Didier B. Dutheil

@didierdutheil.bsky.social

Curieux de nature • les pieds sur Terre • paléontologue pratiquant • paleontologist • Niger Heritage • Limouzi • Chabatz d'entrar • scicom • paléontologie

Big BIG work on Coryphodon from mainly from a team of @cr2p.bsky.social in a pit of Le Quesnoy, where I dug at the very end of the last century. The bonebed was insane there. Congrats @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social for the lead of this work that isn't déjà vu.

Fossil digging on the Le Quesnoy locality (Houdancourt, Oise, France) from the Ypresian (Lower Eocene, Paleogene, Tertiary Era. ©Didier-B.-Dutheil
Benjamin Raynaud@benjaminraynaud.bsky.social · 2w ago

My Master's research (now expanded with new collabs) is finally published! Together with Grégoire Métais, Emmanuel Gheebrant, Ni Xijun, @nilschabrol.bsky.social, and Marc Godinot, we describe exceptional new dental material of Coryphodon from Le Quesnoy (northern France, Eocene). @cr2p.bsky.social

First PhD paper from Romain Cottereau, directly without his two PhD supervisors @val-fisch.bsky.social and me. Congrats Romain for this nice dissection paper on a giant paddle of humpback whale and on those of its relatives with a new tissue-illuminating technique!

Prof. Valentin Fischer@val-fisch.bsky.social · 3w ago

#3: important new information on the soft tissues in the flipper of humpback whales by my Ph.D. student Romain Cottereau onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#ESR Il est temps d'en finir avec l'édition scientifique privée et de confier les revues aux sociétés savantes. Springer promeut le muskisme le plus décomplexé — la mention de la "géoéthique" ajoutant au cynisme.

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Conférence | Nouvelle hypothèse sur l’origine des poils, de la lactation et de l’endothermie chez les synapsides Nous nous retrouverons le 15/07 pour la dernière séance du séminaire de la saison 2025/2026 avec Julien Benoit (Univ. du Witwatersrand) Plus d'infos : paleo.mnhn.fr/fr/agenda/no...

Nouvelle hypothèse sur l’origine des poils, de la lactation et de l’endothermie chez les synapsides | Julien Benoit

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There's always plenty more fish in the sea...right? According to this paper, the answer is probably...if you're looking for an African freshwater fish using species description trends! In fact, of a predicted 9964 species, 6600 remain undescribed! 🧪🌎👇 doi.org/10.1093/zool...

Investigating Africa’s freshwater fish diversity through the lens of species description trends: How many species are there?

Abstract. Africa hosts one of the world’s richest freshwater ichthyofaunas, yet major gaps persist in species diversity, distribution, and evolutionary kno

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From El Hossny et al., 2020: Spathiurus, a Cretaceous relative of bowfins. This specimen is at a museum tied to the Lebanese University. One of the university’s campuses has been bombed, and the director of the Faculty of Science has been killed You can support Lebanon here: gofund.me/40b24e072

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⚠️ Alerte Nouvel Article ⚠️ Les fossiles d'anoures sont extrêmement rares. Dans cet article d'A. Lemierre, W.-D. Heinrich & D. Blackburn décrivent, dans le Jurassique supérieur de Tanzanie, les plus anciens restes d'anoures connus des archives fossiles africaines.

Fossil Record@fr.pensoft.net · 5mo ago

🐸 Rare fossils from Tanzania have revealed the oldest known ancestors of modern frogs found in Africa, dating back to the Jurassic period. 🦴 These specimens were discovered in the Tendaguru Formation. Read more here: doi.org/10.3897/fr.29.175525 @mfnberlin.bsky.social