Robert Boessenecker, Doctor of Whaleontology™️さんのイラストまとめ

Sneak peek at some [unpublished] paleogeographic figures for a review paper on the Miocene-Pliocene Purisima Formation I am wrapping up - high school me would not have been prepared for how much of this stuff I end doing. I love maps!

@claudistics Yeah this one is one of my favorite individual specimens from @CofCNatHistory 😍I just had to paint it few years ago:

@FossilLocator @AriannaSoldati My watercolors are heavily stacked towards the really pretty minerals. Check out https://t.co/brtecdw2y3 for more!

dino nerds v whale nerds hearing the news about #spinosaurus

African semiaquatic predators just really hate sawfish #spinosaurus

@Philoceratops Some marine mammals (one is colorized, sorry)

Another new paper - new balaenopterid baleen whale: Archaebalaenoptera eusebioi from t the late Miocene Pisco Fm of Peru - new paper by @mickbisconti et al. https://t.co/fhgBvzYpdq

...for both false and true killer whales (and independently, at that). Study also reevaluates the Pliocene orca Orcinus citoniensis, again interpreted as a pilot whale-like fish eater.

New paper: Evolution of killer/false killer whales! Macrophagy is a recent adaptation, likely entirely within the Pleistocene (as I supected!) - new Pseudorca-like dolphin, Rododelphis, indicates recent evolution from fish-eating ancestors...https://t.co/18YSWHvuuM

relevant ouranosaurus meme https://t.co/FSmFrxdHTh