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Oh, look. It's I confess, I have always had as weakness for Heinrich Harder's incredibly weird 1912 pairing of a bizarrely long-necked, frilled ?tylosaurine with two ichthyosaurs and their exposed paddle bones. It's almost surrealism.

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2021-03-16

Draft of palaeo-handler commission for Dr. Judith Pardo-Pérez, who studies ichthyosaurs of Chile. A lot of fun.

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2021-02-21

It’s so here’s a…

Wait a minute. That’s not a whale!

This is a giant ichthyosaur. Ichthyosaurs were the first truly gigantic animals to evolve. The largest skeleton is 21 metres long and belongs to the Triassic species, Shonisaurus sikanniensis.

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2020-11-12

New post: Pervushovisaurus and the demise of the ichthyosaurs.

See the full painting in glorious high-res along with a host of WIPs, and a short discussion of ichthyosaur extinction. All this for the low, low cost of $1 a month. https://t.co/ApPjeJ3SkC

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2020-04-29

Results from the
Morrosaurus, Besanosaurus and Dinocarcinus (just published by et al)

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2019-12-28

More sketches of Mesozoic marine reptiles for a commission for the , and Marine reptiles are always so much fun to reconstruct, no matter how many times I have reconstructed them. It is nice to go back to mosasaurs too

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2019-05-15

The coloration is based on recent data indicating countershading in ichthyosaurs, which while not surprising is still really cool. I mainly looked at modern dolphins for inspiration, as their skin is the closest analog.

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2019-04-09

Results from the First half was Temnodontosaurus only, With T. longorostris (notice the torso-long skull... not) T. acutirostris and T. eurycephalus.

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2019-01-21

And the last three, Mahakala and Plarypterygius (two versions)

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2018-12-31

Fossil Ichthyosaurs like this one were first discovered in Europe in the early 1800s. Paleontologists studied the extinct marine reptile so often that reconstructions of it were displayed at the Crystal Palace during the World Exhibition of 1851.

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2018-11-20

Can we take a minute to appreciate just how frigging insane this fossil is.

This is an ichthyosaur with actual skin preserved. Not just that, but even the dorsal and tail fins are preserved! Oh, and the skin around its fins. Ichthyosaurs are epic, just saying

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2018-09-14

A quick break from for a flashback to 2014 and an infected

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2018-08-17

Writing about ichthyosaurs for LTTAII - reworked Ophthalmosaurus now features alongside Triassic taxa. Text is >50% done and images are almost finished, but progress is slow due to other commitments. This'll be another book finished via late nights and early starts.

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2018-07-17

Researching Ichthyosaurs for a thing and found this on - Good to know the largest thing that ever lived visited the UK, or the patch of sea where the UK now is. https://t.co/Y9lm8sryi1

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2018-05-15

I've got a bunch of marine reptiles restocked this evening! Just finished stuffing the Ichthyosaurs and Pliosaurs. Find them at https://t.co/5hSGRjGbUY!

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2018-02-03

WIP Leptonectes sp, Posidonia Shale (Early Jurassic, Germany). One of the 27 ichthyopterygian taxa that I will include in my upcoming book I would like to see what think of these

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2017-11-27

Scientists discover climate change killed off all the ichthyosaurs
https://t.co/KUKOBJx2pb

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2016-03-09