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Say hello to “Silky” the Serikornis, the newest member of the paravian menagerie! Published online yesterday in The Science of Nature, I illustrated this guy for Andrea Cau, Ulysse Lefèvre & their coauthors in 2015. So, I have an unusually long cycle of review, revision, and resubmission to thank for helping in my struggles to stay relevant in the paleoart community now that I’m in grad school! :p

Despite being over two years old, this remains one of my favorites of my semi-recent pieces. The new dinosaur is related to other fuzzy little paravians like Eosinopteryx and Aurornis, and sports a voluminous covering of shaggy filaments that may’ve given the creature a life appearance somewhat like a silky chicken–hence the nickname. Incidentally, I first learned about the new find at SVP in 2014 in Berlin, and sketched out a brief rendition of it during the talk. Some of you might remember it!

So anyway, enjoy our sweet little Silky and his delicious meal of an orb-weaver ancestor–which is based on a specimen of Mongolarachne from Jurassic China–amidst a delicious spread of chanterelle ancestors. It almost invites the comparison to a roast hen with mushrooms. Almost.

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Tylosaurus was a mosasaur, a giant marine predator related to modern-day Komodo dragons. You may recognize the species from the beautiful antiquated paintings of Charles R .Knight

Two other illustratons in this series can be found here & here

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Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life

by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight,

Publication info London :Chapman & Hall,1910.

BHL Collections: Curious and Bizarre Creatures

Ernst Mayr Library of the MCZ, Harvard University

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From the archives: Charles Lang and Otto Faulkenbach working on a Triceratops model, 1938

Explore the Museum’s digital archives here.

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While watching The Simpsons I spotted something that looked awfully familiar.

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I’m not a big fan of The Simpsons but that is AWESOME!!!!

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A Jurassic Life

by Belhoula Amir

”-God creates dinosaurs.God destroys dinosaurs.God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.- Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth.”

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Tyrannosaurus Rex and Chasmosaurus by James Gurney

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A fish-eye view of a group of sauropods making their way through the Morrison. By Julius Csotonyi

The blog Archosaur Musings has a very (and I mean very) interesting article in which Dave Hone and Julius Csotonyi talk about how this exceptional piece was conceived. If you are interested in paleoart, you want to read it here and then take another good look at the painting in full size.