Maija Karalaさんのイラストまとめ

Last nights random thought that turned into a quick painting: while Tolkien’s dragons are kingdom-destroying monsters, they are also depicted as oddly charming with their donkey ears and love of riddles.

I piled these birds into the same file to save time transferring them to another device, but got oddly fond of the birdy chaos that came out of it.

Illustrated for Bird Week, which is an annual children’s activity organized by Finnish Nature League & Birdlife Finland.

Another marine creature I made for science center Heureka (now unfortunately closed to public for obvious reasons). Caulophryne jordani, the fanfin angler. It's a female around the size of a football, with a tiny permanently attached male hanging from her belly.

Woolly rhino is woolly.

Based on a 3D model by @VilleSinkkonen and inspired by @TetZoo article on its life appearance and coloration. What a beast it must have been!

A late night doodle: Paratoceras, a little cousin of the better known slingshot-faced Synthetoceras.

These animals resembled deer with weird headgear, but have been suggested to the more closely related to either camels or chevrotains.

Something non-rhino and non-paleoart for once: two marine creatures I made for a classroom material set for science center Heureka.

A rather large (as much as 9 cm) Baltic Sea isopod Saduria entomon, and a green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas.

Rhinos! This is Teleoceras, the chubby one from North America. Very closely based on a 3D model by @VilleSinkkonen.

Still not done with the rhinos. This is Metamynodon, part of the semiaquatic, hippo-like branch of amynodonts. Still a couple more early taxa to do.

Still going on with the fossil rhinos. Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis, the Eurasian forest rhino.

The head is based on a skull recently found in Yakutia, but the rest mostly on the skeletal of a related species, S. hundsheimensis. Not sure if the torso should really be so short.

Fossil rhinos? Fossil rhinos!

Paraceratherium was the biggest rhino that ever lived (that we know of), rivaling the largest elephants. But even they had to start somewhere, most likely from a clumsy calf with oversized limbs.