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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

In live now on #twitch to discuss about SPINOSAURUS MIRABILIS, from an internal pov of the paper with some guests :) www.twitch.tv/dicendinosaur #paleontology #dinosaur #scicomm

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I am overwordly excited -and still in total disbelief- to announce that I was awarded the prestigious 2025 #MSCA by @horizoneu.bsky.social 😱 I will join Dr. Araùjo at @istecnico.bsky.social in Portugal to work on a cutting-edge methodology to address endothermy in dinosaurs and pterosaurs.

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

And we also had the contribution of Fabio Manucci for the paleoartistic reconstructions!

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The tail, similar to the Middle Jurassic Kulindadromeus, is covered in overlapping large scales, diminishing in size moving towards the end of the tail.

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

As the name suggest, this new dinosaur species exhibits new integumentary structures never seen before in these dinosaurs, a wide array of small, medium and -relatively- large spikes on the body except of the tail.

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Maybe a bit late for web timing, but ehy, NEW PAPER ON #fossilfriday!!! I am proud to present you Haolong dongi gen. nov. sp. nov., a new hadrosauroid from the Early Cretaceous of China! The specimen, almost complete, is a juvenile iguanodontian from the Yixian Formation of the Barremian (125 Mya).

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

European ceratopsians? Let’s discuss now in live! Join here: www.twitch.tv/dicendinosaur #twitch #scicomm #dinosaur #paleontology

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

In #live now on #twitch to discuss about the new #dinosaur documentary “Why Dinosaurs?” Join us! www.twitch.tv/dicendinosaur

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Our latest research on hadrosaurid tail injuries as possible sex indication was announced by @colbertlateshow.bsky.social , how COOL is that????? #dinosaur #paleontology

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Tomorrow I’ll be travelling to Birmingham for the meeting of SVP: - present two posters - meet so many friends and colleagues I haven’t seen for a long time - planning scicomm projects with a few cool buddies -networking a lot I look forward to see all of you there! 🦕🦖 #dinosaur #paleontology

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I want to thank all my amazing coauthors -especially my mentor Darren Tanke (who first hypothesized the mating hypothesis in 1989 -DARREN, WE DID IT!-), the many institutions that helped me, and the paleoartist Emiliano Troco for the illustrations!

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

there are MANY "but", "if", and biological implications. The paper is published in OPEN ACCESS so you can read and give me your thoughts 😀

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

After this evaluation, we realize that the mating hypothesis was the one explaining the pathological pattern at best. The mounting male presses on the female tail, causing the vertebral lesions on top of the spine.

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Knowing where we were going, we had to be sure. Or, at least, we had to consider EVERY OTHER SCENARIOS to explain what really looked like something related to sexual activity: predation, locomotion stress, strange and particular behavior, herd stepping... all of them were missing soemthing.

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

This is the condition for the tails we could check, we also have many other vertebrae in the dataset

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

After many years of work, submission, tears and swat, we can finally reveal it - hadrosaurids were likely injuring the female partner during sex. For many years, many hadrosaur caudal vertebrae are found possessing broken neural spines, healing, and this has puzzled many researchers...

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Our controversial paper is finally out in @cp-iscience.bsky.social ! As part of my PhD dissertation at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social in 2021, the last chapter was dedicated to a specific pathological pattern in hadrosaurid tails!

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

For ABSOLUTELY NO REASONS AT ALL, here the two replica skeletons of the Russian lambeosaurines Olorotitan and Amurosaurus at the Institute of Narural Sciences of Brussels for #fossilfriday … hehehehe 😏👀🦕

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Just dropping here the wooden cast of the Olorotitan holotype for absolutely no effing reasons 😇 4th November 17.30 Rome time. Less than a week. #paleontology #dinosaur #behavior

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Now in live for the day1 of #jurassicworldevolution3 on #twitch! Come join us for a paleontological stream that will go for at least 6h 👀 www.twitch.tv/dicendinosaur #dinosaur #paleontology

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Similar cousins, and yet so different animals! See the skull of my new species Cariocecus bocagei -published this week- at the foot of the Iguanodon statue at @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social for #fossilfriday #dinosaur #paleontology

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

However, the color pattern of Kratos was not ideal to what I had in mind. I prepared some palettes based on birds, but then I had an idea. I am a huge @criticalrole.bsky.social fan, and I wanted to tribute them. This, I applied Grog’s tones to the official reconstruction by Victor Carvalho!

