# sundayfishsketch paleoart sciart scientificillustration art acrylicpainting boreaspis animalalphabets watercolor dinovember teignmouth devonhour

For 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)

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2018-12-30

In the wake of the End-Ordovician, fish--which had previously been unimportant players--took over the seas, and by the Devonian period the world was enjoying what is known as the Age of Fish. Some fish were even beginning to tentatively test out life on land (our ancestors)

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2018-12-15

Late Devonian //

The early forests of Late Devonian altered the environment, forcing animals to adapt. Creatures like Tiktaalik, a transitional animal showing traits of both fish and amphibians, lived in this period.

https://t.co/c0ckDTzZNl

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2018-11-22

Progress made on my series Deep Time Dramas! Working to combine and expression. Plenty more to go on these (including actually adding animals ofc)
1. The Devonian - love, connectivity
2. The Ordovician/Silurian Extinction - indecision, separation

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2018-11-16

Pterygotus was a gigantic arthropod that could grow to 2.3 metres long! They lived during the early Silurian-Devonian period. They had a pair of large eyes & a smaller pair in the centre of their head.

(Credit: Olof Helje)

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2018-09-16

Fish heads: Neurocranial anatomy of an enigmatic Early Devonian fish sheds light on early osteichthyan evolution https://t.co/AplI0A5Q10

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2018-06-28

Letter B is for !

Fun fact: boreaspis was the most suspicious prehistoric fish & did not work well together. This made them easy prey & actually caused them to go extinct long before the Late Devonian Extinction 🙃

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2018-06-12

Devonians - top notch musical comedy The Ministry of Biscuits is coming to Ashburton on 10th May: https://t.co/PfpSRH4OzI
More about the show here: https://t.co/bNvb4aK0sG
Illustration by

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2018-04-17

A newly discovered tetrapod-like fish from the Devonian shakes up the marine-terrestrial transition. Zhu et al https://t.co/ZLi7sqyPw5

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2017-09-05

I swear this fish's face is like, the Devonian period's kawaii shonen hero.

BOREASUPISU-MAN, TASUKETE~

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2017-07-10

Late Devonian forest // Franz Anthony
The early forests of Devonian altered the environment, forcing animals like Tiktaalik to move to land.

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2017-05-07

Kiktaalik's eye, close-up. Late Devonian art. https://t.co/hrguDKilbN

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2017-03-07

Definitely making the list of top 10 best armoured fish of the Devonian period, it's Dunkleosteus!

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2016-11-28

Tiktaaliks eye, with nictitating membrane, Late Devonian. Watercolor and marker. https://t.co/Agn1NkeBIb

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2016-03-06

Tiktaalik's eye, with nictitating membrane. For a Devonian comic, in development. https://t.co/b8fvVqoPG8

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2016-03-04

Newt cartoons as a behavioral model for acanthostega. http://t.co/G1LJV2zfe6

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2015-03-05

Newt comics, studying behavior for Devonian Acanthostega. http://t.co/G1LJV2zfe6

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2015-03-03