Case Vincent Miller, PhD

I'm a paleontologist specialized in biomechanics and paleoecology of dinosaurs (including birds). Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

#Enantiornithine birds were the dominant birds of the #Cretaceous, and our new study suggests that their #diets were as varied as living birds! Not only that, but they evolved this #diversity in #diet at a rate comparable to that of modern birds! (1/17)

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

@TyrantLzrdQueen @AlderonGames @pathoftitans @Paleo_Tykoski @PerotMuseum @SMU @AMNH @RGGSatAMNH Congratulations! And I love the Tex-ee's graphic I saw on Instagram that goes with it.

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

@eusouguiga Fossil animals are, at the end of the day, animals. While we may speculate on their behaviors, it's a safe bet that behaviors seen around the world today extend back into ancient times.

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

@eusouguiga And the rest we base on animals today. The colors chosen for the bird resemble the Common Kingfisher. Many small birds today can be seen "mobbing" larger birds to defend their territory.

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

And here I am in the credits! An honor to see my name alongside so many people I admire.

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

Excited for the release of 'The Dinosaurs' on #Netflix! I was tapped as a scientific advisor for Longipteryx (featured in episode 3), so amazing to see it reach the screen!

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

@Paleojim ...one potentially interesting direction for Pectinodon research would be to investigate what they co-occur with. See if they tend to appear alongside certain other taxa. Our Environmental Evidence section has some citations on past work like this across troodontids.

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

New paper today in #BiologicalReviews! #Troodontids have famously weird teeth that suggest a variety of #paleodiets in the group. In our review, we suggest new studies to explore this hypothesis and that the ancestors of #birds, #raptors, and troodontids were omnivorous! (1/2)

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

@Paleojim Our Future Directions section touches on this a bit - Feeding is an activity integrated across the body, and the isolated nature of many troodontid bones limits how informative they are in paleodiet reconstruction, unfortunately. However...

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

This project was lead by Yui Chi (Audrey) Fan, and this is her very first publication! I'm very excited to see what's next from her 😁

Check out the #OpenAccess paper at #BiologicalReviews:
https://t.co/oo5qhG2B00

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

I've gotten married to the most wonderful person in the world 💛

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

You can find the package on the #PalaeoGames website: https://t.co/8MjbqXDg29

While you're there, check out the source book (and its upcoming sequel) if you haven't yet. It is by far my favorite 3rd party TTRPG book, with detailed flavor text and gorgeous artwork.

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

Excited to announce I've helped to adapt Dr Dhrolin's Dictionary of Dinosaurs by @Palaeofox for the #Pathbuilder app! Pathfinder (@paizo) was my first ever TTRPG, and I'm elated for this @scicomm opportunity to bring realistic prehistoric life to the game!

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

@WryCritic Ah yes the dreaded Dire Panda, scourge of the Mesozoic.

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

@ja_tobias @CurrentBiology Absolutely agree! I've made a thread too with some points on the Paleo side of this article you might be interested in ;)

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

PS - O'Connor et al's suggestion that Longipteryx used its teeth in intraspecific combat is a really creative one! I’m excited to see how researchers test that hypothesis.

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

New paper reports #Longipteryx with ingested #fruit! But despite its title, I wouldn’t say it “contradicts morphological proxies for diet”. In fact, our team predicted longipterygids swallowing plants in 2022 (snip below).

[Case Vincent Miller, PhD @PaleoCase]

O’Connor et al’s new paper on fruit-ingesting Longipteryx: https://t.co/msjWsyhwEy

And our work on longipterygid diet: https://t.co/QTpqEnWPdY