Postdoc @umons and work leader @nat_sciences_be / FED-tWIN fellow on developmental heterochronies / Functional morphology of rhinos and iguanodons
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🧵1/6 Want to know all about the knees of rhinos, horses and tapirs? Our study about variation of patellar shape in modern perissodactyls conducted together with @HoussayeCnrs has finally been published in @PeerJLife! 🦏🐴 peerj.com/articles/18067
A super cool crowdfunding project led by colleagues from @UniversiteLiege aiming to fund a life-sized reproduction of a mosasaur to be installed in the Meuse river! Super neat artistic and scientific diffusion project, help us to fund it here: promethea.koalect.com/projec…
It's #FossilFriday but, above all, it's the last day to submit your abstract proposal for the Palaeontological Virtual Congress 2025! @palaeovc Either in our session dedicated to Neogene Mediterranean perissos, or in any other thematic session! 🐴🦏
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🐴If you're working on Mediterranean perissos, this session of the @palaeovc is for you! You have until December 20 to send your abstract and take part in this session that we organize with @OmarCirilli, P. Kampouridis, @LucaPaleo and A. Uzunidis! 🦏
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Oustanding article about shape variation of limb bones among fossil proboscideans by the equally outstanding @camille_bader 🐘An essential addition to the understanding of graviportality from the #Gravibone project led by @HoussayeCnrs! Many congrats!!
Pleased to share that the 2nd chapter of my PhD is OUT! Limb bone shape variation in proboscideans - how to be the biggest one in the family in #PapersinPalaeontology with @HoussayeCnrs @Delapre_Arnaud and Ursula Göhlich @Le_Museum @UMR_MECADEV @ThePalAss
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🧵5/6 We believe that the emergence of this asymmetry may be related to the presence of a “knee locking” mechanism in equids and rhinos, not only involved in "standing up" resting phases but also in a shared locomotor habit: transverse gallop 🐎
🧵6/6 Many thanks to @PeerJLife and to editorial board for publishing this work, and to Lou Moizo for initiating this study five (!) years ago. Many thanks also to the @ERC_Research for funding the #Gravibone project led by @HoussayeCnrs, which includes this study 🦏
🦋Save the date! The Benelux Zoology Congress 2024 (#Zoology2024) will be organized by the @UMONSnews and the @RBSZ3 in Wallonia, Belgium, on December 12th and 13th 2024! Zoology and paleozoology communications are welcome until October 30th!
First time I've been dubbed in German😅Thanks to @ARDde for this great report at the @nat_sciences_be about Bernissart #Iguanodons , their life and death, and our recent digitization campain! And, of course, with the involvement of Pascal Godefroit!
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I've finally got my hands on my copies of my book about #dinosaurs published by @mercileslivres ! Very happy and proud of the final result!😁Hoping it will please young and old alike! 🦖🦕
#FossilFriday Today my colleagues and I accompanied 2nd year biology students from #UMons on a field trip in the Mons basin: great opportunity to put into practice what we saw during courses and to discover some beautiful fossils: plants, urchins, bivalves and even a shark teeth!
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The digitization of the Bernissart Iguanodons! 🎬🎥
Over the past three years, scientists have scanned and digitized all the #iguanodons on display and other remains in the #collections.
👉🏼View the 3D model: collections.naturalsciences.…
#FossilFriday It's time to share this magnificent reconstruction of the #Iguanodon holotype produced by Laetoli Productions using scans from the Iguanodon 2.0 project! The complete skeleton can be viewed in 3D on the "Vertebrates" application!
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Iguanodon 2.0 is a @belspo project involving notably the @nat_sciences_be and the #EddyLab of the @UniversiteLiege This putative reconstruction of the animal's gait is just the beginning ;)
Direct link to the 3D model: laetoli-production.fr/webgl/…
It had to happen: I'm publishing a children's book about dinosaurs! 🙈 An unpretentious little picture book in French🇫🇷 available today from Merci les Livres editions! Recommended for ages 6 and up, but even adults can obviously learn a thing or two ;)🦖🦕mercileslivres.com/catalogue…
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New #GRAVIBONE paper about rhinos. This time on the forces exerted on the limb long bones through musculoskeletal modelling and simulation, from @CyrilEtienne1, with @JohnRHutchinson and Michael Fagan. Congrats Cyril! Well done!
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#FossilFriday Happy to share this wonderful quadrupedal recreation of the #Iguanodon holotype! Laetoli Production worked hard on the data gathered by our digitization campaign! With @nat_sciences_be and EDDyLab @ULiegeResearch
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