Narimane Chatar

Excited to share our latest study highlighted on the cover of @science.org 🥳Combining a 3D dataset representing 250 taxa spanning the whole Cenozoic, 3D modelling & printing and material testing; we deciphered the form-function relationship in the lower 🦷 of mammals www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So happy to have been invited by Rex Mitchell for this little chat about our recent tooth paper in @science.org (doi.org/10.1126/scie...) for his YouTube channel, @theskullywaglab.bsky.social, check it out 🤩: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TmK... #SciComm #ScienceCommunication #AcademicChatter

How do you take the temperature of a T. rex 66 million years too late? Time machine? Impossible. Billionaire’s dinosaur island? Risky. Geochemistry? Much safer 🦖🌡️ Our new Science Advances paper adds evidence for an endothermic, “warm-blooded” T. rex, link to the paper 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia...

New paper out in Integrative and Comparative Biology (@sicbjournals.bsky.social) lead by @morganefo.bsky.social ! 🥳Morgane investigated the shape variation throughout the life cycle of the Alpine newts using GMM on skulls and mandibles🦎 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Another big potential #FishJob Curator of Fishes (or Mammals, but let it be ichthyology) at the American Museum of Natural History careers.amnh.org/postings/4925

Happy to announce the publication of our article in Nature Ecology & Evolution on adaptive zone evolution in terrestrial mammal carnivores. Over the next few days, I’ll share the major results—and by extension, take you on a tour of carnivore evolution. (rdcu.be/6okG1hVhvtHa) 1/n

Congratulations to the authors on this excellent new contribution to our understanding of proboscidean biomechanics! 🐘

New #OpenAccess paper out in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social 🤩 In this study lead by MSc student @paleonico.bsky.social; we investigate compressive loading in proboscidean 🐘 (elephants & their extinct relatives) using FEA and highlight different mechanical strategies 🦾 doi.org/10.1111/joa....

Excited to share my new first-authored paper, now published in the @journalofanatomy.bsky.social! 🐘🦴 Using FEA, we reveal distinct biomechanical strategies in proboscidean humeri: robust forms better resist multidirectional stresses, while slender forms favour near-axial loading. 10.1111/joa.70234

⚠️ "New article alert: The rise of carnivoran mammals in Europe through the lens of body mass". By @val-fisch.bsky.social, Floréal Solé, Kevin Le Verger, Bastien Mennecart, Melvin Vankelst, @narimanechatar.bsky.social, Robert P. Speijer, Stéphane Peigné & Thierry Smith ➡️ doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

New pre-print testing if bats, carnivorans, & primates occupying equivalent dietary niches evolved convergent mandible shapes & shared adaptive zones! Short answer: no. With @mberthaume.bsky.social, @savannahecobb.bsky.social, & @sesantana.bsky.social www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1...

New paper by Ph.D. student Melvin Vankelst in Proc B. We modified our semi-automated high density 3D geometric morphometrics protocol to fit carnivoran molars, and test the shape-diet links of these teeth. Check it out! @universitedeliege.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Second paper out today on fossil carnivorans, this time in Biology Letters @royalsocietypublishing.org. We looked at the evolution of the body mass of carnivorous mammals throughout the Paleogene, comparing the patterns in Europe vs USA 1/3

New paper out on dietary signals in tooth topography vs morphometrics, first-authored by the impressive Melvin Vankelst in the @val-fisch.bsky.social lab! FAVE Lab had the pleasure of hosting Melvin for this and other research activities during a semester-long visit earlier in the year.

Only 2 days left to submit your abstract! 🚨 Submit to the 'The Future of the Fossil Record: Developments, Trends and Innovative Approaches in Paleontology' session here : agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...

I have to say it: technically with our 🦷 paper (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and Jack's Gabi paper (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) 50% of the Science covers from July are from our lab 😎🔥

Research on the fossil record of mammals in Mexico suggests that the geographic region acted as a biodiversity “holding pen” for 10 million years. Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4xhNmQ9

Here is @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Bob Sanders' write-up of our Great American Biotic Interchange work: news.berkeley.edu/2026/07/30/n...

Massive congrats to @tsengzj.bsky.social & colleagues for this new piece of research highlight the role of México as a holding pen for faunal exchanges during the GABI starting 10 mya 😱 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Exhilarated to share a 2nd @science.org cover article this month from our lab @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! A collaboration with US & Mexico colleagues on the role of a Mexican biogeographic holding pen in shaping the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI)(1/11) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Excited to share our new paper in Science Advances! Led by Dr Wei Wang at #IVPP in Beijing, it presents a complete skeleton of #Austronaga, the most marine of all archosauromorphs. To boot, this fossil preserves the oldest complete digestive tract of any reptile! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A new study in Science details how a dental tradeoff may have shaped mammalian carnivore evolution. Learn more in this week’s issue: https://scim.ag/4571LlU

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE for #AGU2026 COMING SOON (🗓️August 5 🗓️)! 🚨Don't forget to submit your abstract for our paleo session 🦖 The Future of the Fossil Record: Developments, Trends and Innovative Approaches in Paleontology 🔗 tinyurl.com/mtkyptc7 See y'all in San Francisco 🌉

Absolutely fantastic study. Neatly summarized by @narimanechatar.bsky.social in this thread, but go read the paper, it's also great.

Amazing work by PhD student Romain Cottereau 😍 🐳 🐋

Great new paper in Science from @narimanechatar.bsky.social and colleagues on morpho-functional divergences in the carnassial teeth of carnivores! 🦁 🐯 🐺 🦊 🦝 🧪 Check out the thread below!

🔎 @narimanechatar.bsky.social se encuentra actualmente en la 🏛️ 🇺🇸 Universidad de Berkeley (California) con una #beca europea Marie Curie, pero arraigada al área de Paleontología de la UMA, institución a la que regresará en 2027 🔗 www.uma.es/sala-de-pren... #TalentoUMA

👩‍🔬 Nuestra científica @narimanechatar.bsky.social lleva su #investigación a la portada de @science.org, una de las más prestigiosas del mundo. El equipo internacional, del que forma parte, ha descifrado la relación entre la forma y función en los 🦷 dientes inferiores de los mamíferos.

Performance trade-offs define a fundamental dental dichotomy in mammals | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...