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Richard Araujo. He completed a degree in Geological Engineering at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2007. He completed his PhD Geological Sciences - Southern Methodist University in 2013. He is a paleontologist at the Institute of Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion, Instituto Superior Técnico. He has published 47 articles in scientific journals or book chapters. He supervised +25 scientific initiation works in the areas of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Biological Sciences. He received +10 awards and or honors. He works in the areas of Natural Sciences with an emphasis on Earth and Environmental Sciences, Natural Sciences with an emphasis on paleontology. In his professional activities he interacted with +100 collaborators in co-authorship of scientific works.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ricardo Araújo

Citation names

  • Araújo, Ricardo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
111A-2CF2-3D82
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5058-2983

Email addresses

  • ricardo.araujo@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Torre Norte, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Palaeontology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences
  • Engineering and Technology - Other Engineering and Technologies

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Cinyanja; Nyanja Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2024/11 - 2025/01
Attended
 Animal Welfare and Experimentation Functions A, C and D (Outros)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
2023/06/10 - 2023/06/28
Ongoing
 Enspire Science - ERC Beyond - Universidade de Lisboa (Outros)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2014/01/01 - 2019/12/31
Concluded
 MODULUS | The origins and dynamics of evolutionary modules in the mammalian skull: a deep time perspective from non-mammalian therapsids (Pós-doutoramento)
Major in Paleontology
Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal

Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Germany
2009 - 2013/12/21
Concluded
 PhD Geological Sciences (Doutoramento)
Southern Methodist University, United States
"Aspects of plesiosaur locomotion based on Late Cretaceous: functional morphology, myology, anatomy and actualistic experiments" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2007
Concluded
 Licenciatura em Engenharia Geologica (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
 15.3
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/01/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente, Portugal
2020/01/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2014/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
(...)
2009/08 - 2013/12/21 Research Assistant (Research) Southern Methodist University, United States
Roy M Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, United States
2006/01/01 - 2010/12/31 Researcher (Research) Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinha / Museu da Lourinha, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2003/08/01 - 2004/08/31 Manager of Laboratory, Institute, Museum, Centre or Observatory Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinha / Museu da Lourinha, Portugal
Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinha / Museu da Lourinha, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2009/03/01 - 2009/03/31 Fossil Preparator Southern Methodist University, United States
2008/04/01 - 2008/04/30 Fossil Preparator Southern Methodist University, United States
2005/02/01 - 2005/02/28 Fossil Casting and Molding Specialist Creatures & Features, Inc., Netherlands
2004/02/01 - 2005/02/28 Fossil Casting and Molding Specialist Creatures & Features, Inc., Netherlands
2004/04/01 - 2004/04/30 Fossil Preparator Sauriermuseum, Switzerland
Sauriermuseum, Switzerland
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2007/03 - Current Dinosaur Eggs and Embryos of the Lourinhã Formation (Upper Jurassic, Portugal)
N/A
Principal investigator
Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinha / Museu da Lourinha, Portugal
 Jurassic Foundation
Concluded
2020/01/01 - 2022/12/31 Projecto PaleoMoz
333206718
Principal investigator
Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Aga Khan Foundation
Ongoing
2021/05 - 2022/04 PaleoMoz Project: new fossils from Mozambique and South Africa help elucidate the origins of endothermy
HG-177
Principal investigator
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France
 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Concluded
2019/01 - 2019/12 Projecto PaleoMoz: Transformar o património paleontológico em potencial turístico, Principal Investigator o Fundo Nacional de Investigação (Mozambique)
191-Inv
Principal investigator
Museu Nacional de Geologia, Mozambique
 Fundo Nacional de Investigação
Concluded
2017/03 - 2017/05 Brain and sensory suite in mammal forerunners
HG-111
Principal investigator
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France
 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Concluded
2014/03 - 2014/03 Tomography applied to the study of the first possible crocodilian fossil eggs and embryos
HG-24
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France
 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Concluded
2014/03 - 2014/03 Origins and dynamics of evolutionary modules in the mammalian skull: a deep time perspective from non-mammalian therapsids
HG-23
Principal investigator
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France
 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Concluded
2013/01 - 2013/12 The origins of the mammal ancestors: evolution and preservation of the Permian dicynodonts from Mozambique
EXPL/BIAEVF/0665/2013
Invited Scientist Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2012/03 - 2012/04 Niassodon mfumukasi, a new dicynodont from Mozambique
Araújo1
Principal investigator
Field Museum of Natural History, United States
 Field Museum of Natural History
Concluded
2012 - 2012 Synchrotron-radiation based micro-computed tomography to reveal the internal morphology of fossilized eggs, eggshells and embryonic remains from the Lourinhã Formation (Portugal)
I-20110184 EC
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinha / Museu da Lourinha, Portugal
 DORIS III
Concluded
2012 - 2012 X-ray diffraction studies of the structure of fossilized eggshells from the Mesozoic of Portugal (Lourinhã Formation)
I-20110229 EC
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinha / Museu da Lourinha, Portugal
 PETRA III
Concluded
2012 - 2012 Projecto PaleoMoz: Estudo da Diversidade e Evolução dos Vertebrados do Pérmico Superior da Província do Niassa, Moçambique
191-Inv
Principal investigator
Museu Nacional de Geologia, Mozambique
 Fundo Nacional de Investigação
Concluded
2009 - 2012 DINOEGGS
PTDC/CTEGIX/ 113222/2009
Researcher
Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinha / Museu da Lourinha, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/06 - 2011/12 Plesiosaurs from Angola
Cat. I
PhD Student Fellow
Southern Methodist University, United States
 Southern Methodist University
Concluded
2011 - 2011 Projecto PaleoMoz
9044-11
Principal investigator
Southern Methodist University, United States
 National Geographic Society
Concluded
2008/07 - 2009/07 Plesiosaurs from Angola
15094360
Master Student Fellow
Southern Methodist University, United States
 Fulbright Commission
Concluded
2007/01 - 2007/12 Fossil Embryos from the Lourinhã Formation
000001
Principal investigator
Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinha / Museu da Lourinha, Portugal
 Geologists' Association
Concluded
2006/07/01 - 2006/08/31 Alfred Leeds crocodylomorph collection in the National Museum of Ireland
NA
Scientific Initiation Fellow
University College Dublin, Ireland
 Science Foundation Ireland
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2014/01/01 - 2015/06/30 Bringing mammal antecessors back to life: evolution and preservation of Permian dicynodonts from Mozambique
EXPL/BIA-EVF/0665/2013
Provided by PTCRIS: 133687
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Portugal

Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Tecnico Campus Tecnológico e Nuclear, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/03/01 - 2014/08/31 DINOEGGS - Dinosaur eggs and embryos in Portugal: paleobiological implications and paleoenvironmental settings
PTDC/BIA-EVF/113222/2009
113222
Provided by PTCRIS: 113222
University of Calgary, Canada

