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Narimane Chatar

5 months

Proud to announce one of my PhD chapter is out in #OpenAccess in @CurrentBiology with @Val_Fisch @DavideTamagnin4 & @MargotMichaud00 🥳 Interested in evolutionary patterns of cat-like carnivorans? 🦁🔪 Here is a thread 🧵1/X

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2 years

Our paper on #biomechanics of the cat like mandible was just published in @RSocPublishing #ProcB with @Val_Fisch & @Tseng_ZJ 🦁🔪 @frsFNRS @ULiegeRecherche 🥳 🧵1/12

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2 years

For this #FossilFriday have a look at this amazing Barbourofelis fricki cast from the @NMNH collections 🤯 thank you so much to all the NMNH staff who made this visit possible and especially @PyensonLab , Nicholas Drew, Matthew Miller, Kathy Hollis & Amanda Millhouse🙏

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2 years

New #OpenAccess paper out in @MethodsEcolEvol 🥳 Interested in #FEA / #biomechanics and looking for a free solution for your muscle induced simulations? this 🧵is for you! 1/x @ULiegeRecherche @UAFunMorph @frsFNRS

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5 months

New #OpenAccess paper on the ontogeny of Smilodon fatalis just out today with @Tseng_ZJ , @Val_Fisch , @ValuSure , @r_boman & Clara Julémont in @AnatRecord 🦁🔪 Interested in the making of saber kitties? here is a thread! 1/8 🧵 Artwork by @MolineroMassimo 🎨

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@NarimaneChatar

3 years

For this #FossilFriday meet the new reconstruction of Homotherium latidens by @MAntonPaleoart , @Gemmula , Juan Francisco Pastor & @ManuelSalesa just published in Quaternary Science Reviews @ElsevierNews 🦁🔪

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2 years

Let's combine #WomenInScience + #Caturday : I'm a last year PhD student @liegeRecherche 👩🏻‍🎓 in paleontology studying cat-like carnivorans 🦁🐯🐱 so let's celebrate with some saber cats mandibles! On the left Smilodon fatalis vs Barbourofelis fricki on the right 🔪

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1 year

Look at what just arrived 🤩🍾 #Phddone #phdlife Looking forward to the defense! 👩🏻‍🎓

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2 years

Proud to announce that I will be joining @Tseng_ZJ 's FAVE Lab at UC Berkeley @BerkeleyIB @UCMPBerkeley December 2023 for 12 months as a BAEF post-doctoral fellows 🤩 More saber kitties madness to come! 🦁🔪 Go Golden Bears 💙💛 🐻📸 by @CottereauRomai1

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2 years

Just saw this super cool showcase to illustrate the convergent apparition of saberteeth in the AMNH 😍

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@NarimaneChatar

2 years

For this #MosasaurMonday I'll scan the amazing Mosasaurus baugei from the cretaceous of Morocco 🇲🇦housed at @mdc_confluences in Lyon 🇫🇷 😎

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Narimane Chatar

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2 years

Excited to announce our symposium for the Centenary #SEBConference : A14 Experimental Palaeobiology - bringing fossils "back to life"🦾 Interested in functional morphology, biomechanics, physiology and evolutionary processes in extinct taxa? Have a look👀 ⬇️

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

4 months

Scanning more carnivorous stuffs in the @ucmpberkeley collections for #FossilFriday I found this bone crushing doggo with a beautiful carnassial today 😍 Meet Enhydrocyon basilatus from the John Day Fm in Oregon 🐶🦴

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

2 years

For this #FossilFriday admire the holotype of Eusmilus adelos USNM-12820 I scanned in the @NMNH collections a few weeks ago🔪🦁This specimen was published in @SciReports by @nimravenous in 2021👀

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Narimane Chatar

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1 year

Hey #EAVP2023 attendees! Interested in fossil kitties and morphometry? 🦁 Come check our poster today, number 11 📈 @EAVPalaeo @eavp2023

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

2 years

Ancient Greek: hóplon = weapon & phónos =murder. We should definitely rename Hoplophoneus "pocket saber kitty" because.. LOOK AT THIS LITTLE GUY, he is way too cute to be called "murder weapons" 🥺

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

2 years

Just realized that #PalAss2021 was ~1 yr ago & although I would have really like to share this poster online back then our results were not published at that time. The related paper was published back in Sep🥳 so I can finally show it for #FossilFriday

