Christmas Art Dump
I got an Apple Pencil and iPad for Christmas, and have been drawing basically nonstop over the break. I’m still getting my digital-art legs under me, but here are some of the extinct animals (and a couple extant animals) I’ve...
Paleontology Media Recommendations
I thought it would be useful to share some recommendations for other places to consume paleontology media, news, art, etc. Here are a few of my favorites–definitely not a comprehensive list!
To Fuzz or Not To Fuzz: A Guide to Archosaur Integument
By now, I’m sure you’ve seen or heard about reconstructions of fluffy or feathery dinosaurs. Lately, paleoartists have been going crazy with the speculative fluffy integument of everything from Tyrannosaurus:
Aquatic Reptiles: An Overview
The last in the trilogy of group overviews on this blog, in this post I’ll be going over the main types of Mesozoic aquatic reptiles. However, the phylogeny of many of these groups, especially turtles and their relatives, is still...
The Ultimate Triathlete: A Speculative Evolution Project
Since a friend and I just did our first triathlon recently, we were thinking about what a creature optimized for a triathlon might look like, and how we could go about creating one that was loosely biologically plausible through speculative...