La Buitrera was among the most amazing places I've ever had the chance to work, both geologically and in terms of sheer beauty, and I really tried to channel how it felt to be there into the final piece. I can't thank everyone I met there enough for showing me the ropes!

These tracks appear in interdunal river deposits in the Kokorkom paleoerg (a dune sea spanning 826 km^2) and can even include skin impressions! While these prints were made in relatively wet conditions, I depicted a transient sauropod herd during dry times in the final piece.

While the La Buitrera Paleontological Area, where we were working, is known primarily for its beautiful preservation of small animals, I also had the chance to see some amazingly preserved sauropod footprints that Apesteguía et al. described in 2023.

Squeezing in one more 2024 art piece, a year after having the opportunity to do fieldwork in the Candeleros Fm of Argentina's Neuquén Basin. That trip inspired this piece, which depicts a group of titanosaurs traveling a dry interdune riverbed at sunset. #paleoart #sauropods 🦕

RT @MichaelChiappo3: Are you in the Twin Cities and wonder what dinosaurs sounded like? Come check out our exhibit at Como Conservatory whe….

Are you in the Twin Cities and wonder what dinosaurs sounded like? Come check out our exhibit at Como Conservatory where we used an instrument based on hadrosaur skulls (#Hadrophone) to create an immersive soundscape in the Fern Room! Nov 18th-26th!

RT @thePeerJ: PeerJ Congratulates David Treviño Ledesma @NHMLAC, Michael Chiappone @UMNews, and Mason Scher @Princeton Award Winners at NAP….

RT @MichaelChiappo3: Headed to Minneapolis for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting next week? Come check out my talk on Wednesda….

Headed to Minneapolis for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting next week? Come check out my talk on Wednesday morning at 10:30am discussing some of my PhD work rethinking current methods for examining fluvial transport in the fossil record! #Taphonomy #fossils #2024SVP

A bit late, but excited to say that I passed my oral exam for my PhD proposal and am now an official PhD candidate! Expect more taphonomy in action from me soon! #taphonomy #fossils

RT @BioRodriguez: This is a series of very cool projects on the evolution of the avian vocal organ, for which I had the opportunity to cont….

RT @txgeosciences: Ostriches aren’t shy about speaking up! 🗣️ While earning his undergrad degree at the Jackson School, @MichaelChiappo3 de….

Excited to see this press release for a trio of papers from my undergrad lab, with some custom art by me! Lots of awesome work by @BioRodriguez and everyone at @jclarkepaleolab. Thanks to everyone involved!.

RT @JournalofAnat: The cover image of this month's issue of @JournalofAnat comes from a paper by @MichaelChiappo3 et al., looking at morpho….

RT @BioRodriguez: Check our latest paper on the ostrich syrinx and vocalizations. Amazing work with @MichaelChiappo3 @jclarkepaleolab.

If you’d like to read about the vocal organ of ostriches and the sounds they can produce with it, you can find the paper here!

My first ever scientific paper made it onto the cover of the latest issue of Journal of Anatomy! Thanks and congrats to everyone on the team including @BioRodriguez for getting it there!

RT @al_auerbach: So this happened a couple weeks ago. An encounter I could only have dreamed of with one of my most-wanted mammals. https:/….

RT @MichaelChiappo3: I had a blast doing paleo field work in Argentina over the last week and a half! Everyone there was fantastic, the wil….

Massive thanks to everyone who hosted us: it was a huge learning experience for me!.