For #FossilFriday, here's another recent paper from our lab, on the skull evolution of *the weirdest dinosaurs of all*, the oviraptorosaurs (like Tongtianlong in the image below). Led by my former Master's student @FionMaWS. 
Fion studied several oviraptor skulls and jaws, and used various methods to quantify their shapes and sizes.
The measurements were used to produce lots of morphospaces. So, so many morphospaces!
And these tell a very cool story. Oviraptors have huge variation in skull and beak shape. Beak shape is strongly related to its function (what it ate and how hard it bit). Many oviraptors were able to live together because they had different skull shapes and functions.
The paper can be downloaded here, and for those without access to jump the paywall, please email one of us for a pdf.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
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This paper stems from @FionMaWS's thesis, in @GeosciencesEd's MScR in Palaeontology & Geobiology course. Fion wrote a terrific thesis, and that helped earn her a PhD position @Palaeo_Bham, where she's now thriving.
We worked with my old Bristol pal @drmambobob, who helped with the stats and in quantifying the form-function relationships, which are among his specialties as a numerate dinosaur paleontologist!
On a sadder note, this was one of the papers I was working on with my good friend and colleague Junchang Lü when he passed away so suddenly in 2018. Nobody loved oviraptors as much as Junchang (not even Fion or @funstonpaleo). This one goes out to you buddy!
