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...

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...

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

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...

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.

Meet a new seal from the Miocene of Moldova, a partial skeleton with a skull: sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Glad to have contributed to this paper led by Annabelle Aish, which highlights the great potential of Palaeobioinspiration! @recherche.mnhn.fr

Kekenodon onamata #sciart #paleoart

Minor edit on the Kekenodon onamata piece. #paleoart

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

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...

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

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...

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...

deer (especially the muntjac and roe deer) and chevrotains do have some similarities to whales in cranial ossification

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...

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...

meet a new paper from our lab, the study led by Prof Gol'din: The Miocene seal Monachopsis pontica: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

so, here it comes, meet the Miocene seal Monachopsis pontica from Ukraine: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

do you know what is this?

A new account for our department, waiting for breaking news

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....

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

how it works: a graph of connections for our Cetotherium paper (2014): www.connectedpapers.com/main/c03c13e...

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

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...

Wonderful review of ENDS OF THE EARTH in this week’s SCIENCE! 🧪

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....

this night talk about the Kerch oil spill(s) www.youtube.com/watch?v=g54T...

a short comment on consequences of the Kerch oil spill arcrimea.org/en/analytics...

Karagiye in Mangystau, western Kazakhstan, our field site in 2021. The altitude is minus 132 m under the sea level

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...

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...