
Dr Tom Stubbs
BSC, MSC, PhD(Bristol)
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
School of Earth Sciences
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Research interests
I am an evolutionary biologist and palaeontologist interested in biodiversity and anatomy. My research uses the fossil record and living animals to explore the uneven distribution of biodiversity across the Tree of Life and through geological time. I have worked on crocodiles, marine reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, lizards and snakes, mammals and fish, to understand how diverse groups rise and fall, and how new evolutionary innovations emerge.
In my current postdoctoral research, I am exploring large-scale patterns of morphological change inclusively across all tetrapods (amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals), covering both living (~580 families) and extinct (>1000 families) animals in a universal framework.
Please check my personal website for more details: https://www.tomstubbs.co.uk
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
19/05/2022Author Correction
Communications Biology
Climate, competition, and the rise of mosasauroid ecomorphological disparity
Palaeontology
Large size in aquatic tetrapods compensates for high drag caused by extreme body proportions
Communications Biology
The Jurassic rise of squamates as supported by lepidosaur disparity and evolutionary rates
eLife
Author Correction
Nature Communications