Matthew D. Shawkey

The paper examines how urbanization affects specific traits of the European garden spider across 22 cities, finding trait-specific and city-dependent responses.

This study examines morphological and thermoregulatory responses of spiders to urbanization across spatial scales, finding size increases with urbanization while body condition declines, and no significant color change despite pigment evidence.

The paper identifies iridescent coloration in pterosaur pycnofibers through melanosomes and photonic nanostructures, showing it was present in archosaurs before birds.