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Great summary of whale evolution by @Zeke_Darwin using my new review paper!

@Zeke_Darwin Hi Zeke, DM should be available now if you want to share your email!

@Blogozoic Hey I tried to DM but it wouldn’t let me - could you share the PDF? I’m a middle school science teacher that teaches about evolution online and I love talking whale evolution. Would love to cover this study.

If you want an up-to-date summary of whale and dolphin evolution, have a read of my new review paper in @NatRevBiodiv! I’ve tried to cover as much research as possible in this, so apologies if I’ve missed you! nature.com/articles/s4435…

Unlike all other mammals, seals can hear both in the air and underwater. How do they do this? @Blogozoic @Palaeo_JRule @ian_g_brennan @OurANU @MonashUni theconversation.com/seals-have-a-u…

Very happy to have worked with @Palaeo_JRule and all our coauthors in this huge effort of a paper! He’s done an amazing job pulling this together over the last few years.

@MarcEHJones @DavidUllrich202 It’s looks very cool!

@DavidUllrich202 @Blogozoic So many possibilities!

Millions of fossil whale bones found in deep-ocean ‘necropolis’ Researchers diving 7 kilometers deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of whale bones, including fossils up to 5 million years old and species new to science newscientist.com/article/252986… docs.google.com/document/d/1gy…

The Occurrence Birth-Death Diffusion Process: Unraveling Diversification Histories with Fossils and Heterogeneous Rates biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_evobio

Introducing Janjucetus dullardi, a new species of toothed baleen whale from the Oligocene of Australia! academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

New paper out today, led by my PhD student @Inxcetus, naming a new species of toothed baleen whale. Fantastic work (including the artwork) from Ruairidh, a lot of effort has went into this one! Find out more in the thread below.

Tomorrow.

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/209644… Fully #openaccess in @BigEarthData1 with insight about deeptime 📦 development and code examples! #rstats #geology

@StephanSpiekman @Nature Congrats Stephan, awesome work!

I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @Nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎

@NHMdinolab @NHM_London Congrats!

I don’t share job news often, but I’m pleased to announce I’m now Head of Science Engagement @NHM_London, a part-time role alongside my other research duties, where I’m the science strategy lead on all our forthcoming gallery and exhibition developments

@CassyniSeminars We'd like to thank @SynthesysEU for funding Mariana's travel to @NHM_London, which made this work possible!

To find out more detail about our paper, you can read the link above, or watch Mariana's @CassyniSeminars talk about it: cassyni.com/events/NwcqHnx…

For this #FossilFriday I'm happy to present my latest paper, written with @MaryViglino. We wanted to know if the convergent evolution that river dolphins display in their external morphology extends to their inner ears. Turns out, it doesn't! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

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

Insight into the evolution of toothed whales: redescription of Oligo-Miocene dolphin Squalodon grateloupii onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… @maruchelys #FossilFriday @MorphoBank @wileyearthspace