@PaleoCase

I'm a paleontologist specialized in biomechanics and paleoecology of dinosaurs (including birds). Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

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Joined September 2019
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#Enantiornithine birds were the dominant birds of the #Cretaceous, and our new study suggests that their #diets were as varied as living birds! Not only that, but they evolved this #diversity in #diet at a rate comparable to that of modern birds! (1/17)
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I've been chatting with the lead author, Eric Austin Ames, for over a year about this project. So excited to finally see it come to fruition, and for what Eric has in store for us next!
Taylor McCoy 🦖@TM9380Sep 24
Fascinating new study breaking down how ceratopsians may have fought. Paper linked below, I’m sure this is a subject many will find interesting…
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PS - Shouting out this really cool figure of various #FiniteElementAnalysis loading conditions!
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An excellent summary of our recent paper! Thank you for covering it!
Dolliesaurus 🐑🦕❤️‍🩹【VCLUB】@DolliesaurusAug 21
Were the Dinosaurs' Ancestors Cold-Blooded? 🩸🦕 FOSSIL FRIDAY!
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Just in time for #FossilFriday, we have a new paper out on #archosaur #metabolism!
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If you want to read the full #OpenAcces paper, check it out in #Paleobiology (@PaleoSoc & @CambridgeUP)! doi.org/10.1017/pab.2026.101…

Blood flow rates to long bones of archosaurs reveal high aerobic metabolic rates and endothermy...

Blood flow rates to long bones of archosaurs reveal high aerobic metabolic rates and endothermy throughout most of their evolutionary history

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As a final note: I have been a part of this project over 7 years now, and I am so excited to our work come to fruition! Massive thanks to Roger (pictured) and the rest of my awesome coauthors making this possible!
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Excited for the release of 'The Dinosaurs' on #Netflix! I was tapped as a scientific advisor for Longipteryx (featured in episode 3), so amazing to see it reach the screen!
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And here I am in the credits! An honor to see my name alongside so many people I admire.
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New paper today in #BiologicalReviews! #Troodontids have famously weird teeth that suggest a variety of #paleodiets in the group. In our review, we suggest new studies to explore this hypothesis and that the ancestors of #birds, #raptors, and troodontids were omnivorous! (1/2)
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This project was lead by Yui Chi (Audrey) Fan, and this is her very first publication! I'm very excited to see what's next from her 😁 Check out the #OpenAccess paper at #BiologicalReviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Diet of bird‐like troodontid dinosaurs: synthesis of a contentious clade

Troodontidae is a clade of small-to medium-sized maniraptoran theropods that mainly lived in Laurasia (modern Asia, North America and Europe) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are...

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I've gotten married to the most wonderful person in the world 💛
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Excited to announce I've helped to adapt Dr Dhrolin's Dictionary of Dinosaurs by @Palaeofox for the #Pathbuilder app! Pathfinder (@paizo) was my first ever TTRPG, and I'm elated for this @scicomm opportunity to bring realistic prehistoric life to the game!
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You can find the package on the #PalaeoGames website: palaeogames.com/collections/… While you're there, check out the source book (and its upcoming sequel) if you haven't yet. It is by far my favorite 3rd party TTRPG book, with detailed flavor text and gorgeous artwork.

Dr Dhrolin's .Json Files for Pathbuilder

If you use Pathbuilder for your games of Pathfinder Second Edition, these free files include all of the components you need to make and advance characters with content from Dr Dhrolin's Dictionary of...

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New paper reports #Longipteryx with ingested #fruit! But despite its title, I wouldn’t say it “contradicts morphological proxies for diet”. In fact, our team predicted longipterygids swallowing plants in 2022 (snip below).
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O’Connor et al’s new paper on fruit-ingesting Longipteryx: cell.com/current-biology/abs… And our work on longipterygid diet: bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/ar…
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PS - O'Connor et al's suggestion that Longipteryx used its teeth in intraspecific combat is a really creative one! I’m excited to see how researchers test that hypothesis.
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