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Time for another Fossil Fracas related update for Truncated:

My Long Wall of Proboscideans is full of all sorts of bizarre characters. Eventually I’m planning on characterizing every species.

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2020-01-16

Elephantimorphs look normal to us today, but they're really bizarre in comparison to the basal members of Proboscidea. Eritherium, on the right, for example looks much like a hippo against my old mastodon design.

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2020-01-07

Tonight’s the night! A Merry Christmas to all, and Happy Holidays from Monty and I!

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2019-12-25

Finals are over, and I’m back to working on Truncated! Here’s some mammoths wading into a suspicious pit...

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2019-12-19

Since I can’t post the massive, 12 foot long version here (yet), a smaller copy of my mastodon digital composite should be suitable!

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2019-12-06

A sketch of Cuvieronius after a good thanksgiving day. After doing some habitat analysis, you’ll notice this guy’s a more mountainous grey than my other elephants.

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2019-11-30

Working on a few new things involving local proboscideans... With an American Mastodon to start.

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2019-11-28

Redesigned extinct proboscidean

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2019-11-04

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

A first try at reconstructing gomphothere craniofacial musculature (from a few years ago) for the Tweet Storm.

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2019-03-02