Pavel Gol'din
@p-goldin.bsky.social
Researcher of living and fossil marine mammals and other beasts, Schmalhausen Institute, Ukraine
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...
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
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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...
Reposted by Pavel Gol'din
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
Visit the SMM website for the full list: marinemammalscience.org/science-and-...
Image: Uko Gorter 2025
#SMM #Marinemammal
July 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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
Visit the SMM website for the full list: marinemammalscience.org/science-and-...
Image: Uko Gorter 2025
#SMM #Marinemammal
Reposted by Pavel Gol'din
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...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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...
doi.org
July 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Reposted by Pavel Gol'din
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.
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.
June 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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.
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....
sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....
June 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Meet a new seal from the Miocene of Moldova, a partial skeleton with a skull:
sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....
sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....
Reposted by Pavel Gol'din
Glad to have contributed to this paper led by Annabelle Aish, which highlights the great potential of Palaeobioinspiration! @recherche.mnhn.fr
A perspective on bioinspiration in the Palaeo-world out now @biologyinmotion.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Palaeo-bioinspiration draws on the fossil record to advance innovation - Communications Biology
Palaeo-bioinspiration greatly increases the potential of nature-inspired innovation by incorporating extinct biodiversity, which represents 99.9% of all life on earth.
www.nature.com
June 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Glad to have contributed to this paper led by Annabelle Aish, which highlights the great potential of Palaeobioinspiration! @recherche.mnhn.fr
Reposted by Pavel Gol'din
May 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Reposted by Pavel Gol'din
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
April 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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
Reposted by Pavel Gol'din
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...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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...
www.nature.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Reposted by Pavel Gol'din
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
March 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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
Reposted by Pavel Gol'din
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...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
March 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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...
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...
March 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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 new paper: Evolution of accessory bones in cetacean skull coupled with decreasing rate of ossification of cranial sutures by Valeriia Telizhenko & Pavel Gol’din: new bones and evolution of ossification
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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...
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
www.nature.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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...
March 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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...
Reposted by Pavel Gol'din
meet a new paper from our lab, the study led by Prof Gol'din: The Miocene seal Monachopsis pontica: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
March 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
March 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
so, here it comes, meet the Miocene seal Monachopsis pontica from Ukraine:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
do you know what is this?
March 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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....
March 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A new account for our department, waiting for breaking news
Reposted by Pavel Gol'din
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....
March 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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....
Reposted by Pavel Gol'din
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
doi.org/10.26879/1502
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
doi.org
March 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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
doi.org/10.26879/1502
how it works: a graph of connections for our Cetotherium paper (2014):
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March 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
how it works: a graph of connections for our Cetotherium paper (2014):
www.connectedpapers.com/main/c03c13e...
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
February 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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...
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...
February 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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...
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...