Victor Beccari
@beccarivictor
Brazilian vertebrate paleontologist, taking my PhD at SNSB in Munich! Working on rhynchocephalian, pterosaurs and Greenland sauropodomorphs 🦎🦕
It is finally here! Our paper on the most complete pterosaur from Brazil, the amazing Tupandactylus navigans specimen GP/2E 9266 just hit the ground!
Two 'Issi Saaneq' prosauropods basking in the sun on a beach in winter
NEW WORK INCLUDING PORTUGUESE SAUROPODS !!! By my teammate André Saleiro and his advisor Emanuel Tschopp among others! 🦕 #Lourinhã #FossilFriday nature.com/articles/s4155…
I am very excited to share with you a new article from Nature, detailing novel integumentary structures in an exceptionally preserved front flipper from the megapredator, Temnodontosaurus trigonodon. #Nature #ichthyosaur nature.com/articles/s4158…
Thanks to everyone who made #EAVP2025 in Kraków such a success! 👏 Grateful to all attendees, speakers, organisers, volunteers & funders for an inspiring week of #palaeontology & connection. See you at the next EAVP in 2026 in Lithuania! 🦖🌍
What looks like a lizard, walks like a lizard, and climbs like a lizard? 🦎
In case anyone finds this useful, I've now added a 'shape fitter' to the #blender extensions library, allowing you to fit spheres, planes, and cylinders to vertex selections: extensions.blender.org/add-ons/shapef…
I am thrilled to share my research, published in Current Biology, on the first in-depth analysis of plesiosaur soft tissues using a variety of techniques which demonstrate that some plesiosaurs were scaled and scale-less in different regions of the body! cell.com/current-biolog…
Here is the fantastic reconstruction of the newly studied plesiosaur in Current Biology: cell.com/current-biolog… Our research demonstrated that some plesiosaurs were scaled and scale-less in different regions of the body!
AND HERE IT IS! It was really hard to not tell everyone because I knew for more than 2 years now. Please welcome Tameryraptor, a new name for Stromers carcharodontosaurid. Based on Stromers descriptions, drawings and newly found photographs the authors conclude... #paleoart
New carcharodontosaur announced, Tameryraptor, as part of a reanalysis of the Bahariya material. Paper below Beautiful art by @JoschuaKnuppe
A pair of Keresdrakon getting a Caiuajara out of their territory. Day 15
Provelosaurus, a Permian pareiasaurid from Brazil, Rio do Rasto Formation. Done for fun, testing out some new brushes.