Cameron McCormick · @LordGeekington
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Satirical long-necked illustration produced by Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans in his book “The Great Sea-Serpent”. The context is that Mr. Searles V. Wood Jr. speculated — in the journal Nature! — about Basilosaurus being responsible for long-necked sightings. Seemingly he had no access to a skeletal (?!?)

Link:
nature.com/articles/023054a0

#basilosaurus #seaserpent #ancientwhaleweek

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Cameron McCormick · @LordGeekington
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Reconstruction of from Cleland’s 1916 “Geology”

vs.

My own attempt to give Basilosaurus the correct number of vertebrae and an appropriate amount of soft tissue.

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Cameron McCormick · @LordGeekington
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For I’d like celebrate how much better reconstructs have gotten over the years. This is from Roy Mackal’s 1980 “Searching for Hidden Animals” and uh… it looks seriously unprofessional to modern eyes (and doesn’t follow the skeleton whatsoever).

Skeletal is from:
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

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