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Dragon with headgear borrowed from the Miocene giraffe relative Prolibytherium, because why not. About a dozen different brushes used, because I got new ones and I’m trying to learn to use them.

Not exactly fan art, but... something. My brain got this image from a single sentence in a book I read recently. The creatures were never mentioned again, and I doubt this was quite what the author had in mind, but here we are.

@king_tyranno Sure! Have a Paraceratherium mom and baby.

Last art of the year: the newest additions to my extremely slow-paced personal project on prehistoric rhinos.

Stephanorhinus was closely related to woolly & Sumatran rhinos. The two Late Pleistocene species mostly lived in temperate forests & grasslands.

Remember to stretch regularly, everyone.

This was staring back at me when I opened my iPad today. I must have doodled this during Christmas family time, but hardly have a memory of doing so.

What do you mean, ridiculous antlers? A quick doodle of the extinct Cretan dwarf deer, Candiacervus ropalophorus, possibly depicted in art by the first people to arrive on the island. The species had a shoulder height of about 40 cm.

So, about horses that don’t look like horses: Propalaeotherium, one of the tiny Eocene equids. A wanderer of forest floors, more or less similar to today’s chevrotains and pacas.

It’s dangerous to go alone. Here, take this.

I guess we all need fluffy animals in these times. But please don’t actually take a rat that looks like this - she’s too young and small to move away from mom quite yet.

A couple of doodles from today’s work meeting, trying out a more cartoony style. #paleoctober or #inktober, I guess, but haven’t yet decided which one.

Stone tools.

Another illustration for the recently published biology schoolbook. A selection of artefacts of the Oldowan culture. A very early culture of simple pebble tools, it was practised by early species of Homo and late Australopithecus. Not fancy, but sharp and useful.