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It appears there is something called So here’s a red squirrel with a hazelnut. Did you know that a squirrels drey has two rooms & one is used as a nursery?

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2019-11-25

The Data Portal holds a variety of collection information including images, sounds, videos research results and 3D scans. This check out the Darwin Fossil Mammals 3D scans of some of the specimens collected on the Voyage of the Beagle. https://t.co/1Zk9WWRhL9

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2019-11-18

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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2019-10-14

Explore the incredible watercolour collection of John Gould (1804-1881) and Henry Richter (1772-1857), depicting Australian mammals. Perfect for and 2019! https://t.co/FggmbgGpiH

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2019-10-07

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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2019-09-16

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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2019-09-09

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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2019-04-08

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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2018-11-05

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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2018-09-25

White-footed Dunnarts (Sminthopsis leucopus ferruginifrons ). by Henry Constantine Richter and John Gould for John Gould's Mammals of Vol. 1 (1863). View more in with thanks to for digitizing: https://t.co/uYsIcynBa0

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2018-09-24

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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2018-07-09

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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2018-06-26

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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2018-04-17

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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2018-04-10

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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2018-04-03

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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2018-03-19

Lobodon carcinophagus (crabeater seal) skull pencil drawing I did for my class.

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2018-02-20

For once again I do not present you a mammal but a distant relative. The Dicynodont Angonisaurus cruickshanki from Mid Triassic (Anisian) Manda Beds (Tanzania). have become my favorite therapsids to reconstruct for my book!

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2018-01-23

This sculpture in our collections by Andy Goldsworthy is made entirely form the bones of a pilot that stranded off the Northumberland coast in 1997.

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2018-01-15

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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2018-01-09