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Interested in surprising and obscure #dolphins and #porpoises? Of course you are. Well, good news - I did a series of articles on these animals. We start with spinner dolphins, which (in some populations) have forward-canted dorsal fins and ventral keels... 1/n #cetaceans

Amazing new deep-sea squid footage from the central Pacific. Deep-sea hooked squid Taningia danae with the huge bioluminescent photophores. 1000m deep, grabs lander during 58 m/min free fall Heather Stewart Deep Sea Research Centre #inkfishexplore

One of the earliest whales, yes you read that right. Pakicetus

One of the weirdest basal cetaceans, Makaracetus

Who’s out there looking for a postdoc using Morphometrics to study adaptation and trait evolution? Are you based in Australia? Want a CV boost and support to write a DECRA application in 2025? I might have an opportunity for you. DM me 😊

Please cite all R resources in your papers. A lot of effort has been paid to develop them. This package make it easy to do so.

What's the deal with seals? 👀 Seals are found in many oceans worldwide, but scientists are still unsure where they came from. A new study has been diving into the origin of seals, and revealed the surprising history of walruses! 👇 brnw.ch/21wKdbX

Don’t use scrappy specimens as holotypes! Check out our latest paper in PeerJ Publishing revising phocid taxonomy. Fun as always to work with @Palaeo_JRuleand @gustavoburin!

Kangaroo teeth grow forever – and keep a record of their owner’s age and sex. William Parker tells us all about it! theconversation.com/kangaroo-teeth… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

@secad2024 has been a wonderful experience for everyone around!!! Lots and lots of great scientists around. BUT THIS IS NOW OFFICIAL: We will be hosting #SECAD2027 at Museo de Historia Natural UNMSM in the city of Lima Peru! #FossilFriday

Really cool PhD project being advertised by Te Papa and Victoria University of Wellington on deep time evolution of marine mammal feeding ecology, check it out! wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships/c…

Meet Ontocetus posti 🦭 a new species of odobenines we described in a new study led by Mathieu Boisville based on material from the UK & Belgium 🇬🇧🇧🇪 Want to know more about this new fossil walrus? Here is a thread 🧵1/7. 🎨by @BranArtworks peerj.com/articles/17666/

So proud of this volume of the Journal of Royal Society Te Apārangi which I edited with Daniel Thomas and Jeff Robinson The volume highlights the diversity and importance of NZ fossils for our understanding of the evolution of life in our planet. apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.0.0 is now on #CRAN with many new features ✨ - use USGS strat patterns with ggplot2🪨 - add horizontal timescales to radial trees 🍩 - built-in timescales updated (incl. colors) 🏳️‍🌈 Documentation: williamgearty.com/deeptime #rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime

The chronospace R package is now published!! I hope it'll provide useful tools for visualizing and exploring sensitivity in estimates of divergence times. A really fun project with lifelong friend Millacarmonia besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…

How is the cetacean backbone patterned compared to terrestrial mammals? 🐋 Happy to share that we provide answers this question in the 1st publication of our #Back2Sea Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project with MCZ Paleontology and Katrina Jones! You can check the paper... 👇doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

SAVE THE DATE! Calling all Australasian Vertebrate Evolutionary Biologists, Palaeontologists and Systematists! The 19th CAVEPS Palaeo meeting will be held on Kaurna Land, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, November 24th - 30th, 2025. More info soon... Flinders Palaeontology

Cochlear analysis of Kekenodon onamata, a late Oligocene stem whale, suggests they specialised in low-frequency hearing, a trait of raptorial feeding in fossil whales. Low-frequency hearing may be characteristic of raptorial macrophagous fossil cetaceans Josh Corrie Travis Park

Insight into the evolution of toothed whales: redescription of Oligo-Miocene dolphin Squalodon grateloupii onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… Margot 🐢🏳️‍🌈 Nelson PhD #FossilFriday MorphoBank @[email protected] Wiley Earth and Space Science

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