#borophagus

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…

In 2020 I illustrated LOCKED IN TIME, written by Dr Dean Lomax. Here's my painting of the bone crunching Borophagus.

This book would make a great Christmas gift! https://cup.columbia.edu/book/locked-in-time/9780231197281

[foreyarning]

Old paleoart, December 22, 2019. The title was 'Chain Reaction'.

'Around 4 million years ago. The Zanclean stage of the Pliocene epoch. Near what is now Bayview, North Carolina.

A young, unexperienced Borophagus dudleyi lumbers along a coastal marsh, but where there's one dog, there's bound to be more. Its presence alarms a nearby Kyptoceras amatorum, who signals to his herd that danger approaches, stomping his hoof into the soil noisily, causing them to retreat into woodlands in response.

This loud noise causes a commotion, flushing a spring of Spatula discors. The panic has made the dog's presence evident to all nearby creatures, ruining whatever chance or plan he had to obtain a meal.'

[antiqueanimals]

Borophagus and Pliohippus from the Prehistoric Mammals Coloring Book, published in 1991 by Jan Sovák

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Forspoken Photo Dump 142: Visoria Castle Town, Part 10

[bones-n-bookles]

Aelurodon ferox by Mauricio Antón

Picture I took from the book "Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives & Evolutionary History" by Xiaoming Wang and Richard H Tedford, with illustrations by Mauricio Antón

[antediluvianechoes]

Sea cow's fate by batworker

The carcass is a bloated, blubbery boon, enough meat to last for more days than a borophagine can hold in its head. The dogs patrol the sea cow’s perimeter, climb its hulk, reassuring themselves that the carcass is indeed real. Seabirds are less dubious of the thing and have to be chased away, but the dogs are suspect. Even after filling their bellies on the fatty flesh, the find just feels too good to be true.

[dinodorks]

Artistic reconstruction of Borophagus by Charles R. Knight.

[xiphosuras]

Tried painting a borophagus warrior.