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A child's skull from Herto, Ethiopia, appears to document a mortuary practice involving the long-term keeping and handling of human remains, more than 147,000 years ago. Cultural observance of death may go back much further in ancestry.

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2021-05-08

Fossil reptile tracks named Cincosaurus cobbi, found in ~315 million year old Pottsville Formation rocks in Alabama. 🦎🦎🦎Specimen . Collector: Ron Buta. Record: https://t.co/7G8ipmFJ7a

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2021-05-07

"A fight to the End" -bull Columbian mammoths. This fossil was found in Nebraska, 1962.
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Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
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2021-05-07

A short thread about my new book, PROJECT:TEPUI which is on Kickstarter right now. The book documents an imagined 1930s expedition to the jungles of South America, in search of Dinosaurs. (1/4)

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2021-05-07

A pair of fighting mammoths – brought to life from one of the most extraordinary fossils you NEVER knew existed!

The specimen was found in Nebraska, 1962.

Learn more in my new book, “LOCKED IN TIME”, illustrated by .

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2021-05-07

Happy Here’s Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins’ ‘Cretaceous Life of New Jersey’ (1877).

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2021-05-07

意味深なポスターがありましたが、恐竜博物館には海竜 (恐竜時代の海棲爬虫類) も多数展示されています。

その中から、エラスモサウルス科の一種、ポリコチルス科の一種、プラテカルパス、アーケロンを紹介。

1〜2枚目は首長竜類、3枚目はモササウルス類 (トカゲのなかま) です。

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2021-05-01

Oxalaia quilombensis

(Based on the S. aegyptiacus skeletal by Sassy PaleoNerd (modified) and the O. quilombensis skull diagram by PaleoGeek)

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2021-05-01

Managed to get in a sketch of a Giganotosaurus skull for Very interesting Dinosaur. Love the little bumps/ridges on the nasal cavity.

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2021-04-30

[#Palevol] A of dog from the Early Pleistocene site of Venta Micena (Orce, Baza Basin, 🇪🇸).

🔗 https://t.co/KeanrLasM7
▪️ , Paul Palmqvist, Joan Madurell-Malapeira & M. Patrocinio Espigares

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2021-04-30

In James E Allen’s ‘Corythosaurus’ (1938), two dinosaurs are depicted next to a lake. The image is from a group of six lithographs of prehistoric monsters commissioned by Sinclair Refining Company.

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2021-04-30

I don’t share many early-stage WIPs but here’s one for The pencil sketch and about 2hrs of painting. A loooooong way still to go!

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2021-04-30

Paraceratherium bugtiense is type species of genus Paraceratherium. The fossils were found in the Chitarwata Formation of Pakistan(Oligocene). Not like its gigantic cousin,Pa. bugtiense is smaller. But it was still the largest mammals in Pakistan at that time.

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2021-04-24

The skeleton from Saint-Césaire, France is one of the last known Neandertals and lived some 42,000-40,000 years ago. The individual suffered but survived, at least for several weeks, a sharp force injury to the head.

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2021-04-24

Finally had some time to finish this piece I teased a while back. A pair of Daphoenodon superbus checking in on their very confused lil pups.

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2021-04-24

Two Anhanguera are having a bit of a territorial dispute, or one of them just had a bad day, who knows?

Been some time since I last drew pterosaurs, had to fix this pterrible mistake!

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2021-04-24

The most common hadrosaur from Arctic, Edmontosaurus from North Slope Alaska. Closely related Kamuysaurus from Hokkaido (Kobayashi et al 2019). These dinos support land bridge model btwn Asia and No Am. More on Japanese hadrosaurs and biogeog soon!

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2021-04-23

For here's an open access article on cranial anatomy of Saurornitholestes langstoni from Dinosaur Park Formation by Phillip Currie and David C. Evans:
https://t.co/S9v33hWXvF

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2021-04-23

A sunbathing synapsid for
This interpretation is deliberately overly-reptilian. It’s taken from my Project:Tepui Kickstarter, whose creatures are inspired as much by old monster-movies as by the fossil record. (1/2)

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2021-04-23