Results from the #MosasaurWeek #paleostream! Plioplatecarpus, Plotosaurus, Mosasaurus and Eremiasaurus. #paleoart #mosasaurs #forest #sea #creteaceous #netherlands #maastricht #sciart #scicomm #sketch
Legends have to start somewhere. We can't know for sure, but these real-life animals may be the origin of familiar mythical creatures.
Cuando era pequeño sentía una especial fascinación por los dinosaurios, cuanto más carnívoros y salvajes más me atraían, el Tiranosaurio era el rey. Luego conocí al Triceratops, al Diplodocus y al…
Please welcome Perucetus, the new - and largest- known archeoceti. A whale of enormous proportions. While it's exact size and weight is certainly a matter of heated debates it was no doubt a really…
Imagine a giant wolf-like creature more than six feet tall running across the plains of what is now central Asia. Andrewsarchus was the largest meat-eating mammal to ever live on land. It thrived in the period after the dinosaurs had become extinct but didn't make it to modern times. This creature is named for the explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, who was the inspiration for the movie character Indiana Jones.Big Boy: Andrewsarchus was a monster. The creature stood more than 6 feet high at the should
You may not want to read about this frightening creature if you suffer from ophidiophobia, or even if you are about to embark on a camping trip.
Megalenhydris is an extinct genus of otter that lived in Sardinia during the Late Pleistocene. Megalenhydris is only known from its tail, the vertebrae are significantly flattened, which suggests that it was well adapted for its marine habitat. Megalenhydris is much larger than accompanying genera in the region. The shape of its teeth suggests it had a diverse diet. The rest of the tail is not known, meaning that Megalenhydris may have had a much larger tail fluke than previously thought. Megale
ripped the pose off an old sketch I did for my take on Darkstalkers
Inspired by archaeology, lost civilizations, and the art of illustration, James Gurney’s children book Dinotopia creates an extraordinary place where humans and