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Portugal

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, United States

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciências da Terra, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011 - 2011 Plesiosaurs from Angola
1
PhD Student Fellow
Southern Methodist University, United States
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2015 - 2015 Projecto PaleoMoz costs-in-aid
2015
Nominator
Museu Nacional de Geologia, Mozambique
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Araújo, Ricardo; Michael J Polcyn. "Faunal transition in marine reptiles in the mid-Cretaceous of Texas plesiosaurs". In Mesozoic Sea Dragons, edited by B Kear; S. Sachs; A. S. Smith. Germany: Springer, 2024.
    Submitted
  2. Vincent Fernandez. "Three-dimensional developmental anatomical atlas of the Crocodylus niloticus skeleton". In Ruling Reptiles, edited by Holly Ballard; James Farlow. United States: Indiana University Press, 2023.
    Published
  3. Roghi G.; Bernardi M.; Bizzarini F.; Neri M.; Petti F.M.; Martinetto E.; Sanfilippo R.,. "Vertebrate Life in the Triassic Tethys". In Nature through Time: virtual field trips through the Nature of the Past, edited by Emanuel Tschopp; Edoardo Martinetto. Cham, Switzerland, 2020.
    Published
  4. Tschopp, Emanuel; Araújo, Ricardo; Brusatte, Stephen L.; Hendrickx, Christophe; Macaluso, Loredana; Maidment, Susannah C. R.; Rabi, Márton; et al. "Dinosaurs, But Not Only: Vertebrate Evolution in the Mesozoic". In Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment, edited by Edoardo Martinetto; Emanuel Tschopp; Robert A. Gastaldo, 187-208. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2020.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-35058-1_7
Conference abstract
  1. Macungo, Zanildo; Benoit, J.; Araújo, Ricardo. "Probable new gorgonopsian species from the middle Permian of South Africa reveals an early evolution of Gorgonopsia (Therapsida, Synapsida)". Paper presented in Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa Meeting, 2022.
  2. N. Nhamutole; Marion Bamford; Araújo, Ricardo. "First Record of Protaxodioxylon new Species in Karoo Rocks". Paper presented in Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa Meeting, 2020.
    Published
  3. Araújo, Ricardo. "PaleoMoz Project". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2019, Lisboa, 2019.
    Published
  4. Araújo, Ricardo; Angielczyk, K.D.; Rabbitt R.; Orliac, M.; David R.; Benoit, J.; Ekdale E.; Martins, R.M.S.. "Elevated semicircular canal eccentricity in dicynodont therapsids (Synapsida): implications for behavior?". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Calgary, 2017.
  5. Michael J Polcyn; Araújo, Ricardo; Jessica A. Maisano. "Exploring the relationships between locomotor behavior and semicircular canal morphology in squamates: preliminary results". Paper presented in Tomography for Scientific Advancement, Austin, 2017.
  6. Araújo, Ricardo. "A new challenge for ESRF-EBS: study cases from Mozambican therapsids as well as tetrapod eggs and embryos". Paper presented in EBS Science Workshop/CDR3 (High throughput large field phase-contrast tomography beamline), Grenoble, 2016.
  7. Araújo, Ricardo; Fernandez, V.; Polcyn, M.J.; Fröbisch, J.; Martins, R.M.S.. "The neural crest-mesoderm boundary in the basicranium of mammal predecessors: insights from therapsid skulls". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Salt Lake City, 2016.
    Published
  8. Araújo, Ricardo; Fernandez, V.; Polcyn, M.J.; Fröbisch, J.; Martins, R.M.S.. "The neuroanatomy, braincase and occiput in Gorgonopsia revealed by synchrotron microtomography". Paper presented in Palaeontological Society Southern Africa Meeting, Stellenbosch, 2016.
    Published
  9. Araújo, Ricardo; Fernandez, V.; Fröbisch, J.; Martins, R.M.S.. "Unveiling the anatomy of mammal predecessors with synchrotron radiation-based micro-tomography: the first insights into the braincase and occiput in Gorgonopsia". Paper presented in 5th Encontro Nacional de Utilizadores de Radiação de Sincrotrão, Oeiras, 2016.
  10. Araújo, Ricardo; Fernandez, V.; Fröbisch, J.; Martins, R.M.S.. "The origins and dynamics of evolutionary modules in the mammalian skull: a deep time perspective from non-mammalian therapsids". Paper presented in ESRF User’s Meeting, Grenoble, 2016.
  11. Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.; Martins G. G.; Nhamutole, N.; Du T. Y.; Fernandez, V.; Tafforeau P.; et al. "Deep time conservative developmental patterns revealed by Crocodylomorpha embryos from the Late Jurassic of Portugal". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Dallas, 2015.
    Published
  12. Polcyn M. J.; Jacobs L. L.; Schulp A. S.; Mateus, O.; Araújo, Ricardo. "Tethyan and Weddellian biogeographic mixing in the Maastrichtian of Angola". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Dallas, 2015.
    Published
  13. Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.; Fernandez, V.; Martins, G.G.; Fröbisch, J.. "The origins and dynamics of evolutionary modules in the mammalian skull: a deep time perspective from non-mammalian therapsids". Paper presented in 4th ENURS (Meeting of Synchrotron Radiation Users from Portugal) and ESRF-Day, Coimbra, 2015.
    Published
  14. Tomás, C.; Nhamutole, N.; Murrula, S.; Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.; Costa Júnior, L.; Martins, R.M.S.. "Projecto PalNiassa - achievements and challenges of fossil preparation and professional training in Mozambique". Paper presented in 2nd International Conservation Symposium-Workshop of Natural History Collections, Barcelona, 2015.
    Published
  15. Araújo, Ricardo; Ferreira-Cardoso, S.; Castanhinha, R.; Walsh, S.; Martins, N.E.; Martins, R.M.S.; Martins, G. G.; Kardjilov, N.; Hilger, A.. "Floccular complex lobe size does not correlate with vertebrate ecology and behaviour". Dallas, 2015.
  16. Ferreira-Cardoso, S.; Castanhinha, R.; Araújo, Ricardo; Walsh, S.; Martins, R.M.S.; Martins, G. G.. "Can the floccular complex lobe be a proxy for inducing paleoecology?". Paper presented in X Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva, Lisbon, 2014.
  17. Polcyn, M. J.; Jacobs, L.L.; Strganac, C.; Mateus, O.; Myers, T.S.; May, S.R.; Araújo, Ricardo; Schulp, A.S.; Morais, M. L.. "Geology and paleoecology of a marine vertebrate bonebed from the lower Maastrichtian of Angola". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Berlin, 2014.
  18. Araújo, Ricardo; Correia, F.. "Soft-tissue anatomy of the plesiosaur pectoral girdle inferred from basal eosauropterygian taxa and the extant phylogenetic bracket". Paper presented in Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Berlin, 2014.
    Published
  19. Castanhinha, R.; Araújo, Ricardo; Costa Júnior, L.; Angielczyk, K.D.; Martins, G.G.; Martins, R.M.S.. "O interior do crânio do Niassodon mfumukasi, um dicinodonte do pérmico tardio de moçambique". Paper presented in 2° Congresso Nacional de Geologia de Moçambique (CoGeo02) e 12° Congresso de Geoquímica dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, Maputo, 2014.
  20. Martins, R.M.S.; Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.; Martins, G.G.; Beckmann, F.; Wilde, F.. "Computed tomography in palaeontology - study of fossils from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal and from the Late Permian of Mozambique". Paper presented in Science 3D, Hamburg, 2014.
