What a chunk

This is a large shark vertebra from the upper Miocene of Victoria. It might be C./O. megalodon.

The OG whale (21 million years old) from Ocean Grove, Victoria @melbournemuseum. An odontocete. Skull elements at left, hammer for scale. #FossilFriday

New pub! @royalsocietypublishing.org New evidence of a toothed mysticete from the Vaqueros Formation of California fills a gap in the palaeobiogeographic range of Aetiocetidae url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

A 21-million-year-old fossil found along Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula has been recovered in what has been described as one of the largest and most complicated excavations in the state's history. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... #fossils #paleontology

Cochlear analysis of Kekenodon onamata, a late Oligocene stem whale, suggests they specialised in low-frequency hearing, a trait of raptorial feeding in fossil whales. Low-frequency hearing may be characteristic of raptorial macrophagous fossil cetaceans @joshcorrie @Blogozoic

It’s Prosqualodon! Important new paper by Maxi Gaetan and colleagues on this enigmatic austral fossil odontocete #FossilFriday aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

New Aussie dinos, including the first records of carcharodontosaurians and unenlagiines here!

Major advance in Aussie theropod dinosaurs by @monashuniversity.bsky.social and Museums Victoria PhD student @dinoman-jake.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New publication: taxonomy and classification of every fossil mammal species in Australasia—Wallace Line to New Zealand! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fossil #whale skeletons are genuinely amazing. #Whales evolved from four-legged hooved mammals (their closest relatives are hippos), & don't have hind-legs today (but they do have a pelvis). This is a 40-million-year-old whale called Cynthiacetus at @mnhn.fr, with a full leg skeleton. #FossilFriday

FISH!!!! Big hypural bone (tail tip vertebra) of a large marine fish from the latest Miocene of Beaumaris, Victoria, which will be studied in a new project starting very soon!

Hello from the best natural history gallery in the world. 🤩 The gallery of comparative anatomy at #Paris' National Museum of Natural History contains literally thousands of skeletal specimens. In my opinion, it has never been surpassed. #museums

Incredible views of the external morphology of Indopacetus pacificus, the holotype specimen of which is from Queensland, Australia!

Should probably remind folks I’m also an illustrator, you might see my work out in the wild on a cover like this recent one for Scientific American

I started my career as a traditional painter, and I used to hand-paint gigantic canvas murals (like this 58’x14’ one from 2015 (c) Blue Rhino Studio). These days I’ve transitioned to doing the same kind of work, only digitally.

Quick comparison between a southern cassowary femur (top) and a recently found Late Miocene casuariid bird femur (bottom) from Beaumaris, Victoria

Landed in Perth ready for #SMM2024! Interested in the unique amphibious hearing abilities of pinnipeds? So am I! Come see my talk on the evolutionary origins and anatomical evidence for amphibious hearing in seals! Monday, 11:30am in Room 4 (Hearing Mechanisms) @marinemammalogy

New paper by Sanchez-Posada et al. in JVP: a new early Miocene dolphin, Romaleodelphis pollerspoecki, from Austria. Possibly related to Chilcacetus from Peru and some other poorly known long-snouted dolphins of the same time period. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

For #FossilFriday a trio of Early Miocene ‘shark-toothed cetacean’ teeth from Victoria, Australia