# getyourartunderwater sciart fossilfriday marinemammals nhmla

is happening again! Here are a bunch of extinct marine mammal illustrations I've done over the past decade - Parapontoporia, Pithanotaria, Phiomicetus, and Olympicetus. Graphite + digital.

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2022-06-05

Here's some of my graphite + digital illustrations of extinct marine fauna - each of these takes about 20-50 hours. Clockwise from upper left: Phiomicetus; Ankylorhiza; Psephophorus; Olympicetus

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2022-01-12

Since the article is out, here's the graphite base drawing prior to colorizing in photoshop. Life restoration of Olympicetus-the dolphin that could not echolocate. As such, I reconstructed this baby dolphin without a melon (sound focusing organ). 6x8", 4 hours

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2019-05-16

here's the newly described avitus an Oligocene Odontocete from WA https://t.co/TiO8d3oLzu

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2017-10-14