Mark Wittonさんのイラストまとめ

Finally, a new blog post, just in time for #FossilFriday: is there any real link between dinosaurs and Chinese dragon mythology? We actually know a heck of a lot about Chinese 'dragon bones' and they aren't - dramatic pause - dinosaur flavoured.

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Sometimes - not very often, but sometimes, I draw living animals instead of extinct ones. Here's a nene, harlequin mantella frog, basilisk and bluefin tuna.

@TetZoo @LongTany This has nothing to do with your reference here, but I doodled a Godzilla-esque version of a penguin a few years ago. The idea was to explore 'realistic' kaiju, and this seemed more plausible for a sea creature that attacks cities than the conventional Godzilla design.

Some five-year-old #paleoart for #FossilFriday: troodontids meet Tusoteuthis. Fossil coleoids are famously difficult to reconstruct (all soft-tissue, virtually no skeleton), so it's sometimes best to bundle them up on a beach where no-one can tell what they're meant to look like.

New #paleoart, new #Patreon post: Anoplotherium commune, a species best known for occurring at @cpdinosaurs but also very interesting in its own right: a rearing, barrel-chested 3-toed artiodactyl. Check it out in high-res, and heaps more art, for $1: https://t.co/gnYDAzqTyC

Another day gone by, another day without a new painting. Sigh. Here's some #FossilFriday #paleoart of the phytosaur Mystriosuchus steinbergeri to keep things ticking over.

New #paleoart for #FossilFriday: nocturnal Palaeotherium magnum, the pony-sized equoid once featured at @cpdinosaurs before the model went missing. See the hi-res version of this at my #Patreon along with 100s of other artworks for just $1 a month: https://t.co/hYT35tTnmf

New to the internet #paleoart for #FossilFriday: My take on a Gastornis family for LTTAII. I've posted various WIPs of this over the years, but not the full, final version. You get to decide what happens to the chap in the lower-left corner: there's more than birds in this image.

Today, P. cuvieri has its own genus, Cimoliopterus. We recognise it as an ornithocheiromorph, a long-winged, ocean-going species closely related to Ornithocheirus and Anhanguera. It was among the last of the toothed pterosaurs. But can we still consider it a giant?

P. cuvieri should thus be remembered as the actual first pterosaurian 'giant', a species that originated the concept of supersized extinct fliers. Saying the more widely popularised Pteranodon was the first giant is a claim jump: it simply wasn't.