Pavel Gol'din
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Researcher of living and fossil marine mammals and other beasts, Schmalhausen Institute, Ukraine
twimc, our project on citizen science observations on biodiversity of Ukraine and the region: both observers and identifiers are most welcome!
minka-sdg.org/projects/dan...
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Danube Delta Open Living Lab
Danube Delta Open Living Lab (ukr. Вiдкрита жива лабораторiя "Дельта Дунаю") is a transboundary initiative, a living lab in the Danube - Black Sea region, established under the PHAROS Projec...
https://minka-sdg.org/projects/danube-delta-open-living-lab
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A new data paper from our team: A high-resolution 3D reconstructed skeleton of the extinct dwarf whale Cetotherium riabinini from Ukraine
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A high-resolution 3D reconstructed skeleton of the extinct dwarf whale Cetotherium riabinini from Ukraine - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A high-resolution 3D reconstructed skeleton of the extinct dwarf whale Cetotherium riabinini from Ukraine
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06086-2
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Society for Marine Mammalogy
6 months ago
The Society for Marine Mammalogy’s Official List of Marine Mammal Species and Subspecies has been updated. Visit the SMM website for the full list:
marinemammalscience.org/science-and-...
Image: Uko Gorter 2025
#SMM
#Marinemammal
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Lauren Wilson
6 months ago
Need to predict an unknown trait, like body size, for extinct species? Use phylogenies! A new paper by colleagues from the @uniofreading.bsky.social and Montana State demonstrates that phylogenetic prediction is more accurate than regression formulae.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Phylogenetically informed predictions outperform predictive equations in real and simulated data - Nature Communications
Phylogenetically informed predictions account for phylogenetic relationships among species while predicting unknown trait values. Here, the authors critically compare this approach with equations deri...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61036-1
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Ed Hawkins
7 months ago
Next week it is time to
#ShowYourStripes
again. We encourage everyone to download their warming stripes graphics and use them to start climate conversations on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st June.
www.ShowYourStripes.info
Graphic: Change in global average temperature from 1850-2024.
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Meet a new seal from the Miocene of Moldova, a partial skeleton with a skull:
sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Glad to have contributed to this paper led by Annabelle Aish, which highlights the great potential of Palaeobioinspiration!
@recherche.mnhn.fr
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BranArtworks|🐳🐬🦭🎨
8 months ago
Kekenodon onamata
#sciart
#paleoart
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BranArtworks|🐳🐬🦭🎨
7 months ago
Minor edit on the Kekenodon onamata piece.
#paleoart
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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️
8 months ago
New book out - Vertebrate fossils of Louisiana - and inside is a nice treat: the first publicly available images of the LSU Basilosaurus cetoides, hidden away for nearly fifty year since it was discovered. Initially described in a Ph.D. thesis, but a publication never followed.
#whaleontology
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Communications Biology
9 months ago
Analysis of evolution of the 3D shape of the humerus of extinct and living whales and dolphins and genes regulating it showed interplay of drift and relaxed selection, highlighted the importance of "fly in a tube model"
@schmalhausenm.bsky.social
@p-goldin.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Humerus shape evolved in cetaceans under relaxed selection and random drift - Communications Biology
Analysis of evolution of the 3D shape of the humerus of extinct and living whales and dolphins and genes regulating it showed interplay of drift and relaxed selection and highlighted the importance of...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-07952-w
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology
10 months ago
The dispersal of domestic cats from Northern Africa and their introduction to Europe over the last two millennia
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.28.645893v1
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Schmalhausen Evolutionary Morphology
10 months ago
Humerus shape evolved in cetaceans under relaxed selection and random drift: a new paper by Maria Ghazali and the whole
@schmalhausenm.bsky.social
team in the Communications Biology, the research on living and fossil whales and dolphins, 3D morphology and genetics
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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The new paper Ghazali et al, Humerus shape evolved in cetaceans under relaxed selection and random drift: 3D, phylogeny, humeral head twist, morphological integration, gene evolution, and a “fly in a tube model”
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
10 months ago
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deer (especially the muntjac and roe deer) and chevrotains do have some similarities to whales in cranial ossification
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10 months ago
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The suction feeding mammalian phenotype is obviously paedomorphic, since the milk suckling mammals by definition are obligate suction feeders in their early postnatal ontogeny that indirectly implies some cranial or rostral kinesis:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Evolution of accessory bones in cetacean skull coupled with decreasing rate of ossification of cranial sutures - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Evolution of accessory bones in cetacean skull coupled with decreasing rate of ossification of cranial sutures
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-95566-x
10 months ago
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The new paper, maybe among the most important in my life, several first described mammalian bones: Evolution of accessory bones in cetacean skull coupled with decreasing rate of ossification of cranial sutures
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
10 months ago
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Schmalhausen Evolutionary Morphology
10 months ago
meet a new paper from our lab, the study led by Prof Gol'din: The Miocene seal Monachopsis pontica:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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so, here it comes, meet the Miocene seal Monachopsis pontica from Ukraine:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
10 months ago
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do you know what is this?
