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Miocene Fossil from Africa Provides New Evidence for Origin of American Crocodiles
https://t.co/jczAaYKgTW

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2020-07-29

I finally have a bit of time to sketch in the morning. The recent study on Thylacosmilus published last Friday made me want to sketch some portraits of this amazing Late Miocene-Pliocene South American sparassodont

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2020-06-29

3D specimens of fossil otters from the Middle Miocene of Thailand https://t.co/0iLpd5pUZa

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2020-06-04

Ferocious Let me introduce you to the Late Miocene North American Eucyon ferox (previously Canis ferox), here in a wonderful by .

Wanna know what its was?
Read it in the work by me and Prof. Rook:
https://t.co/tGkuc3aEl6

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2020-05-30

A Hyainailouros momma and her two cubs. Hyainailouros was a large predatory Creodont from the Middle Miocene; with this species growing around as large as a Polar Bear! It had a wide distribution, having been discovered in France, Germany, Namibia and Pakistan.

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2020-05-17

I have been wanting to reconstruct Entelodonts for a while, so for today’s I decided to sketch this Daeodon, a huge entelodon with a 90 cm skull that lived in the Oligocene and Miocene of North America. I really enjoyed this one

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2020-05-11

It's chucking it down here on this so here's some of the plotopterid Copepteryx getting rained on. Plotopterids were a group of Eo-Miocene penguin-like birds that lived in the Northern Hemisphere. Some grew quite large - about the height of a human.

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2020-04-17

For I present you these incredible associated skull (PMU-M3836) & mandible (PMU-M3837) of Yoshi minor I had the chance to scan in 🦁🇸🇪 This specimen of was found in late deposits in and described by Zdansky in 1924

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2020-03-28

I need to take a break from the commissions I’m currently working on with a completely unrelated animal. So, here is a sketch/speedpaint of a pair of Anisodon grande, a bizarre chalicotheriid from the Late Miocene of Europe

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2020-03-20

The bathornids were lesser-known relatives of the famous South American terror birds that inhabited North America from the Eocene to the Miocene. Here's the largest species, Paracrax gigantea.

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2019-12-23

Phorusrhacos was a giant flightless terror bird that lived in Miocene Patagonia. It grew to 2.5 metres tall & preyed on horses.

(Credit: Hydrotrioskjan)

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2019-11-23

A new discovery represents the most diverse European herpetofauna across the latest Miocene/earliest Pliocene, comprising at least 30 distinct species and two new genera and species of

G.L. Georgalis, A. Villa, M. Ivanov, D. Vasilyan, M. Delfino
https://t.co/BDBjaJuNjC

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2019-11-08

I’ve been thinking about extinct South American lately so yesterday I sketched these. 1: Pyrotherium, an Oligicene pyrotherian; 2: A male Granastrapotherium, a Miocene astrapothere; 3: Toxodon, a notongulate than went extinct less than 8,000 years ago.

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2019-11-03

Sketch of Amphicyon, one of the commonly-called Bear-dogs that living in North America, Asia, Africa and Europe during the Miocene and Pliocene. I started this sketch yesterday and finished it today. I’ve lays liked Bear-dogs a lot!

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2019-10-28

Phoberomys was a gigantic rodent & the second largest rodent that ever lived. It roamed Argentina during the Miocene.

(Credit: Prehistoric Wildlife)

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2019-10-20

Gomphotherium, shovel tusk, lived through the Miocene into Pliocene, 23-5 million years ago. Stood at 3m/9.8ft tall. Discovered in Texas. Related to elephants🐘. Had a shorter neck and long tusks on the lower jaw, perhaps for scooping up food.

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2019-10-17

Earliest were different from modern, huge bone-crackers like Crocuta. Protictitherium, from the Miocene of Batallones, was no larger than a jackal and had a varied diet including carrion. From fossils to sketches to full reconstruction

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2019-10-04

I just found out that today is so I decided to quickly sketch one of the oddest extinct rabbits, the LARGE (50 cm tall, about 15-20 kg) Nuralagus rex, which lived on the island of Menorca 5 to 3 million years ago (Miocene and Pliocene)

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2019-09-29

New online: McGrath, Flynn & Wyss – Proterotheriids and macraucheniids (Litopterna: Mammalia) from the Pampa Castillo Fauna, Chile (early Miocene, Santacrucian SALMA) and a new phylogeny of Proterotheriidae https://t.co/TQdF2RVJI7

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2019-09-25

The Shloom (Tachyglossus Tridactyla Afer) Is An Extinct Species Of Echidna, Giant Anteater And Aardvark. The Genus Was Endemic To Australia, Living From The Miocene Through To The Pleistocene Epochs.

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2019-09-02