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

1 year

What an amazing week! There is a new Dr. In town🔥thanks a lot to all those who supported me during those 4 years, my PhD advisor @Val_Fisch & my amazing jury @Tseng_ZJ , @grumpyDrFabre , @charlier_b & Carlo Meloro👩🏻‍🎓Time for a new adventure in @UCBerkeley now ✈️ #Phddone

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@NarimaneChatar

3 years

My first first-author paper is finally published! If you want to learn more about the mandibular shape of some primitive sabertoothed kitties have a look! 🦁thanks again to all the co-authors @ManuelSalesa @Gemmula @MAntonPaleoart @Val_Fisch ! 🎉

Morphometric Analysis of the Mandible of Primitive Sabertoothed Felids from the late Miocene of...

Journal of Mammalian Evolution - How sabertoothed felids have evolved their iconic morphology remains unclear because of the patchy fossil record of early machairodontines. Batallones localities in...

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

3 years

This last few days I scanned... BABY SMILODON 🦁🗡️ So much SMOL KITTIES to scan, thanks again to @AislingLaBrea & @ReganDunn5 for having me in the @labreatarpits collections! For this #FossilFriday here is some cub cranium & mandible compared to a fully grown adult 👇

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

1 year

#EAVP2023 is already almost over but it was amazing, I met so many awesome people. Thank you so much to the organizers, what an amazing meeting! @eavp2023 @EAVPalaeo Soooo proud to announce for this #FossilFriday that I won the best poster prize 🥳🥳

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

1 year

Drawing some figures for my dissertation this #FossilFriday and it reminded me how cool is the genus Barbourofelis. Look at the varying degrees of development of the mandibular flange in the 4 spp🔪🦁[NOT TO SCALE] Specimens from @AMNH , @FloridaMuseum , @Le_Museum & @ucmpberkeley

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

2 years

Look at this super cute hyena cub growing its permanent dentition 🥺😍

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

2 years

After scanning a hyena & a saber tooth cub earlier this week I found this super old cave bear with some of the most worn teeth I've ever see 🐻 its teeth were so worn he only had a few mm left 🦷🤯

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

7 months

Parents were asked the title of their kid's PhD dissertation during the ceremony honouring the new @UniversiteLiege PhD graduates last Saturday. My dad said "it's about a biiiig wild kitty... Smurlodon? " 🐈 I guess at least he tried! 😂 #phdlife

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Narimane Chatar

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2 years

Today was my first day of scanning in the vert paleo collection of the @NMNH 🦴 this was also the first day of my crazy trip on the East Coast combining collection visit in @NMNH , @AMNH & @yalepeabody and #SVP2022 🇺🇸🇨🇦so glad I can finally visit those collections! 🙌

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2 years

🚨Our new paper is out in #PapersinPalaeontology @ThePalAss with @MargotMichaud00 & @Val_Fisch 🚨 Cranial remains of Panthera gombaszogensis from La Belle Roche 🇧🇪 helped us understand its affinities with other big cats🦁🐯 @frsFNRS @ULiegeRecherche 🧵1/10

Not a jaguar after all? Phylogenetic affinities and morphology of the Pleistocene felid Panthera...

Panthera gombaszoegensis is a fossil pantherine from the Pleistocene of Eurasia. It has been considered to be the closest ancestor the jaguar (Panthera onca) due to dental similarities, and has even...

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@NarimaneChatar

2 years

During this #FossilFriday I ... UPLOADED MY @SVP_vertpaleo TALK #SVP2022 #2022SVP 🎉 interested in fossil kitties? Convergence? Biomechanics? This talk is for you! 🦁🔪

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2 years

Next EAVP will be held in Sabadell June 26th-July 1st and the fossil on the logo is the Albanosmilus cranium housed in the ICP 😍😍 more info to come in the 1st circular! see you all in Barcelona👋🇪🇸

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1 year

Digitization can be useful for museums and their visitors! When working in the @mdc_confluences collections I was told that a specimen got his left hindlimb stolen. I scanned the right side for curators to mirror & print it, here is the lil' guy with his new limb😍as good as new!

