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Yutyrannus huali is an early relative of T. rex known from fossils which preserve impressions of feathers covering most of its body. This is another of the dinosaur recons I have recently licensed to a museum in The Netherlands

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2019-09-21

This is my first effort at digital painting in ages. If I did it again I'd find a way to use a stylus, the finger painting is exhausting. I've got no energy to create texture on this squiddy so I'm presenting it to you as flat as it is!

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2019-09-21

A worried vampire squid has turned itself inside out: pineapple posture. Admittedly I have some skepticism about this particular defence mechanism.

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2019-09-21

The vampire squid was first described in 1903 by Carl Chun. It is found in temperate and tropical oceans, and lives in the oxygen minimum layer (OML). It has few natural predators because few other animals are able to live in the OML.

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2019-09-20

We haven't uploaded a Bonestell painting in awhile, so here's one for your enjoyment. "Assembling the Ship for the Mars Expedition" (1956). Courtesy Bonestell LLC.

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2019-09-20

are some of the most incredible creatures on Earth. In my last year's zine I tell the fascinating story of eel's migration cycle and talk about issues it's facing on the way to European waters.

You can grab a copy on https://t.co/MLHaSA9VnR

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2019-09-19

14 September 2019 marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of renowned Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt who commissioned this fine illustration of Musa sativa by French botanist and artist P.J.F.Turpin (1775-1840)

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2019-09-18

While scowering the ocean silt of Marble Canyon, a lone is suddenly surprised by the appearance of Zacanthoides, a trilobite that had quickly emerged from the silt and attacked the Hurdiid.

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2019-09-17

I've got birds on the brain tonight! Here's a messy little study of a one of my study species

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2019-09-17

Wow! I reached 20k followers on Instagram. Thank you very much to everyone that follows me and supports me there (same handle there on IG) as well as here on Twitter! Like I always say, for freelance artists that is everything! THANK YOU!

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2019-09-17

Meehan's "The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States" (1878-79) presented a selection of indigenous US plants, with chromolithographs by L. Prang & Company after from life by Alois Lunzer. In via ➡️ https://t.co/4rHIueQXY0

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2019-09-17

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

Results from the More humans. Sahelanthropus, a Denisovan, Australopithecus sebida and a gay H. erectus couple.

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2019-09-16

For those who wondered about the tortoise piece yesterday: I finally found a paper that gives some information on this matter. The remains speak for a roughly max. 140 cm long shell, but of course there could have been larger specimens ;)

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2019-09-15

Fall is almost upon us, which means will soon be showing off their newly-grown antlers. This we are highlighting these incredible structures, the only mammalian bones capable of full regeneration.

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2019-09-14

Happy Here is something new - Brotula barbata, a bearded brotula (cusk eel)! There are only five days left of my print sale, so if you haven't visited my shop yet, be sure to check it out @ https://t.co/4MzylnBrHb.

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2019-09-14

Niles, MI: Visit the Fernwood Botanical Garden & Nature Preserve on Sept 15th 2-4pm for the opening reception of "Imprisoned Nature: Beauty Behind Bars." This is a beautiful show of 36 works from the inmates of the Westville Correctional Facility.

https://t.co/pA55C7Nba5

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2019-09-13

Reminder that Dinosaurios Bebés (Baby Dinosaurs), the children’s book written by that I was commissioned to illustrate early this year is has already been published. It is in Spanish. I had so much fun illustrating these baby

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2019-09-12