    Published
  21. Hendrickx, C.; Araújo, Ricardo; Mateus, O.. "The dentition of megalosaurid theropods, with a proposed terminology on theropod teeth". Paper presented in XII European Association of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Torino, 2014.
  22. Martins, R.M.S.; Castanhinha, R.; Araújo, Ricardo; Júnior, L. C.; Martins G. G.; Beckmann, F.; Wilde, F.; Schell, N.; Fröbisch, J.. "New technologies, old fossils: evolution and preservation of Permian dicynodonts from Mozambique". Paper presented in 3rd ENURS (Meeting of Synchrotron Radiation Users from Portugal) and ESRF-Day, Marinha Grande, 2014.
    Published
  23. Castanhinha, R.; Araújo, Ricardo; Luis Costa Junior; Martins, RMS; Angielczyk, K.D.; Martins, G. G.; Nhamutole, N.; Murrula, S.; Vasconcelos, L.. "Palniassa Project: science, education, and outreach from Mozambique". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Berlin, 2014.
  24. Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.; Fernandez, V.; Martins, G.G.; Fröbisch, J.; Martins, R.M.S.. "Deep questions, explained easy: the example of the therapsid—mammal transition". Paper presented in Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Berlin, 2014.
    Published
  25. Polcyn M.J.; Jacobs, L.L.; Strganac, C.; Mateus, O.; Myers, T.S.; May S.; Araújo, Ricardo; Schulp, A.S.; Morais, M. L.. "Geological and paleoecological setting of a marine vertebrate bonebed from the Lower Maastrichtian at Bentiaba, Angola". Paper presented in Secondary Adaptations of Tetrapods to Life in the Water Conference, Washington, 2014.
    Published
  26. Ferreira-Cardoso, S.; Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.; Walsh, S.; Martins, R.M.S.; Martins, G. G.. "The floccular complex: neuroanatomy as a tool to unveil paleoecology". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Berlin, 2014.
  27. Castanhinha, R.; Araújo, Ricardo; Costa Júnior, L.; Angielczyk, K.D.; Martins G.G.; Beckmann F.; Martins, R.M.S.. "Tomography applied to the study of a new early synapsid (dicynodontia) from the Permian of Mozambique". Paper presented in 2nd ENURS (Meeting of Synchrotron Radiation Users from Portugal) and ESRF-Day, Lisboa, 2013.
    Published
  28. Martins, R.M.S.; Castanhinha, R.; Araújo, Ricardo; Mateus, O.; Beckmann, F.; Schell, N.. "Synchrotron radiation in Palaeontology: Dinosaur embryonic remains and eggshells from the Lourinhã Formation (Portugal).". Paper presented in 2nd ENURS (Meeting of Synchrotron Radiation Users from Portugal) and ESRF-Day, Lisbon, 2013.
    Published
  29. Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.; Martins, R.M.S.; Hendrickx, C.; Mateus, O.; Beckmann, F.; Schell, N.; Alves, L.C.. "Filling the gaps of dinosaur eggshell phylogeny". Paper presented in 3as Jornadas do CENIMAT, Caparica, 2013.
    Published
  30. Castanhinha, R.; Araújo, Ricardo; Martins, R.M.S.; Luis Costa Junior; Angielczyk, Kenneth D.; Martins, G. G.. "Insights on neuroanatomy evolution of early mammalian ancestors from a new Permian dicynodont from Mozambique". Paper presented in XIV Congress of European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Lisbon, 2013.
    Published
  31. Adam S. Smith; Araújo, Ricardo. "A new rhomaleosaurid pliosaur from the Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) of Lyme Regis, England". Paper presented in 61st Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Edinburgh, 2013.
    Published
  32. Araújo, Ricardo; Johan Lindgren; Jacobs, L.L.; Michael J Polcyn; Schulp, Anne S.. "Phylogeny and paedomorphism in Angolan Maastrichtian elasmosaurids". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Los Angeles, 2013.
    Published
  33. Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.; Costa Jr. L.; Angielczyk, K.D.; Martins R.M.S.; Martins G.G.; Vasconcelos, L.. "A late Permian Dicynodont (Therapsida: Anomodontia) skull from northern Mozambique". Paper presented in 24th Colloquium of African Geology, Addis Ababa, 2013.
    Published
  34. Araújo, Ricardo; Polcyn, M.J.. "The plesiosaurs of North Texas". Paper presented in Mosasaur Meeting, Dallas, 2013.
    Published
  35. Polcyn M. J.; Jacobs L. L.; Mateus O.; Schulp A. S.; Strganac C.; Araújo, Ricardo; Graf J. F.; Vineyard, D.; Myers, T.S.. "A marine vertebrate assemblage from the Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary at Bentiaba, Angola". Paper presented in Geological Society of America Meeting, 2013.
    Published
  36. Castanhinha, R.; Araújo, Ricardo; Costa Júnior, L.; Angielczyk, K.D.; Martins G. G.. "Neuroanatomy and osseous labyrinth of a new Permian dicynodont from Mozambique". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Los Angeles, 2013.
    Published
  37. Martins, R.M.S.; Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.; Martins, G.G.; Beckmann, F.; Wilde, F.. "Synchrotron radiation-based microcomputed tomography and neutron tomography for the study of dinosaur and crocodile fossils". Paper presented in International Conference on Fossil Digitizing and Digital Collection Data Handling, Berlin, 2012.
    Published
  38. Martins R.M.S.; Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.; Mateus, O.; Alves L.C.; Beckmann, F.; Schell, N.. "Study of fossilized eggshells from the Late Jurassic dinosaur clutch of Porto das Barcas (Lourinhã Formation, Portugal).". Paper presented in International Conference on Nuclear Microprobe Technology and Applications, 2012.
    Published
  39. Martins, R.M.S.; Beckmann, F.; Castanhinha, R.; Mateus, O.; Araújo, Ricardo; Pranzas, P.K.. "Tomography applied to the study of dinosaur fossils from the collection of the Museum of Lourinhã (Portugal)". Paper presented in I Congresso Internacional de Geociências na CPLP, Coimbra, 2012.
  40. Martins R.MS.; Araújo, Ricardo; Beckmann, F.; Castanhinha, R.; Mateus, O.. "Synchrotron radiation-based micro-computed tomography applied to the characterization of dinosaur fossils from the Lourinhã Formation.". Paper presented in 1º Encontro Nacional dos Utilizadores da Radiação de Sincrotrão. Monte de Caparica – Portugal, Caparica, 2012.
    Published
  41. A. S. Smith; Araújo, Ricardo. "A new rhomaleosaurid pliosaur from the Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) of Lyme Regis, England.". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Raleigh, 2012.
    Published
  42. Hendrickx, C.; Araújo, Ricardo; Mateus, O.. "The nonavian theropod quadrate: systematics usefulness, major trends and phylogenetic morphometrics analysis". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Raleigh, 2012.
  43. Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.; Júnior, L. C.. "A new anomodont taxon from the Mozambican Karoo (Niassa Province), Late Permian". Paper presented in I Congresso Internacional de Geociências na CPLP, Coimbra, 2012.
    Published
  44. Castanhinha, R.; Araújo, Ricardo; Costa Júnior, L.; Angielczyk, K.D.; Martins, R.M.S.. "A new tatarian dicynodont from Mozambique". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Raleigh, 2012.
  45. Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.; Mateus, O.; Martins, R.M.S.. "Late Jurassic theropod embryos from Porto das Barcas, Lourinhã Formation, Portugal". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Raleigh, 2012.
