Tim Sosa PhDさんのプロフィール画像

Tim Sosa PhDさんのイラストまとめ


Biologist, illustrator, urbanist, defender of colloquial paraphyly. Tweeting mostly fish stuff. English/español. He/him

フォロー数:504 フォロワー数:575

For "postage stamp" theme, I imagined a stamp from (Naabeehó Bináhásdzo) Navajo Nation. The reservation has one of the highest COVID-19 death rates in the US, a kind of genocide by neglect. You can help here: https://t.co/OZiGrnZbYr

24 76

Two-fer: the Triassic holostean Icarealcyon is named after both Icarus and Alcyone because the describer thought it might be able to fly.

7 19

If Onchopristis wore shades, would it wear them
like this or like this?

1 4

The giant (Sclerorhynchidae) wasn't just a scaled-up version of a modern sawfish (Pristidae). It's also pretty unlikely that it was as boldly patterned as I made it here, but it was fun.

8 38

Here's the original. Icarealcyon had long proximal fin ray segments and many short, ramifying distal segments, which makes me think it could have expanded its fins like a comet (Calloplesiops) or Betta. But this was a holostean, probably on the bowfin stem. About 20 cm SL.

0 3

If you see this tweet quote your artwork. https://t.co/9zCtsscrXf

3 8

For them of here's a Devonian

[image: lungfish emerging from pond; text says "Devonian lungfish Griphognathus resolves to get out more."]

3 32

I am happiest when I'm drawing fish, but sometimes people ask me for tetrapods or plants or whatever. In the photo I'm standing next to an illustration I did while working in Javier Maldonado's lab, which I'm not sure will ever be published now.

11 57

For theme "things that burrow," here's tapirostrum, the Cretaceous hagfish described last week. Here it's burrowing into the bloated belly of a mosasaur by tying itself in a knot. Colored pencil on illustration board.

3 21