Que buen sentido de humor tenemos los taxónomos

Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, named for the distinctive wave of yellowish-white scales that cascades forward from the moth’s head.

Un entomólogo canadiense recién nombró una nueva especie con dedicatoria especial a Donald Trump.
El artículo fue publicado en  ZooKeys y Vazrick Nazariel, el autor,  explica "The specific epithet is selected because of the resemblance of the scales on the frons (head) of the moth to Mr. Trump’s hairstyle."
http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=11411
Información general esta aqui:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopalpa_donaldtrumpi
Pero hay más ... no solo es por la melena al frente .....

Aqui esta una historia que los hará reír!

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-metaphorical-meaning-of-a-moth-named-after-trump

Morfología y un nuevo análisis de la filogenia de los dinosaurios

The proposed new family tree of dinosaurs. The group to the left is for close relatives but not true dinosaurs. The old tree grouped the theropods, purple, with the Saurischia, green, and viewed the Saurischia and the Ornithischia as the two major branches of the tree. The scale to the left shows the placement of the tree in geological time. A is the branchpoint that includes all the dinosaurs, B represents the joint ancestor of Ornithischia and the theropods, and C is the joint ancestor of Saurischia and an early group known as herrerasaurs. Credit Baron et al./Nature 

Hay una nota interesante en NYTimes aqui: > https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/science/dinosaur-family-tree.html?_r=0


El resumen del articulo original esta aqui:

A new hypothesis of dinosaur relationships and early dinosaur evolution. 2017.
Matthew G. Baron, David B. Norman & Paul M. Barrett.
Nature 543, 501–506 (23 March 2017) doi:10.1038/nature21700

Abstract. For 130 years, dinosaurs have been divided into two distinct clades—Ornithischia and Saurischia. Here we present a hypothesis for the phylogenetic relationships of the major dinosaurian groups that challenges the current consensus concerning early dinosaur evolution and highlights problematic aspects of current cladistic definitions. Our study has found a sister-group relationship between Ornithischia and Theropoda (united in the new clade Ornithoscelida), with Sauropodomorpha and Herrerasauridae (as the redefined Saurischia) forming its monophyletic outgroup. This new tree topology requires redefinition and rediagnosis of Dinosauria and the subsidiary dinosaurian clades. In addition, it forces re-evaluations of early dinosaur cladogenesis and character evolution, suggests that hypercarnivory was acquired independently in herrerasaurids and theropods, and offers an explanation for many of the anatomical features previously regarded as notable convergences between theropods and early ornithischians.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v543/n7646/full/nature21700.html

Curso de macroevolución y uso de métodos filogenéticos comparativos en R, Cordoba, 2017

Nos complace anunciar un nuevo curso intensivo, con modalidad de taller, destinado a estudiantes graduados / de posgrado, acerca del uso de métodos filogenéticos comparativos en R. Estos métodos tienen muchas y diversas aplicaciones en estudios macroevolutivos.
El curso será gratuito, tendrá una duración de cuatro días, y se dictará en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, entre los días 1 y 4 de agosto de 2017.
Este curso estará parcialmente financiado por la National Science Foundation (Estados Unidos), y contará con el apoyo adicional de la University of Massachusetts Boston y de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

El curso estará a cargo de los instructores
Dr. Liam Revell (University of Massachusetts Boston),
Dr. Luke Harmon (University of Idaho), y
Dr. Mike Alfaro (University of California, Los Angeles),
 contándose con la posible participación de instructores adicionales.
El Dr. Santiago Benitez-Vieyra (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - CONICET) y la Dra. Marina Strelin (Universidad Nacional del Comahue - CONICET) serán los coordinadores de este curso.

Fecha limite de solicitud: 1 de Abril.
Mas información: >>> sitio web del curso