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Elsa Panciroli

  • Researcher, University of Oxford
Scottish Highlands
As seen in: The New York Times, Color Research & Application, Nature, The Guardian, Educational Studies, RawStory, Cell Press, AOL UK, Literary Hub, The Big Issue and
Palaeontologist & Writer from Scottish Highlands | Chair of @scottishgeology | Secretary @Palaeonto_Soc | Editor EESTRSE @RoyalSocEd | she/her 🏳️‍🌈
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Jazzy jaw joints: evolutionary fine-tuning reveals unexpected bone connections in ancient predecessors of mammals

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By Elsa Panciroli
| Nature Verified
NEWS AND VIEWS 24 September 2025 The evolution of the jaw helped mammals to thrive. Fossil discoveries shed light on the diverse evolutionary journeys taken by joints between the skull and lower jaw. The arrangement of the bones that form the joint (the articulation) between the lower jaw and the skull is a key hallmark of vertebrates. Their configuration has long been used to draw a line in the fossil record between what is and is not considered a mammal.
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Michael Waldman obituary

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By Elsa Panciroli
| AOL UK Verified
My friend Michael Waldman, who has died aged 83, was a palaeontologist and an inspiring teacher of geology. He discovered one of the most productive and important fossil sites in Scotland, and named several new species of extinct animals. Mike discovered the fossil site in 1971, during a Duke of Edinburgh school trip that he was co-leading to Skye.
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On Finding a Dinosaur

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By Elsa Panciroli
| blogspot.com
They tell me I’m good at finding things. Word searches, jigsaw puzzles - they are unintentional brain-training to isolate patterns in chaos. When looking for fossils it takes a few attempts to recognise what you’re seeking. Then they say you ‘get your eye in’, or that you ‘have the eye’ for it. I tell them, I have two. I found my first dinosaur on a glorious sunny day in the Inner Hebrides.
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