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

2 years

OK #SVP2022 attendees, WHO DID THESE ADORABLE LITTLE THINGS? I NEED ONE

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1 year

Tomorrow will be the start of my journey to #ICVM2023 , so exited for this meeting & more particularly for the 'Long in the tooth' symposium!🤩 If you are interested in 3DGM/FEA in saber-toothed felids and their ontogeny come check our talk July 29 at 1:45 in the auditorium C 🦁🔪

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@NarimaneChatar

2 years

For this #FossilFriday admire this Ursus deningeri skull from the Pleistocene of Belgium I scanned on Monday in the @prehisto_museum 🇧🇪🐻

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4 years

It's #FossilFriday and if you want to see some really cool 3D models check out our new EddyLab @Sketchfab account 🎉 Vertebrates, invertebrates and even pine cones ! and (almost) all these beauties are downloadable #OpenAccess #OpenData #scicomm 😍

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5 years

Since I see more and more #SocialDistancing meme and it's #FossilFriday I think Twitter needed some social distancing guidelines for palaeocat lovers🦁 (Sizes are approximated, silhouettes of the kitties were found on PhyloPic)

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@NarimaneChatar

3 years

Abstract accepted for a poster at @ThePalAss Annual Meeting in Manchester with @Val_Fisch & @MargotMichaud00 ! #PalAss21 Check our poster to learn about this Panthera gombaszoegensis cranium from 🇧🇪,what it learned us about this taxa & its relationships with other large kitties🐯

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@NarimaneChatar

3 years

For this #FossilFriday here is a ❤️ shaped fossil sea urchin from Cap blanc-nez 🇨🇵 found during a field trip lead by @Val_Fisch with the first year bachelor students in geology @UniversiteLiege 👀

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

2 years

For this #FossilFriday look at this adorable display from the CIP in Sprimont, kids can dig a 3D printed skull of Panthera gombaszoegensis from our collections 🇧🇪🤩 The model is available on the EDDyLab @Sketchfab ➡️ Associated pub📰:

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

3 years

What an amazing week!😱 #FossilFriday First, I scanned in the @NHMFossilMammal collections some amazing specimens such as Dinofelis from the Sivalik Hills🇮🇳 Then @PaleoLorax sent me some more scans of specimens from @SternbergMuseum and @PaleoPirlo some other from @FloridaMuseum

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2 years

🚨New lab paper out🚨 #MosasaurMonday Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans just published in Paleobiology by @CalymeneBlue @Val_Fisch @palaeotheoryum @EllenCoombs Felix Marx & Olivier Lambert🐳🥳

Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans |...

Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans - Volume 49 Issue 2

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

2 years

Pleased to announce that my abstract was accepted for a talk at #SVP2022 🥳 I'll present the results of my biomechanical simulations on felids and nimravids mandibles at different biting angles 🦁

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

1 year

Sooo this morning I woke up reading this e-mail.

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@NarimaneChatar

2 years

Curious about about the @SEBiology Experimental Palaeobiology - Bringing Fossils "Back to Life" logo and all the cool science behind? here is a thread to show you the crazy stuffs that can be done by palaeontologists using experimental approaches👀⬇️

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Narimane Chatar

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2 years

First talk in an international meeting abroad for this #SVP2022 about sabre kitty biomecanichs 🦁

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4 years

Just some #paleontology #memes on marine reptiles for a change

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2 years

Scanning different breeds of extant doggos with @MargotMichaud00 last Friday in the @RBINSmuseum collections🐶incredible to see the some of the weird skull shapes we can obtain trough domestication 🤯

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2 years

Scanning some fossil canid mandibles for a change 🐶🐺 Look at those amazing fossil doggos & bone-crushing doggos from the @yalepeabody 🤩

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7 months

@FerryDanini Il semblerait que mon père soit une star maintenant 😂 et je vous jure c'était sa première coupe de champagne

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2 years

For this #FossilFriday here are some of the adorable skulls and mandibles of fossil carnivorans from various French fossil sites 🇫🇷 I scanned this week while in the @Le_Museum 🦁🦦

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1 year

Yesterday I had the chance to be invited to the opening of the new #Giants exhibit at @nat_sciences_be in Brussels 🇧🇪 Smilodon, Paraceratherium, Megaloceros, etc. 11 giants gathered in the museum with an amazing scenography!

