Revealing fossil anatomies and preservation pathways using advanced imaging techniques
Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of speaking with Alexandre Morales, a journalist for France Culture who is in charge of ‘Avec Sciences‘, a column that deciphers scientific news and issues at 6:52 a.m. on the morning show, with a […]
Our two Silurian aculiferan fossils Punk ferox and Emo vorticaudum made the cover of this week’s Nature issue!
Mollusks, which include snails, slugs, mussels, and octopuses, represent one of the most diverse animal groups on Earth today. This is certainly true for aforementioned organisms that form one of the two main branches of the mollusk evolutionary tree, but […]
On May 22nd, I had the visit of Swiss journalist Cécile Guérin of the Science and Health radio program CQFD produced by the RTS, for an interview about the work led by PhD student Lorenzo Lustri on Setapedites abundantis published earlier this […]
Modern scorpions, spiders and horseshoe crabs belong to the vast lineage of arthropods, which appeared on Earth nearly 540 million years ago. More precisely, they belong to a subphylum that includes organisms equipped with pincers used notably for biting, grasping […]
South America is considered the place of origin and initial diversification of freshwater catfishes, based on the fact that the most basal clades–Diplomystidae (velvet catfishes) and Loricarioidei (suckermouth and armoured catfishes)—are all endemic to the Neotropical region (South and Central […]
This time I was interviewed about our discovery of the Cabrières Biota by journalist Camille Crosnier for her column Camille passe au vert in the French science radio program La Terre au carré produced by France Inter. The column, broadcasted today, can […]
On March 23rd, Allison Daley of the University of Lausanne and myself joined ardent amateur paleontologists Sylvie and Éric Monceret in Cabrières for the recording of an episode of the weekly science radio program Science in Action produced by the BBC World […]
Today our international team led by Farid Saleh of the University of Lausanne and Bertrand Lefebvre of the Lyon University introduces a new fossil site that has been uncovered in the French department of Hérault through the perseverance of two […]
Today’s arthropods –critters with jointed legs that contain today’s crabs, beetles, or spiders– often show very complex development with their juveniles and larvae living and feeding in a different way than the adults. A classical example is a flying butterfly with […]