Natural History Enthusiast

Hello, I am a huge fan of everything about Natural History and I love learning about new creatures from Earth's past. I am a new paleoartist just practicing my skills every day, and creating a card game about the prehistoric world!

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King Antiphates of the Laestrygonians

Another Paleontology crossover with The Odyssey. Who better to embody the cannibal giants than the fearsome Tyrannosaurus!

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The Cyclops

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So I really enjoyed the Odyssey...

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Niger, 110 million years ago. A pair of Ouranosaurus desperately search for water in the barren dry season. For the longest time, I thought that these strange, sail-backed dinosaurs were hadrosaurs, but they are actually part of the more basal hadrosauriformes.

Ouranosaurus is a control piece, intimidating weaker enemies with its sail and forcing them to back off into their owner's hand (as Warn=a bounce effect). This is an intentional inverse of the typical hadrosaur archetype, which is bouncing allies back into hand.

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Edestus is a holocephalian, a group of cartilagenous fish that today contains the Chimaera, but the extinct order eugeneodontiformes is famous for its tooth whorls, but Edestus is different from most of these, as it had two sets that acted like scissors.

Gameplay-wise, Edestus is designed to be a counter to decks that would just spam stats over and over again, cleaving through their Power and Health to keep them down to size. Right now this card is a little weak so I might add a "in hand" clause as well or reduce its cost.

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Italy, 1 million years ago. Blink and you’ll miss her, a small Felis lunensis darts across the snowy landscape of Ice Age Italy, carrying home a little mole to chew on until the snowstorm subsides.

The cats in Primordial Fury are all about exploiting weakness, either through overwhelming power or silent execution. F. lunensis, though a very cheap and simple card, plays an important part, dragging enemies into combat and whittling them down for the big kitties to clean up

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Saskatchewan, 60 million years ago. An Arctocyon mumak wanders looking for its next meal. These mammals resembled bears and coatis, with heavily built jaws and large canines, but they are actually believed to be a member of the Artiodactyls, a group of hooved mammals.

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For Sam

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Antarctica, 48 million years ago. An albino Antarctodon rests in the shade on a hot summer day. This was an early member of Astrapotheria, a strange group of ungulates mostly from South America, though this species migrated further south, since Antarctica was connected.

For this design, I had to be creative with the biology, as Antarctodon is only known from a single tooth. Here, I have portrayed it with a pseudotrunk as opposed to the small trunk that Miocene Astrapotheres had. I also gave it decently large tusks, which many of its relatives had.

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This is meant to be a very speculative more mammalian take on Dimetrodon that likely isn’t accurate. I added a lot of tissue over some of the more gnarly parts of the skull so it’s shaped a little differently

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A very quick portrait of Manidens, one of the "gremlin" dinosaurs from Early Jurassic Patagonia. This little guy is thought to have had a big attitude with large tusks for defence and competition. It also may have been arboreal, leaping from branch to branch.

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Wyoming, 150 million years ago. This Camarasaurus grandis is one of the largest animals in it's environment, but even it is still to short to reach the tallest tree in it's territory. Perhaps if it reared up on its hind legs....

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Ohio, 280 mya. A young Diadectes has fallen into the murkey rapids, finding itself engulfed by an enormous Barbclabornia, the largest xenacanth to ever extist. This fish typically goes after smaller fish, but who could say no to an easy meal.

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A portrait of my favorite Cenezoic animal of all time, Ankalagn saurognathus, the largest mammalian predator of the Paleocene. I find mesonychids in general to be so fascinating, but Ankalagon, which got so large so soon after the K-Pg extinction, is just so awesome.

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Some card designs for my prehistoric card game! This game is all about replicating your own prehistoric environment while competing with another player (or 2) to see who can collect the most resources. It's not as easy as it sounds when a charging Arinsoitherium or hungry Pachycrocuta could come around and annihilate your entire board!

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Indian Ocean, 5 million years ago. Due to a freak storm, an Ardipithecus has found itself washed out to sea with no land in sight. The oceans of the Early Pliocene are no safe haven, and soon he comes face to face with one of the last Leviathans of the previous age