Project resources related to establishing the patterns of morphological and functional variation among salamander species throughout ontogeny.
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.
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...
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!…
From August 17 to 22, 2025, Morgane Fournier, Vivien Louppe, and I attended the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) Congress in Barcelona. I was invited to give a talk as part of a symposium on craniofacial evolution organized by…
This blog post summarizes our recently published paper in Biology Open, in which we explored how size and developmental stage affected the feeding kinematics of larval, juvenile and adult Ambystoma mexicanum (axolotl). Peadomorphic species: are the adults just big larvae?…
The entire META-MORPHOSIS team headed to Borneo for the 10th World Congress of Herpetology (WCH10)!!!! I had the pleasure of organizing a symposium together with Tiana Kohlsdorf and Daniel Paluh entitled Developmental Herpetology: Linking Ecology, Development, and Evolution...
Watch this salamander attempt and fail (twice!) to catch its food.
Axolotls at different stages of ontogeny, including suction feeding underwater, before and after applying Deeplabcut for automated feature tracking.
