoBio).
His research explores Permian and Triassic vertebrate palaeobiodiversity from the NE of the Iberian Peninsula — a key period in Earth's evolutionary history.
Good luck, Chabi! 💪
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We have a poster in #sebconference @SEBiology about nanoindentations in Gallotia skulls. Come and visit us!
