Palaeoartist and palaeontologist (also pretend racing driver) Whaleontology PhD candidate 🐳 @EvansEvoMorph @museumsvictoria 🖖🐋🏎️🦕🏴 #36
Melbourne, Australia
Joined February 2021
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1/ A few years in the making, but I can finally share my first PhD paper and my first ever first-authored whale paper. In it, we name a new species of toothed baleen whale: Janjucetus dullardi. You can find our conversation article here: tinyurl.com/dullardi
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Introducing Janjucetus dullardi, a new species of toothed baleen whale from the Oligocene of Australia! academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/…
7/ The discovery of the third Australian mammalodontid species suggests that whatever that history was, the nexus was to be found in the shallow oceans that once covered prehistoric Jan Juc.
The paper was published in open access and can be found here: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/…
8/ Thank you to all my co-authors and supervisors @emgfitzgerald, @Palaeo_JRule , @Blogozoic, @DrTeethAl and Justin Adams. The artwork associated with this work is also only as good as it is thanks to the input of the excellent Zev Landes.
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after multiple years of keeping my mouth shut, I can finally release the art i made for Kotevski et al., (2025)'s recently published paper
they describe carcharodontosaur and unenlagiine material from australia, as well as new megaraptorid material
#AusPalaeo
ALT a small carcharodontosaur and large megaraptorid fight over the corpse of an unenlagiine during the dry season. red dust is kicked up around them as both are desperate for any morsel of food all three animals are carnivorous theropod dinosaurs. carcharodontosaurus have blade-like teeth used for sheering flesh, megaraptorids had long scythe-like claws, and unenlagiines had long slender snouts as well as feathers for insulation
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Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring in the Ordovician sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Very honoured to have been a contributing scientist to the new #megafauna documentary by @ABCaustralia which is now live on #ABCiview. The production team and the scientists are wonderful. Very highly recommend watching the new series Megafauna: what killed Australia's giants?
Not had enough of our 'giga-goose'? 🪿 Neither have we!
Great news for any Aussies 🇦🇺 you can catch @Phoebyornis on new @ABCaustralia show, #MegafaunaABC as they uncover what killed Australia's giants featuring Genyornis newtoni and many other megafauna 🦴
Massive congratulations to André and all my co-authors on getting this paper finish after years of effort. It's work that has needed doing for so long and I'm honoured to have been part of it.
We are glad to present the release of our recent study on ornithischian evolution.
doi.org/10.1080/14772019.202…
@Maurissauro @iainjr1 @Inxcetus
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Elasmarians are highly diverse in morphology. Animals like Gasparinisaura and Diluvicursor
represent small classic hypsilophodontid-like forms, Talenkauen and kin represent mid-sized
long-necked forms, while Muttaburrasaurus represents a multi-ton “iguanodontid-mimic”
form.
And good news! Elasmarians, predictably, continue to be weird 🥳
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Hear how Kevin the curator at Kronosaurus Korner in Richmond, QLD made history by uncovering Australia's most complete pterosaur to date:
bit.ly/3KDED4a
NEW AUSTRALIAN PTEROSAUR. 'Petersen's Sea Phantom'
Amazing work by @AdelePentland and colleagues as per usual. Thrilled and honoured to be some small part of it.
Introducing Australia's newest pterosaur Haliskia peterseni, or Petersen's sea phantom!! Based on a 22% complete skeleton. Open access paper:
go.nature.com/3KElLSH
Spectacular palaeoart by @SerpenIllus
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Introducing the updated look of Genyornis newtoni, a giant, extinct bird from Australia, based on new fossil discoveries published today. Incredible artwork by @Blokoweka 1/2 🧵 url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com…
