Tito Aureliano
@titoaureliano.bsky.social
Paleontólogo. Pesquisador na URCA, Nordeste do Brasil. Ele, dele
Paleontologist. Researcher at the URCA, Northeast Brazil. He, Him 🧪⚒️
Paleontologist. Researcher at the URCA, Northeast Brazil. He, Him 🧪⚒️
🚨New paper alert!🚨
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Terrestrial gigantism evolved through divergent pathways, with dinosaurs favoring cortical reinforcement while mammals adopted flexible trabecular expansion strategies
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Terrestrial gigantism evolved through divergent pathways, with dinosaurs favoring cortical reinforcement while mammals adopted flexible trabecular expansion strategies
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
🚨New paper alert!🚨
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Terrestrial gigantism evolved through divergent pathways, with dinosaurs favoring cortical reinforcement while mammals adopted flexible trabecular expansion strategies
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Terrestrial gigantism evolved through divergent pathways, with dinosaurs favoring cortical reinforcement while mammals adopted flexible trabecular expansion strategies
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This architecture could have stored fat inside the skeleton, acting as energy reserves for migrations 🦕➡️🌍 [+]
August 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This architecture could have stored fat inside the skeleton, acting as energy reserves for migrations 🦕➡️🌍 [+]
Instead, its bones show a dense trabecular matrix, similar to that in big mammals like deer, bulls, or whales! 🐂🐳[+]
August 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Instead, its bones show a dense trabecular matrix, similar to that in big mammals like deer, bulls, or whales! 🐂🐳[+]
Unlike meat-eating theropods or giant sauropods, Huallasaurus had NO invasive air sacs inside the vertebrae [+]
August 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Unlike meat-eating theropods or giant sauropods, Huallasaurus had NO invasive air sacs inside the vertebrae [+]
CT scans revealed the inner microstructure of Huallasaurus australis, a Late Cretaceous hadrosaur from Argentina [+]
August 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
CT scans revealed the inner microstructure of Huallasaurus australis, a Late Cretaceous hadrosaur from Argentina [+]
8/ 🛩️ In other words, pterosaur flight took off thanks to earlier breathing innovations in their grounded ancestors. (+)
August 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
8/ 🛩️ In other words, pterosaur flight took off thanks to earlier breathing innovations in their grounded ancestors. (+)
6/ 📊 Comparing Venetoraptor with a pterosaur (Caiuajara), we saw a clear progression: from simple to complex air sacs. (+)
August 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
6/ 📊 Comparing Venetoraptor with a pterosaur (Caiuajara), we saw a clear progression: from simple to complex air sacs. (+)
4/ 🔬 Inside Venetoraptor bones, we found early signs of air sacs: chambers and openings similar to those in flying pterosaurs! (+)
August 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
4/ 🔬 Inside Venetoraptor bones, we found early signs of air sacs: chambers and openings similar to those in flying pterosaurs! (+)
3/ 🦖 To find out, we used micro-CT scans to peek inside fossilized vertebrae from the Triassic of Brazil. (+)
August 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
3/ 🦖 To find out, we used micro-CT scans to peek inside fossilized vertebrae from the Triassic of Brazil. (+)
2/ 🪶 Birds have air sacs that help them breathe while flying. Pterosaurs had them too. But when did these structures evolve? (+)
August 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
2/ 🪶 Birds have air sacs that help them breathe while flying. Pterosaurs had them too. But when did these structures evolve? (+)
1/ 🧬🦴 We studied the bones of Venetoraptor, a relative of pterosaurs, to learn how air sacs evolved in flying reptiles. (+)
August 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
1/ 🧬🦴 We studied the bones of Venetoraptor, a relative of pterosaurs, to learn how air sacs evolved in flying reptiles. (+)
⚒️🧪 🚨New paper alert!!
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Histovariability and fossil diagenesis of Pissarrachampsa (Pseudosuchia, Notosuchia, Baurusuchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Southeast Brazil
#Paleontology #Histology #Biodiversity
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Histovariability and fossil diagenesis of Pissarrachampsa (Pseudosuchia, Notosuchia, Baurusuchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Southeast Brazil
#Paleontology #Histology #Biodiversity
July 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
⚒️🧪 🚨New paper alert!!
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Histovariability and fossil diagenesis of Pissarrachampsa (Pseudosuchia, Notosuchia, Baurusuchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Southeast Brazil
#Paleontology #Histology #Biodiversity
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Histovariability and fossil diagenesis of Pissarrachampsa (Pseudosuchia, Notosuchia, Baurusuchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Southeast Brazil
#Paleontology #Histology #Biodiversity
🚨 New paper published!
We report multiple cases of osteomyelitis (bone infection) in sauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil. The fossils show different patterns of reactive bone growth, but no healing — the infections were active when they died. 🧪⚒️
👉 doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...