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3 years

For this #FossilFriday here is a surface scan the the left hemimandible of Prosansanosmilus peregrinus🦁This specimen was scanned by @LabouryA during his visit in @SMNStuttgart , it was first described by Heizmann, Ginsburg & Bulot in 1980 (2nd pic) and was found in Germany 🇩🇪

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6 months

Fun fact, did you know that some collections of the @ucmpberkeley are stored in the @UCBerkeley campanile? Sabertoothed cats, dire wolves and much more! 🦁🐺 Is there a better collection visit than one ending with a stunning view of the SF bay? I don't think so 😍 #FossilFriday

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@NarimaneChatar

2 years

This was an interesting experience! For the rest of the week I'll be back on safe ground to scan the fossil carnivorans from Saint Vallier 🇫🇷🐻🦁🐺🦦

Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

2 years

For this #MosasaurMonday I'll scan the amazing Mosasaurus baugei from the cretaceous of Morocco 🇲🇦housed at @mdc_confluences in Lyon 🇫🇷 😎

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2 years

I just started scanning in the @yalepeabody , this will be the last stop of my trip on the US East Coast before #SVP2022 🇺🇸 I am surrounded by so many amazing fossil kitties, is it what heaven looks like?? 😍 Just found this drawer full of Nimravus brachyops skuls & mandibles 🦴🤯

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1 year

New EDDy Lab paper out for this #FossilFriday led by @LabouryA on the phenotypic plasticity of eosauropterygian 🥳

High phenotypic plasticity at the dawn of the eosauropterygian radiation

The initial radiation of Eosauropterygia during the Triassic biotic recovery represents a key event in the dominance of reptiles secondarily adapted to marine environments. Recent studies on Mesozoic...

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@NarimaneChatar

5 months

I've been scanning various carnivorous stuffs in the @ucmpberkeley those last few days. Looking for some more well preserved teeth next week 🕵️🦷 #FossilFriday

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2 years

For #FossilFriday and because you need to see this amazing drawing here is some #paleoart depicting Panthera gombaszoegensis based on our recent study published in #PapersinPalaeontology @ThePalAss Thanks @HodariNundu for this beauty 🐯

Not a jaguar after all? Phylogenetic affinities and morphology of the Pleistocene felid Panthera...

Panthera gombaszoegensis is a fossil pantherine from the Pleistocene of Eurasia. It has been considered to be the closest ancestor the jaguar (Panthera onca) due to dental similarities, and has even...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Hodari Shadowalker ❄️🐆

@HodariNundu

2 years

Doodle inspired by a study that suggests the so called "European jaguar" Panthera gombaszoegensis was not a #jaguar , but rather a stem #tiger . This cat started out #leopard -sized at the start of the Pleistocene but by the mid Pleistocene it could grow up to #lion size!

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3 years

This afternoon I scanned something a bit different for @LabouryA in the @ucmpberkeley collections🐬👀 This bony pancake is a specimen of Ichtyosaurus intermedius from the Early Jurassic of Glastonbury 🇬🇧 #FossilFriday

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2 years

Scanning some cave bears from the @UniversiteLiege Schermling collections for this #FossilFriday 🐻

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2 years

Last paleozoology practical of the year, time to show them some vertebrates 🦴☠️

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2 years

Yesterday we went to the @mtm_kuleuven to CT scan various fossils including this guy, a skull of Ursus deningeri found in the Late Pleistocene of Belgium from the @prehisto_museum collections 🇧🇪🐻 what an amazing day!

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2 years

Some festive fossils for this #FossilFriday 🎉 Merry Christmas and happy New Year everyone 🎄🤶🎅

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2 years

Guess who will come back home with dozens of reprints on kitties and hyenas thanks to #SVP2022 auctions? 😍

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5 years

For #FossilFriday I present you these incredible associated skull (PMU-M3836) & mandible (PMU-M3837) of Yoshi minor I had the chance to scan in @UU_University 🦁🇸🇪 This specimen of #sabertoothed #felid was found in late #Miocene deposits in #China and described by Zdansky in 1924

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2 years

Today is the end of my crazy collection trip on the US East Coast🇺🇸💔for this #FossilFriday here is a cast of the Eusmilus sicarius holotype from the @yalepeabody collections🦁🔪described in Sinclair & Jepsen 1927 the original is still exhibited in @Princeton 🎓Now: #SVP2022 !

