Travis Park

Terrestrial tetrapod studying marine ones | ARC DECRA Fellow @MonashBiol @EvansEvoMorph | Associate Editor @JVP_vertpaleo | 🐋🐳🐬🦭 | Tweets mine | He/him

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

The Occurrence Birth-Death Diffusion Process: Unraveling Diversification Histories with Fossils and Heterogeneous Rates https://t.co/8jREt6zCG5 #biorxiv_evobio

[Erich Fitzgerald @emgfitzgerald]

Introducing Janjucetus dullardi, a new species of toothed baleen whale from the Oligocene of Australia! https://t.co/avERAYePlW

[Travis Park @Blogozoic]

New paper out today, led by my PhD student @Inxcetus, naming a new species of toothed baleen whale. Fantastic work (including the artwork) from Ruairidh, a lot of effort has went into this one! Find out more in the thread below.

[Ruairidh Duncan @Inxcetus]

1/ A few years in the making, but I can finally share my first PhD paper and my first ever first-authored whale paper. In it, we name a new species of toothed baleen whale: Janjucetus dullardi. You can find our conversation article here: https://t.co/FAFlP7LgoZ

[Erich Fitzgerald @emgfitzgerald]

Tomorrow.

[Will Gearty @willgearty]

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals

🔗 https://t.co/xYKZR4ah0U

Fully #openaccess in @BigEarthData1 with insight about deeptime 📦 development and code examples!

#rstats #geology

[Travis Park @Blogozoic]

@StephanSpiekman @Nature Congrats Stephan, awesome work!

[Travis Park @Blogozoic]

@NHMdinolab @NHM_London Congrats!

[Travis Park @Blogozoic]

@CassyniSeminars We'd like to thank @SynthesysEU for funding Mariana's travel to @NHM_London, which made this work possible!

[Travis Park @Blogozoic]

For this #FossilFriday I'm happy to present my latest paper, written with @MaryViglino. We wanted to know if the convergent evolution that river dolphins display in their external morphology extends to their inner ears. Turns out, it doesn't!

https://t.co/Z0V42W63GD

[Travis Park @Blogozoic]

To find out more detail about our paper, you can read the link above, or watch Mariana's @CassyniSeminars talk about it: https://t.co/ACBL7bVwDi

[Travis Park @Blogozoic]

#YNWA

[Darren Naish @TetZoo]

Interested in surprising and obscure #dolphins and #porpoises? Of course you are. Well, good news - I did a series of articles on these animals. We start with spinner dolphins, which (in some populations) have forward-canted dorsal fins and ventral keels... 1/n #cetaceans

[The PalAss @ThePalAss]

Insight into the evolution of toothed whales: redescription of Oligo-Miocene dolphin Squalodon grateloupii https://t.co/jqFbDBZQkc @maruchelys #FossilFriday @MorphoBank @wileyearthspace

[Journal of Anatomy @JournalofAnat]

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

[Travis Park @Blogozoic]

@paleoAldo Congrats Dr!

[Travis Park @Blogozoic]

@Emily_Roycroft @MonashUni @MonashBiol Congrats! See you in January!

[CAVEPS Palaeo @CAVEPS_Palaeo]

SAVE THE DATE!
Calling all Australasian Vertebrate Evolutionary Biologists, Palaeontologists and Systematists!

The 19th @CAVEPS_Palaeo meeting will be held on Kaurna Land, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia,
November 24th - 30th, 2025.

More info soon... @FlindersPalaeo

[Amandine Gillet @Amand_Gillet]

How is the cetacean backbone patterned compared to terrestrial mammals? 🐋

Happy to share that we provide answers this question in the 1st publication of our #Back2Sea @MSCActions project with @MCZpaleo and @Kjonesthebones!

You can check the paper... 👇https://t.co/cf2TEr7J5U

[Nicolás Mongiardino Koch @phyloprog]

The chronospace R package is now published!! I hope it'll provide useful tools for visualizing and exploring sensitivity in estimates of divergence times. A really fun project with lifelong friend @millacarmonia

https://t.co/bf3teu0ina

[Will Gearty @willgearty]

📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.0.0 is now on #CRAN with many new features ✨

- use USGS strat patterns with ggplot2🪨
- add horizontal timescales to radial trees 🍩
- built-in timescales updated (incl. colors) 🏳️‍🌈

Documentation: https://t.co/aLqYuCwJfU

#rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime