A blog by paleoartist Clara Takahashi
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...
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...