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There's a lot of to cover. So far I've gotten about 20 characters done, very few of which you could make out in this pile.

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2019-11-04

WIP (Work In Progress): Fossil Fracas related elephants may be my most prolific work, but I've also been working on more realistic renders of elephants. Pictured here, a prototype poster layout for my Forest Elephant.

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2019-10-17

Proboscideans have a long evolutionary history. They first appear around 60 million years ago in North Africa and were quite small. By ~37 million years ago, proboscideans like the hippo-like Moeritherium which didn’t have a trunk or tusks had evolved

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2019-08-12

Tomorrow is So I thought I'd dig up this old project I never finished. Some semi-caricatured fossil elephants hangin' out. First pic is a mock up of what i wanted to do originally.

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2019-08-12

Last but not least, another more basal member of the group: Barytherium. Rendered here basically as a realistic version of the Pokémon "Drowzee" https://t.co/TKQ0FPstoH

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2019-03-06

My most detailed entry into the Proboscidea series was the American mastodon. I painted as much of the fur as possible. https://t.co/PhJrTVUk21

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2019-03-06

Palaeoloxodon falconeri is a great example of the crazy size disparity that can occur within the same genus. I didn't know this extreme was possible for mammals https://t.co/x52Tj8s0aH

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2019-03-06

Aaand the biggest proboscidean ever, the massive Palaeoloxodon namadicus. This one I can really hear the elephant-like rumble every time I look at it. https://t.co/rL3HgZ2cs0

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2019-03-06

Very rough first attempt at a size chart here, I pretty much eyeballed it based on skeletals, etc. Mostly wanted to see what they all looked like together!

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2018-12-19

My FINAL proboscidean is Mammuthus primigenius, aka the woolly mammoth. This is one of the most popular of extinct organisms, serving as the iconic "mascot" to the Cenozoic. It is characterized by its instantly recognizable shaggy coat and long, strongly-curving tusks.

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2018-12-17

I chose a different pose than typical proboscidean reconstructions, because those trunks were highly flexible, mobile and dextrous appendages and I think that's important to note.

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2018-11-27

Meet Zygolophodon, bearer of perhaps the largest tusks of any animal living or extinct. This massive proboscidean was one of the biggest land mammals EVER, and otherwise differed from living elephants in having a longer body and proportionally smaller head.

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2018-11-27

I set out to reconstruct the basal proboscidean Barytherium, but ended up channeling my inner and accidentally made a realistic Drowzee

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2018-11-26

Gomphotherium, a proboscidean from the Miocene and Pleistocene of Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. Unlike its distant modern relatives, Gomphotherium had 4 tusks: 2 longer ones on the upper jaw, and two shorter, shovel-like ones on the lower jaw.

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2018-11-25

Gomphotherium is an extinct genus of proboscidean that lived during the early Miocene in North America.

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2017-12-03

Proboscidea, el orden al que pertenecen los elefantes

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2015-03-07