  46. Araújo, Ricardo; Polcyn, Michael J.. "Structural biomechanics of the adductor chamber muscles in the elasmosaurid plesiosaur Libonectes morgani". Paper presented in VI triennial conference on secondary adaptation of tetrapods to life in water, San Diego, 2011.
    Published
  47. Castanhinha, R.; Araújo, Ricardo; Luis Costa Junior. "Projecto PalNiassa: Vertebrate fossils from the Graben of Metangula (Karoo, Mozambique).". Paper presented in European Meeting of PhD students in Evolutionary Biology, 2011.
    Published
  48. Araújo, Ricardo; Jacobs, Louis L.; Polcyn, Michael J.; Mateus, O.; Schulp, Anne. "Plesiosaur structural extreme from the Maastrichtian of Angola". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Las Vegas, 2011.
    Published
  49. Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.; Júnior, L.C.. "New anomodont taxon from a largely unexplored basin: on the presence of cf. Diictodon in the Mozambican Karoo (Niassa Province), Late Permian". Paper presented in VI Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva, 2010.
  50. A. S. Smith; Araújo, Ricardo; Mateus, O.. "A plesiosauroid skull from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Alhadas, Portugal". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Pittsburgh, 2010.
    Published
  51. Araújo, Ricardo; Jacobs, Louis L.; Mateus, O.; Michael J Polcyn. "Plesiosaurs from the Maastrichtian of Bentiaba, Namibe Province, Angola". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Las Vegas, 2010.
    Published
  52. Mateus, O.; Castanhinha, R.; Araújo, Ricardo. "Dinosaur eggs and embryos in Portugal: paleobiological implications and paleoenvironmental settings". 2009.
  53. Castanhinha, R.; Araújo, Ricardo; Mateus, O.. "Dinosaur eggshell and embryo localities in Lourinhã Formation, Late Jurassic, Portugal". Paper presented in Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Bristol, 2009.
    Published
  54. Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.; Mateus, O.. "Reptile eggs from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal". 2008.
  55. Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.; Mateus, O.. "Evolution of the mandible and teeth in ornithopod dinosaurs". 2008.
  56. Araújo, Ricardo; Mateus, O.; Castanhinha, R.. "O Registo de Ovos de Dinossauros da Bacia Lusitânica, Portugal". Paper presented in IV Seminário Paleontologia e Arqueologia do Estuário do Tejo, Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisboa, 2007.
  57. Mateus, O.; Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.. "The evolution of the mandible and teeth in ornithopod dinosaurs". Paper presented in III Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva, 2007.
  58. Araújo, Ricardo; Smith, Adam S.. "Overview of the Leeds fossil vertebrate collection in the National Museum of Ireland". Paper presented in 55th Symposium of Vertebrate Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, Glasgow, 2007.
Conference paper
  1. Araujo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, Rui; Luis Costa Junior. "A new anomodont taxon from the Mozambican Karoo (Niassa Province), Late Permian .". Paper presented in I Congresso Internacional “GeoCiências na CPLP”, Coimbra, 2012.
    Published
  2. Araujo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, Rui; Martins, Rui M. S.; Mateus, Octávio; Beckmann, F.; Schell, N.; Martins, R.M.S.; et al. "Synchrotron radiation-based techniques applied to the study of dinosaur fossils from the collection of the museum of Lourinhã". Paper presented in 1st Portuguese Meeting SYNCHROTRON RADIATION USERS _ ENURS, Caparica, 2012.
    Published
  3. Araujo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, Rui; Mateus, Octávio. "Evolutionary major trends of ornithopod dinosaurs teeth". Paper presented in Tercer Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología de Vertebrados, Mendoza, 2011.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Maharaj, IEM; Araújo, Ricardo; Macungo, Z.; Smith, RMH; Chinsamy, A.. "Taxonomic revision of the late Permian dicynodont genus Endothiodon (Therapsida, Anomodontia)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology (2023): Manuscript # TJSP-2023-0036...
    Submitted
  2. Quentin Martinez; Jan Okrouhlík; Radim Šumbera; Mark Wright; Ricardo Araújo; Stan Braude; Thomas B. Hildebrandt; et al. "Mammalian maxilloturbinal evolution does not reflect thermal biology". Nature Communications (2023): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39994-1.
    10.1038/s41467-023-39994-1
  3. Ricardo Araújo; Adam S. Smith. "Recognising and quantifying the evolution of skeletal paedomorphosis in Plesiosauria". Fossil Record (2023): https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.26.97686.
    10.3897/fr.26.97686
  4. A. R. H. LeBlanc; A. Palci; N. Anthwal; A. S. Tucker; R. Araújo; M. F. C. Pereira; M. W. Caldwell. "A conserved tooth resorption mechanism in modern and fossil snakes". Nature Communications (2023): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36422-2.
    10.1038/s41467-023-36422-2
  5. Ricardo Araújo; Romain David; Julien Benoit; Jacqueline K. Lungmus; Alexander Stoessel; Paul M. Barrett; Jessica A. Maisano; et al. "Author Correction: Inner ear biomechanics reveals a Late Triassic origin for mammalian endothermy". Nature (2023): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05700-w.
    10.1038/s41586-023-05700-w
  6. Martinez, Q.; Okrouhlík, J.; Šumbera, R.; Wright, M.; Araújo, Ricardo; Braude, S.; Hildebrandt, T. B.; et al. "The mammalian maxilloturbinal evolution: when maxilloturbinal does not reflect thermal biology". Nature Communications (2023):
    Accepted
  7. R. Araújo; Z. Macungo; V. Fernandez; E.G. Chindebvu; L.L. Jacobs. "Kembawacela yajuwayeyi n. sp., a new cistecephalid species (Dicynodontia: Emydopoidea) from the Upper Permian of Malawi". Journal of African Earth Sciences (2022): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2022.104726.
    10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2022.104726
  8. Macungo, Zanildo; Benoit, Julien; Fernandez, Vincent; Araújo, Ricardo. "X-ray microcomputed and synchrotron tomographic analysis of the basicranial axis of emydopoid dicynodonts: implications for fossoriality and phylogeny". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198 1 (2022): 1-46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac033.
    Open access • 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac033
  9. Nhamutole, N.; Bamford, M.; Araújo, Ricardo. "New species of Protaxodioxylon (conifer wood) from the Middle Permian of the Metangula Graben (Niassa Province, Mozambique) and their implications". Journal of African Earth Sciences 183 (2021): 104323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2021.104323.
    10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2021.104323
  10. Kammerer, Christian F.; Araújo, Ricardo; Cumbane, Keila; Macungo, Zanildo; Smith, Roger M. H.; Angielczyk, Kenneth D.. "New material of Dicynodon angielczyki (Synapsida: Anomodontia) from Mozambique and Zambia with biostratigraphic implications for African Permo-Triassic basins". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 41 6 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2021.2041652.
