My research topic aims to analyse pathological bones within the Ornithopoda, dinosaurs from the famous Iguanodon to the “duck-billed” hadrosaurs like Edmontosaurus.

Their skeletons, mainly found in Cretaceous deposits (from 140 to 65 million years ago), often show several bone pathologies, from the skull to the caudal vertebrae. My project will describe the morphology of these diseases, as well as their inner structure (via histology and microCT analyses), comparing them to pathological bones found in extant archosaurs (crocodiles and birds).