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Filippo Maria Rotatori, PhD @palaeofil.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Here the great render made by Riccardo Rocchi, the first author of the paper!

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Alessandro Chiarenza @macroecoevoale.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

New paper out today in @thepalass.bsky.social : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Co-led with @palaeofil.bsky.social , w/ Federico Fanti & Miguel Moreno-Azanza. Using the largest data matrix yet, we name a new sail-backed clade (Ouranosauria) & reassess Iguanodon taxonomy. 🎨Davide Bonadonna

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Filippo Maria Rotatori, PhD @palaeofil.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Ecstatic to share my latest published research, the last chapter of my PhD dissertation. 🦕 Iguanodontian dinosaurs may have originated earlier than we thought. 🦖We identified a new clade of 'sail backed' iguanodontians, we formally name it Ouranosauria.

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Duck-billed dinosaurs are often found with gruesome, shattered, deformed tails. Did the injuries happen during mating? Maybe! A provocative new study from @fbertpaleo.bsky.social & team. My thoughts for @cnn.com edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...

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Mating injuries may lead scientists to identify dinosaurs’ sex | CNN

Paleontologists spotted injuries on the tails of duck-billed dinosaur fossils that might have occurred during mating.

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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 · 15/09/2025

Guys, gimme time to come back home and I’ll make a series of explanatory post for our NEW DINOSAUR 😍😍

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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Reconstruction of a large-sized ankylopollexian iguanodontian dinosaur interacting with a juvenile in the Late Jurassic of Europe 🦖 Artwork by Victor Carvalho CC BY-NC 4.0 licence 📝 Rotatori et al: buff.ly/pLfZzgG

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!

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Filippo Maria Rotatori, PhD @palaeofil.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Nice animal! Very happy to see new iguanodontian species being unveiled! Congrats to Jeremy and all the authors!

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Filippo Maria Rotatori, PhD @palaeofil.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Here we looked a little into Latitudinal Biodiversity Gradient of mammals, across the fossil record!

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Filippo Maria Rotatori, PhD @palaeofil.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Here a very nice contribution I took part in, shedding light on the early eavolution of stem-mammals!

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Filippo Maria Rotatori, PhD @palaeofil.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

🦴 New fossil croc from Angola! A ~70-million-year-old marine crocodylomorph has just been described from the Late Cretaceous of Bentiaba 🇦🇴. Proud to be 2nd author on this new paper! @eduardopuertolas.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/zool... academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

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A new Maastrichtian hyposaurine dyrosaurid (Crocodylomorpha) from Namibe province, Angola

Abstract. Dyrosauridae are one of the few clades of large marine vertebrates that survived the Cretaceous/Palaeogene (K–Pg) extinction event. The early div

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