10 months ago
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A new account for our department, waiting for breaking news
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10 months ago
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Schmalhausen Evolutionary Morphology
10 months ago
A recent work by Valeriia Telizhenko et al., Relaxed selection in evolution of genes regulating limb development (more coming soon):
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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Ferwen
10 months ago
Reassessment of the possible size, form, weight, cruising speed, and growth parameters of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae)... Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(1):a12.⚒️🧪
doi.org/10.26879/1502
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Biology of Otodus megalodon
Reassessment of the possible size, form, weight, cruising speed, and growth parameters of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontida
https://doi.org/10.26879/1502
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how it works: a graph of connections for our Cetotherium paper (2014):
www.connectedpapers.com/main/c03c13e...
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10 months ago
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does anyone still believe that cooperation and data exchange with the r-country in the research of arctic, antarctic, geology, weather, or space is truly for peace and mutual benefit of all parties involved? you might think you are a player but actually you've been played
11 months ago
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a short digest from the recent months: Density and abundance estimates of cetaceans in the Black Sea through aerial surveys (ASI/CeNoBS) These aerial surveys yielded the first insights on overall abundance, density and distribution for three cetacean species
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
11 months ago
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Neil Shubin
11 months ago
Wonderful review of ENDS OF THE EARTH in this week’s SCIENCE! 🧪
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a short digest from the recent months: Relaxed selection in evolution of genes regulating limb development gives clue to variation in forelimb morphology of cetaceans and other mammals by Valeriia Telizhenko, C Kosiol, M R. McGowen and P Gol'din
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
11 months ago
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this night talk about the Kerch oil spill(s)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g54T...
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1-31-2025: Pavel Gol'din | Disastrous Oil Spills in the Black Sea; & Maryna Lvovska | Activism in DC
YouTube video by MUkraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g54TS5enyvI
11 months ago
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a short comment on consequences of the Kerch oil spill
arcrimea.org/en/analytics...
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Authoritative Ukrainian Biologist Assessed Prospects of Black Sea Ecological Catastrophe - Association of Reintegration of Crimea
According to the results of the ARC study on the Russian tanker fleet, which activities have already caused an ecological catastrophe in the Black Sea, in particular off the coast of the occupied Crim...
https://arcrimea.org/en/analytics/2025/01/27/authoritative-ukrainian-biologist-assessed-prospects-of-black-sea-ecological-catastrophe/
11 months ago
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Karagiye in Mangystau, western Kazakhstan, our field site in 2021. The altitude is minus 132 m under the sea level
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Мазут у Чорному морі: наслідки триватимуть понад 20 років, пляма вже досягає багатьох берегів і несе загрозу для птахів та дельфінів
ctrcenter.org/uk/activitie...
12 months ago
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done Hydrological isolation of the Paratethys in the late Middle-Late Miocene: integrated stratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and biotic record of the Caspian Basin, Karagiye, Kazakhstan
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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