Steven Frank explains how such things as natural selection or AI can be interpreted as reflections of the linear regression. Though he admits:"In both cases [ML and Natural Selection] causal attribution is hindered by nonlinear interactions"1/2
https://academic.oup.com/evlett/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evlett/qrag018/8660666
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🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio

"In contrast to fossil communities [of the last 10 Ma], modern Eurasian and African terrestrial large mammal faunas show strong geographic functional structure, which might reflect the selectivity of Late Pleistocene extinctions."
https://nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71648-w
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Cool:
"Package adapt 3 is available on CRAN and can be used to study the nature and stability of ecological interactions, the mechanics of natural selection and even speciation."
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/2041-210x.70298
🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Ecology #Macroecology #Paleobio

Oldie but Goldie.
Interesting study which reveals the morphospace of dinosaur eggs, including shape contrasts between non-avian dinosaur eggs and the bird eggs.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01114.x
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Paleontology just gives weirdness and unveils the non-analogue worlds.
New giant sail-backed saurolophine dinosaur from China Gongshuilong fanwei.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2026.2635569
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

I would guess that the Stockholm Airport on it's floors has the largest collection of polished slabs with Ordovician faunas, traces fossils and especially orthocone cephalopods! Hundreds and hundreds of acres 1/2
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

High-resolution quantitative stratigraphical study shows the heterogenous extinction responses of foraminifera, with benthics being struck hard and collapsing fast.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70541-w_reference.pdf
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology

We can learn unimaginable amount of things bout the history of life, climate, geosystems and the processes of evolution from the fossil record. But we need strong database curation and financing infrastructure.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-02985-8.pdf
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Sea dragon in the jaws of a fish:
"Finding embedded teeth, while rare, removes this ambiguity. Here we describe a tooth embedded in a mid-cervical vertebra of a subadult plesiosaur, Polycotylus latipinnis"
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2026.2625732#abstract

"Stem tetrapod" from the Early Permian. You can think about it as a "living fossil" holdover from the earliest Carboniferous. But as Jason and others explain it was specialized in its dentition, completely weird and possibly was herbivorous! A mixture of primitive and derived in unusual direction.
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2066/20252106/480542/An-aberrant-stem-tetrapod-from-the-early-Permian