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Don't usually partake in many hashtags, but this one seems fun! I love painting/reconstructing extinct life, especially mammals. #SciArtTweetStorm
Capromeryx sketch, based off a photo of a chousingha, which occupies a similar niche but in India, as opposed to the Western US. We could have had little forest antelope, the NA version of roe deer.
@DrScottSampson I would assume you could use the image (for non-commercial usage) with appropriate accreditation. Also, here is an updated chart with Harringtonhippus, which I forgot to include in the original
I think it's often hard to comprehend the scale of biodiversity loss in North America without proper visuals. Left: A wonderful chart of NA Holocene fauna by Fiona Reid. Right: NA biodiversity during the Rancholabrean, the last period of the Pleistocene, ending 11kya.
I don't normally post studies on Twitter, but here are a few I'm proud of.
Also what's up with all my hominids bearing an uncanny resemblance to a certain UFC conmentator....dude must be displaying some remnant ancestral genes, I swear.