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

New paper from South American colleagues: Oops, fossil jawbone from Eocene of Antarctica originally identified as a bony toothed bird is actually... just a fish. https://t.co/yAY6dYrOuC

I am five months late but thanks to quarantine, here it is: my review of 2019 in marine mammal paleontology! Abstracts, links, and some commentary. #whaleontology #paleo #paleontology #marinemammals https://t.co/k1O6NZWRLr

@AshPoust @HabitualDoodles @Yara_Haridy I can't speak for land mammals, but in odontocetes, they have tons and tons of sinuses in front of their brain to either 1) protect the brain from sounds produced for echolocation and/or 2) reduce bone conducted sounds from interfering with hearing by making "mirror" of air

#PortfolioDay I am a paleontologist and artist/scientific illustrator with an emphasis on modern/extinct marine organisms - I work in graphite, watercolor, acrylic, ink, and digital - often combining them. I can illustrate all my own scientific papers!

@OpenAcademics Actual folder names for different versions of a manuscript that was rejected four or five times over 6 years before FINALLY getting published

Chief among the new fossils from that Peru platanistoid paper is the particularly strange dolphin Ensidelphis, with this weird sinusoidal rostrum and premaxillary tusks (a bit like a waipatiid): https://t.co/I4KdGcC5wn

Another new pub, about a week late: exceptional diversity and disparity in a platanistoid-dominated dolphin fauna from the lower Miocene of Peru, including a couple of new genera! https://t.co/I4KdGcC5wn

New pub: new records of bony toothed birds (Pelagornithidae) from the Eocene of Antarctica. [figure: beak fragments from these crazy extinct birds] https://t.co/7OGXxJbPZE

@Lampichthys @sealsandsass @natalia13reagan @DCrainium @KelsieAbrams3 @slothgirlmel @Formorphology @DimetroDude @MarianaDGiacomo @tetrameryx @paleotaissa @cherbel18 @AmyLynnAtwater @lisatoafault 15. @palaeoeco is a mammal paleontologist at the Canadian Museum of Nature - investigates the evolution of feeding ecology/herbivory in land mammals, scientifically bailed me out once, and is the smartest person I know

Genus Y manuscript has been submitted! The great white whale is in sight. Hopefully Ahab nails it this time.