Didier B. Dutheil
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Didier B. Dutheil
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Curieux de nature • les pieds sur Terre • paléontologue pratiquant • paleontologist • Niger Heritage • Limouzi • Chabatz d'entrar • scicom • paléontologie
With @paulserenoofficial.bsky.social @diapophysis.bsky.social & other co-authors, we dedicated a sauropod to him, Nigersaurus taqueti, a 🦕 sauropod from Gadoufaoua, a famous Lower Cretaceous site in 🇳🇪 Niger, of which he was the principal investigator in the 1970s. He was extremely generous with me.
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
He was a pioneer in the paleontology of African vertebrates, particularly in Niger, Morocco, and Algeria, but also in Laos.
He was president of the @mnhn.fr but for all his international projects, he never forgot the creation of museographic structures dedicated to paleontology.
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Reportage de @loic-dht.bsky.social > Itw de François Clarac, du centre de recherche en paléontologie de Paris (CR2P), à @sorbonne-universite.fr : Sous les écailles, des ornementations pour chauffer le corps des crocodiles
Un #LaScienceauLabo à (ré)écouter sur @franceculture.fr #ScienceCQFD
Sous les écailles, des ornementations pour chauffer le corps des crocodiles
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November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM