A blog by paleoartist Clara Takahashi
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...
Family tree: Theropoda > Neotheropoda > Averostra > Tetanurae > Avetheropoda > Coelurosauria > Tyrannosauroidea
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Inktober (and other month-long creativity challenges), it’s a social-media event where participants draw something related to the official prompt, in ink, each day during the month of October. This is the first...
As a followup to my Dinosaur Family Overview post, here’s a similar pterosaur’s-eye view of the lineage of those awesome flying reptiles! This should be a significantly shorter post; since pterosaurs weren’t nearly as diverse as dinosaurs, there are fewer...
Dinosaurs and friends, being large and charismatic, have had their fair share of airtime over the years. However, it’s not uncommon for the artists who actually do the reconstructions to be unfamiliar with paleontology and to make errors, and even...