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Cariocecus was the Lusitania God of War in the pre-Roman age. It was therefore instantaneous the association with the famous videogame franchise of Kratos 😁 hence, during the first days after deciding this new genus name, I had fun making this fake PS5 cover! #dinosaur #paleontology

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

ah, I was forgetting: Cariocecus is named after the Lusitanian GOD OF WAR Cariocecus (before been renamed into Mars/Ares). And bocagei refers to 19th century Portuguese zoologist José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage. Actually, I'll show u something funny in the next days on the genus name XD 13/x

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Furthermore, the supraorbital membrane articulates solely with the lacrimal, and not with the prefrontal as in other ornithischians. This placed the bone ina lower level in the orbit, likely giving it a "mean" look 10/x

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

However, I think the most interesting paleobio result we obtained is the reconstruction of the supraorbital membrane. This is a structure visible in birds as well, connective tissue covering the eye and achoring with supraorbital (the "eyebrow"), prefrontal, frontal, and postorbital 8/x

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We used a new matrix to detect the phylogenetical position of SHN.832. Cariocecus resulted as a basal hadrosauroid together with Brightstoneus and Comptonatus. However, I am curious to see how it will change in future projects of mine (😏😏), especially adding Istiorachis and other species 7/x

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Cariocecus resulted to be indeed a new species. Crazy features are: jugal and maxilla are co-ossified, and the supraorbital articulates solely with the lacrimal! We were able tor econstruct via microCt the replacement teeth, brain and inner ear. I digitize the models, assembling them in Blender 6/x

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I visited SHN in 2019, and director Bruno Camilo )coauthor) showed me the specimen. Indeed, ti was worth a study! However, the 2020 pandemic halted the project, until 2023 when my supervisor Pascal Godefroit went to visit SHN, establishing a collaboration between the institutions 3/x

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The specimen, SHN.832, was found in 2016 by Pedro Marrecas of the Sociedade de Historia Natural in Praia do Area do Mastro, south of Lisbon. Pedro noticed a series of lined teeth in a boulder, likely felt from the cliff 1/x

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Today new publication has been released in @journalsystpal.bsky.social We are proud to present you Cariocecus bocagei, a new hadrosauroid from the Papo Seco Formation (Barremian, Early K) of Portugal. Come with me in this post series to learn more about it! 1/x

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Tomorrow be sure to follow my accounts (here, IG, and YouTube) for my new publication!! Here’re the spoilers I released during the past week. The time is 11am UK time 😎🦖🦕

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Monday 15th September, 11am UK time. Wait for it. 🦕it is coming 🦖 #dinosaurs #paleontology #waitforthepaper

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Wonna know more about the new sail-backed iguanodontian from Uk? Join us on #twitch now for a dedicated live! www.twitch.tv/dicendinosaur #dinosaur #scicomm #paleontology

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

SVP abstract accepted! If you like Iguanodon and cool paleobiologically inferred behaviors, you should come and see our poster 😏 #dinosaurs #paleontology #academia

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Happy International Dinosaur Day! We are NOW live on Twitch to discuss about Parasaurolophus and to build our own dinosaur park! www.twitch.tv/dicendinosaur

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Join me in my #twitch channel for a live stream on dinosaurs and more! NOW! www.twitch.tv/dicendinosaur #dinosaur #dinosaurs #paleontology

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Join us in 10 min for our English livestream on my #twitch channel! We will try Dino Path Trail, out on Steam now, for which I did paleo supervision! And a bit of Prehistoric kingdom 🦕 www.twitch.tv/dicendinosaur

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Join me in half an hour on #twitch to play @prehistorickingdom.bsky.social ! At 11pm Rome time Or 3pm MST www.twitch.tv/dicendinosaur

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

In 10 min, you can find me on my #twitch channel to discuss about WWD 2025 and the “Direwolf” situation www.twitch.tv/dicendinosaur

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We are happy to share our latest contribution to the Ornithopoda literature with a paper led by Filippo Rotatori A few years ago, Filippo asked me to help with a neat little project on a fragmentary specimen of an ornithopod from the Lourinha Formation (Portugal).

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Back on #Twitch for my English streams, today we assemble this Brachiosaurus skeleton and discuss sauropod anatomy! www.twitch.tv/dicendinosaur #paleontology #dinosaurs #scicomm

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

in live now to talk about dinosaurs and more, come say hi! www.twitch.tv/dicendinosaur

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Bright Festival at the Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussel, Belgium

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

10 February 1825, Gideon Mantell publishes his long-due work baptizing Iguanodon, the second dinosaur to be discovered, studied and named in history after Megalosaurus! Happy Birthday Iguanodon!

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Finally it can be revealed, and during a #fossilfriday nonetheless! “Vulcan”, the auctioned Apatosaurus, has arrived in Pairi Daiza… and it will stay there, open to the public and to science 😎

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Wonna have a bit of rest from the world madness? We are starting a live on my twitch where we assemble a skeleton model of Giganotosaurus (from the series Plannosaurus). Come join us! wwww.twitch.tv/dicendinosaur

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Important #fossilfriday for me, as one of my new papers has finally been published in PlosOne! Thanks to all my coauthors Pascal Godefroit, Kecheng and Nathan Vallée Gillette 🤩 We described a new skull of the early ornithopod Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis from China…

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