    10.1080/02724634.2021.2041652
  11. Z. Macungo; I. Loide; S. Zunguza; N. Nhamutole; I.E.M. Maharaj; J. Mugabe; K.D. Angielczyk; R. Araújo. "Endothiodon (Therapsida, Anomodontia) specimens from the middle/late permian of the Metangula Graben (Niassa Province, Mozambique) increase complexity to the taxonomy of the genus". Journal of African Earth Sciences (2020): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.103647.
    10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.103647
  12. Araújo, Ricardo; Zanildo Macungo; Roger M.H. Smith; Stephen Tolan; Kenneth D. Angielczyk; James Crowley; Dino Milisse; João Mugabe. "Biostratigraphic refinement of tetrapod-bearing beds from the Metangula Graben (Niassa Province, Mozambique): New radiometric dating and the first Lower Triassic tetrapod fossils from Mozambique". Palaeontologia Africana 54 (2020): 56-68. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/30352.
    Open access • Published
  13. D. Flores; N. Nhamutole; D. Milisse; I. Suárez-Ruiz; R. Araújo. "A petrographic approach to a newly found lignite outcrop from Bilene (Gaza, Mozambique)". Journal of African Earth Sciences 156 (2019): 68-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.05.005.
    10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.05.005
  14. Hendrickx, C.; Mateus, O.; Araújo, R.; Choiniere, J.. "The distribution of dental features in non-avian theropod dinosaurs: Taxonomic potential, degree of homoplasy, and major evolutionary trends". Palaeontologia Electronica 22 3 (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85075700397&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.26879/820
  15. Ricardo Araújo; Alistair Robert Evans; Vincent Fernandez; Richard D. Rabbitt; Eric G. Ekdale; Miguel T. Antunes; Rui Castanhinha; Jörg Fröbisch; Rui M. S. Martins. "Endothiodon cf. bathystoma (Synapsida: Dicynodontia) bony labyrinth anatomy, variation and body mass estimates". PLOS ONE 13 3 (2018): e0189883-e0189883. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189883.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0189883
  16. Voeten, D.F.A.E.; Reich, T.; Araújo, R.; Scheyer, T.M.. "Synchrotron microtomography of a Nothosaurus marchicus skull informs on nothosaurian physiology and neurosensory adaptations in early Sauropterygia". PLoS ONE 13 1 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85040021970&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0188509
  17. Maëva Judith Orliac; Ricardo Araújo; Fabrice Lihoreau. "3D models related to the publication: The petrosal and bony labyrinth of Diplobune minor, an enigmatic Artiodactyla from the Oligocene of Western Europe". MorphoMuseuM (2017): https://doi.org/10.18563/m3.3.1.e3.
    10.18563/m3.3.1.e3
  18. Smith, A.S.; Araújo, R.. "Thaumatodracon wiedenrothi, a morphometrically and stratigraphically intermediate new rhomaleosaurid plesiosaurian from the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) of Lyme Regis". Palaeontographica 308 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85020848390&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Open access • Published • 10.1127/pala/308/2017/89
  19. Ferreira-Cardoso, S.; Araújo, R.; Martins, N.E.; Martins, G.G.; Walsh, S.; Martins, R.M.S.; Kardjilov, N.; et al. "Floccular fossa size is not a reliable proxy of ecology and behaviour in vertebrates". Scientific Reports 7 1 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85019607140&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/s41598-017-01981-0
  20. Araújo, R.; Fernandez, V.; Polcyn, M.J.; Fröbisch, J.; Martins, R.M.; Ricardo M Araujo; Vincent Fernandez; et al. "Aspects of gorgonopsian paleobiology and evolution: Insights from the basicranium, occiput, osseous labyrinth, vasculature, and neuroanatomy". PeerJ 2017 4 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85017378215&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.7717/peerj.3119
  21. Orliac, M.J.; Araújo, R.; Lihoreau, F.. "The petrosal and bony labyrinth of Diplobune minor, an enigmatic Artiodactyla from the Oligocene of Western Europe". Journal of Morphology 278 9 (2017): 1168-1184. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85019565368&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1002/jmor.20702
  22. Araújo, R.; Correia, F.. "Soft-tissue anatomy of the plesiosaur pectoral girdle inferred from basal eosauropterygia taxa and the extant phylogenetic bracket". Palaeontologia Electronica 18 1 (2015): 1-32. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84934874081&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  23. Hendrickx, C.; Aráujo, R.; Mateus, O.. "The non-avian theropod quadrate I: Standardized terminology with an overview of the anatomy and function". PeerJ 2015 9 (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84944878790&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.7717/peerj.1245
  24. Hendrickx, C.; Mateus, O.; Araujo, R.. "A proposed terminology of theropod teeth (Dinosauria, Saurischia)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 5 (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84941426725&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/02724634.2015.982797
  25. Hendrickx, C.; Mateus, O.; Araújo, R.. "The dentition of megalosaurid theropods". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 3 (2015): 627-642. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84940474106&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.4202/app.00056.2013
  26. Araújo, R.; Polcyn, M.J.; Schulp, A.S.; Mateus, O.; Jacobs, L.L.; Gonçalves, A.O.; Morais, M.-L.. "A new elasmosaurid from the early Maastrichtian of Angola and the implications of girdle morphology on swimming style in plesiosaurs". Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 94 1 (2014): 109-120. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84951786339&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1017/njg.2014.44
  27. Strganac, C.; Jacobs, L.L.; Polcyn, M.J.; Mateus, O.; Myers, T.S.; Salminen, J.; May, S.R.; et al. "Geological setting and paleoecology of the Upper Cretaceous Bench 19 Marine Vertebrate Bonebed at Bentiaba, Angola". Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 94 1 (2014): 121-136. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84951834160&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1017/njg.2014.32
  28. Araújo, R.; Polcyn, M.J.; Lindgren, J.; Jacobs, L.L.; Schulp, A.S.; Mateus, O.; Gonçalves, A.O.; Morais, M.-L.. "New aristonectine elasmosaurid plesiosaur specimens from the Early Maastrichtian of Angola and comments on paedomorphism in plesiosaurs". Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 94 1 (2014): 93-108. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84951812231&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1017/njg.2014.43
  29. Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, Rui; Martins, Rui M. S.; Mateus, Octávio; Hendrickx, Christophe; Beckmann, F.; Schell, N.; Alves, L. C.. "Filling the gaps of dinosaur eggshell phylogeny: Late Jurassic Theropod clutch with embryos from Portugal". Scientific Reports 3 1924 (2013): 1-8. http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130530/srep01924/full/srep01924.html.
    Published • 10.1038/srep01924
