Alessandro Chiarenza
@macroecoevoale.bsky.social
Royal Society Newton International Fellow at University College London @es-ucl.bsky.social | #Palaeobiology | #Macroecology | #Macroevolution |
PhD'19 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social | 🗺📈🦖☄(he/him)
🔗 https://linktr.ee/AlessandroChiarenza
PhD'19 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social | 🗺📈🦖☄(he/him)
🔗 https://linktr.ee/AlessandroChiarenza
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Looking forward to seeing many of you at #2025SVP #SVP2025 next week @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social! If you’d like to learn more about Opisthocoelicaudia & its relevance to titanosaur palaeobiology, come to my talk on Saturday Nov 15 15:00 Hall 4 🦕🌋 @pdmannion.bsky.social @daniajinn.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Looking forward to seeing many of you at #2025SVP #SVP2025 next week @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social! If you’d like to learn more about Opisthocoelicaudia & its relevance to titanosaur palaeobiology, come to my talk on Saturday Nov 15 15:00 Hall 4 🦕🌋 @pdmannion.bsky.social @daniajinn.bsky.social
Welcome back, Nanotyrannus lancensis 🥂🦖
Huge congrats to Lindsay Zanno & @jgn-paleo.bsky.social for their cutting-edge study on a beautiful, uniquely preserved specimen. End-Cretaceous dinosaur diversity just got a major bump 🦖 🦕📈☄️ #FossilFriday
Huge congrats to Lindsay Zanno & @jgn-paleo.bsky.social for their cutting-edge study on a beautiful, uniquely preserved specimen. End-Cretaceous dinosaur diversity just got a major bump 🦖 🦕📈☄️ #FossilFriday
October 31, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Welcome back, Nanotyrannus lancensis 🥂🦖
Huge congrats to Lindsay Zanno & @jgn-paleo.bsky.social for their cutting-edge study on a beautiful, uniquely preserved specimen. End-Cretaceous dinosaur diversity just got a major bump 🦖 🦕📈☄️ #FossilFriday
Huge congrats to Lindsay Zanno & @jgn-paleo.bsky.social for their cutting-edge study on a beautiful, uniquely preserved specimen. End-Cretaceous dinosaur diversity just got a major bump 🦖 🦕📈☄️ #FossilFriday
New paper today in @science.org: we date the Naashoibito Member (New Mexico) to 66.4–66.0 Ma, coeval with the Hell Creek, with important remarks on pre-extinction dinosaur diversity & regionalisation in North America 🦖🦕☄1/
Art: @nataliajagielska.bsky.social
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Art: @nataliajagielska.bsky.social
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New paper today in @science.org: we date the Naashoibito Member (New Mexico) to 66.4–66.0 Ma, coeval with the Hell Creek, with important remarks on pre-extinction dinosaur diversity & regionalisation in North America 🦖🦕☄1/
Art: @nataliajagielska.bsky.social
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Art: @nataliajagielska.bsky.social
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What are the biggest questions in #paleontology? New paper out today in Paleobiology led by Smith & Kiessling with ~200 coauthors on the relevance of our field, methods, & museum collections to climate & biodiversity research🦖 #FossilFriday @paleosoc.bsky.social 🔗: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
September 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
What are the biggest questions in #paleontology? New paper out today in Paleobiology led by Smith & Kiessling with ~200 coauthors on the relevance of our field, methods, & museum collections to climate & biodiversity research🦖 #FossilFriday @paleosoc.bsky.social 🔗: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
With a pristine skull, tiny phalanges, gastroliths, & an articulated tail, Zavacephale is the oldest & most complete pachycephalosaur ever found #fossilfriday I had the pleasure of photographing it last week, what a beauty! Congrats to the authors, read about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
With a pristine skull, tiny phalanges, gastroliths, & an articulated tail, Zavacephale is the oldest & most complete pachycephalosaur ever found #fossilfriday I had the pleasure of photographing it last week, what a beauty! Congrats to the authors, read about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Postcards from the last #fossilfriday in the field 🦖🏜️⚒️
