Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🐦

Paleontologist 🦴⛏, functional morphologist 🦖🦜, @UF @UFMedicine Lecturer. She/hers #WomenInSTEM #oVertTCN #BirdAgenda

[Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🐦 @Stephanopteryx]

Dino physiology lessons? 200 years after the 1st dinosaur was named, new technologies yield amazing data from fossils. Physiology is vast, we hit on some topics & gave ideas for improving hypotheses regarding how dinosaur bodies may have worked.
https://t.co/cpSKdVjdD2 🌡❤️🫁🦕🦖

[Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🐦 @Stephanopteryx]

https://t.co/UIDBMr6EOe

[Jordan Mallon @Jordan_Mallon]

Here's a thing I was involved with: https://t.co/gybR6NMqgh
Nice to have been part of such a big and energetic team!

[Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🐦 @Stephanopteryx]

Another beautiful piece of artwork!

[Dani Navarro Paleoart @playerDNG]

Cover of Science: Spinosaurus mirabilis
Scimitar-crested Spinosaurus species from the Sahara caps stepwise spinosaurid radiation. Paul C. Sereno et al.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

A new Spinosaurus species uncovered in northern Niger appears to have been a wading predator of fish like its close relatives, but it lived as many as 1000 kilometers inland from the Tethys Sea. The fossil find may represent a third phase of evolution for this group of massive, fish-eating dinosaurs.

Learn more this week in Science: https://t.co/VeNZ7Vktix

[Dr. Todd L. Green @TheCassowaryKid]

🚨NEW SCIENCE ALERT!🚨Our paper, led by Dr. Paul Sereno, is now available in @ScienceMagazine! We describe a new African #dinosaur species with a unique cranial crest—Spinosaurus mirabilis. See beautiful paleoart by @playerDNG on the cover!@NYITCOMResearch
https://t.co/lgztNsXZxo

[Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🐦 @Stephanopteryx]

CT scans and 3d models available on MorphoSource: https://t.co/sbH2Ss38cb

[Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🐦 @Stephanopteryx]

Introducing Spinosaurus mirabilis, a new species of Spinosaurus found in Niger on our 2022 expedition! 🦖⚒️

With a long crest on its head, it was found near a river system 500-1000km from nearest prehistoric marine shores.

@UF @UFVetMed @UFMedicine

https://t.co/0eTYaFl4Ad

[Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🐦 @Stephanopteryx]

I'm so excited this paper is out in @Nature! I contributed some CT scanning & 3d rendering, but the international team led by Drs. Senevirathne & Capellini at @Harvard combined many methods to reveal how humans evolved to walk upright on 2 legs.
https://t.co/Avy66xP5nQ
@UFVetMed

[Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🐦 @Stephanopteryx]

@UFBreathe

[Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🐦 @Stephanopteryx]

Dino physiology lessons? 200 years after the 1st dinosaur was named, new technologies yield amazing data from fossils. Physiology is vast, we hit on some topics & gave ideas for improving hypotheses regarding how dinosaur bodies may have worked.
https://t.co/cpSKdVjdD2 🌡❤️🫁🦕🦖

[Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🐦 @Stephanopteryx]

Dino physiology lessons? 200 years after the 1st dinosaur was named, new technologies yield amazing data from fossils. Physiology is vast, we hit on some topics & gave ideas for improving hypotheses regarding how dinosaur bodies may have worked.
https://t.co/cpSKdVjdD2 🌡❤️🫁🦕🦖

[Emma R Schachner PhD @paleofox]

New #OpenAccess dinosaur physiology paper out today as part of the Bio Letters theme issue on 200 years of dinosaurs! 🥳 Led by Stephanie Baumgart 🦖🦕🫁🫀🧠 (link below)

[Jason Bourke @Ninjemys]

Very happy to see our review of dinosaur physiology has finally made it through the publication gauntlet. This proved to be one of the more challenging papers I've ever been a part of.

[WitmerLab @WitmerLab]

Really important review of dinosaur physiology out today led by @Stephanopteryx & @paleofox w/ @Ninjemys & @CrocJock80—https://t.co/clL8ux2h7K. Cool to see this old ankylosaur friend staring back at me as Figure 1, from a collab w/ former PhD students @Ninjemys & Ruger Porter.

[Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🐦 @Stephanopteryx]

@UF @UFVetMed

[Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🐦 @Stephanopteryx]

Bird lung: first published in Lawson et al. 2021, also seen in Schachner and Moore 2025

Euoplocephalus CFD flow: created by Jason Bourke, first in Bourke et al. 2018, also in Baumgart et al. 2025.

Phylopic silhouettes: Andrew A. Farke, T. Michael Keesey, Brad McFeeters

[Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. 🦖💕 (he/him) @TomHoltzPaleo]

The living dinosaur: accomplishments and challenges of reconstructing dinosaur physiology | Biology Letters https://t.co/rF0bJJouoz

[Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🐦 @Stephanopteryx]

Huge congrats to Aracely and team!!! Such an awesome paper! 🦅🫁 #TeamBird #BirdAgenda

@LSUHealthNO @UFVetMed

[Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🐦 @Stephanopteryx]

A really cool collection of papers on the latest and greatest bird lung research! Check it out! 🐦‍⬛🫁

[Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🐦 @Stephanopteryx]

A really cool collection of papers on the latest and greatest bird lung research! Check it out! 🐦‍⬛🫁

[Emma R Schachner PhD @paleofox]

Pleased to announce a special theme issue in Philosophical Transactions B on avian respiratory biology, that I co-edited with John Maina. https://t.co/5pOSfu2HN0 There are 17 contributions ranging from paleo, development, anatomy, to immunology!