  30. Polcyn, Michael J.; Jacobs, Louis L.; Araújo, Ricardo; Schulp, Anne S.; Mateus, Octávio. "Physical drivers of mosasaur evolution". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 390 (2013):
    Accepted • 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.05.018
  31. Ribeiro, Vasco; Mateus, Octávio; Holwerda, Femke; Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, Rui. "Two new theropod egg sites from the Late Jurassic Lourinhã Formation, Portugal". Historical Biology 0 (2013): 1-12.
    Accepted • 10.1080/08912963.2013.807254
  32. Araujo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, Rui; Martins, Rui M. S.; Beckmann, F.; Luis Costa Junior; Claudine Chaouiya; Gabriel G. Martins; et al. "Bringing dicynodonts back to life: paleobiology and anatomy of a new emydopoid genus from the Upper Permian of Mozambique.". PLoS ONE 8 0 (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84891895676&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Accepted • 10.1371/journal.pone.0080974
  33. Araujo, Ricardo; Polcyn, Michael J.; Araújo, R.; Polcyn, M.J.. "A biomechanical analysis of the skull and adductor chamber muscles in the Late Cretaceous Plesiosaur Libonectes". Palaeontologia Electronica 16 16.2.10A (2013): 1-25. http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2013/418-plesiosaur-mastication.
    Published
  34. Smith, Adam S.; Araújo, Ricardo; Mateus, Octávio. "A New Plesiosauroid from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Alhadas, Portugal". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 2 (2012): 257-266.
    Published • 10.4202/app.2011.0023
  35. Araujo, Ricardo; Mateus, Octávio; Polcyn, Michael J.; Jacobs, Louis L.; Schulp, Anne S.; J. Marinheiro; Pereira, B.; Vineyard, D.. "Cretaceous amniotes from Angola: dinosaurs, pterosaurs, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and turtles.". Salas de los Infantes 0 (2012): 71-105.
    Published
  36. Araujo, Ricardo; Natario, C.; Pond, M.. "How to mount an inexpensive sieving lab.". Journal of Paleontological Techniques 9 (2011): 1-8.
    Published
  37. Mateus, O.; Araújo, R.; Natário, C.; Castanhinha, R.; Araujo, Ricardo; Mateus, Octávio; Castanhinha, Rui; Natario, C.. "A new specimen of the theropod dinosaur Baryonyx from the early Cretaceous of Portugal and taxonomic validity of Suchosaurus". Zootaxa 2827 (2011): 54-68. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79955128236&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published
  38. Araujo, Ricardo; Mateus, Octávio; Walen, A.; Christiansen, N.. "Fossil vertebrate preparation techniques applied at Museu da Lourinhã (Portugal), with new techniques in excavation and laboratory mechanical preparation.". Journal of Preparation Techniques 5 (2009): 1-27.
    Published
  39. Araújo, R.; Smith, A.S.; Liston, J.. "The Alfred Leeds fossil vertebrate collection of the National Museum of Ireland - Natural history". Irish Journal of Earth Sciences 26 (2008): 17-32. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-65549168012&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3318/IJES.2008.26.17
  40. Mateus, O.; Araújo, Ricardo. "Stone-splitters and expansive demolition agents: breaking big rocks with little effort on vertebrate paleontological excavations.". Journal of Paleontological Techniques 3 (2008): https://www.jpaleontologicaltechniques.org/pasta3/JPT%20N3/Pdf/JPT_n003_Oct.pdf.
    Published
Magazine article
  1. Araújo, Ricardo. "Estilos de natação", National Geographic, Portugal, 2015
  2. Araújo, Ricardo; Martins, R.M.S.. "The oldest carnivorous dinosaur clutch with embryos", Focus Research Highlights, 2013
  3. Araújo, Ricardo; Castanhinha, R.. "Ninho jurássico", National Geographic, Portugal, 2013
  4. Castanhinha, R.; Araújo, Ricardo. "O primo moçambicano", National Geographic, Portugal, 2013
  5. Araújo, Ricardo. "Portuguese Plesiosaur", National Geographic, Portugal, 2012
  6. Smith, A.S.; Araújo, Ricardo. "The legacy of Alfred Leeds", Rockwatch, 2010
  7. Araújo, Ricardo. "E, por último, a resposta à questão “O que é, realmente, um fóssil?", Boletim do Museu da Lourinhã, 2009
  8. Araújo, Ricardo. "Dez Centros de Excelência (+1) na Paleontologia de Vertebrados", Boletim do Museu da Lourinhã, 2009
  9. Araújo, Ricardo. "Não há omeletes (fósseis) sem ovos", Boletim do Museu da Lourinhã, 2009
  10. Araújo, Ricardo. "Campanha de escavações – crivagens", Boletim do Museu da Lourinhã, 2008
  11. Araújo, Ricardo. "Como identificar um dente de crocodilo?", Boletim do Museu da Lourinhã, 2008
Preprint
  1. Marco Santos-Lopes; Ricardo Araújo; Romain David; Paulo L. Correia. "Automated Analysis of Bird Head Motion from Videos in Unconstrained Settings". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.20.629664.
    10.1101/2024.12.20.629664
  2. André Garrido; Ana Rute Manuel; Ricardo Araújo; Inês Mascarenhas; Helena Almeida; Clara Abadesso. "Cross-sectional evolution of pain management policies and practices in Portuguese pediatric emergency departments". 2022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.06.22277222.
    10.1101/2022.07.06.22277222
  3. Ricardo Araujo; Romain David; Julien Benoit; Lungmus Jacqueline; Fred Spoor; Alexander Stoessel; Paul Barrett; et al. "Inner ear biomechanics reveals Late Triassic origin of mammalian endothermy". 2021. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-570966/v1.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-570966/v1
  4. Araújo, Ricardo; Hendrickx, Christophe; Mateus O. "The non-avian theropod quadrate II: systematic usefulness, major trends and cladistic and phylogenetic morphometrics analyses.". 2015. https://peerj.com/preprints/380v2.pdf..
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Aspects of plesiosaur locomotion: Insights from Angolan specimens, eusauropterygian heritage, myology and osteology". PhD, Southern Methodist University, 2013. https://www.proquest.com/openview/3923aaadb34934a6f349500c8b375d5e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750.
Website
  1. Araújo, Ricardo. Projecto PaleoMoz. 2015. www.paleomox.org.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic performance
  1. Sebastian Crocco; Araújo, Ricardo; Rendas, A.. 2023. On track of Science. Pavilhão Ciência Viva.
Curatorial / Museum exhibition
  1. 2017. "PalNiassa (PaleoMoz) Exhibit".
  2. 2016. "PalNiassa (PaleoMoz) Exhibit".
  3. 2016. "PalNiassa (PaleoMoz) Exhibit".
  4. 2016. "PalNiassa (PaleoMoz) Exhibit".
  5. 2015. "PalNiassa (PaleoMoz) Exhibit".
  6. 2015. "PalNiassa (PaleoMoz) Exhibit".
  7. 2014. "PalNiassa (PaleoMoz) Exhibit".
  8. Araújo, Ricardo; Rui M. S. Martins; O. Mateus; S. Mateus. 2014. "Temporary Exposition Museu da Lourinhã 2014".
  9. Araújo, Ricardo; O. Mateus; R. Castanhinha. 2012. "Fósseis de África: fósseis de Angola e Moçambique no Museu da Lourinhã".
  10. Araújo, Ricardo; R. Castanhinha. 2012. "Fósseis de Moçambique no Oeiras Parque".
  11. 2003. "Museu da Lourinhã (permanent exhibition)".
  12. Araújo, Ricardo; O. Mateus. 2003. "Dinossauros no Almada Fórum".
  13. Araújo, Ricardo. 2003. "A vida jurássica em Colmeias".
  14. Araújo, Ricardo. 2003. "Dinossauros no Parlamento".
Video recording
  1. Araújo, Ricardo; Ricardo Araújo (Producer); Sebastián Crocco (Director). 2023. PaleoMoz Project: Mozambique, a history to discover. N/A.

