Andrea Cau, PhD

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A new euornithine from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) of China reveals the first radiation of fish-eating birds A new euornithine bird, Kunpengornis anhuimusei gen. et sp. nov., is described based on a nearly complete skeleton from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) …

Glad to introduce a new fish-eating Cretaceous bird, Kunpengornis anhuimusei, which I coauthored with Xuri Wang and colleagues.

Non merito l'affetto di Nessuno.

Mi spiace essere il solito guastafeste, ma da tempo sto pensando di chiudere l'account Bluesky... :-P

You meant "huntress", Shri is female deity name.

Thanks for loving the name.

As father of the name "Shri rapax" and nostalgic of good old JP movies, I have to agree :-D

We discuss the implications of the Fighting Dinosaurs Pair in the Shri rapax paper.

I mean... they are both my kids... ;-)

AAAAARRRGHHHH!!!!

The world deserves a dromaeosaurid cartoon from the Djadokhtan time.

The premaxillae and tip of dentaries are missing in the original skull, so the original snout was a somewhat longer than what the cast shows.

Exactly my same impression the first time I saw the specimen :-D

Unfortunately, the skull was lost after the preliminary analyses in 2016, but at least we produced a cast of it and wish it would help in finding it.

The suberb preservation of the Shri rapax specimen: the bones forming the pelvic canal are still three-dimensionally articulated. The blue line links the thorax with the tail along both pubic and ischial canals.

Move Over, Velociraptor: it's Shri rapax time! La superba preservazione dell'olotipo di Shri rapax (ricostruzione basata sulla fotogrammetria 3D dello scheletro postcraniale ed il calco ...

My new theropod species and paper (link at end of post)
theropoda.blogspot.com/2025/07/move...

Aurornis xui: nuova luce sull'origine degli uccelli Un Aurornis si gode l'alba. Opera di Emiliano Troco. Questo post ha un valore particolare per me, e non stupitevi se sarà forse un ...

The first feathered theropod I co-authored is now 12 years old. And the future? I have cute specimens under study :-) theropoda.blogspot.com/2013/05/auro...

So, I assume she does not use phones, tv, internet, computers and all the products of science. Otherwise, she contradicts herself.

Thank you, God. Invasion from Mars has finally begun!

"Sorry, my Mum said no"

The combination of features is unique, so it could eventually be the basis for a new taxon.

Names are just arbitrary strings of letters. What matters is to realize what that dinosaur actually was. :-)

In the paper published yesterday, we showed that Deltadromeus is an immature morph of the same dinosaur named Bahariasaurus. One fossil described in 1934 directly links the two genera. Accordingly, the only valid name is Bahariasaurus.

Beyond the Stromer’s Riddle: the impact of lumping and splitting hypotheses on the systematics of the giant predatory dinosaurs from northern Africa The “mid-Cretaceous” record from northern Africa is characterized by a peculiar fauna of theropod dinosaurs, mostly referred to a “triumvirate” of clades: Abelisauroidea, Allosauroidea and Spinosaurid...

My new paper about the giant theropods from the mid-Cretaceous of North Africa. We provide evidence that Deltadromeus is an immature morph of Bahariasaurus and that Eocarcharia is a spinosaurid-allosauroid chimaera. www.italianjournalofgeosciences.it/297/article-...

My vote during the Conclave goes to Luis Tagle.

JD Vance is for the catholics what Liz Truss was for the anglicans.