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Cuba was once a crazy place, filled with many giant predatory birds, small sloths, large rodents, flightless cranes and one big insectivore. I hope this size chart will inspire you to dive deeper into this wonderful lost world.

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Para mis amigos de Canarias :)

Canary islands still keep a lot of endemic life, which is threatened by urban development and invasive species such as cats. If people protect them, they won't meet the same fate as these two.

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2021-10-01

Sure you know Madagascar and Hateg Island, but few are aware of the Triassic islands that were once located on the territory of the British Isles.
Here a number of animals that were found there.

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wow I actually finished a second piece today! Crete was my first size chart ever, and I wanted to make a new one for so long 😩😩😩

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This wouldn't be complete without the fauna of the Langenberg quarry. Not in here are animals which are known from other localities as well.

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Trying out a new style for size charts with more simplistic drawings, what do you think?

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Daily chibi for
The last Meiolania tortoises went extinct 2,000 years ago, the genus had persisted for 50 million years until humans arrived. 🥲

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2021-09-28

While I work on my piece for here's a few past drawings of island fauna, extinct and extant. From top left, Hatzegopteryx, Magyarosaurus, Compsognathus, Eryon, Pterodactylus, Dinornis (giant moa) and Strigops (kakapo)

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Me: Man these island birds are so cool I wonder what happened to them
Wikipedia:

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Apteribis was a flightless ibis from Hawaii with tiny wings. Preserved feathers indicate it was mottled brown, suggesting it could be paedomorphic. With a long probing bill, it may have been Hawaii's equivalent of a kiwi. [3/n]

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My previous work of Papilio phorbanta nana, probably extinct butterfly from Seychelles. This is known from only one pair.
https://t.co/9m4hMR496d

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Thanks to human activities we lost roughly 10% of our bird diversity, most of which was endemic to islands. That's why many of these posts are filled with avifauna
In this case the club winged Xenicibis, Aptornis, Pachyornis and Dinornis.

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More stuff
Archaeopteryx, Talpanas (the mole duck), Meiolania and Paludititan.

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2021-09-27

Results from the next
Pezosiren, Palaeoloxodon falconeri, Megalenhydris and Chelychelynechen.

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2021-09-27

woof woof! More additions to the chibi collection also on line with
Usually known as the Sardinian dhole, Cynotherium is found in both Sardegna and Corse, so I think the Corsican population also deserves its own name!

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2021-09-27

For the start of I'm just going to post some of the different artworks I've made representing insular fauna of the Mediterranean, which is the region I focus on the most.

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Results from the first
Phelsuma gigas, Desmodus stocki, Archaeoindris and Aprosuchus

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2021-09-26

After hours of swimming, this Saltriovenator finally got home, now the next goal is finding something to eat...

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Some more stuff for island fauna for
Aepyornis, Megaladapis, Deinogalerix and Thecodontosaurs. The last one is for me especially interesting because the animals not only lived on islands but were found in cave deposits.

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2021-09-25