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Eloy Gálvez López

@eloygl.bsky.social
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Functional morphologist, particularly in #Carnivora and #Reptilia. #ecomorphology #macroevolution Currently on the postdoc hunt!

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Journal of Biomechanics @jbiomech.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Bijlert demonstrates that the plane strain modulus and dissipation parameters are not scale invariant. 👀 buff.ly/JN8BqCF
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Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🦎 We're hiring a 3-year postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Warsaw, to join Dr. Mateusz Tałanda’s lab: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/469220
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Assistant Professor (post-doc) - Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw (WB-KG-14/2026)
Te position of Assistant professor in the project “Long transoceanic dispersals or land bridges? Unravelling biogeographic patterns and the evolutionary success of the lizard superfamily Lacertoidea”.
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Charlotte Brassey @cbrassey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Very excited to be kicking off our new NERC AI4ES project! Working with @chesterzoosci.bsky.social & Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, we’ll be exploring monocular depth estimation + single-image 3D reconstruction to extract animal size, shape & body condition from camera trap images.
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New paper! Brandon Kilbourne conducted a huge data collection effort for the limb muscle architecture (masses, fascicle lengths, pennation angles; thereby PCSAs) of mustelid mammals. We found conspicuous relationships with morphology and locomotor mode. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Muscle architecture in mustelid mammals: anatomical proxies for muscle function and their relation to locomotor habit - BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background Though skeletal adaptations for locomotion in mammals are well documented, possible limb adaptations in terms of muscle architecture have received far less study. Examining mustelid mammals...
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Nate Upham @n8upham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excited to be at the @caryinstitute.bsky.social this week! Register and you can also watch my talk on Zoom (nice logo @bahanbug.bsky.social ! I take no credit there...)
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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dear members, 🦴 The PalAss is pleased to be supporting a three-day Morphological Phylogenetics Workshop with the Systematics Association and the Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK. ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #workshop
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes absolutely, positively do not feed a scientific paper, grant, or whatever you are peer reviewing into LLM or any other software without permission.
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Seinfeld's Babu Bhatt: No Bad!
ALT: Seinfeld's Babu Bhatt: No Bad!
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Eloy Gálvez López @eloygl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This was my exact experience. Silent Hill jokes included 😁 When the guy enters the house and you see the stairs, I turned to my horror-fan friend and said "if a ball bounces down those stairs, I'm gone". Yes, I'm such a wimp with horror films/games. And yet I loved this movie. (Except the ending)
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Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪 @nicoleackermans.com · 26/09/2026
So clearly Gen Z is coming to college without basic computer knowledge like how file structure works. Does anyone have a good resource I can provide to incoming undergrads?
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Systematics Association @systassn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We are organising an in-person Morphological Phylogenetics Workshop, in partnership with SRUK/CERU and @thepalass.bsky.social. When: Nov 9-11, 2026 Where: University College London There are limited places, so please pre-register by October 8th!!! Find more details here: tinyurl.com/52c9u7dw
Poster containing event details and QR code to the registration form.
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Eloy Gálvez López @eloygl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That "top 100 best shows" list doing the rounds is so awfully biased and subjective that I'm not even going to boost its engagement by linking it. It should've been named "This person's 100 favorite shows made after 1999".
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How did modern lizards and snakes come to dominate ecosystems across the globe? For anyone interested in evolution, biodiversity, or vertebrate palaeontology, this review from C4IA's Susan Evans, provides a fresh perspective on a fascinating branch of the tree of life.🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1477...
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Lepidosauria: history and relationships
Lepidosauria encompasses Rhynchocephalia (the New Zealand tuatara and its fossil relatives) and Squamata (lizards and snakes), lineages that diverged from one another around 240 million years ago. ...
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Dr Lia Betti @liabetti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Come and join our team at UCL Anthropology! Part-time (80%) fixed-term teaching post in Environmental Anthropology, December 2026-March 2028. Deadline 7 October!
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Blanca Figuerola @bfiguerola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Buscamos candidat@s para pedir una #FPU con un buen expediente académico. Adjunto detalles del proyecto. Interesad@s que cumplan los requisitos, enviad mail a: figuerola@icm.csic.es #invertebradosmarinos #cambioclimático #acidificaciónoceánica @fpuinvestiga.bsky.social @icmcsic.bsky.social
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Michael Hiller @hillermich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature
An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Are you a #NewPI in Ecology & Evolution? Would you like to meet with peers to chat about work, the future and life as a new PI? 🍪☕️ Then I have the form for you! 📋 Help us gauge interest in a new network/event by filling in this short survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/K4wUiuLuFn Please RT! 🙏
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Eloy Gálvez López @eloygl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is true at so many levels, and for so many professions. And also, as an introvert, thank the gods for no more surprise people ambushes (I mean, interactions). The death of phone calls is both the best and worst thing brought about by messaging apps and videocalls.
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Guillermo Navalón @gnavalon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Quite an updated and deep outlook on the main problems (and potential solutions!) in avian phylogenetics, past and present, stem and crown! Also very well written & nice to read, congrats you both (J. Benito is not in bluesky yet)!
