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A LARGE commission that I cannot show you much about yet. It involves lots of which are not my favorite subjects BUT these are Devonian fish so they are COOL! I’m enjoying it! I’m also working on another commission that involves another Devonian fish

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2020-01-16

For them of here's a Devonian

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

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2020-01-06

"Our ancestors did not so much conquer the land, as escape from the water." - John Maisey, AMNH

learning a lot about the extremely scary devonian period while i pencil!!

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2019-10-31

Turbo-pterichthys. From the Devonian period to the bright future 🚀
Tried to figure out how to use perspective rulers in Clip Studio Paint. Something went wrong, and these turbines look distorted but that's because they're prehistoric ;)

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2019-10-20

A shark both eely and early: Frey et al describe the full body of the Late Devonian Phoebodus. They find it to be stem-elasmobranch, possibly parking the minimum divergence of elasmobranchs and holocephalans right back in the mid-Devonian.

https://t.co/07OYZWsA7t

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2019-10-02

Sketches from the second placoderm
Groenlandaspis, Holonema and Qilinyu

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2019-09-08

For here’s a brachiopod from the Silica Shale of Devonian Ohio. A lightly pyritized Paraspirifer.

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2019-09-07

For fossil Friday, have a really cool fossil of Horn Coral. Embedded in the rock and largely crystallized. It’s a really neat little fossil, not for the animals in it, but for how they preserved. Devonian, Ontario.


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2019-08-31

Devonian creek critter

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2019-07-06

Palaeoisopus problematicus is an extinct species of sea spider from the Devonian period. It measured 40 cm in diameter.

(Credit: Satoshi Kawasaki)

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2019-06-25

Since the Devonian was a close 2nd in yesterday's poll, for here's a couple jawless fish that I drew around July of 2018: Boreaspis, & a decidedly mint chocolate chip Tauraspis. Both likely used their headgear to forage from the substrate

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2019-06-14

I don't think this is the fish and potatoes we need for - An old model of Bothriolepis, placoderm fish from the Devonian and a plant specimen from collections

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2019-06-07

Evidence of one of Earth’s oldest known forests dates back approximately 385-million years. The Devonian-age Gilboa fossil forest of Schoharie County, New York, is characterized by extensive impressions of tree root systems and even a few fossil tree stumps.

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2019-05-08

Some throwbacks to my Devonian sketchbook for sea sponges, sea stars, brittle stars, urchins, edrioasteroids, and crinoids. My style in colored pencil was very naturalist

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2019-04-26

Andrew Lang's Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897) — Containing 78 weird happenings, from a demon strangling Devonian farmers in 1682 to a poltergeist terrorising a contemporary Chinese couple. Read it here: https://t.co/YnroEdalIf

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2019-04-12

Here are both two of my first - and one of my last pieces, all featuring the Devonian placoderm and apex predator Dunkleosteus terrelli.
The first 2 donein 2015 for https://t.co/d23noXI8Qf
The latter done a few weeks ago for another client.

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2019-03-08

oldie but goldie, all the way to the Devonian. Tetrapodomorph Elpistostege (close relative of the famous Tiktaalik) with pair of armored Bothriolepis.

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2019-02-11