Dr James Ruleさんのイラストまとめ

For #InternationalDayOfTheSeal, here's @BranArtworks amazing palaeoart of Eomonachus, a southern monk seal! Absolutely love this!

@SafariLtd A few more:
- Bearded seal (big whiskers/mustaches)
- Baikal seal (huge eyes)
- Enaliarctos (early extinct ancestor of seals)
- Eomonachus (southern ancestor of monk seals)

Bergmann's rule states warm environments are ideal for small mammals. We would expect the equator to act as a barrier for large marine mammals.
The high number of equatorial crossings for true seals was unusual, but likely made sense if they were small. I decided to test this.

It's been 1 year since the description of Eomonachus, the first southern monk seal! Here's the amazing reconstruction by @BranArtworks #FossilFriday 🦭

Paper: https://t.co/g7Wg74ljiV

Shout out to Palorchestes for being an absolute unit

https://t.co/LoTREpgpdK

You thought deciding Friday night takeout was hard, try choosing the state fossil emblem! #lockdown6 #FossilFriday

Who will win? I'm tossing up between #TeamJanjucetus or #TeamPelagornis
Vote Now: https://t.co/LoTREpgpdK

Check out these amazing illustrations of Sarcodectes magnus illustrated by @BranArtworks.

My colleagues and I described this large extinct seal last year, which used sharp teeth to bite down on its prey #InternationalDayOfTheSeal

https://t.co/KWNaSjRbpN

It's #InternationalDayOfTheSeal today, so here's the extinct New Zealand monk seal, Eomonachus belegaerensis: the first monk seal discovered in the Southern Hemisphere! 🦭 🌏

🎨: @BranArtworks
@royalsociety paper: https://t.co/Gcz0gfwnat

There are also two monk seals that went extinct in the last ~3 million years:
• Pliophoca etrusca from the Mediterranean
• The New Zealand monk seal Eomonachus belegaerensis, which my colleagues and I described last year! https://t.co/F25b5WOi2W

@PunkBiologist Reminds me of this illustration of Yi Qi by @eawilloughby