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Finishing my amazing week scanning in the collections of @mdc_confluences with this MASSIVE cave bear from the Herm cave 🐻🇫🇷 look at this big boy #FossilFriday

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I found those two amazing specimens with cuts exposing the teeth replacement process in lion cubs 🦷🦁 smallest specimen is ~ 6 months old and the largest is ~ 8 months old

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3 years

I finally made it the the fossil mammal collections of the @NHM_London @NHMFossilMammal 🥳 this trip has been postponed so many times in almost 2 years but here I am! Time to scan some fossil kitties now 🦁

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In @Le_Museum scanning various extant and fossil stuffs this week 💀 I started with lion cubs this morning, look at all those babies 🦁😍

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3 years

If you visited the @NHMLA exhibit since Tuesday you may have noticed that one kitty had been decapitated. My bad! I needed to scan this amazing Hoplophoneus skull 🤭 thank you so much to @AlanZdinak and Sam McLeod who disassembled the specimen for me🙏🙏 #FossilFriday

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1 year

What an amazing time I had this week, thank you so much to all the organizers for this #ICVM2023 ! I wish I had more time to talk to some of you, so many new faces😅 Now the post-meeting conference depression is hitting hard, fortunately I still got a few days to enjoy cairns 🇦🇺🥺

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I didn't share anything for #FossilFriday in a while so here is a lower molar of Miacis exiguus from the Wasatchian of Colorado housed in the @ucmpberkeley collections 🦷 This really SMOL tooth was CT scanned in FAVE Lab @FAVE_Lab_CT allowing us to see it from up close 🤩

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Hey #SVP2023 attendees! Interested in fossil walrus and GMM? Don't miss our poster lead by @MathBoisville from @UNIV_TSUKUBA_EN about new plio-pleistocene fossils and their implication for the genus Ontocetus 🦭 🦭 virtual poster, B338

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3 years

For this #FossilFriday here is a cave lion (Panthera spelaea) mandible from the @UniversiteLiege paleontology collections that I just scanned this afternoon 🦁 this specimen was first described by Schmerling in his 1834 work on fossils from Liège and its surroundings 🇧🇪

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4 years

Here we go! #SVP2020 #2020SVP That's not really how I expected my first meeting as a PhD student. But then I realised that I will be watching paleo posters/talks all this week while drinking tons of coffee in sweatpants which is definitely a dream week So thanks @SVP_vertpaleo 🙏

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2 years

In the @yalepeabody extant mammal collections to scan REALLY SMOL carnivorans. Can someone guess what I just scanned? 👀 #GuesstheSkull

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1 year

Desperately trying to finish the analyses I planned for my talk. Found a spot in the Frankfurt Airport with some outlets AND huge glasses of liquid courage for an affordable price, perfect. #phdlife

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@NarimaneChatar

1 year

So it begins. #ICVM2023 🇧🇪 Liège 🚄 Frankfurt 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 Frankfurt ✈️ Tokyo 🇯🇵 🇯🇵 Tokyo ✈️ Cairns 🇦🇺 So excited to meet you all there!

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👩‍🎓🚨Only 1 week left to apply for the teaching assistant position, fully funded PhD position supervised by @Val_Fisch for up to 6years! 🚨👩‍🎓 #phdpositions #job #AcademicTwitter #paleontology @ULiegeResearch more details here:

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Narimane Chatar

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Had a great week in Seattle but the end of #SICB2024 is slowly approaching already. This was my first experience at SICB, what an amazing meeting 🤩 @SICB_DCB_DVM @SICB_

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

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To test the adaptation of sabertooths to bite at larger angle than taxa with short upper canines we performed biting simulations using finite element analysis on every tooth at 3 different biting angles: 30°, 60° & 90° for a total of 1074 biting simulations. 🧵2/12

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

3 years

Working in the @ucmpberkeley collections this week to scan some kitties 🦁

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

6 months

Congrats to my former lab mate the amazing @IScavezzoni who just made the cover of Geodiversitas @Publi_MNHN with her MASSIVE monograph about the pelvic girdle anatomy of Thalattosuchia and Dyrosauridae🥳🐊 🦴

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

1 year

While previous studies pointed its potential ability to roar like extant big cats 🦁🐯a re examination of the hyoid anatomy of Smilodon suggests it might have produce low frequency purr-like vocalizations😍 DEEP. MEOW.

