For your Monday morning viewing pleasure, we give you the brain of a kangaroo (from George Robert Waterhouse's 1846 "A Natural History of the Mammalia", new to this week via ): https://t.co/XpaCzunxqp

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Canids of South America, including species extinct in the last 12,000 years. Canids are surprisingly diverse in South America. Some hypercarnivore taxa went extinct 12-10,000 years ago (along with most of the megafauna). Did this in sketch style

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Walking with Ground Sloths. I have finished this commission depicting Nothrotheriops, a medium-sized ground sloth from North America. Here is a preview of the WIP of some poses close to being finished. It was a lot of fun working on this

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The greater dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus major) is nocturnal and lives in forests and dry scrub areas in Madagascar. by P. Charles Berjeau for "The Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London" (1872), in via ➡️ https://t.co/jr0ECWwnB7

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Here is the video of the sketch of this reconstruction of a grazing Toxodon. Overall it took me like 10 minutes to sketch this. That’s all the time I had this morning to do my warmup sketch 😅 Done Im

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English artist Winifred Austen was a member of the Society of Women Artists, London. She provided for The Wild Beasts of the World (1909), such this Philippine Flying Lemur (Cynocephalus volans) ➡️ https://t.co/wwERTEu8nr

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Ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus (Ferdinand A semi-aquatic mammal found in eastern Australia. It is 1 of 5 species of monotremes, the only egg-laying mammals. The first Europeans to encounter them were bemused by its beaver-like body and duck's bill

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WIP, still early stages of this illustration where I want to show a detailed process of reconstructing cynodont, in this case the large sized Trucidocynodon from the Triassic of Brazil. Finished illustration in my in-prep book. Many details still to fix

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Fauna Boica oder gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte der Thiere Bayerns (1830-1832), on the mammals of Bavaria, was the 1st volume in J.E. von Reider & C.W. Hahn's series exploring animals of the region. Explore it for via : https://t.co/A3AbMdeEhD

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Its and since I am including a few size charts in my book, here is the one I am still working on for therapsids of the Triassic and Jurassic. Size comparison with a 1.8 m human. they were not huge but many were not super tiny either.

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It’s so I give you a close relative to mammals: Oligokyphus lufengensis, a tritylodontid cynodont from the Lower Lufeng Fm, Early Jurassic (Hettangian) of China.

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Tamandua is a genus of anteaters. of the northern tamandua (Tamandua mexicana) for from "Manual para el rastreo de mamíferos silvestres de México" (2012) by J.M.A. Sánchez, in via & : https://t.co/91Rl6ZXCuE

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For here is Rugosodon eurasiaticus, a multituberculate mammal from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of China. Part of my illustrations from that formation for my book “Journey To The Mesozoic vol. I”

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Derby's woolly opossum (Caluromys derbianus) is nocturnal, arboreal & solitary. Explore the species & its tracks in "Manual para el rastreo de mamíferos silvestres de México" (2012) by J.M.A. Sánchez, in via & : https://t.co/91Rl6ZXCuE

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In honour of defending his PhD today, here's the unusual aquatic mammal Desmostylus and Ounalashkastylus for (the latter taxon named by et al in 2016)

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Explore the mammals of the British islands for with Sir Henry Hamilton Johnston's "British Mammals" (1903). Digitized in by : https://t.co/qflAJtlNqA

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WIP Its so here is an indeterminate Sinokannemeyeriine dicynodont from the Lipovskaya Fm. Not a mammal nor a cynodont but a distant relative therapsid from Early Triassic (Olenekian) Russia. One of the approx. 20 spp that will appear in my book

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I uploaded the non-revised pic earlier. This is the correct one: It’s so here is my recon of Amblotherium gracilis, a therian dryolestid mammal from the Late Jurassic Morrison Fm (Brushy Basin mb) CO USA 🇺🇸. It lived alongside animals like Stegosaurus

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Krefft's "The Mammals of (1871) includes by the amazing Scott sisters https://t.co/YLGH0lute2

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Fruitafossor windscheffeli a Jurassic mammal from Morrison fm, Colorado 🇺🇸 that probably feed in termites

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