In live now on #twitch to discuss about SPINOSAURUS MIRABILIS, from an internal pov of the paper with some guests :)

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I know a certain spiny lizard is now back in the news but I hope you guys haven't forgotten about Haolong dongi.
Shoutout to this guy for showing us that dinosaur integument was weirder than we thought.

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This digitally painted piece honors the survivor spirit of the coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our landscapes today. Below the horizon, carefully chosen ancestors mark pivotal moments in adaptation, each contributing to the form and survivor we see today. Above the horizon, Coyote stands alert at the center, framed by both Denver’s skyline and a mountain backdrop, symbols of their ability to thrive in cities as well as wilderness. Embedded in the ground are the skulls and bones of carnivores whose lineages ended long ago, emphasizing Coyote’s persistence in contrast.

"I Contain Multitudes"

This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today.

The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)

Since Haolong was unleashed to the public everyone's been drawing this poor little guy being hunted by Yutyrannus, but according to some reliable sources (@fbertpaleo.bsky.social) it would have been pretty hard for any predator to actually munch on this spiky iguanodontid.

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.

Rough sketch of Haolong climbing a rock

Very quick rough sketch
of the newly described spiky Hadrosauroid dinosaur Haolong dongi

I had to at least rough sketch this beauty!

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oooooooooooh 😍

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Wonna hear a personal view of new guy Haolong?
Come join us in live in a few moments, I’ll talk about our new paper!

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A colored digital drawing of Haolong, a stocky ornithopod dinosaur, standing on all fours with his head raised and beak opened, apparently calling out. The dinosaur is covered in a mosaic of small scales, sharp spines and large plate-like scales.

Spiny little friend.

A quick doodle of Haolong dongi, a newly described ornithopod from China with... spikes. Numerous sharp spines grew from the animal's neck and back, seemingly different from all other known dinosaur integuments. Definitely wasn't on my bingo card for 2026 dinosaur finds!

fuzzy hadrosaur

Dude, shave (Haolong dongi)

Aaaaaaaah 😍😍😍

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Haolong dongi, amazing new spiny (yes,really) iguanodontian from early cretaceous china #sciart

I want to have Cariocecus and Haolong toys now. They deserve to be together

Thanks!!

It’s finally out 😭😭😭😭😭❤️

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

Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur - Nature Ecology & Evolution A juvenile iguanodontian from the Lower Cretaceous of China preserves both spikes and scales in its skin that are different from integumentary structures in either non-avian dinosaurs or extant squama...

Huang, J., Wu, W., Mao, L. et al. Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur. Nat Ecol Evol (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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

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.

The paper is published in @nature.com Ecology and Evolution. I wish to thank Huang Jiadong, Pascal Godefroit and the rest of the Chinese team to have included me in this amazing project, I have now TWO DINOSAURS species on my list!

The specimen AGM 16793 is housed at the Anhui Geological Musem. The name means “The Spiky Dragon of Dong Zhiming” in honor of the recently passed Chinese paleontologist.

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).

This #fossilfriday is gonna be EXTRAORDINARY

Be ready!

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Hello guys, I will be live on #Twitch later today to talk about dinosaurs, paleontology… and the uneasiness in this sad world.
On a personal note, I hope to receive news about my job situation this month, because it’s that bad…
See you at 11.30pm Rome Time / 5.30pm EST
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thinking about dino eyes
#illust
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European ceratopsians?
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In #live now on #twitch to discuss about the new #dinosaur documentary “Why Dinosaurs?”

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#dispatch is an INCREDIBLE videogame.

Inside the bone-crushing mating rituals of dinosaurs A handful of unique fossils are spilling the secrets of dinosaur courtship and reproduction.

Excited to have our latest research on dinosaur mating behavior in National Geographic written by @restingdinoface.bsky.social 🦕🦖

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