Kimi Chapelle
@Kimi_Chap
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⛏Vertebrate Palaeontologist 📝 Assistant Professor @stonybrooku 🇿🇦Proudly South African 🦕Basal sauropodomorphs are my jam ✉ [email protected]
Joined January 2020
Scientists are superheroes! Thank you so much @SciSuperheroes for featuring my work and me! 🤩 I am lucky and proud to have a job in science that I love. 🦕
An amazing week for dinos🦕💕🦖& to share Dr @Kimi_Chap as Dinova! A vertebrate palaeontologist @ESI_FossilLab & @AMNH studying the embryos of Massospondylus who evolved to be the giants 🦕 emojis and TV is made of 200million yrs later. Funds @GenusPalaeo🎨@Clydebeech @WryCritic
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RT @NHMdinolab: Travelled out to some historic Zim dino localities today, including the type locality for Syntarsus. Still bone in the grou…
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I'm so thrilled to have been invited to present my research in Spain in September! 🤩🦕🇿🇦⛏️ Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity. 🎉
X International Symposium about Dinosaurs Palaeontology and their Environment 2025 4-6 Sept. Salas de los Infantes (Burgos, CyL, Spain). With @Paleosakura, @JoseLCarballid1, @gascapauer, @Kimi_Chap, @peterfalkingham and Ángela D. Buscalioni. 1st circular.
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RT @NHMdinolab: For your viewing pleasure, the holotype sacrum of the Early Jurassic theropod Syntarsus, in the collections of the Natural…
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Today marks one year since I started as an assistant professor at @stonybrooku ! 🎉🦕⛏️🎂 I am so very grateful to my colleagues and the students in the Department of Anatomical Sciences for being such a great bunch of people to be around and work with.
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RT @AMNH: DYK? Humans are closer to T. rex in the geological timeline than T. rex was to Stegosaurus. Learn more as Museum paleontologist R…
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RT @ScienceMagazine: Seven Australopithecus specimens uncovered at the Sterkfontein fossil site in South Africa were herbivorous hominins w…
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Exciting new research from Sterkfontein Caves! 🦷🌿💀🇿🇦
On this week's #SciencePodcast🎙️ , researcher Tina Lüdecke describes how her team used nitrogen isotope ratios from the tooth enamel in seven Australopithecus individuals to determine what predominated in their diets at the time—meat or veg. 🎧 Listen here:
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RT @NHMdinolab: Great job opportunity for someone interested in early mammal evolution and fieldwork in the Middle Jurassic of Skye, workin…
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@CMartinRamos @NHM_London @RSocPublishing Aaaaaaw. It would have been so awesome to meet up! I'm not sure if you were around. Hopefully we'll meet up soon, somewhere in the world!
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Thank you to my co-authors @GriffinLabPaleo and @poldiego for coming along on this whirlwind ride! And to @NHMdinolab and @Tweetisaurus for handling this special issue. And of course, the entire editing team at Biology Letters.
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Is it even a new year if it doesn't start with a visit to see my Masso babies? 🇿🇦💚🦕⛏️🤩
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Hey there Musankwa! 🇿🇼🦕⛏🤩
2024 was a big year for dinosaur paleontology! 🦕 Here is a brief review of most* of the new dinosaurs described this year, and some interesting highlights. (1/🧵) #SciArt #paleontology #dinosaur
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RT @ExpeditionLive: Excited that our newest beastie Fona herzogae made @SmithsonianMag top 10 #dinosaur discoveries of 2024! From the fir…
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#FossilFriday post courtesy @AMNH. Apex and the origami christmas tree in one day? Not too shabby. 🎄⛏️
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