Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸さんのイラストまとめ

#ThrowbackThursday to one of my 1st digital pieces, a (probably inaccurate) portrait of the giant Cenozoic turtle, Meiolania! I gave it more of a terrestrial, tortoise-y look, as I made this before recent research came out suggesting it was semiaquatic #paleoart #paleontology

I have also given it cheek plates based on recent research by Witmer et al, suggesting a lack of typical fleshy cheeks in ornithischians. To compensate, it may have had an enlarged pterygoideus as recently proposed (2nd pic) by Ali Nabavizadeh @Vert_Anatomist #paleoart #dinosaur

Let me just be clear: I have seen the picture that suggests scales on the back of the frill, but another associated picture may indicate keratin sheathing on the frill as well. There's not much I can do with unpublished stuff and rumors like that.

For #SundayFishSketch, here's a throwback of Lunaspis, the Devonian placoderm whose name appropriately means 🌙🛡️ (weird to remember the entire 1st half of 2018 for me was drawing the Paleozoic with colored pencils in a sketchbook) #paleoart #sciart #scientificillustration #art

Nothing to see here, just another mossy branch... definitely not something a pterosaur would find tasty
#paleoart #paleontology #fossils #sciart #scientificillustration #Hypuronector #drepanosauridae #naturalhistory #reptiles

@many_cooks Oliphant-esque for sure

Update: The woolly mammoth was a bit too big.

Very rough first attempt at a size chart here, I pretty much eyeballed it based on skeletals, etc. Mostly wanted to see what they all looked like together! #paleoart #paleontology #sciart #scientificillustration #fossils #mammoth #elephant #Proboscidea

Woolly mammoths are also 1 of the few prehistoric animals we have eye witness accounts of, in the form of amazing cave paintings drawn from memory by early humans while firelight danced on the walls. (depiction by Charles Knight)

My FINAL proboscidean is Mammuthus primigenius, aka the woolly mammoth. This is one of the most popular of extinct organisms, serving as the iconic "mascot" to the Cenozoic. It is characterized by its instantly recognizable shaggy coat and long, strongly-curving tusks. #paleoart