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Rough color block vs final; thank god for #digitalart, so I don't have to waste paper on a bunch of rough sketches before I find something I like. I was inspired by the vibrance of extant sea turtles, which are never just plain brown or green #paleoart
All this talk of big cows demands perspective! Certainly the #Aurochs' body size is big (& there are some huge specimens), but please, it pales in horn size to the #Ankole_Watusi which is the largest extant horned animal on Earth! Just goes to show that the Watusi is the real Bos
The fossilized skeletons of pterosaurs - which look quite different from any extant flying vertebrate - baffled many early palaeontologists. One early theory suggested that pterosaurs were flying marsupials.
(Credit below)
#paleoart
Quadrivium: Animals displaying instruments of astronomy instead of the more usual musical instruments in a margin of Ptolemy's "Almagest," manuscript from the early 1300s: @britishlibrary BL Burney 275, f. 390v: pillar sundial, equatorium, astrolabe, and sextant @julianpharrison
Baleen whales are known for their large size, but in the past some were relatively small. Here's the Oligocene baleen whale Fucaia goedertorum, its skull and mandibles are not much larger than the extant Pacific White-Sided Dolphin #FossilFriday #NHMLA #MarineMammals
And we'd like you to meet the 6th of our new sharks for #SharkWeek, GUZZLE - he's a Megamouth Shark!
Megamouth sharks are a species of deepwater shark. They are the smallest of the three extant filter-feeding sharks.
#SharkWeek #megamouthshark #bstsharkweek #sharknerd
Chuffed to have had the pleasure of drawing more dinos for the awesome @Ben_garrod recently! They were used in an epic battle between #ExtantVsExtinct at @swansci4 @SwanseaUni. I hope my spinosaurus put up a good fight for #TeamExtinct 🦖
Happy #WorldSeabirdDay!
Today commemorates the #extinction of the #GreatAuk (Pinguinus impennis), a large flightless #seabird in the #alcid family that lived in the North Atlantic and was hunted to extinction in 1844. Let's #celebrate, #conserve and #protect our extant seabirds!
Cool new article in @CurrentBiology today (https://t.co/czcN7cbCWq) by Krister Smith, @AnjanBhullar, et al. on pineal evolution based on a fossil monitor lizard. I wrote the commentary: https://t.co/xsabNG9u4S. Here's a modded image based on an #OUµCT scan of an extant Varanus.
Michelangelo, “The Torment of St Anthony,” the artist’s earliest extant easel painting, from @KimballArt after a print on the same theme by Martin Schongauer @ngadc #Michelangelo @metmuseum
1916 fashion plate of a very unique seaside ensemble. Have you ever seen a similar extant version? https://t.co/0gookiQv6A #vintage #drawing
#inktober #CaptainSteve Steve is having fun with his sextant today. How has your day been? #kidlitart
Imagine how heavy an extant version of this 1896 dress would be- & it was meant for summer! #dresshistory #victorian
National Bird Day came, went, and no one told me! My belated pic here, for those who ask if I ever paint Extant life
1874 evening gowns. An extant version of the floral one would be extraordinary! #fashionhistory #victorian
With a logo like mine you'd think I'd be watching the #GBBOFinal biput no its extant for me #diet time