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

4th: I forgot to tweet about this one last month: first confirmed record of early 'proto-walrus' Neotherium from the Miocene of Japan: https://t.co/QejrR4lH2H

in the SIXTH paper from my Ph.D. we reported a fragmentary specimen of Yamatocetus (right) - indicating antitropical distribution in both hemispheres - and a cf. Waharoa (left) from the earliest Miocene, indicating that eomysticetids survived into the Miocene epoch!

The deltoid is pretty far forwards, and so the placement of the AMNH whale's band-aid is possibly over the olecranon process and right over the elbow rather than deltoid. So, I would've shifted it slightly further forward [also from Schulte 1916]

@thejohnconway tossup between Monet's Rouen cathedral series, Turner's 'fighting temeraire', and Goya's Third of May 1808

New paper: an early Pliocene oceanic dolphin, Pliodelphis, from the North Sea - Beluzzo & Lambert: https://t.co/IvuwSCizWs

Sketch v. Final

#blueart more whales

Ooh ooh we're doing the #BlueArt thing again, I got way too much

new pub: reevaluation of Miocene sperm whale Preaulophyseter gualichensis from Argentina and periotic (earbone) anatomy of the sperm whales - Paolucci et al: https://t.co/oq9DTv2Kp5

New whale just dropped! A new species of MODERN baleen whale in the "Bryde's whale complex" - Balaenoptera ricei - discovered based on strandings in the Gulf of Mexico. Sister species to Eden's whale (B. edeni). https://t.co/o5ifF0kE9O