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day 21: today’s is a quicker sketch because online school is killing me. These are Mosasaurs hunting in a family group, based on how intelligent Mosasaurs could have been!

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2020-09-21

I missed but I'm going to cheat with

Something that became striking to me recently is that mosasaurs ascribed to the genus Tylosaurus have an incredibly long temporal range.

Coniacian to the Maastrichtian

That's like 22 million years.

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2020-04-29

cooling down with the six fanarts thing

mosasaurs own my heart

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2020-04-12

*Palaeontological, but yes! Both their relationship to snakes and other lizards, plus some features of the skull suggest that mosasaurs probably had some kind of forked tongue.

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2020-04-09

WIP watercolor of cannibalistic/scavenging behavior in mosasaurs. This will be used in a presentation by paleontologist, Nathan VanVranken, about his research.

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2020-03-07

I don't think I ever posted this illustration on social media so i'm posting it now for late Mosasaurs were marine lizards related to monitor lizards (not dinosaurs). They were the largest lizards ever, & like many lizards they gave live birth.

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2019-08-15

Another work in progress. This one is nearly finished, but any helpful comments on anatomy would be appreciated.

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2019-08-10

New at slightly revised version of my recent Mosasaurus now with fewer knobbly bits after feedback from folks who know more about mosasaurs than I do. See and download this image (and loads more) in high res for just $1: https://t.co/Q8peLr2501

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2019-05-31

It's true that mosasaurs are great! , if you want a cool Alabama fossil design, let me and put something together for you!

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2019-05-23

More sketches of Mesozoic marine reptiles for a commission for the , and Marine reptiles are always so much fun to reconstruct, no matter how many times I have reconstructed them. It is nice to go back to mosasaurs too

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2019-05-15

My latest paper (and first on mosasaurs) is finally out this week in Alcheringa! Taxonomy and historical inertia: Clidastes as a case study of problematic
paleobiological taxonomy https://t.co/2leB65CCBj

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2019-01-26

I was very excited to try my hand at the age-old trope of mosasaurs snatching pterosaurs. Probably not gonna work out well for you Pteranodon buddy. Its okay, giant lizards are way cooler than bird-bats with man bodies.

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2018-10-14

More for upcoming poster. Tylosaurus proriger, preliminar version

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2017-02-24