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New fossil tells how piranhas got their teeth

August 16, 2009

A recent publication on Megapiranha paranensis from Phenoscape curators Wasila Dahdul and John Lundberg is in the news!

DURHAM, N.C. — How did piranhas — the legendary freshwater fish with the razor bite — get their telltale teeth? Researchers from Argentina, the United States and Venezuela have uncovered the jawbone of a striking transitional fossil that sheds light on this question. Named Megapiranha paranensis, this previously unknown fossil fish bridges the evolutionary gap between flesh-eating piranhas and their plant-eating cousins. Read the rest of this entry »

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Poster at the Evolution Meetings

April 30, 2008

Aside from the Evolutionary Biology and Ontologies Workshop that we organize together with the NCBO at the Evolution Meeting 2008 in Minneapolis, we will also be presenting a poster. For your advance pleasure, here is the abstract that we wrote, only to realize that registration for a poster presentation actually did not require or even offer any abstract submission.