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I'm in whale mode right now for research, so gonna share one of my favorites for Remingtonocetus. Sounds very proper, I would absolutely have tea with Remingtonocetus (named for Remington Kellogg). It's a freshwater or coastal, early whale from the Middle Eocene.

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2020-05-09

A sketch/speedpaint for Extinct cetaceans swimming in the Late Eocene coastal waters of Egypt. A pair of Dorudon atrox (front) and the giant, serpentine Basilosaurus isis swimming in the background

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2020-04-15

Esos Sebecosuchia mediterráneos..."New crocodylomorph material from the Fayum Depression, Egypt, including the first occurrence of a sebecosuchian in African late Eocene deposits" by et al
https://t.co/QJ9Sapz8Vb

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2020-04-04

New pub: new records of bony toothed birds (Pelagornithidae) from the Eocene of Antarctica. [figure: beak fragments from these crazy extinct birds] https://t.co/7OGXxJbPZE

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2020-03-31

Results from the
Austrolimulus, Xenorhinotherium, Qarmoutus and Gomphotherium (baby).

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2020-02-03

The primates in PALEOCENE aren't based on a known fossil species, but are hypothetical ancestors of tarsiers and monkeys. They'd be similar to this Archicebus (illustration by Mat Severson, CC-BY-SA 4.0 license).

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2020-01-25

Page 7 of PALEOCENE is done, and it's my favorite one so far. So I'm breaking with tradition and posting the whole thing here, panel-by-panel, with text. The other pages are here: https://t.co/Dy8SaGlL93 (cont'd in next tweet)

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2020-01-24

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

these funky little deer just love to swim!... roughly the size of a large raccoon, Indohyus and Pakicetus are some of whales' early Eocene ancestors

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2019-11-12

After seeing my Eocene horse piece, someone suggested drawing as a lapdog. I know it’s awful. Sorry not sorry.

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2019-11-05

Went 50 million years back in time, brought back a pet. Inspired by the Eocene horse sketches by . Does this count as self portrait?

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2019-11-04

Celebrate with some ancient bones! "Die Säugetiere des Schweizerischen Eocaens" (1904-12), a classic work in mammalian evolution & part of the Unearthed collection, features of Eocene mammals' teeth & bones. Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/tnRJJW0TrT

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2019-10-31

The first densely sampled of the predatory click-beetle tribe Drilini reveals a gradual evolutionary transition to soft-bodiedness, an origin in the Late & multiple &
Find out more in the October issue: https://t.co/NjRPoqYOq3

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2019-10-30

Late canopy of Messel Eocene forest: early potoo Paraprefica, Messelirrisor and a pair of stem-apodiforms Parargornis.

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2019-10-27

Subject of my next scene: one of my favorite Cenozoic mammals, the Late Eocene brontotheriid Embolotherium. Wasn't planning on this color scheme, but I kinda love it

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2019-10-25