This has been a long time coming. My new research article on the topic of paedomorphism in plesiosaurs was published today in the open access journal Fossil Record:

"Recognising and quantifying the evolution of skeletal paedomorphosis in Plesiosauria" (Araújo and Smith 2023)

https://fr.pensoft.net/article/97686/

#plesiosaur #plesiosaurs #paedomorphism #fossil #evolution #heterochrony

#NewPaper #Paleontology #Dinosaurs #Heterochrony

Michael D. D'Emic, Patrick M. O’Connor, Riley S. Sombathy, Ignacio Cerda, Thomas R. Pascucci, David Varricchio, Diego Pol, Anjali Dave, Rodolfo A. Coria & Kristina A. Curry Rogers (2023)
Developmental strategies underlying gigantism and miniaturization in non-avialan theropod dinosaurs
SCIENCE 379(6634): 811-814
doi: 10.1126/science.adc8714
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adc8714

Ver nice work by Martín-Zamora et al showing the role of #heterochrony of gene expression in the evolution of larva in bilaterians #Annelid #EvoDevo #MolecularEvolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05636-7