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Josh Corrie

@jcorrie.bsky.social

Ph.D. in paleontology with a focus on the evolution, anatomy, and feeding ecology of cetaceans.

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Iโ€™m one of two vertebrate paleontologists on the faculty at SDSU (shout out to the other, @jcorrie.bsky.social). We're both temporary. SDSU had a rich history in paleo w/ two tenured paleo profs in my department not too long ago, but they were never replaced. Itโ€™s sad watching that history dwindle.

14.05.2025 16:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Variation in whale (Cetacea) inner ear anatomy reveals the early evolution of โ€œspecializedโ€ highโ€frequency hearing sensitivity Our findings support sensitivity to low-frequency sound in the archaeocete Zygorhiza kochii and an early toothed mysticete cf. Aetiocetus. Narrow-band high-frequency hearing was present in Oligocene ...

I have a new paper out on the evolution of hearing in toothed whales! It looks like a narrow range of high-frequency auditory sensitivity in some living dolphins and porpoises may be an ancestral physiology rather than novel specializations in select groups.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

04.12.2024 02:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 98    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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

19.02.2025 09:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

A gentleman and a scholar! Thank you, kind sir.

20.02.2025 22:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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