Our first paper on chewing in floppy-jawed critters is out!
So our first paper on insect-feeding in stingrays was released in Proceedings of the Royal Society: Part B and it got a lot of press. Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/news...National Geographic: ...
A hearty thanks from a floppy-jawed-fish zoologist
Hi all,Thank you all so much for donating to the project - in grad school one rarely gets much positive feedback, at least under the deluge of negative reviews, extensive edits, and advisor 'feedba...
So what about rays that feed on mollusks?
Someone recently asked me how I might go about studying the jaws of freshwater rays which consume hard prey - well my beginning interests were in these sorts of things - (turns out, I really like s...
Catching rays (not the solar kind) in South America
I was exceedingly lucky to be invited on my first trip to South America by my advisor Nathan Lovejoy and my committee member, Hernán López-Fernández, the curator of fishes at the Royal Ontario Muse...
Freshwater rays: a study system for adaptive evolution?
I became interested in freshwater stingrays and how they feed through a couple of happenstance revelations. The first was learning about the family Potamotrygonidae. I was an MSc student at Flori...
Part Dos - Why the hell are there stingrays in the Amazon?!
The South America that the first ancestors of the freshwater rays found was very different than the one we see today. The Andes didn’t start to form until around 90 million years ago (mya). The c...
'Viva la evolución!' Stingrays invaded South America
The New World freshwater rays, the Potamotrygonidae – literally the ‘river rays’ in ancient Greek – have been the focus of considerable evolutionary interest and even controversy over the last 20 y...