Postdoc ronin. I study skull shape and feeding biomechanics 💀🦘💀🐨💀🐒💀🐀 💀 @Flinders @WeisbeckerLab https://nitter.cf/t.co/MFCQcguO1v
Adelaide, South Australia
Joined May 2018
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
Ahoy there Skullywags!
In the latest episode of Skullywag Chats, I team up with @NarimaneChatar from @UCBerkeley to discuss an evolutionary pattern she and her team discovered in the molars of meat-munching mammals #skull #science #💀 youtu.be/6TmKAKhag7w?si=td2n… via @YouTube
D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
So happy to have been invited by @DRexMitchell for this little chat about our recent tooth paper in @ScienceMagazine (doi.org/10.1126/science.aee3…) for his YouTube channel, The Skullywag Lab, check it out 🤩:
youtube.com/watch?v=6TmKAKha…
#SciComm #ScienceCommunication #AcademicChatter
D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
A new model of skull function just dropped!
It describes the skull as an arch-bridge like structure that uses tensile elements to guide arcs of compressive stress between the biting teeth and jaw joints.
Written by me! 💀💀💀
#skull #science
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/shar…
D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
A video covering our new published research on the tiny marsupial with an unusual talent 💀 #skull #science youtu.be/8H1rFsjgc38?si=raWg… via @YouTube
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Our lab just published a cool paper on seed-cracking bettongs. Not just any seeds, but some of the hardest seeds out there! Two species in the same genus showing different adaptatiosn to hard biting. Very cool 💀💀🤓🤓 #skull #science academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/…
D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
This was a fun little side project I worked on while doing placoderm biomechanics analysis with the Flinders Gogo team. To be presented at @CAVEPS_Palaeo 💀🤓
#Devonian #fossil #placoderm #paleontology
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
I only played a very small role in this @PNASNews article by @AbbyGraceDrake, @JLosos, et al., but it's cool, so please check it out! "Copy-cat evolution: Divergence and convergence within and between cat and dog breeds." doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2413780…
D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
What if the Rancor in @starwars was a domesticated breed similar to a pug or a bulldog? In the latest video from The Skullywag Lab, I "un-pug" the Rancor to see what a wild, undomesticated Rancor ancestor might look like!
#skull #science #starwars
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
New episode on ant and termite-eating animal skulls 💀💀💀
The feeding anatomy of these species is pretty bonkers tbh. Happy to finally explore it a bit
youtu.be/Qt2iqUwujhY?si=zHqY…
D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
Just made this for The Skullywag Lab website I'm building
Come sit by the fire and enjoy some skulls 💀🤓
D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
A new episode of Monster ID just dropped! This time, the lab identifies the Beast of Tenby 💀
youtu.be/Tr_yG9DoYJs?si=CxnG…
#skull #science
D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
Knowing what an animal eats can help biologists find it – especially when a species is as elusive as this one. @KarlVernes @DRexMitchell @WeisbeckerLab @FlindersUniNews @uninewengland theconversation.com/presumed…
Some interesting findings from our new methods paper. We used the skull of the extinct desert rat-kangaroo as a case study and discovered some important details about its feeding habits @WeisbeckerLab @TheSkullywagLab
theconversation.com/presumed… via @ConversationEDU
For any researchers that study skull function using comparative finite element analysis, our new paper presenting a framework for scaling muscle forces to adequately represent the hypothesis is extremely important
journals.biologists.com/jeb/…
D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
@gessiejomez @DRexMitchell @CookeSiobhan
Questions on socioecology? Rare behaviors? Skeletal lesion analysis helps! #primates #primatology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
New study!
Measaurements of deer skulls from 38 species (300 individuals) show that larger species have more diverse skull ecomorphology.
Author concludes that size imposes ecological constraints 💀🤓
mdpi.com/2948940 #mdpifossstud via @FossilsMDPI
#skull #science
D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
New video dropped, where I turn myself into a giant - for science! 🤓💀
youtube.com/watch?v=lvvF6Jnq…
D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
The latest video just dropped (link in bio).
We take a look at how missing teeth in the ancestors of the marsupial lion made evolution produce one of the most weird and powerful skulls known to science! 🤓💀
Artwork by Rudolph Hima,
Music by Max Brhon