Christophe Mallet

🧵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/project/43722

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! 🐴🦏 palaeovc.org/6/paleobiology…

🐴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! 🦏 palaeovc.org/thematic-sessi…

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!!

🧵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 🦏

🧵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 🐎

🧵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

🦋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!

@GonetJordan @HoussayeCnrs @SamHybois Congrats Jordan! Can't wait to see the results of such an interesting project :)

Yesterday was my first day as a postdoc. 🥳 For 18 months, I'll be studying the biomechanics of the nigerien dinosaurs Lurdusaurus and Ouranosaurus with @HoussayeCnrs and @SamHybois. I can't wait to start working on the simulations!

@RL_evobio @RoyalVetCollege @JohnRHutchinson Enjoy!! Can't wait to see the future results of your project 🙏

Hello Hawkshead Campus! I am happy to announce that I have recently started my MSCA-awarded / UKRI-funded postdoctoral project at the @RoyalVetCollege with Prof. @JohnRHutchinson ! More to come on cartilages in archosaur femora!! 🐓🐊🦖🦕

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! ardmediathek.de/video/wir-im-s…

@AlfredLemierre Bravo !

C'est officiel, je serais le prochain postdoctorant au Royal Tyrrell Museum ! Début pour l'automne ^^

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!

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.be/ssh-paleontolo…

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/vertebre…

#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! youtu.be/fo0FVgWKizc?si…