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Anne-Claire Fabre @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Huge congratulations to Isabelle on publishing a new paper as co-first author with her Master’s student! 🥳 In this study, they explore how habitat use and prey-capture behaviour differ between Pyrenean Brook Newts living in cave streams versus surface streams 🦎💧🕳️ 👀 👉 Check out: shorturl.at/SL6yw
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Marine calcifiers @marinecalcifiers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New press release highlighting the results of our recent article: www.icm.csic.es/en/news/plas... #marineplastics #invasivespecies @icmcsic.bsky.social @cienciesterraub.bsky.social @annasanchez.bsky.social @bfiguerola.bsky.social
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GBIF @gbif.org · 22/09/2026
⭐ Celebrating 25 years of GBIF! ⭐ To mark GBIF’s 25th anniversary, a new open access article in the Biodiversity Data Journal provides a comprehensive overview of GBIF’s history, network and infrastructure. 📖 Read the article:🔗https://gbif.link/gbif25paper-news @bdj.pensoft.net @pensoft.net
A collage of various biological illustrations with the GBIF 25 year logo in the centre
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Dr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A number of 🚨Science & Museum Jobs🚨 available at different levels right now for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections UK programme 🪩 #DiSSCo 🪩 fab if you're into 🌳science digitisation🌳 #ScienceJobs #MuseumJobs jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...
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DiSSCo UK Digitiser:South Kensington
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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Someone sent me this meme about peer reviewer comments and it is 👌🏻 #PhDSky #AcademicSky
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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is NOT the future of scientific papers. #DataSharing already allows you to rerun analyses. A paper that is not static or does not provide the same answer all the times cannot grant #reproducibility. The dynamic part of a paper is made by other researchers.... 🧪 #science #academia #research
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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Exciting to see the capabilities of the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy (C4IA)'s Nikon XT H 225 MicroCT Scanner, a powerful resource supporting biological, geological and engineering research. Find out more and book access here: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...
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Introducing our MicroCT Scanner: how to access and book its use
Our Nikon MicroCT scanner offers a micro-focus source & an inspection volume for small-to-medium-sized parts. Also bookable by external computed tomography users at good rates. Central London-based.
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Hady George @houdzgeorge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A little interview with BBC wildlife. A weird pig indeed www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-...
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“Imagine a huge pig with a turtle’s beak and tusks.” New prehistoric species discovered hiding in London’s Natural History Museum | Discover Wildlife
The remains of a prehistoric animal species in London’s Natural History Museum have officially been classified – and it could change the dinosaur timeline
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Anne-Claire Fabre @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Congrats to @morganefo.bsky.social on publishing her 1 PhD paper as 1 author! 🥳 She investigated morphological variation in populations of alpine newts depending on their different life cycles.🦎 Wanna know what she found? 👀 Check out her blog post: shorturl.at/G4koO and the paper: shorturl.at/pLNTz
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Mehran Moazen @mmoazen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Delighted to share this technical note on Effect of mechanical forces on #cranial #joints #mesenchymal stem cell proliferation. Well done Miranda Steacy. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @liangce.bsky.social @didziokas.bsky.social @uclengineering.bsky.social funded by #EPSRC @ukri.org
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Dr Stephan Lautenschlager @palaeostephan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New paper out today! Led by Daniel Schwarz, we retrodeformed the skull and reconstructed the cranio-mandibular musculature of the giant stem-amphibian Mastodonsaurus giganteus. Our results show that Mastodonsaurus had a powerful bite and a crocodile- like bite-and-hold feeding style.
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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Working in groups..."
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fun fact, this was a verbatim reviewer comment: "The results look fake, and the images of plastics also look like these were created by AI. I sincerely hope that this manuscript was a test by these authors or a test of this journal, because this should not be published in any journal as it is" 🤡
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Paul Z. Barrett PhD @nimravenous.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Happy to announce the publication of our article in Nature Ecology & Evolution on adaptive zone evolution in terrestrial mammal carnivores. Over the next few days, I’ll share the major results—and by extension, take you on a tour of carnivore evolution. (rdcu.be/6okG1hVhvtHa) 1/n
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David Maddison @bembidion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Tree of Life Web Project is back online! tolweb.org Thanks to Travis Wheeler (@wheelerlab.org), Danny Mandel, and Andrew Lenards, the original programmers for ToLWeb, for retooling the code to work on a modern OS! It is hard for me to believe it lives again.
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Tree of Life Web Project
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Julien Kimmig @jkimmig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We have a 2 year paleontology postdoc position as part of a DFG project www.smnk.de/museum/aussc...
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Paleontologist (Postdoc) (m/f/d)
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe
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Sandra Álvarez @sabifo4.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Keen on learning how to use Bayesian model selection to test different hypotheses of diversification? 🦴🧬🕰️ Check our latest work in Molecular Biology and Evolution! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... With @zihengyang.bsky.social, @phil-donoghue.bsky.social, and @mariodosreis.bsky.social 💫 (1/2)
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On the origin of animals and placental mammals: a critique of literalist readings of the fossil record
Abstract. The fossil record is incomplete, as evidenced by the pervasive presence of ghost lineages throughout the Tree of Life. For example, across placen
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Grace @gracekind.net · 08/09/2026
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Two proposals were offered to me. The first was that we post our Euler result, and that OpenAI post its Navier-Stokes result the next day. The second was that, after posting Euler, I alone write a paper presenting the Navier-Stokes result, acknowledging that an internal OpenAI model had resolved it. Sebastien twice asserted that he wanted Levent removed from authorship, and said it would all be simple if only it were not the case that, and it was so annoying that, Levent works at Anthropic. It was also said that if OpenAI posted after us, they would say that we deserved the Clay Prize, and that we were the "closest humans to the problem". I declined both offers.
I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was, "Why would you ruin your career?" I replied that I am an academic, and asked why he thought going public would ruin my career. The reply was,
"If you don't want me to be nice, then I don't
have to be nice."
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Douglass S Rovinsky, PhD @dsrovinsky.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Like thylacines? Of course you do. A little thread on some recent research I was part of with @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social here 🧵⤵️ #SciComm #EvoBio #PaleoBio #Evolution #Paleontology 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Skull morphology of the extinct Tasmanian tiger suggests unique biting style - Nature Communications
The recently extinct thylacine was Australia’s largest marsupial predator and famously likened to dog-family carnivorans such as wolves. However, here the authors show that its skull functioned differ...
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 04/09/2026
this is fun! new genetic study on the (not-so-)American cheetah confirms that it was closer to the puma, but also shows that they lived *much* further north than previously thought www.iflscience.com/the-american...
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The American Cheetah Was Not A Cheetah – And Some Of Them Had A Diet Closer To That Of Orcas Than Other Big Cats
A big cat that used to prowl the prairies of Ice Age America has had a makeover.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I feel like we’re really overdue for a thread of things that have changed for women in your lifetime. I’m interested in good and bad things. Any little life moment that would feel unbelievable if it happened in 2026.
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Eloy Gálvez López @eloygl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Oh! Really looking forward to 10 and 11! I hope they do not run simultaneously 🥲
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FunnyVia @funnyvia.com · 04/09/2026
"I bet it would be funny to put a pancake on my cats face" 2 minutes later "JESUS CHRIST!"
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Grant Museum of Zoology @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
See the latest news and information about our current events: www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/u…
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Blanca Figuerola @bfiguerola.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
1/4 New paper! Our latest study explores how plastic debris can act as a vector for the dispersal of marine organisms. The work is part of Gabriel’s PhD thesis and builds on research developed during Mar’s undergraduate thesis. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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museuciencies @museuciencies.cat · 31/08/2026
El Museu ha fet migració completa de totes les dades digitals de la col·lecció de paleontologia al sistema PangeaDB®, una eina de gestió de col·leccions desenvolupada pel propi museu: 🧪https://blog.museuciencies.cat/2026/08/700-000-exemplars-de-paleontologia-ara-en-digital/
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700.000 exemplars de paleontologia, ara en digital
El Museu  ha assolit una nova fita històrica emmarcada en l’ambiciós procés de digitalització del patrimoni amb la migració completa de totes les dades digitals disponibles de la col·lecció de pale…
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Absolutely delighted to have been awarded the Faraday Prize! Scientific research is critical for solving the challenges that humanity and the planet currently faces, but ensuring that diverse communities are engaged in & benefit from science are just as important as the work that happens in the lab.
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Apolline Alfsen @aperegrination.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New paper out! I'm really happy to see this study published, it was my first real experience working with CT data during my master's Thanks a lot to Margot Michaud and @ornellabertrand.bsky.social for giving me this opportunity! No microanatomy (yet?) but beautiful endocast of musteloids 🦦
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Eloy Gálvez López @eloygl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It's finally out! Very happy I was able to play even a small part in this fantastic study led by the amazing Margot Michaud and @ornellabertrand.bsky.social. I hope that, as it did for me, it shows you how cool endocast research can be!
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Waco Matrixo @wacomatrixo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Are you a UK resident who begrudges having to vote 'tactically' at elections rather than for the candidate you actually want? This petition is trying to change that, but not if they don't get 100,000 signatures. Side note: you'd be surprised at the crazy-shit that does get over 100,000 signatures!
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Pontolis was a genus of WALRUS that lived on the Pacific coast of North America in the Miocene & Pliocene (5-12 MYA). Pontolis magnus was the largest species, with body lengths of 13 ft (4 m) & weights greater than 4 tons (~8800 lbs, 4000 kg). They lacked the long tusks of modern walruses.
Artist's rendition of what a human-Pontolis Magnus interaction might look like.  A giant seal with vicious looking teeth visible encounters a scuba diver with a camera.  The seal looks to make a meal of our cartoon human.

Credit to Honda Rinundo on Reddit
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