Palaeoartist and palaeontologist (also pretend racing driver) Whaleontology PhD candidate 🐳 @EvansEvoMorph @museumsvictoria 🖖🐋🏎️🦕🏴 #36
Melbourne, Australia
Joined February 2021
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Introducing Janjucetus dullardi, a new species of toothed baleen whale from the Oligocene of Australia! academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/…
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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 🦴
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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.
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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
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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…
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Great Oceanic Serpents migrating along their tiny distant cousins. Based on account and sighting from the crew of the royal naval vessel HMS Daedalus circa August 1848.
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Very pleased to announce our latest paper, which examines the macroevolutionary patterns of #pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and walruses) in more detail than ever before 🦭 you can download it #openaccess here: academic.oup.com/evolut/adva…
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Janjucetus hunderi, late oligocene whale with huge eyes #AncientWhaleWeek
Starting a bit late because stuff 🤪🤪🤪
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And here the result from the Paja Formation #paleostream! So many marine reptiles! It it will only get more next week!
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Our new paper on toothed #whale jaws is out today in @CurrentBiology. The jaw of toothed whales is unique in that it is used for both #hearing & #feeding. We investigate what’s happened to the shape of the #jaw over 50 million years🐬
cell.com/current-biology/ful… – at Washington, DC
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New from @Palaeo_JRule, @Inxcetus, Felix Marx, @TIPollock, @DrTeethAl and me!
Giant baleen whales emerged from a cold southern cradle | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Will it crack?
(Morrosaurus, Cretaceous Antarctica)
ALT A fluffly Morrosaurus studies the cracked surface of a frozen river from its perch on a fallen log, amidst a snow-covered forest.
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#Olympicetus thalassodon, a new species of odontocete from the Oligocene of Washington. Artwork was created for @boritherium’s paper describing the new species published in @thepeerj. This is my first artwork published in a scientific journal, and a milestone for me. #paleoart
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Introducing Arenaerpeton supinatus, a new chigutisaurid temnospondyl amphibian from the Triassic of New South Wales, Australia. Out now in @JVP_vertpaleo . Big thanks to my coauthors @MatthewRMcCurry @PatrickMarkSmi1 and @Koskinonodon. Artwork by @opaleoartista.
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I am so excited to share our latest research – a fossil whale which may beat the blue whale to the title of heaviest marine animal ever! Say hello to Perucetus! 🇵🇪
Published today in Nature!
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
