Ruairidh Duncan

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

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

I find it physically painful to watch myself on camera but your mileage may vary.

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.

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/art…

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

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

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?

@Phoebyornis @ABCaustralia So many excellent moments of "hey, I know them!" thoughout. You did such a good job dispensing birb wisdom!

@PPaleoartist Only a small part of the process but thank you ☺️

@Inxcetus oh my lord i didnt even register that was you on the authorship list lmao, congrats on the successful publication!

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.

Yes, I meant finished*, no I won't pay to edit it, Elon

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 🥳

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