We report multiple cases of osteomyelitis (bone infection) in sauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil. The fossils show different patterns of reactive bone growth, but no healing — the infections were active when they died. 🧪⚒️
👉 doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...
June 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
🚨 New paper published!
We report multiple cases of osteomyelitis (bone infection) in sauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil. The fossils show different patterns of reactive bone growth, but no healing — the infections were active when they died. 🧪⚒️
👉 doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...
We report multiple cases of osteomyelitis (bone infection) in sauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil. The fossils show different patterns of reactive bone growth, but no healing — the infections were active when they died. 🧪⚒️
👉 doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...
Novo livro da National Geographic escrito pelos colegas do @iknowdino , onde tivemos a satisfação de colaborarmos como consultores #biodiversidade #paleontologia
May 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Novo livro da National Geographic escrito pelos colegas do @iknowdino , onde tivemos a satisfação de colaborarmos como consultores #biodiversidade #paleontologia
April 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Fósseis de 100 milhões de anos encontrados no Maranhão são de espécie de dinossauro inédita para a ciência 🧪⚒️ g1.globo.com/ma/maranhao/...
December 27, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Fósseis de 100 milhões de anos encontrados no Maranhão são de espécie de dinossauro inédita para a ciência 🧪⚒️ g1.globo.com/ma/maranhao/...
Indigenous peoples made engravings alongside dinosaur footprints: Site in Paraíba suggests communities that lived up to 9,000 years ago found meaning in evidence of extinct animals #cienciabr 🧪⚒️ revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/original-...
September 14, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Indigenous peoples made engravings alongside dinosaur footprints: Site in Paraíba suggests communities that lived up to 9,000 years ago found meaning in evidence of extinct animals #cienciabr 🧪⚒️ revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/original-...
Um dos objetivos do nosso trabalho é olhar para a disposição das rochas para interpretarmos diferentes eventos em diferentes pontos do passado. 🧪⚒️
September 8, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Um dos objetivos do nosso trabalho é olhar para a disposição das rochas para interpretarmos diferentes eventos em diferentes pontos do passado. 🧪⚒️
O trabalho de escavação de fósseis é um misto de brutalidade e delicadeza, martelo e pincel, com muita resistência ao sol, enquanto são removidas camada por camada e vamos tomando nota de todos os dados. 🧪⚒️
September 3, 2024 at 9:37 PM
O trabalho de escavação de fósseis é um misto de brutalidade e delicadeza, martelo e pincel, com muita resistência ao sol, enquanto são removidas camada por camada e vamos tomando nota de todos os dados. 🧪⚒️
Um dos nossos últimos estudos avaliou a mudança no esqueleto de dinossauros da linhagem das aves e detectamos um progressivo aumento da pneumatização desde a linhagem dos Ceratossauros até o ramo que inclui os raptores. doi.org/10.1111/joa.... 🧪⚒️
September 2, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Um dos nossos últimos estudos avaliou a mudança no esqueleto de dinossauros da linhagem das aves e detectamos um progressivo aumento da pneumatização desde a linhagem dos Ceratossauros até o ramo que inclui os raptores. doi.org/10.1111/joa.... 🧪⚒️
Olá pessoal novo 👋😃!
Eu me chamo Tito, sou paleontólogo 🤠⛏️🦴, especialista no estudo de dinossauros e tecidos fossilizados 🦖🦕. Atualmente sou pesquisador na URCA, no Crato. Além de fazer pesquisa e consultoria, eu tmb faço divulgação científica, então será um prazer te-los aqui!
Eu me chamo Tito, sou paleontólogo 🤠⛏️🦴, especialista no estudo de dinossauros e tecidos fossilizados 🦖🦕. Atualmente sou pesquisador na URCA, no Crato. Além de fazer pesquisa e consultoria, eu tmb faço divulgação científica, então será um prazer te-los aqui!
September 1, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Olá pessoal novo 👋😃!
Eu me chamo Tito, sou paleontólogo 🤠⛏️🦴, especialista no estudo de dinossauros e tecidos fossilizados 🦖🦕. Atualmente sou pesquisador na URCA, no Crato. Além de fazer pesquisa e consultoria, eu tmb faço divulgação científica, então será um prazer te-los aqui!
Eu me chamo Tito, sou paleontólogo 🤠⛏️🦴, especialista no estudo de dinossauros e tecidos fossilizados 🦖🦕. Atualmente sou pesquisador na URCA, no Crato. Além de fazer pesquisa e consultoria, eu tmb faço divulgação científica, então será um prazer te-los aqui!
Our new paper on the evolution and diversification of Abelisaur histology is out!
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
January 16, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Our new paper on the evolution and diversification of Abelisaur histology is out!
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
doi.org/10.1080/0272...