Fresh from #AmniotaLab! 🦪
River oysters keep a diary of the rains in their shells. Aisha Huseen read it in Sudan’s Atbara River: shells up to ~224,000 years old show that strong wet–dry seasons have shaped eastern #Sudan for at least ~200,000 years 
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#AmniotaLab in the news! 📰
Our member Khalafallah Salih features in Nature Africa on how Sudanese scientists keep research alive through war.
With fieldwork in #Sudan halted, he continues studying Sudan’s fossil record at @mfnberlin.bsky.social  via the #PALEONILE project 🐊

🦬 New from #AmniotaLab!
A nearly complete ~2.6-million-year-old buffalo skull from Ethiopia reveals a new small-bodied species of 𝘚𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘴, with short, widely divergent horns.

It looks surprisingly similar to young and small African buffalo!

#OA #paleontology #Africa

We are so happy to celebrate one of our members winning the prize for 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 at #DGS2026! 🏆🎉

Huge congratulations, @pierreorgebin.bsky.social , you totally deserved it! 🐐🧠

@mammalbiology.bsky.social  @mfnberlin.bsky.social #AmniotaLab

Then Pierre Orgebin (@pierreorgebin.bsky.social) on the divergent brain evolution of two extinct island bovids 🧠🐐 amazing work from his PhD

Proud to see #AmniotaLab science at the meeting! #paleobiology #islandrule