September 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Postcards from the last #fossilfriday in the field 🦖🏜️⚒️
Hey 6-year-old me, I cowboy camped (=bivacco) at the Flaming Cliffs, watched the sunset, slept under the Milky Way, woke up to the sunrise (and even found the fossils this place is famous for). How about that? Bucket list: 🪣✅🏜️🦖🪺 #dinosaur #exploration #Mongolia #Gobi #adventure
August 31, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Hey 6-year-old me, I cowboy camped (=bivacco) at the Flaming Cliffs, watched the sunset, slept under the Milky Way, woke up to the sunrise (and even found the fossils this place is famous for). How about that? Bucket list: 🪣✅🏜️🦖🪺 #dinosaur #exploration #Mongolia #Gobi #adventure
Surreal to be at Togrogiin Shiree, the “fighting dinosaurs” type section. Sounds like a dream to unearth a complete, articulated Protoceratops and a finding a baby dromaeosaur dentary. Best of all: teammates who make a frantic five-hour dig feel like a walk in the park 🦖🌅
August 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Surreal to be at Togrogiin Shiree, the “fighting dinosaurs” type section. Sounds like a dream to unearth a complete, articulated Protoceratops and a finding a baby dromaeosaur dentary. Best of all: teammates who make a frantic five-hour dig feel like a walk in the park 🦖🌅
Follow me for a taste of good paleontology: today’s menu featured a complete turtle, bits of Protoceratops and Velociraptor, and dinosaur tracks 🦖🦕 #Gobi #Mongolia #dinosaur #paleontology
August 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Follow me for a taste of good paleontology: today’s menu featured a complete turtle, bits of Protoceratops and Velociraptor, and dinosaur tracks 🦖🦕 #Gobi #Mongolia #dinosaur #paleontology
#FossilFriday hits differently when you’re out in the field, particularly when your eyes land on an articulated avimimid and on a baby velociraptorine, but most importantly when you know you work with the best 🦖 #dinosaurs #paleontology #Gobi #Mongolia
August 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#FossilFriday hits differently when you’re out in the field, particularly when your eyes land on an articulated avimimid and on a baby velociraptorine, but most importantly when you know you work with the best 🦖 #dinosaurs #paleontology #Gobi #Mongolia
Since it’s abstract acceptance day, cheers from the Gobi to all SVPers @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social 🦖 🐫 #2025SVP #SVP2025
August 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Since it’s abstract acceptance day, cheers from the Gobi to all SVPers @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social 🦖 🐫 #2025SVP #SVP2025
Piece of a maxilla (upper jaw) and a jugal (“cheek”) bone, including the horn of a Psittacosaur I picked up (live from the field) and view of the office today #Gobi #Mongolia #fieldwork #dinosaurs #MADEX2025 #dinodig25
August 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Piece of a maxilla (upper jaw) and a jugal (“cheek”) bone, including the horn of a Psittacosaur I picked up (live from the field) and view of the office today #Gobi #Mongolia #fieldwork #dinosaurs #MADEX2025 #dinodig25
After a great icebreaker kicking off the annual @eavpalaeo.bsky.social meeting in Kraków, I'm finally digging into a fantastic first session. If you're interested in sauropod macroevolution and new relevant insights on Opisthocoelicaudia, don’t miss my talk on Wednesday at 12:15 🦕🔥 #EAVP2025!
July 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
After a great icebreaker kicking off the annual @eavpalaeo.bsky.social meeting in Kraków, I'm finally digging into a fantastic first session. If you're interested in sauropod macroevolution and new relevant insights on Opisthocoelicaudia, don’t miss my talk on Wednesday at 12:15 🦕🔥 #EAVP2025!
New day, new paper! 🦣🌍 Led by @mapaslab.bsky.social ab.bsky.social PhD student Sofía Galván and out now in Global Ecology and Biogeography in which we asked:
"Could future palaeontologists detect today’s biodiversity patterns from fossils alone?"
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Could future palaeontologists detect today’s biodiversity patterns from fossils alone?"
