Miguel Telles Antunes

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Miguel Telles Antunes (born in January 11th 1937) is a Portuguese palaeontologist. He is specialized, among other things, in dinosaur palaeontology.

He is currently associated with many institutions, including Faculdade de Ciência e Tecnologia of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Academia de Ciências de Lisboa and Museu da Lourinhã.

He wrote a book about dinosaur faeces called: Palaeolithic Poop: A Understanding of Parental Family Structure and Nest Building. In the book he wrote about his theories concerning the possibility that dinosaurs could have used there excrement to create nests and mark there territory.