A blog by paleoartist Clara Takahashi
In my first Paleo Biome Profile, I detailed the Early Cretaceous Yixian biota. In this post, I’ll do the same for the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, an ecosystem from a hundred million years earlier. I think it’ll be interesting to...
Inktober took up most of my artistic energy for the past couple months, but here’s the other digital stuff I’ve been working on.
Over the earth’s history, the skill “Powered Flight” has been unlocked at least four times by four different groups: Insects, 350 million years ago in the Carboniferous Pterosaurs, 228 million years ago in the Triassic Birds and friends (paravians), 160...
There are a lot of named phenomena in paleontology that refer to specific circumstances, which I think are really interesting but are hard to search for. Often they’re patterns or paradoxes named after the individual thinkers who came up with...
Venturing outside the realm of Mesozoic reptiles, here’s an overview of the mostly-Permian early diversity of our own lineage, the synapsids. The Permian Period (299-252 million years ago) was the last period of the Paleozoic Era, and was characterized by...