Other

Other output
  1. A new cistecephalid (Dicynodontia: Emydopoidea) from the Upper Permian of Malawi. 2021. Ricardo Araújo; Zanildo Macungo; Vincent Fernadez; Elizabeth G. Chindebvu; Louis L. Jacobs. https://doi.org/10.31233/osf.io/2x4wb.
    10.31233/osf.io/2x4wb
  2. Fossil tree hollows from a Late Permian forest of the Matinde Formation (Tete, Mozambique). 2017. Ricardo Araújo; Nelson Nhamutole; Zanildo Macungo; Dino Milisse; Marion Bamford. https://doi.org/10.31233/osf.io/4przq.
    10.31233/osf.io/4przq
  3. Aspects of the gorgonopsian paleobiology: insights from the basicranium, occiput, osseous labyrinth and neuroanatomy of the immature gorgonopsian skull of Aloposaurus gracilis (Therapsida: Theriodontia: Gorgonopsia). 2016. Ricardo M Araujo; Vincent Fernandez; Michael J Polcyn; Jörg Fröbisch; Rui M.S. Martins. https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2313v1.
    10.7287/peerj.preprints.2313v1
  4. Book review - Os dinossauros de Portugal. 2009. Araujo, Ricardo.
  5. International Conference on the Geological Collections and Museums: mission and management.. Edição técnica. 2009. Araujo, Ricardo.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022/12 - Current Segmentação de um crânio de Palemydops (África do Sul)
Co-supervisor of Jerssy Mucache
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2022/12 - Current Um novo táxone de dicinodonte para o Graben de Metangula
Co-supervisor of Edilene Machamale
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2022/12 - Current Descrição anatómica e identificação taxonómica de um crânio de dicinodonte do Graben de Metangula
Co-supervisor of Jeniffer Ricardo
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2022/04 - Current Descrição anatómica do Endothiodon mahalanobisi para o Graben de Metangula (Niassa)
Co-supervisor of Estha Mandlate
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2022/04 - Current Dicynodontoides no Graben de Metangula, Niassa, Moçambique
Co-supervisor of Amélia Massingue
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2022/02 - Current Descrição anatómica de um Dicynodontoides do Graben de Metangula (NIassa, Moçambique)
Co-supervisor of Nelma Chambule
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2022 - Current Filogenia morfométrica dos Dicynodontia (Synapsida)
Co-supervisor of Pedro Cristão
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022 - Current The first gorgonopsians and new material from the Metangula Graben Mozambique
Co-supervisor
University of the Witwatersrand Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, South Africa
2017 - Current Determinação Taxonómica de fósseis de vertebrados colhidos no Graben de Metangula (Niassa) e estabelecer os fundamentos para a preparação de fósseis
Co-supervisor of Mussa Mamad
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Pedagógica da Beira, Mozambique
2017 - Current Moulages endocrâniens de Chiroptères paléogènes, descriptions anatomiques, histoires évolutives
Co-supervisor of Nicolas Brualla
Université de Montpellier, France
2013 - Current Preparation and curation techniques of fossils from the Mozambican Karoo
Supervisor
 Bolsas ad-hoc da Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (Scientific initiation)
Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinha / Museu da Lourinha, Portugal
2023/07 - 2027/01 Neuroanatomy of Late Jurassic Mammals of Guimarota
Co-supervisor
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - 2027 Descrição osteológica de um dicinodonte proveniente da Bacia de Metangula (Permiano) e suas implicações biostratigráficas
Co-supervisor
Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
2023/09 - 2024 A new dicynodont skull from the K5 Formation (Late Permian, Metangula Graben, Mozambique): anatomical description, phylogenetics and soft-tissue anatomy using synchrotron-scan segmentation
Supervisor
 Masters in Paleontology (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/01 - 2023/07 Thermoregulatory strategies in Permian synapsids via tooth histology
Co-supervisor
Academic Biomedical Centre Utrecht, Netherlands
2021/11 - 2023/03 Descrição anatómica e análise filogenética de um crânio de Oudenodon bainii. Novo táxon para o graben de Metangula, Província do Niassa
Co-supervisor of Benjamim Sitoé
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2021/11 - 2023/03 Descrição anatómica e identificação taxonómica de novos dicinodontes: do graben de Metangula, Província de Niassa
Co-supervisor
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2021/11 - 2023/02 Osteologia de um novo dicinodonte: Daptocephalus cf. leoniceps (Anomodontia: Dicynodontoidae) do graben de Metangula, Província de Niassa (Moçambique)
Co-supervisor of Jenifa Theila Murane
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2020 - 2023 Taxonomy of the genus Endothiodon (Anomodontia, Dicynodontia)
Co-supervisor of Iyra Maharaj
University of Cape Town, South Africa
2020 - 2022 The basicranial axis in emydopoid dicynodonts
Co-supervisor of Zanildo Macungo
University of the Witwatersrand Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, South Africa
2020 - 2022 The largest fossil forest in the world (Tete, Mozambique)
Co-supervisor
University of the Witwatersrand Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, South Africa
2019/05 - 2021/06 Descrição osteológica de um novo espécime de dicinodontóide do graben de Metangula, Província de Niassa
Co-supervisor
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2019/11 - 2021/05 Palinoestratigrafia da transição Permo-Triásica do Karoo graben de Metangula, Norte de Niassa: Revisão
Supervisor
 Engenharia Geológica e Mineira (Master)
Instituto Superior de Ciências e Tecnologia de Moçambique, Mozambique
2019/08 - 2021/03 Descrição anatómica comparativa e identificação taxonómica de um novo dicinodonte: Dicynodon cf. angielczyki da Formação K5c do graben de Metangula-Província do Niassa
Co-supervisor
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2020/01 - 2021/01 Anatomia e identificação taxonómica de folhas fósseis do graben de Metangula (Província de Niassa)
Co-supervisor of Ussene Armindo César
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2020 - 2021 The first identifiable gorgonopsian material from Mozambique (Metangula Graben, Niassa)
Co-supervisor of Ivânia Loide Chume
2018/07 - 2019/12 Histologia dos dentes e ossos mandibulares e maxillares dos Endothiodon do Graben de Metangula
Co-supervisor of Marisa Cunha Amaral
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2018/02 - 2019/04 Descrição osteológica e aplicação da estatística descritiva na caracterização da população dos dicinodontes do graben de Metangula- Província do Niassa
Co-supervisor of Sheila Zunguza
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2017 - 2019 Anatomia, Taxonomia e Construção do Modelo Fotogramétrico-3D de Fósseis de Vertebrados do Graben de Metangula-Niassa
Co-supervisor of Sarita Guluja
 Masters (Master)
Universidade Pedagógica da Beira, Mozambique
2018/02 - 2018/11 Análise do modo de mastigação e alimentação dos endothiodon do graben de Metangula-Província do Niassa
Co-supervisor of Ivânia Loide Chume
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2015/01 - 2016/03 Estudo de fósseis de vertebrados do graben de Metangula, Província do Niassa, com recurso ao acervo e base de dados da UEM
Co-supervisor
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2014/12 - 2016/03 Descrição osteológica e identificação taxonómica de vários fósseis de vertebrados do Niassa
Co-supervisor of Zanildo Macungo
 Geologia (Master)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
2014/01 - 2015/11 On the function of the floccular complex of the vertebrate cerebellum: implications in paleoneuroanatomy
Supervisor
 Paleontology (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciências da Terra, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Preparation and curation techniques for the fossils from Mozambique
Supervisor
 Bolsas ad-hoc da Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (Scientific initiation)
Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinha / Museu da Lourinha, Portugal
2011 - 2011 Preparation and curation techniques for the fossils from Mozambique
Supervisor
 Bolsas ad-hoc da Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (Scientific initiation)
Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinha / Museu da Lourinha, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2017 - Current Palaeontology
2010 - Current Journal of Paleontological Techniques
2023/09/18 - 2023/09/30 Caucasiana: Journal on the biodiversity of the Caucasus and adjacent regions
2022/07/05 - 2022/07/11 Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology Taylor & Francis
2022 - 2022 Journal of African Earth Sciences
2022 - 2022 Ecology & Evolution
2022 - 2022 Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia
2020 - 2020 Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
2017 - 2020 Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology
2016 - 2020 Cretaceous Research
2019/02 - 2019/03 Royal Society Open Science
2019 - 2019 Historical Biology
2017 - 2019 Papers in Palaeontology
2018/03 - 2018/03 PeerJ
2017 - 2017 Geological Magazine
2017 - 2017 Palaeontologia Electronica
2015 - 2017 Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
2016 - 2016 Springer – Vertebrate Paleobiology & Paleoanthropology Series: Plesiosaurs - Mesozoic Sea Dragons
2015/07 - 2015/07 Geological Society, London
2015 - 2015 Scientific Reports
2014 - 2014 Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2018/01/18 - Current Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa Member
2010/02/07 - Current Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Regular Member
2003/11/01 - Current GEAL/Museu da Lourinhã Member
2013/03/19 - 2013/08/20 Western Interior Paleontological Society Member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2017 - 2017 XV Encontro de Jovens Investigadores em Paleontologia
2014 - 2014 1st International Conservation Symposium-Workshop in Natural History Collections
2013 - 2013 1º Congresso Nacional de Geologia, Moçambique
2013 - 2013 International Conference on the Geological Collections and Museums: mission and management

