WitmerLab: 21st century approaches to fleshing out the past. — Our mission is to use the structure of extinct and modern-day animals to interpret evolutionary history...and to share that history with the broader community.
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WitmerLab at Ohio University
Rolling animation of the skull of the theropod dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex, revealing the brain, nasal cavity, paranasal air sinuses, and middle ear sinuses. Rendered in Amira and QuickTime by Ryan Ridgely, and labeled by Jason Bourke. For more on Tyrannosaurus and dinosaur airheads, including PDfs of the 2008 Witmer & ...Ridgely article and a downloadable QuickTime version of this movie (http://bit.ly/9d5p82), visit http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-witmer/D
WitmerLab at Ohio University Visualization of CT scan data of a juvenile barred owl, Strix varia (OUVC 10614), scanned with the assistance of Heather Rockhold at O'Bleness Memorial Hospital, Athens, OH.
WitmerLab at Ohio University We welcome Eric Snively, PhD, to Ohio University and the WitmerLab! Eric got his PhD in 2006 at the University of Calgary with Tony Russell and then went on to a postdoc with Philip Currie at the University of Alberta. He now joins the WitmerLab to work on the evolution of feeding mechanics in dinosaurs and other archo...saurs while simultaneously getting additional training in the OU Biomedical Engineering program with John Cotton, PhD. Welcome, Eric!
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WitmerLab at Ohio University Our YouTube Channel (http://www.youtube.com/witmerlab) has been getting more traffic, so we've been improving content, adding labels of anatomical structures (thanks to Jason Bourke) and by making the jump to YouTube HD. We're starting with vids from Witmer & Ridgely's 2008 dinosinus paper. More YouTube uploads coming,... with occasional uploads here. QuickTimes are on http://www.ohio.edu/witmerlab
WitmerLab at Ohio University
Rolling animation of the skull of the theropod dinosaur Majungsaurus (FMNH PR 2100), revealing the brain, nasal cavity, paranasal air sinuses, and middle ear sinuses. Rendered in Amira and QuickTime by Ryan Ridgely, and labeled by Jason Bourke. For more on Majungasaurus and dinosaur airheads, including PDfs of the 2008... Witmer & Ridgely article and a downloadable QuickTime version of this movie (http://bit.ly/a0d6Mw), visit http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-witmer/D
WitmerLab at Ohio University A post (on a neuroscience blog, no less!) written almost a year ago on our team’s dinosaur brain research was selected for publication in an annual anthology of the best science writing on the web. Congrats go to blogger Moheb Costandi! Thanks, Mo, for helping us get the word out!
scienceblogs.com
Bones have been big news recently, following the publication of two papers which document remarkable fossil finds. First, a group of palaeontologists led by Phil Gingerich of the University of Michigan ...
WitmerLab at Ohio University The past year has been big for WitmerLab alumni: Tobin Hieronymus (PhD ’09) got a tenure-track job at NEOUCOM; Justin Tickhill (MS ’07) got married and is teaching college while applying to PhD programs; Casey Holliday (PhD ’06) got a new tenure-track gig at Missouri; Andy Clifford (MS ’03) finished his PhD at Brown; a...nd Pat O’Connor (’00-’02) was promoted with tenure here at OU. Congratulations to all!
WitmerLab at Ohio University The Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meeting is always a blast…intellectually and socially. Witmer, Ridgely, Bourke, and Martiny sadly were unable to attend, but current members Dave Dufeau and William Porter did us all proud, as did former lab members Tobin Hieronymus, Casey Holliday, Andy Clifford, and Pat O’Connor.
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Animation of sagittal CT scan slices of the head of a domestic pig (Sus scrofa, OUVC 10461). Rendered in Amira and QuickTime and labeled by Justin Tickhill as part of his award-winning 2007 Masters thesis. For more information, see http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/virtualpig/pi
WitmerLab at Ohio University The WitmerLab Online Skull Cast Photo Project gets some attention! Thanks go to lab grad student Amy Martiny for her excellent photography and her design of the Collections website!
blog.dispatch.com
Larry Witmer, a paleontology professor at Ohio University's College of Osteopathic Medicine, studies how dinosaurs lived. His lab in Athens is one of the coolest places in the world. Really. He's got everything from rhino heads to huge dinosaur skulls.
WitmerLab at Ohio University 2010 is the Year of Submission for WitmerLab members. We’re not raising any white flags of surrender. Quite the contrary, we’re vowing to have all lab members---Jason Bourke, Dave Dufeau, Amy Martiny, William Porter, Ryan Ridgely, Eric Snively, and Larry Witmer---submit high-quality articles for publication in 2010. Stay tuned!
WitmerLab at Ohio University
This image was originally done for a AAAS symposium presentation in 2006. Just stumbled across it, and it goes along with a video we posted to FB (http://www.facebook.com/witmerlab#/video
WitmerLab at Ohio University
Animation of the flow of air through the head of Tyrannosaurus rex. The main airway is shown by the large red arrow. The wavy arrow depicts the more slowly moving air in the olfactory region, where the sensory tissue is located, just in front of the olfactory bulb of the brain. The opening painting was done by Bill Par...sons under Witmer's direction for a 2001 Science paper: http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-witmer/D
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WitmerLab at Ohio University Discovery put up clips of Sunday's Spinosaurus show. The WitmerLab appears in it regularly, but not in the way you might think...it appears as the background for Thomas Holtz's sound bites. They must have filmed Tom on greenscreen and dropped him into our lab! LOL. We gotta get you here for real, Tom!
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Studying Spinosaurus has always been a challenge, especially after the original fossils were destroyed in a 1944 bombing raid on Nazi-controlled Munich.
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This clip from Clash of the Dinosaurs shows some beautiful animation of Larry Witmer's and Ryan Ridgely’s published research on tyrannosaur sensory anatomy (http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-witmer/D
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As if having a mouthful of dagger-like teeth daggers and eagle-sharp eyes weren't enough, T. rex also had the olfactory advantage equivalent to 100 bloodhounds.
