The latest updates from the Meta-Morphosis Project.
Metamorphosis can have a high cost for animals since during the transition, an organism can become weaker and more vulnerable to predators. But there are benefits of metamorphosis that may outweigh the costs. Here we share the findings of our new study, published in Biology Open, investigating the impact of metamorphosis and size on the aquatic feeding kinematics of the Iberian ribbed newt.
Do you remember when we filmed prey-capture sequences of olms and Pyrenean brook newts at the Moulis Laboratory Cave? Here we share results of those and new experiments, just published in the Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A.
During its life, the Alpine newt, like many amphibians, goes through several stages. These different stages are associated with significant morphological changes. However, not all populations of the Alpine newt follow this pattern...
Over the past two days, I was in Dijon CT-scanning European and Asian salamanders from the Specola collection with the invaluable help of Lauriane Poloni at the GISMO imaging platform, University of Bourgogne’s Biogeosciences laboratory. These newly scanned specimens will…
Last week, part of the META-MORPHOSIS team attended the 13th Symposium de Morphométrie et d'Évolution des Formes (SMEF) in Lyon, France. I was truly honored to be invited to deliver the keynote lecture at a meeting that holds a very special place in my scientific journey.
Muscles power the movements that we rely on for everyday life (e.g., walking, running, eating, picking up objects, and many more). But say we were to evolve to live in a different environment or to grow up in a different way, say without passing through puberty or staying as an adolescent all our life...
The “Fourth Elements” was the theme of this year’s Museumnacht. Inspired by this theme, we developed a variety of games for different age groups to introduce the public to salamander diversity, ecology, and conservation.
This blog post summarizes our paper entitled Testing the Impact of Prey Presentation Method on the Feeding Kinematics of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ambystomatidae published in Journal of experimental Zoology – Part A Standardizing prey capture records is a tricky task!…
Anne-Claire and Morgane traveled to Valencia for the 2026 Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology meeting. Anne-Claire gave a keynote and Morgane presented findings on alpine newts. Check out photos from their trip!
I co-organized a symposium at the SICB meeting with Ronald Bonett and Molly Womack on The Evolutionary Consequences of Metamorphosis in Metazoans! We ran the event in a hybrid format to ensure participation from speakers facing travel or weather disruptions...
