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National public radio (Radio 1; 'Nieuwe Feiten')  interview with Sam on bird beaks in relation to songs and feeding, including reports on research at FunMorph ().

National public radio (Radio 1; 'Nieuwe Feiten') interview with Sam on changes in urban songbird beak shape due to the coronavirus measures in the US ().

Our research on the mechanics of seed cracking in canaries, running in collaboration with the BECO lab, got advertised on the . The results of Tim Andries' PhD research, in which seed handling and skills are measured, are highlighted:

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A news report on research on vertebrate tongues in Science (https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adi8563) featured interview snippets with Sam (). This report was followed up by an article in Le Monde (), and a radio interview at NBR Nieuwsradio (The Netherlands), which is also published as a podcast .

We found that no shock absorption is taking place in the cranial skeleton of woodpeckers. Our work was . It was featured on the of the July 2022 issue, that also included a synopsis by Prof. Andrew Biewener entitled “.

Interviews and worldwide coverage by many media outlets followed.  Here is a selection: [Belgium] , , , , , [The Netherlands] , , , , [Germany], , ,, , [Austria] , , [Switzerland] , [France] , ,, , [India] , [Austrialia] , [USA] , , , , , , , , , , , , , [UK] , , , [Italy], , [Denmark] , [Norway] ,

Articles for a broad public were written by Maja for the November 2022 issue of , by Sam for the July 2023 issue on Physics in Animals from the (), and by Sam and Maja for published in their issue of Januari 2024 (; ).  Physics Today featured our story on the cover, and it was listed as their 'most read' article in January 2024:

Our findings triggered the writers of a to adjust part of their story just in time before it was printed.

Our study on the hydrodynamic role of the keels of boxfish during swimming was featured as a Research Highlight in Nature Reviews Physics in September 2022 ().  The original publication can be found here ().

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This is the first study to combine stereoscopic high-speed x-ray recordings with x-ray particle tracking to measure ‘invisible’ water flows in 3D (using 3D²YMOX).  My team showed how fish use specific flow patterns inside their mouths to transport food. The results of our , was covered in newspapers De Standaard () including an interview with Sam and prof. David Lentink, in the 'Outside JEB' section of the Journal of Experimental Biology (), and in Le Monde ().

A computer simulation analysis showed the downside for lizards living in regions with a high chance of hurricanes to have long hind limbs: they catch significantly more wind.  The results of our , were covered in , and an interview with Sam appeared on the .  In April 2022, our research appeared in the nature documentary 'Cataclysmes, Les grands régulateurs'.  The fragment of the documentary (in French; 6 minutes) featuring Anthony Herrel and Sam can be viewed .

We discovered that the black woodpecker uses a special trick to facilitate retracting its beak after it got stuck in the wood. Several news outlets covered this story, including ,  , , , , , ​

It was also featured on the popular TV quiz Wer weiss den sowas on one of the largest German stations ARD das Erste. The two-minute clip can be viewed .

​We showed how the tail is helping boxfish to control their turning manoeuvres.  The study was published in , and was covered by .  Dutch television RTL4 covered our work, including an interview with lead author Pim Boute

We showed that holes in fishes' jaws caused by fishing hooks reduces their suction power, making it more difficult for them to capture food. The study was published in The Journal of Experimental Biology, and covered in a variety of news sources, including , , , , , , , and .

Kathryn Knight from made an interview-report on my study on the kinematics of mouthbrooding in the Nile tilapia published in .

We showed how the four-eyed fish Anableps anableps uses its protruding jaw to capture prey on land.  The study was published in The Journal of Experimental Biology, and covered in the same journal (), and as a ".

We showed how water is used by mudskippers when they feed on land: Periophthalmus barbarus uses water as a tongue to aid in the capturing and intra-oral transporting of food.  The study was published in , and covered in , , , , and .  In 2021, our discovery was also featured in an .

We showed that, contrary to previous claims, the shape of the bony carapace of boxfish does not cause course-stabilisation during swimming.  Instead, the flow over the boxfish's body promotes manoevrability.  The study was published in (full article pdf), and was covered in Nature's News and Views section (pdf).​

I helped making X-ray videos of sound-producing French Grunts that allowed a team led by Frédéric Bertucci of the University of Liége to locate the source of their gunting sounds: the grinding motions of the pharyngeal jaws.  The study was published in the Journal of Experimental Biology (full article), and was covered as a research highlight in the same journal (inside JEB) as well as in Nature.

This report in includes an interview about my work on terrestrial feeding in amphibous fishes.  It was published following a symposium on water-to-land transitions at the SICB-conference in San Francisco, for which I was an invited speaker.

I discovered an advantage of the horse-like properties of seahorses (their curved trunk and tilted head) for the way they capture their prey. The study was published in .  A made by the Nature editors summarises the article.  The article was covered by Belgian television (ATV), local newspapers (, )and many websites (, , , , ).

We discovered that the eel-catfish (Channallabes apus), an inhabitant of the muddy swamps of tropical Africa, possesses the remarkable ability to forage and capture prey on land. The animal’s capacity to bend the head down towards the substrate while feeding terrestrially appears to be an essential feature for fishes to make the transition from an aquatic to a terrestrial feeding mode.  The study was published in , and covered by a long list of TV stations (VTM, Discovery Channel Canada, ATV), newspapers and magazines (De morgen (BE) , De Standaard (BE) ,Gazet Van Antwerpen (BE), Het Laatste Nieuws (BE), EOS (BE), Metro (BE), Kamagurka (BE), Berliner Zeitung (DE), , New York Times (USA)), and websites (, , , , , , , , , , , ).  The original article became the 6th most read article on the Nature website of the year 2006.