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
June 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
New day, new paper! 🦣🌍 Led by @mapaslab.bsky.social ab.bsky.social PhD student Sofía Galván and out now in Global Ecology and Biogeography in which we asked:
"Could future palaeontologists detect today’s biodiversity patterns from fossils alone?"
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Could future palaeontologists detect today’s biodiversity patterns from fossils alone?"
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 20, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Palaeoart by @d_bonadonna offers a glimpse into a latest Cretaceous scene from Mongolia, depicting a Tarbosaurus consuming a Deinocheirus carcass, with primary consumers like Saurolophus drinking on the opposite side and Nemegtosaurus foraging in the background 🦕 5/5
November 13, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Palaeoart by @d_bonadonna offers a glimpse into a latest Cretaceous scene from Mongolia, depicting a Tarbosaurus consuming a Deinocheirus carcass, with primary consumers like Saurolophus drinking on the opposite side and Nemegtosaurus foraging in the background 🦕 5/5
In 200 years of dinosaur research since the publication of Megalosaurus, we have learned a lot about non-avian dinosaur diversity, from their varied morphologies & sizes to their adaptations to geographic restructuring (the breakup of Pangea, opening of the Atlantic Ocean)… 3/5
November 13, 2024 at 12:50 PM
In 200 years of dinosaur research since the publication of Megalosaurus, we have learned a lot about non-avian dinosaur diversity, from their varied morphologies & sizes to their adaptations to geographic restructuring (the breakup of Pangea, opening of the Atlantic Ocean)… 3/5
I cover the major insights gained so far on dinosaur macroecology, as well as the limitations & new methodologies advancing this field, with a forward look at the path ahead. Special thanks to @NHMdinolab & @Tweetisaurus for inviting me to contribute this feature 2/5
November 13, 2024 at 12:50 PM
I cover the major insights gained so far on dinosaur macroecology, as well as the limitations & new methodologies advancing this field, with a forward look at the path ahead. Special thanks to @NHMdinolab & @Tweetisaurus for inviting me to contribute this feature 2/5
Glad to see my review on Mesozoic dinosaur macroecology published today in Biology Letters (Royal Society Publishing) for the Special Issue on the 200 years of #dinosaur science🦖 Artwork by Davide Bonadonna
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🧵1/5
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🧵1/5
November 13, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Glad to see my review on Mesozoic dinosaur macroecology published today in Biology Letters (Royal Society Publishing) for the Special Issue on the 200 years of #dinosaur science🦖 Artwork by Davide Bonadonna
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🧵1/5
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🧵1/5
If you’re up for a post-Halloween scare, imagine what Late Cretaceous dinosaurs, living around 70 million years ago, felt as one of the largest (and predatory) flying reptiles (Quetzalcoatlus) menacingly flew above their heads #FossilFriday #not #dinosaurs #Halloween #2024SVP 🦖 🎃
November 1, 2024 at 4:49 PM
If you’re up for a post-Halloween scare, imagine what Late Cretaceous dinosaurs, living around 70 million years ago, felt as one of the largest (and predatory) flying reptiles (Quetzalcoatlus) menacingly flew above their heads #FossilFriday #not #dinosaurs #Halloween #2024SVP 🦖 🎃
🦕🌎 Excited to see our latest review on dinosaur palaeobiogeography, coauthored with Paul Upchurch published today in Biology Letters (Royal Society Publishing)🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
October 30, 2024 at 6:00 AM
🦕🌎 Excited to see our latest review on dinosaur palaeobiogeography, coauthored with Paul Upchurch published today in Biology Letters (Royal Society Publishing)🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Headed to #2024SVP! Catch my talk on Wednesday at 8 am in Technical Session 1 (Dinosaur Evolution, Soft Tissues, & Ornithischia I) - meeting room Nicollet A. I’ll be discussing Mesozoic hyperthermals, dinosaur macroevolution, & why Opisthocoelicaudia matters… 🌋🌡️🦕 #SVP2024
October 28, 2024 at 11:50 AM