Chalicothere by Gabriel U. This group of extinct perissodactyls diverged from the ancestors of horses, rhinos and tapirs no later than the Eocene. I'm listening to the most recent Common Descent #podcast about them.
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Palaeoart is as much a part of me as the sound of my voice.
As soon as I could hold a pencil and I will do it until I die...
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The first mural I ever painted (1997) was at the Dudley Museum & Art Gallery, for a temporary exhibition of marine Jurassic fossils. Part of the mural featured a pliosaur; I reworked the pliosaur pose in my 2009 "Leviathan" painting for The Etches Collection.
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New blog post! Just how big was the biggest known Pacific mastodon? And what do we mean by "big", anyway?
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