Adam Hartstone-Rose

@AdamHRose

1 year

Did Smilodon roar? Check out our new paper in which PhD student Ashley Deutsch led an analysis of felid hyoid bones from @labreatarpits and compared them to modern purring and roaring cats with surprising results! @JournalofMorph

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

2 years

Since it's #FossilFriday & #Spooktober2022 why not showing you some spooky fossils from @yalepeabody ?🦴Here is a Cynodesmus specimen exhibiting a natural endocast & an isolated Hoplophoneus☠️🧠 it naturally occurs when the braincase is filled with sediments during fossilisation🤯

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

1 year

What an amazing day at the saberteeth symposium 😍🔪 thank you so much to the organizers @TIPollock , @AdamHRose & Lars Werdelin for putting this together! What a lineup of amazing talks we had today

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

5 months

For #WorldOtterDay meet the hairy-nosed otter also known as Sumatran otter (Lutra sumatrana), one of the rarest and least known otter species🦦 Female specimen from Borneo, scanned in the @nat_sciences_be collections.

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

2 years

For this #FossilFriday here are some super cool albian fossil fishes from "Le Cavere", a echinid from "Cava Canale" and the oldest angiosperm that we had the chance to see during the #EAVP2022 fieldtrip @EAVPalaeo 🇮🇹

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

4 years

For this #FossilFriday here is @Tseng_ZJ and Xiaoming Wang excavating an Epicyon mandible in the Red Rock Canyon excavation trip led by @NHMLA , @UCLA & @ucmpberkeley researchers. Epicyon was a large bone-crushing dog that lived in North America from Middle to Late Miocene 🐺⛏️🦴

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

3 years

Since it's #WomenInScience day and #FossilFriday what best way to celebrate than a Smilodon selfie taken in @labreatarpits ? 🦁🔪 #WomeninScienceDay ♀️💪

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

2 years

🚨 New paper out in @PeerJ 🚨with Olivier Lambert, Leonard Dewaele lead by @MathBoisville on the Sexual dimorphism in the walrus mandible! @ULiegeRecherche @RBINSmuseum 🦴🦦♂️♀️ [1/4]🧵

Sexual dimorphism in the walrus mandible: comparative description and geometric morphometrics

The modern walrus Odobenus rosmarus is characterized by marked sexual dimorphism, related to its polygynous behavior and the aggressive competition between males during the breeding season. Previous...

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

4 months

So exited 🤩 Hopefully "Walking with beasts" will return too 👀

BBC Press Office

@bbcpress

4 months

📢 Twenty-five years after it first stomped across our TV screens, the iconic Walking With Dinosaurs will return in 2025 Get all the info ➡️

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

2 years

To properly study the influence of the saberteeth on the functioning of the mandible we scanned 17 different taxa, both extant and extinct, sabertooths and non sabertooths and modeled 3 muscle groups: masseter, temporalis & pterygoideus. 🧵3/12

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

1 year

More hoofed stuffs madness by @palaeotheoryum after his poster on tapir scapula yesterday it was time for some horse limb biomechanic this morning 🦿🐎 @UAFunMorph @UniversiteLiege

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

2 years

#EDDYyLab has arrived to #SVP2022 😎 time for kitties, crocs and marine reptiles talks!

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

2 years

For this #FossilFriday I've been tidying and scanning our cave bear collections 🐻 those beasts come from various sites including Modave, Goffontaine, Enghioul, etc. 🇧🇪

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

3 years

I received my 3D printing of Smilodon fatalis just in time for #FossilFriday 🤩 my desk is full of kitties now 🦁 many thanks to @LeblancKillian1 for this high quality 3D printing! This was printed based on model we shared on the lab Sketchfab #OpenData

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

1 year

For this #FossilFriday I was at @UAntwerpen for the vert paleo class organized by @palaeotheoryum to talk about saber toothed stuffs 🦁🔪 many thanks for the invitation Jamie!

Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

1 year

Packing the essentials for tomorrow 🦁🔪

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

2 years

Although showing a discernible adaptation of taxa with long upper canines to bite at larger angles, our results also suggest a wide spectrum of hunting methods in cat like carnivorans: all sabertooths probably didn’t use their teeth in the exact same way. 🧵6/12

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

6 months

Our manuscript on Panthera gombaszoegensis remains from 🇧🇪 and their implication for the phylogenetic affinities and morphology of this taxa is apparently one of the #TopCitedArticle in Papers in Paleontology @ThePalAss 🥳🐯 @ULiegeRecherche @frsFNRS

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Narimane Chatar

@NarimaneChatar

7 months

Had the chance to go back to Belgium to take part in the ceremony honoring the new @UniversiteLiege PhD graduate last week. Reminded me of those amazing 4 years, thanks to everyone who supported me during this project 🤩 #phdlife

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