Perucetus & Blue Whale

date. 2024

medium. Adobe Photoshop 2024

client. Nicholas Pyenson & Smithsonian Institution

description. Artwork created for Nicholas Pyenson, Ph.D. (Lead Curator, Co-Chair, and Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution) and Ryosuke Motani, Ph.D. (Professor Department of Geology University of California, Davis) for their March 2024 published research that reevaluates the previous mass estimates for the early whale Perucetus colossus. Artwork accompanied the publication of their research in PeerJ and the New York Times.