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2016/06 - 2016/07 Projecto PaleoMoz; Project Manager Consultant (Installation, design and mounting of the first paleontological preparation laboratory from Mozambique) Museu Nacional de Geologia, Mozambique

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2016/12 - Current Statistics and morphometrics for vertebrate paleontology (Master) Université de Montpellier, France
2016 - Current Seminar II : Fossil and rock record, Comparative anatomy, Functional Morphology, Paleo-illustration Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2015 - Current Seminars II: Fossil and rock record, Comparative anatomy, Functional Morphology, Paleo-illustration (Pós-Graduação) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023/11/13 - 2024/01/05 Geology for Civil Engineering (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2010 - 2013 Earth Systems (Bachelor) Southern Methodist University, United States
2012/09 - 2012/12 Oceanography (Bachelor) Southern Methodist University, United States
2012/02 - 2012/06 Paleobiology (Bachelor) Southern Methodist University, United States

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2022 - Current PaleoBoiology Database Authorizer
Evaluator
2018 - 2018 Evaluation of grants from the African Origins Platform
Evaluator
 African Origins Platform
2016 - 2016 Evalutation of grants from the National Geographic Society (Committee for Research and Exploration)
Evaluator
 National Geographic Society, United States

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2010 - Current Journal of Paleontological Techniques (1646-5806)

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2023/06 - 2024/06 Late Jurassic microfossils from Cambelas’ bonebed, Western Portugal. Palaeoecology and palaeoenvironmental aspects Víctor Carvalho
2019/06 - 2020/05 Fossil Preparation Mozambican Fossils Ludiomilo Macucule
2019/06 - 2019/11 Fossil Preparation Mozambican Fossils Dércio Espada
2019/05 - 2019/11 Fossil Preparation Mozambican Leaf Fossils Alfredo Ernesto Francisco
2018/07 - 2018/12 Fossil Preparation Mozambican Fossils Norcésio Epifânio Francisco
2012/11 - 2014/11 Fossil Digital Techniques Mozambican Fossils Nelson Nhamutole
2012/09 - 2013/12 Fossil Preparation Angolan Fossils Meghan O'Keefe
2012/09 - 2013/05 Fossil Preparation Angolan Fossils Acacea Sherman
2011/02 - 2012/09 Fossil Preparation Mozambican Fossils Salimo Murrula

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/11 - 2022/11 Projecto PaleoMoz; Expedition Leader (Fieldwork in Inhambane Province) Museu Nacional de Geologia, Mozambique

Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
2021/09 - 2021/10 Projecto PaleoMoz; Expedition Leader Museu Nacional de Geologia, Mozambique

Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
2019/09 - 2019/10 Projecto PaleoMoz; Expedition Leader Museu Nacional de Geologia, Mozambique

Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
2019/04 - 2019/04 Projecto PaleoMoz; Expedition Leader Museu Nacional de Geologia, Mozambique
2018/09 - 2018/10 Projecto PaleoMoz; Expedition leader (determined the extension of the Tete Fossil Forest as the largest in the world; Vertebrate paleontology in Niassa) Museu Nacional de Geologia, Mozambique
2017/09 - 2017/09 PaleoMoz Project; Expedition Leader (rediscovery of the Tete Fossil Forest, Mozambique) Museu Nacional de Geologia, Mozambique
2014/09/01 - 2014/09/30 Projecto PaleoMoz; Expedition Leader (Collected more than 70 Permian vertebrate specimens including more than 20 complete and intact skulls from the Niassa Province, Mozambique) Museu Nacional de Geologia, Mozambique
2012/07/01 - 2012/07/31 PaleoMoz Project; Expedition Leader (Found the first vertebrates from the Nampula Province and a reptilian group previously not reported from Mozambique) Museu Nacional de Geologia, Mozambique
2012/06/01 - 2012/06/30 Projecto PaleoAngola; Expedition Researcher Southern Methodist University, United States
2011/08/01 - 2011/08/31 Fossil eggs and embryos from the Lourinhã Formation, Portugal ; Expedition leader Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinha / Museu da Lourinha, Portugal
2011/05/01 - 2011/05/30 Marine Jurassic and Cretaceous sediments of the Lusitanian Basin of Portugal ; Expedition Co-Leader (Co-lead by Frank Robin O'Keefe) Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinha / Museu da Lourinha, Portugal
2010/08/01 - 2010/08/31 Projecto PaleoAngola; Expedition Researcher Southern Methodist University, United States
2010/08/01 - 2010/08/31 Projecto PaleoMoz; Expedition Leader Museu Nacional de Geologia, Mozambique
2010/06/15 - 2010/07/15 PaleoMoz Project; Expedition Leader Museu Nacional de Geologia, Mozambique
2009/08/01 - 2009/08/31 PaleoMoz Project; Expedition leader Museu Nacional de Geologia, Mozambique
Distinctions

Title

2022 Research Fellow ("Parceiro de Investigação")
Museu Nacional de Geologia, Mozambique
2016 Visiting Scholar
Université de Montpellier, France

Other distinction

2011 Dallas Paleontological Society Scholar
Dallas Paleontological Society, Portugal
2011 Huffington Fellow
Southern Methodist University Earth Sciences Department, Portugal
2011 National Geographic Young Explorers Grant
National Geographic Society, Portugal
2009 Doris O. and Samuel P. Welles Research Fund
University of California's Museum of Paleontology, Portugal
2008 Fulbright Fellow
Fulbright Commission, Portugal
2007 Curry Fund Fellow
Geologists’s Association, London, Portugal
2007 Jurassic Foundation Research Fellow
Jurassic Foundation, Baltimore, Portugal
2006 Undergraduate Research Education and Knowledge Award
Science Foundation Ireland, Portugal