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A LARGE commission that I cannot show you much about yet. It involves lots of which are not my favorite subjects BUT these are Devonian fish so they are COOL! I’m enjoying it! I’m also working on another commission that involves another Devonian fish

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2020-01-16

For them of here's a Devonian

[image: lungfish emerging from pond; text says "Devonian lungfish Griphognathus resolves to get out more."]

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2020-01-06

"Our ancestors did not so much conquer the land, as escape from the water." - John Maisey, AMNH

learning a lot about the extremely scary devonian period while i pencil!!

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2019-10-31

Turbo-pterichthys. From the Devonian period to the bright future 🚀
Tried to figure out how to use perspective rulers in Clip Studio Paint. Something went wrong, and these turbines look distorted but that's because they're prehistoric ;)

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2019-10-20

Sketches from the second placoderm
Groenlandaspis, Holonema and Qilinyu

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2019-09-08

Palaeoisopus problematicus is an extinct species of sea spider from the Devonian period. It measured 40 cm in diameter.

(Credit: Satoshi Kawasaki)

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2019-06-25

Andrew Lang's Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897) — Containing 78 weird happenings, from a demon strangling Devonian farmers in 1682 to a poltergeist terrorising a contemporary Chinese couple. Read it here: https://t.co/YnroEdalIf

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2019-04-12

Here are both two of my first - and one of my last pieces, all featuring the Devonian placoderm and apex predator Dunkleosteus terrelli.
The first 2 donein 2015 for https://t.co/d23noXI8Qf
The latter done a few weeks ago for another client.

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2019-03-08

For here's a throwback of Lunaspis, the Devonian placoderm whose name appropriately means 🌙🛡️ (weird to remember the entire 1st half of 2018 for me was drawing the Paleozoic with colored pencils in a sketchbook)

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2018-12-30

In the wake of the End-Ordovician, fish--which had previously been unimportant players--took over the seas, and by the Devonian period the world was enjoying what is known as the Age of Fish. Some fish were even beginning to tentatively test out life on land (our ancestors)

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2018-12-15

Late Devonian //

The early forests of Late Devonian altered the environment, forcing animals to adapt. Creatures like Tiktaalik, a transitional animal showing traits of both fish and amphibians, lived in this period.

https://t.co/c0ckDTzZNl

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2018-11-22

Progress made on my series Deep Time Dramas! Working to combine and expression. Plenty more to go on these (including actually adding animals ofc)
1. The Devonian - love, connectivity
2. The Ordovician/Silurian Extinction - indecision, separation

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2018-11-16

Pterygotus was a gigantic arthropod that could grow to 2.3 metres long! They lived during the early Silurian-Devonian period. They had a pair of large eyes & a smaller pair in the centre of their head.

(Credit: Olof Helje)

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2018-09-16

Fish heads: Neurocranial anatomy of an enigmatic Early Devonian fish sheds light on early osteichthyan evolution https://t.co/AplI0A5Q10

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2018-06-28

Letter B is for !

Fun fact: boreaspis was the most suspicious prehistoric fish & did not work well together. This made them easy prey & actually caused them to go extinct long before the Late Devonian Extinction 🙃

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2018-06-12

Devonians - top notch musical comedy The Ministry of Biscuits is coming to Ashburton on 10th May: https://t.co/PfpSRH4OzI
More about the show here: https://t.co/bNvb4aK0sG
Illustration by

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2018-04-17

A newly discovered tetrapod-like fish from the Devonian shakes up the marine-terrestrial transition. Zhu et al https://t.co/ZLi7sqyPw5

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2017-09-05

I swear this fish's face is like, the Devonian period's kawaii shonen hero.

BOREASUPISU-MAN, TASUKETE~

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2017-07-10