Robin Ninon

Haolong original spikes finally out in @NatureEcoEvo🇨🇳🐉🦔 - make it live! @nat_sciences_be @CNRSecologie @CNRS_INSU @GeosciencesR @RennesUniv @PalaeoPittman @IAB_Officiel @PaleoAppi and Anhui Geological Museum of @HefeiChina #dinosaur #fossilskin #Jeholbiota #paleohistology

Just out! We wondered what information is retained in the elemental chemistry of an animal poop💩that has fossilized - can it be used as a proxy, and of what? 🦎🐊🦖🐢Answer is here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gj… @AMGC_VUB @nat_sciences_be @OSURennes @le_CR2P @UMONSnews @belspo 🇧🇪

@PalaeoPittman how cool for coral reef under LSF

Back from Australia for project on coral reef health with Maria Byrne of USyd and ankylosaurian comparative anatomy at Queensland Museum for new species description.

Out: new Carboniferous true bugs from Belgium by @Gogov23 and Northern France 🪲 - from old collections imaged over years at @nat_sciences_be with @belspo 🇧🇪; by @ISYEBsp from @Le_Museum #paleoentomology #truebugs #hemiptera onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp…

Herbivorous terrestrial microsaurs from the late carboniferous reveal this diet was ancestral to the divergence of amniotes 🌱🌿🌱(article with the late Hans Dieter Sues from the Smithsonian, how sad) #citeas" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4155…

New stem-medusozoan semicolonial Paleocanna (deriving later than conulariids) from the Upper Ordovician of Quebec 🪼🇨🇦 #paleontology #cnidaria #softtissues cambridge.org/core/journals/…

A paper on Early Permian scale impressions (of bolosaurian reptiles). It is difficult to interpret the origin of a tissue from imprints; but it is most likely dermal indeed🦎 #paleontology #fossilskin #softtissues #ichnology #footprints #scales cell.com/current-biolog…

@Kelitensis Author reading access to paper --> nature.com/articles/s4155…

NEW COMPLETE DINOSAUR & SKIN DISCOVERY! HAOLONG DONGI, SHOWS A NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN INTEGUMENTARY STRUCTURE!!! doi.org/10.1038/s41559…

@Hhexapod1 @Tessasaurus_rex No evidence, simply no idea

@Tessasaurus_rex About these quill-like structures, is there any evidence they could’ve been raised and lowered like a porcupine’s, or were they completely stationary?

happy #FossilFriday. It is very early in the year and I already have a favorite paper with the newly described Haolong. HOWEVER, this is *not* a feathered dinosaur! The structures on Haolong are very different from filaments. A 🧵

Down to the Eocene-Oligocene Quercy karst with colleagues from @isemevol and @GET_Toulouse for our Meduse-P project 🦇 @CNRS @CaussesDuQuercy #fossils #phosphate #bats #speleology

The paleo community is mourning the passing of giant. Philippe Taquet passed away on Sunday at 85. I was honored to meet him in his Paris office in 2007. Later that year, we published on a sauropod from his beloved Gadoufaoua in Niger & named for him: bit.ly/3WZLKdF

2001 - In my kidbed, reading in his book "L'empreinte des dinosaures" that studying fossils sometimes also offers the chance to travel far abroad and thus to meet people from all over the world. Meaningly grateful that I was able to try 🙏 😢 lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/…

@temnospondella @NCN_PL eli for second scale

#SVP2025 #2025SVP poster presentation in #Birmingham about #histology of Smok from 🇵🇱 and the origin of fibrolamellar 🦴bone🦴 complex, a research project funded by @NCN_PL

Out in IScience: "A 480 million year old parasitic spionid annelid"....or so many other type of extant or extinct annelid? I find this one moderately convincing (though interesting ofc !) 🪱 #parasitism #fossil #annelids #Fezouata 🇲🇦 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

BIG DAY TODAY FOR PARASITOLOGY 🪱 The first leech body fossil (previous occurences being triassic cocoons 🥚) - recovered as a stem-Hirudinida from the Silurian period (>435 ma). 🥳 Out in peerj.com/articles/19962/

Tilia pollen identified on bumble bees from the Oligocene of Western Germany 🐝🌳! - 24 million years of pollination interaction between European linden flowers and bumble bees nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Soft-tissue fossilizing in the ferricrete - iron oxide preservation. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Bayesian modelling of the fossil record enlightens the evolutionary history of Hemiptera. Congrats to all authors, especially @ISYEBsp ones.

Fossilized gill soft tissues in Mesozoic freshwater unionoid bivalves. 🦪app.pan.pl/article/item/a…