THE WEIRD AND THE WONDERFUL: LESSONS FROM THE CAMBRIAN
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Join us for a VIPS Lecture with Joe Moysiuk — The Weird & the Wonderful: Lessons from the Cambrian on Sunday, September 25th at 1PM PST.
This was an epic talk on the evolution of early arthropods. The video recording is now live: https://youtu.be/4UZ-QwgDozk Joe Moysiuk is a palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist, with research interests in macroevolution, evolutionary developmental biology, and the origin of animal life. He has extensive experience with fossils from the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada, one of the world’s most significant fossil sites. As part of his continuum of Burgess Shale-related research, he is currently pursuing a PhD focusing on the earliest evolution of today’s most diverse animal group: the arthropods. No registration is required. Simply click the meeting link on the day/time of the talk to enter. We look forward to having you join us. |
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"Joe Moysiuk's ongoing research of the many exciting fossils from the Burgess Shale has opened up and transformed our view of the Cambrian."
— Fossil Huntress |
ABOUT JOE MOYSIUK
Joe Moysiuk is a palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist, with research interests in macroevolution, evolutionary developmental biology, and the origin of animal life. He has extensive experience with fossils from the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada, one of the world’s most significant fossil sites.
As part of his continuum of Burgess Shale-related research, he is currently pursuing a PhD focusing on the earliest evolution of today’s most diverse animal group: the arthropods. We'll hear about his ongoing research and insights gleaned fresh from the field as his team just wrapped another epic field season spending Summer 2022 at the Burgess Shale.
As part of his continuum of Burgess Shale-related research, he is currently pursuing a PhD focusing on the earliest evolution of today’s most diverse animal group: the arthropods. We'll hear about his ongoing research and insights gleaned fresh from the field as his team just wrapped another epic field season spending Summer 2022 at the Burgess Shale.
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An Epic Tomlinsonus Brought to LifeJoe Moysiuk's first glimpse of an eye-popping model of their newly described Ordovician marellomorph, Tomlinsonus brought to life by Custom Prototypes. This was a collaboration between Joe Moysiuk and the awesome Andrew Sliwa.
This intricately rendered beast will be on display at the Royal Ontario Museum's Dawn of Life Gallery which showcases one of the world's most astounding fossil collections. The gallery tells the tale of our Planet's wondrous beginnings and devastating extinctions from the dawn of life to the age of dinosaurs. It's an astonishing timeframe. Most of the history of life is recorded in the rocks of Canada, and the gallery showcases fossils from all Canadian provinces and territories. |
STANLEYCARIS — THE MOST COMPLETE KNOWN RADIODONT |
The radiodont Stanleycaris artfully rendered by Sabrina Cappelli, UofT
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You'll likely recall Joe Moysiuk and team's exciting paper published in Current Biology on Stanleycaris — the most complete known radiodont which alters our views on early arthropod evolution.
Radiodonts are a group that includes Anomalocaris -- weird, wonderful & iconic wonders of the Cambrian. This extinct group diverged prior to the common ancestors of insects, crabs, millipedes and spiders and provide enticing clues to the earliest evolution of arthropods. Stanleycaris is a radiodont that was first described along with the Stanley Glacier fossil assemblage in 2010 from isolated claws, mouthparts and wee bits of unknown material. The specimen from Moysiuk's July 2022 paper was found at the Burgess Shale by Matt Devereux in 1990. |
SUMMER 2022 FIELD SITE |
