Dr Valentina Rossi
@she-paleo.bsky.social
⛏Palaeontologist |🔬Fossil Pigments | 🎙️TEDxBolca‘22 speaker |🤸🏻♀️Gymnast | 📍Cork
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It has been an incredible honor to work with you and all the team on such an incredible fossil! It was a dream come true 🤩
July 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It has been an incredible honor to work with you and all the team on such an incredible fossil! It was a dream come true 🤩
Reposted by Dr Valentina Rossi
Analyses with @ucc.ie detected melanosomes within the crest's soft tissues. These resemble those in modern feathers more than those in reptilian skin or mammalian hair. This suggests the crest of #Mirasaura may have been pigmented and displayed visually 🌈 #FossilMelanosomes @she-paleo.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Analyses with @ucc.ie detected melanosomes within the crest's soft tissues. These resemble those in modern feathers more than those in reptilian skin or mammalian hair. This suggests the crest of #Mirasaura may have been pigmented and displayed visually 🌈 #FossilMelanosomes @she-paleo.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Valentina Rossi
📚 Also on The Conversation for a #scicomm breakdown: theconversation.com/how-pterosau...
How pterosaurs learned to fly: scientists have been looking in the wrong place to solve this mystery
New findings may have solved the debate around why scientists have never found the missing link between dinosaurs and pterosaurs.
theconversation.com
June 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
📚 Also on The Conversation for a #scicomm breakdown: theconversation.com/how-pterosau...
This is so relevant to us 😱
May 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This is so relevant to us 😱
Reposted by Dr Valentina Rossi
May 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM