A little trip to the past. This photo is from January 2024. Nokto is soo deep in blu here. It's a good photo too. You can zoom way in and see individual scales under the old skin. His old skin is soo ready to come off.
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Captorhinus lizard and prey, approx. 280 million years ago (Permian period) — present day Robledo Mountains, New Mexico. Fossil photos taken in the fossil prep lab at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, April 2024.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's a cheat sheet for Megalograptus, commissioned in 2022 for a project I cannot talk about yet. The scientific consultant was Fiann Smithwick.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Reconstructing Wufengella for Guo et et al (2022). From the Early Cambrian, Wufengella is evolutionarily important because it is close to the ancestry of Brachiozoa, Bryozoa, and Phoronida. It is from the Chiungchussu Formation, China.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2022 I created the first reconstruction of Wufengella, for Guo et et al. From the Early Cambrian, Wufengella is evolutionarily important because it is close to the ancestry of Brachiozoa, Bryozoa, and Phoronida. It is from the Chiungchussu Formation, China.
Amazing nature.
The slender lizard (Liolaemus tenuis) is one of the most common reptiles in Chile. However, it only displays this distinctive coloration in Río Clarillo National Park; the reason for this characteristic is unknown, as it is present only in the slender lizard population of this Chilean national park.
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The slender lizard (Liolaemus tenuis) is one of the most common reptiles in Chile. However, it only displays this distinctive coloration in Río Clarillo National Park; the reason for this characteristic is unknown, as it is present only in the slender lizard population of this Chilean national park.
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "Their Last Embrace" shows two Allaeochelys turtles copulating to their death in a toxic Eocene Messel Lake.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "The Hunters and the Hunted" shows a snake (Eoconstrictor) about to eat a basilisk lizard (Geiseltaliellus), about to eat a beetle (unidentified).
Never too late. A roughly 100-year-old western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise has become a mom for the first time after reproducing with a male of the same age at the Philadelphia Zoo. Read about it @LiveScience:
Live Science · 'Seemingly impossible': Endangered tortoise becomes first-time mom at about 100 years old
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... and it's FossilFriday!
Here's a 2022 painting of Sacabambaspis, a jawless fish from the Ordovician Period. I can't yet say anything about the project is was created for (big news soon).
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "A place worth sitting" shows a Dilophosaurus sitting on a beach in the rain (there's a fossil of this happening!).
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "In the wake of colossus" shows some Limusaurus trapped in the muddy track left behind by a Mamenchisaurus, which has attracted a predatory Guanlong.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "A stand against the sand" shows a male Citipati protecting a nest from an approaching sandstorm.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "A whisper at twilight" shows an eclipse of moths migrating across the North Sea.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Carcass Collector," showing an Archaeotherium with his food cache of body parts.
