Pedro Godoy

I'm beyond thrilled to officially lauch the Macroevolution and Paleobiology lab! Based at the Zoology department of the University of São Paulo, our lab will focus on systematics and macroevolution of vertebrates. This AMAZING logo was made by the also amazing @MirantaKouvari 🤩

🦏🦣🦌 LARGE paper alert!!! We tracked 60 million years of large herbivore evolution—over 3,000 fossil species—to uncover how ecosystems have changed and reorganized through time. What we found might help us understand the next big tipping point 🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Messy R package creates realistic, synthetic datasets that are actually messy  Perfect for: Teaching data wrangling Testing analysis pipelines Practicing with imperfect ecological datasets #Rstats #DataScience nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rss-manc…

I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @Nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎

Syriemys lelunensis Welcome to life The first new species of extinct vertebrate ever described from Syria onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp…

🚨 A SBBE abriu edital para apoiar eventos em Biologia Evolutiva! 🧬 Válido para simpósios, workshops ou cursos 📆 Eventos entre ago/25 e fev/26 🧾 Inscrições até 15/08 📍 Saiba mais e inscreva-se: sbbevol.org/beneficios #BiologiaEvolutiva #SBBE #EventoCientífico #EditalSBBE

⚒️🧪 🚨New paper alert!! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar… Histovariability and fossil diagenesis of Pissarrachampsa (Pseudosuchia, Notosuchia, Baurusuchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Southeast Brazil #Paleontology #Histology #Biodiversity

#ICVM2025 abstracts are now published! (1 pdf to rule them all) Remember that, whatever format you're doing, the recorded presentation must be submitted by 20 July! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10974687/2…

Rothier, P.S., Herrel, A., Benson, R.B.J. et al. Body mass evolution as a driver of morphological and ecological diversity in terrestrial mammals. BMC Ecol Evo 25, 69 (2025). doi.org/10.1186/s12862…

Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, a part of my postdoc at @cornellvet! 🐘🐀 We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller one can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs. bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

🐊 Our multilingual video on the mechanics behind crocodile head scale patterning has now reached 25,000+ views! Discover how skin folds—not genes—shape these stunning patterns. 🎥 Watch here: youtube.com/playlist?list=… #CrocodileScales #Science #NaturePaper #Mechanobiology

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The Inst. Biosciences at U. São Paulo (IB-USP) invites applications for a full-time faculty position at the rank of Professor Doutor in the Dept. of Zoology (DZ) in Bioinformatics and Phylogenomics of Metazoa. Due October 06, 2025. More info: ademica.ib.usp.br/concursos/zool…

Osteoderms may form through mechanotransduction, where tension in collagen fibers triggers bone growth. In alligators, ossification aligns w/stressed fascia/tendon attachments, suggesting parallels w/trauma-induced heterotopic ossification. Dubansky et al anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

Elucidating the thermometabolism of Thalattosuchus superciliosus (de Blainville) Young, Brignon, Sachs, Hornung, Foffa, Kitson, Johnson & Steel, 2021 (Archosauria: Metriorhynchidae): a paleohistolo... — sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques… — #Comptes Rendus Palevol via @Publi_MNHN

"Clustering crocodylian dental morphology: Insights into functional adaptations, diet, and ontogeny", new paper by J. Testin and D. D'Amore published in @JournalofAnat 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo… #crocodiles #ecomorphology #heterodonty #teeth

Hi everyone and please welcome the new Jurassic rhynchocephalian, Sphenodraco scandentis! Art by the amazing @SerpenIllus

Juan Martín Leardi (2025) Redescription of Pseudhesperosuchus jachaleri (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha) from the Los Colorados Formation (Norian), Argentina Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2507779 doi: doi.org/10.1080/147720… tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Can Macroevolution Inform Contemporary Extinction Risk? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

New classic of paleo-food-webs protocols: "...we present a detailed protocol for reconstructing paleo-food webs using fossil data and for modeling the stability and structures of these paleocommunities using the cascading extinction on graphs model." nature.com/articles/s4159…

[1/7] New paper in @NatureEcoEvo co-lead by @emmadnn, Davide Foffa & me: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗nature.com/articles/s4155…