Stella Angelika Ludwig
@stellaludwig.bsky.social
PhD student interested in the functional morphology and biomechanics of extinct tetrapods. Vertebrate palaeontologist 🦴| Researching Spinosaurus locomotion 🌊| Team T. rex studying Trinity 🦖| Part-time pterosaurologist 🪽| Mente et malleo ⚒
Hi! My World View in Nature Reviews Biodiversity was published today! Read about my three main aims when educating people about topics in natural history. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Three ideas to inspire curiosity in natural history education
Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Natural history can captivate the minds of all manner of people for a multitude of reasons, but a shifting media landscape demands adaptation from public educators....
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Show everyone your Spinosaurid! No matter if Spinosaurus, Baryonyx, or Ichthyovenator, 2D traditional or digital painting, animation, or 3D model (details about file specifications on request) - show us your artwork!
Hi! I'm not here very often, but I just launched my brand new lab website! I'm also hiring a !!! three-year !!! Postdoc. Interest form link can be found under "The Team" section. (Current domain name is temporary haha. FormorphologyLab dot com coming soon!) badger-mustard-h5jf.squarespace.com
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Ants! Ants! Ants! 792 species of ants (!!!!!!) 3D scanned (high-throughput synchrotron X-ray microtomography) in luxurious detail: spectrum.ieee.org/3d-scanning-... paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... website: www.antscan.info Phenomenal.
Antscan’s 3D Atlas Reveals Ant Anatomy Like Never Before
How does a particle accelerator help us understand ants like never before?
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Poposaurus running simulations starting to get better than utterly ridiculous. Now just ridiculous.
New #DAWNDINOS paper! We do predictive simulations of vertical height jumping in the Triassic theropod Coelophysis & extant (tinamou) bird Eudromia. Mainly as sensitivity analysis of what parameters are most important. We show how crucial tail mobility is. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...
For those who haven’t seen it yet, the award-winning documentary @whydinosaurs.bsky.social is now available free on YouTube! You should definitely watch it if you have the time. I’ve embedded the video in my review here. dinodadreviews.com/2026/02/19/w...
Why Dinosaurs?
The highly-anticipated documentary by Tony and James Pinto!
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A second species of non‐crocodyliform crocodylomorph from the Late Triassic fissure deposits of southwestern UK: Implications for locomotory ecological diversity in Saltoposuchidae - Bodenham - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A second species of non‐crocodyliform crocodylomorph from the Late Triassic fissure deposits of southwestern UK: Implications for locomotory ecological diversity in Saltoposuchidae
The Late Triassic–Early Jurassic fissures of the Bristol Channel area (southwest England and south Wales) are renowned for their diverse vertebrate faunas. These assemblages have yielded an array of ...
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Locomotor reassessment of Iguanodon, Ouranosaurus and Lurdusaurus (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) using osteological correlates fr.pensoft.net/articles.php...
Locomotor reassessment of Iguanodon, Ouranosaurus and Lurdusaurus (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) using osteological correlates
Large ornithopod dinosaurs have been successively described as quadrupeds, bipeds and facultative bipeds. Here we study the case of three ankylopollexians (Iguanodon bernissartensis, Ouranosaurus nige...
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There is a beauty in the reverence of the long since dead
Growth dynamics, skeletochronology, and histovariability of the theropod dinosaur Berthasaura leopoldinae - Souza - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Growth dynamics, skeletochronology, and histovariability of the theropod dinosaur Berthasaura leopoldinae
Osteohistological sampling on different bones of theropod dinosaur documents discrepant age record, growth, and metabolism. This could result unprecise paleobiological inferences if samplings are bas....
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Interesting preprint suggesting that recently described fossils from Brazil described as a new ctenochasmatine pterosaur, Bakiribu, preserved within a regurgitalite, instead represent the gill arch apparatus of an actinopterygian fish: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Reinterpretation of Bakiribu waridza from the Romualdo Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Brazil: a fish not a pterosaur
Fragmentary remains of fossil vertebrates from the Romualdo Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Brazil, preserved in association with two fish were interpreted as two individuals of a new genus and specie...
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A diminutive tyrannosaur lived alongside Tyrannosaurus rex | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A diminutive tyrannosaur lived alongside Tyrannosaurus rex
Whether Nanotyrannus lancensis represents a distinct taxon or an immature Tyrannosaurus rex is a decades-long controversy. The N. lancesis holotype is an isolated skull and ceratobranchials, but limb ...
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Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A paper published in Nature reports the discovery of an early sauropodomorph in the Andes of La Rioja, northwestern Argentina. The finding expands the known diversity and geographic range of early dinosaurs and offers new insights into sauropodomorph evolution. go.nature.com/4984sqA #Paleosky 🧪
Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖
SVP President @stuartsumida.bsky.social speaks to Open Access Government about the importance of vertebrate paleontology and science in the United States. www.openaccessgovernment.org/the-importan...
The importance of palaeontology, Earth history, and science
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology discusses the significance of paleontology, Earth history and science in this insightful opinion piece
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New paper @journalsystpal.bsky.social with Drew Moore @stonybrooku.bsky.social re-evaluating diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur phylogeny + biogeography, including illustrating synapomorphies, with implications for the early evolution of the major lineages: doi.org/10.1080/1477... @es-ucl.bsky.social
#PrehistoricPlanet - Discovering Dinosaurs Behind the Scenes | Framestore www.youtube.com/watch?v=_seC...
Prehistoric Planet: Discovering Dinosaurs Behind the Scenes | Framestore
YouTube video by Framestore
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BBC Learning Hub has launched Walking with Dinosaurs Virtual Field Trip Resources. More here: edtechchronicle.com/bbc-learning...
BBC Learning Hub Launches Walking with Dinosaurs Virtual Field Trip Resources • EdTech Chronicle
New educational materials bring prehistoric adventures to life, offering educators cutting-edge paleontology and STEM learning experiences
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And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
On #FossilFriday I am proud to share a new discovery - a skull of a large extinct relative of king and emperor penguins. @atennyson.bsky.social, Daniel Thomas, Felix Marx, and I report this magnificent skull in Journal of Paleontology: https:// bit.ly/4ne3HQV
This week, a new megaraptor was described—found with its final meal still in its mouth! The discovery of Joaquinraptor sheds light on megaraptoran evolution and palaeobiology 🧪🦖 www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... #science #paleontology #fossilfriday #dinosaurs #megaraptor #joaquinraptor
New megaraptor discovered—with its final meal still in its mouth
A croc bone locked between the 70-million-year-old predator’s jaws gives scientists a rare look into its life and possibly its last feast.
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My take at Sobek (FSAC-KK 11888), scaled to the size assumed for MSNM V4047. #spinosaurus #spinosaurusaegypticus #kemkem #paleoart #pencildrawing
New paper led by @es-ucl.bsky.social PhD student Samantha Beeston (with @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social + others) on the evolution of postcranial pneumaticity in early sauropodomorph dinosaurs + its likely independent acquisition from that of theropods & pterosauromorphs: doi.org/10.1111/joa....
