Today a new chapter begins: soon I'll start my PhD, about biomechanics of diplodocid sauropods 🦕 within polimi and Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with the aim to use their evolutionary features to develop models… instagram.com/p/B3G9dRzoHXN/…

Não atirar foguetes antes da festa Don't throw fireworks before the party (First Portuguese sentence achieved)

Lecture in the field today with students of Miragaia village. Speaking in front of people is always an opportunity to learn new stuff! Don't you already know Miragaia? Then go and dig out the internet the amazing… instagram.com/p/B3UnHXnIlb3/…

Supersaurus (ex Dinheirosaurus) lourinhanensis, one long neck dinosaur related to Diplodocus. It is known from a partial vertebral column and few other remains found in Porto Dinheiro back in the late '80s. #phd… instagram.com/p/B4NKdQ7iJde/…

Out today the paper from my MSc thesis, the oldest lambeosaurine dinosaur from Europe: insights into the arrival of Tsintaosaurini, check it out: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #paleontology #dinosaur #hadrosaur

Out today and #OpenAccess the new paper, Multibody analysis and soft tissue strength refute supersonic dinosaur tail, by Scientific Report. It is the fruit of the collaboration between my two institutions: @AerospacePoliMI and Ciências da Terra FCT/NOVA. Check here: nature.com/articles/s4159…

In the #openaccess article in Scientific Reports by S. Conti, A. Zanoni, P. Masarati, G. Sala, #engineering meets #paleontology, showing how long-neck dinosaurs could not have supersonic tails. 👉 more at aero.polimi.it/it/storage-fol… Simone Conti Study with Ciências da Terra FCT/NOVA Politecnico di Milano

Work by Simone Conti et al. Ciências da Terra FCT/NOVA @AerospacePoliMI analyses the dynamics of motion of a 3D model of a sauropod dinosaur tail, and propose that the actual speed that diplodocid tails could reach was lower than the speed of sound.🦕 nature.com/articles/s4159…

Today we know a little more about ostriches 🦤 (dodo as placeholder waiting for the proper one). Check how the bones of these amazing animals are adapted to run in the new paper published today in the journal Biomimetics: mdpi.com/2313-7673/8/1/…