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    Paul Gignac will present on how crocodilians became apex predators by integrating ancestral character-state reconstructions, ontogenetic performance modeling, and contrast-enhanced μCT imaging to evaluate the evolution of crocodilian feeding biomechanics. Crocodiles and their modern and fossil relatives have long been top predators with record-setting bite forces up to 4000 lbs. New evidence from 3D imaging shows muscle physiology played a key role in crocodilians repeatedly invading ecological niches as major predators beyond just their powerful bite.

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    Human & Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series Paul Gignac, PH.D

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    Human & Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series Paul Gignac, Ph.D.

    Instructor/Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Anatomy Stony Brook University

    How crocodilians became apex predators:


    Integrating ancestral character-state reconstructions, ontogenetic performance modeling, and contrast-enhanced CT imaging to evaluate the evolution of crocodilian feeding biomechanics
    Crocodiles as well as their modern and fossil counterparts have long inhabited ecological roles as apex predators all around the world. We now know that part of their success story includes record setting bite-force capacities that can reach as much as 4000 lbs. New evidence linking the evolution and development of their feeding biomechanics with new 3D imaging methodologies, however, are demonstrating that there is much more to this success than just their bite and that muscle physiology has played a pivotal role in how freely crocodilians have invaded and re-invaded ecological feeding nichestime and time againto become the major predators of their realm.

    Tuesday February 12, 2013 4:00 PM


    Hancock Foundation Building / Torrey Webb Room
    USC University Park Campus

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