What Color Were Dinosaurs?
“If truth were a crayon and it were up to me to put a wrapper on it and name its color, I know just what I would call it–dinosaur skin.” So begins the novel So B. It (Sarah Weeks, 2007)...
A blog by paleoartist Clara Takahashi
“If truth were a crayon and it were up to me to put a wrapper on it and name its color, I know just what I would call it–dinosaur skin.” So begins the novel So B. It (Sarah Weeks, 2007)...
Are you intimidated by the overly-detailed phylogenetic trees and endless jargon you find on Wikipedia when you’re trying to learn about a specific dinosaur? Are you overwhelmed by the sheer number of genera and do you struggle to figure out...
I don’t know about you, but I’m a huge fan of the creature design in Monster Hunter. The monsters are beautiful, believable, and have a ton of personality. A common pitfall I’ve noticed in creature design in general is that...
If you’re like me, you learned that King Philip Came Over For Grape Soda in high school (or, Kids Playing Chess On Freeways Get Squished, if you were part of the edgy crowd) as a mnemonic for remembering Linnean cladistic...
When I first learned about convergent evolution in school, this is the example the textbook gave: dolphins and penguins.