Matthieu Chotard

Paleontology, Paleo-ornithology and birding fan. PhD student at @CUHKofficial under the supervision of @PalaeoPittman 🦖

[Matthieu Chotard @ChotardMatthieu]

I am glad to announce that my first paper as a leading author is out!

This work on #Microraptor was made possible by some great collaborators @GrosmouginPaleo @PalaeoPittman @TomKaye_ @BarlowPalaeo @kundrat @aeroevo @PaleoJZ @skeletaldrawing

https://t.co/taFcJ3BJte

[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)

[Steve Brusatte @SteveBrusatte]

Birds. Words finished and edited!
And we have a title now...
Coming May-June 2026! @MarinerBooks @picadorbooks

[BMC Series @BMC_series]

A study in #BMCEcolEvol reveals Microraptor wasn’t just gliding—it was built for speed. Using 14 fossils, @GrosmouginPaleo & @PalaeoPittman show this “four-winged” dinosaur had flight abilities comparable to modern falcons and shorebirds. #FossilFriday https://t.co/DwHkTg9JEt

[Maxime Grosmougin @GrosmouginPaleo]

Very proud to share my first article as a lead author and to complete the monograph of #Microraptor with its forewing 🪽 after the work from @ChotardMatthieu

Find out how we reconstructed the 🪽 of this iconic animal. More in a🧵

https://t.co/4d5CnO48Nd

[BMC @BioMedCentral]

In a study published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, @ChotardMatthieu and colleagues suggest that the metatarsal feathers in the well-known ‘four-winged’ dinosaur Microraptor, resemble a bird forewing rather than a leg, thus revealing its ability to adapt to both trees and the ground.
https://t.co/PaxlR242QR

[Maxime Grosmougin @GrosmouginPaleo]

Very proud to have contributed to this #Microraptor study, which also concludes the 1st year PhD project of my fellow labmate @ChotardMatthieu. Congratulations ! 👏🏻

@CUHKofficial @CUHKScience

[Pittman Palaeo Lab @PalaeoPittman]

Congrats @ChotardMatthieu! Monograph of #Microraptor hindlimb feathering for his 1st paper as lead author ✍️🥇 Well done! #FossilFriday #thesismilestones @CUHKScience @CUHKofficial @BioMedCentral @BMC_series

[Tosha @fishboy86164577]

An attempt to sketch out the leg wings of Microraptor following the new publication by Chotard et al. (2025)

[Hong Kong SAR Government News @newsgovhk]

#DinosaurFossils were discovered for the first time on #PortIsland in the Hong Kong UNESCO Global #Geopark in the northeastern waters of Hong Kong, the #DevelopmentBureau announces
https://t.co/gPBRgkA74U

[Manuel Brazidec @manu_bzd]

New paper just published with Paolo Rosa and Vincent Perrichot ! 🐝🥳

✍️ The first fossil record of the cuckoo wasp genus Primeuchroeus in Eocene Baltic amber, with revision of two fossil Chrysididae
⛓️https://t.co/Pq0QJrLgFn

@GeosciencesR @OSURennes

[Field Palaeobiology Research Group @fieldpalaeo]

The new @NHM_London exhibit 'Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre' is great! Engagingly curated & beautifully interprets some of our recent work like Asteriornis, the skull of Ichthyornis, & K–Pg forest collapse. Exhibit open now: https://t.co/xoUA2hA3Yl ©Trustees of NHM London

[Alberta Claw @albertonykus]

A new paper I'm on is out today! Led by @fieldpalaeo, we review fossils of Late Cretaceous avialans from the Maastricht Formation. These include the recently described Asteriornis and Janavis, which yield exceptional insights into modern bird origins. https://t.co/ovA41PWl8g

[Alberta Claw @albertonykus]

Morphological disparity and structural performance of dromaeosaurid skulls: https://t.co/P6tinjWqcu #dinosaurs

[Field Palaeobiology Research Group @fieldpalaeo]

Congrats to @PeiChenKuo2 on the publication of his second thesis chapter! This is a massive investigation of morphological evolution in the avian quadrate across the diversity of living birds. Check it out in Proceedings B, open access! https://t.co/IRqugzKI1L

[Alberta Claw @albertonykus]

Prey flushing as a potential adaptive advantage of proto-wings in pennaraptorans: https://t.co/PW16I8xrxi #dinosaurs #birds

[Luke Barlow @BarlowPalaeo]

Happy to be here at the University of Liverpool presenting my PhD work so far @anat_soc @CCRB27

[Szabolcs Kókay @kokayart]

Finally completed my bird of paradise plate! Checked my records, the work started 3 years ago!!! It was a huge task, my biggest bird plate ever. Sill need to scan it properly, then the designwork of the poster can begin! I would like to wish you all Merry Christmas with it!

[Field Palaeobiology Research Group @fieldpalaeo]

Huge congrats to @OliverDemuth who passed his PhD viva today!! Oliver's amazing work on function & evolution of bird wings was worthy of the coveted Red Kite of Honour. This makes 3 PhD fledglings this term, along with @LizzySteell and @PeiChenKuo2! So proud of them all!!!

[Corentin Jouault @JouaultCorentin]

Thrilled to see our paper, on Carboniferous insects, used for the cover of Alcheringa! 🤩
@AustralasianPa1