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Using sturgeon as a material analogue, a new model has made it possible to estimate how the backbones of some of the first animals on land could and could not move. The results disprove a long-standing hypothesis that changes in early tetrapod anatomy as they moved onto land gave them improved neck mobility. 

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dr. Elliott Skierszkan for leading a landmark paper in Science!

Tracking Narwhal Dietary Responses to Environmental Change Using Stable Strontium Isotopes

Discovered by and named after Brian Hebert of Nova Scotia, Tyrannoroter heberti is a new species of animal known as a microsaur that lived around 307 million years ago.

Peter Crockford, Assistant Professor, has been awarded a 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Earth System Science—one of the most prestigious honours for early-career researchers in North America.