Ruairidh Duncan

Palaeoartist and palaeontologist (also pretend racing driver)

Whaleontology PhD candidate 🐳 @EvansEvoMorph @museumsvictoria
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[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]

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

[Ruairidh Duncan @Inxcetus]

I find it physically painful to watch myself on camera but your mileage may vary.

[Erich Fitzgerald @emgfitzgerald]

https://t.co/lluN9byApG

[Ruairidh Duncan @Inxcetus]

8/ Thank you to all my co-authors and supervisors @emgfitzgerald, @Palaeo_JRule , @Blogozoic, @DrTeethAl and Justin Adams. The artwork associated with this work is also only as good as it is thanks to the input of the excellent Zev Landes.

[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

[Ruairidh Duncan @Inxcetus]

7/ The discovery of the third Australian mammalodontid species suggests that whatever that history was, the nexus was to be found in the shallow oceans that once covered prehistoric Jan Juc.

The paper was published in open access and can be found here: https://t.co/RrlEgaA2Bq

[Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus 🍥 @PPaleoartist]

after multiple years of keeping my mouth shut, I can finally release the art i made for Kotevski et al., (2025)'s recently published paper

they describe carcharodontosaur and unenlagiine material from australia, as well as new megaraptorid material

#AusPalaeo

[Dr Phoebe McInerney @Phoebyornis]

Very honoured to have been a contributing scientist to the new #megafauna documentary by @ABCaustralia which is now live on #ABCiview. The production team and the scientists are wonderful. Very highly recommend watching the new series Megafauna: what killed Australia's giants?

[Ruairidh Duncan @Inxcetus]

@Phoebyornis @ABCaustralia So many excellent moments of "hey, I know them!" thoughout.

You did such a good job dispensing birb wisdom!

[Ruairidh Duncan @Inxcetus]

@PPaleoartist Only a small part of the process but thank you ☺️

[Ruairidh Duncan @Inxcetus]

Massive congratulations to André and all my co-authors on getting this paper finish after years of effort. It's work that has needed doing for so long and I'm honoured to have been part of it.

[André Fonseca @Andre_O_Fonseca]

We are glad to present the release of our recent study on ornithischian evolution.

https://t.co/PtUzVhtDjx

@Maurissauro @iainjr1 @Inxcetus

[Ruairidh Duncan @Inxcetus]

Yes, I meant finished*, no I won't pay to edit it, Elon

[André Fonseca @Andre_O_Fonseca]

Elasmarians are highly diverse in morphology. Animals like Gasparinisaura and Diluvicursor
represent small classic hypsilophodontid-like forms, Talenkauen and kin represent mid-sized
long-necked forms, while Muttaburrasaurus represents a multi-ton “iguanodontid-mimic”
form.

[Ruairidh Duncan @Inxcetus]

And good news! Elasmarians, predictably, continue to be weird 🥳

[André Fonseca @Andre_O_Fonseca]

Elasmarians are the personification of instability, depending on analysis the clade might
contain as few as 3 or as many as 20 members. In this contribution we support the later
interpretation, with Elasmarian being a highly diverse clade of gondwanan ornithopods.

[Adele Pentland @AdelePentland]

Hear how Kevin the curator at Kronosaurus Korner in Richmond, QLD made history by uncovering Australia's most complete pterosaur to date:
https://t.co/x5QLZp4YiI