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Last dissertation chapter on the life history of multituberculate mammals published ! Here's artwork by of a Mesodma mother with her relatively precocial offspring 🧵
https://t.co/9pQDuMWWHA

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2022-07-19

Scelidotherium leptocephalum is the name for a species of extinct ground sloth, first described based on a partial skeleton discovered by Charles Darwin in 1833.

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2021-11-29

Started working on a little Phosphatherium today. Might develop the sketch later this week after I wrap up a few projects.

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2021-04-27

𝙎𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙣𝙪𝙨 , a seal with formidable cutting teeth that rivaled modern leopard seal in size, it lived in the Atlantic coast of North America during the Pliocene.

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2021-01-19

One of the new species, Pontolis barroni, is named after our colleague John Barron from the in honor of his contributions to biostratigraphy of and the North Pacific! For this species we have males, females & juveniles!
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2020-11-17

The Zerda, a small nocturnal fox, from Ebenezer Sibly, An universal system of natural history including the natural history of man, etc. 1509/871 https://t.co/sxBBk2Mp6e

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2020-10-26

The spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum) is the largest chiropter in the New World. This drawing is from the Royal Botanical Expedition to New Spain (1787-1803), one of the most ambitious scientific expeditions in

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2020-10-05

Ecstatic to be illustrating this amazing book series! The first four books out MAY 2021! Here is the preliminary Lisowicia for the, you guessed it, Lisowicia book (book 4). Lisowicia is a Late Triassic dicynodont (a distant relative of ours) https://t.co/4W3dWC5dO2

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2020-09-28

Just a red panda I drew for a friend a few years ago.

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2020-09-19

Here is the revised version with the correct text. I wish Twitter would let me edit my tweets. I am just the worst at proofreading! @

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2020-08-17

Today I decided to keep working on my plate of recently extinct felids of the Americas. Added sketches of two more taxa: Homotherium serum (the Scimitar-toothed Cat, a machairodontine) and Panthera atrox (the American Lion, a pantherine)

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2020-08-17

There are over 110 species of in the Americas (primarily South America) yet most people don’t know about them. Here is a small sample of them. These sketches are of the tribe Didelphini of Didelphid marsupials, some of the most common

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2020-07-27

I finally have a bit of time to sketch in the morning. The recent study on Thylacosmilus published last Friday made me want to sketch some portraits of this amazing Late Miocene-Pliocene South American sparassodont

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2020-06-29

Morning sketch. Portrait of Tetraceratops insignis, a small basal sphenacodontian synapsid (probably close to therapsids) from Early Permian North America. A distant relative to all of us mammals.

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2020-06-01

I have been wanting to reconstruct Entelodonts for a while, so for today’s I decided to sketch this Daeodon, a huge entelodon with a 90 cm skull that lived in the Oligocene and Miocene of North America. I really enjoyed this one

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2020-05-11

It's Most people associate with but Marmosa robinsoni (Robinson's mouse opossum) is from Central & Unlike most other marsupials mouse opossum's lack a pouch for

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2020-04-07

Badger & Two Cubs, pencil and acrylic, 🦡🎨🖌️#MammalMonday https://t.co/p9kFuiGCe4

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2020-02-24

Have you seen our collection of whale skulls on ? This why not check them out? You can rotate them, zoom in and explore the models digitally in a way that would not be possible with the physical specimens. https://t.co/27QZ6YdFTm

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2020-01-27

Continuing my underwater speedpaint/sketches. Today is so here are the best water mammals: Early Cetaceans. Croc-like Remingtonocetus swims down while a larger, Rodhocetus walks by slowly on the bottom of the coastal Eocene waters of Pakistan

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2020-01-20