#dryopithecus

[earlypalaeoart]

"Vue idéale de la terre pendant la période miocene" [Ideal view of the earth during the Miocene period] by Edouard Riou, from La terre avant le déluge [The world before the deluge] by Louis Figuier, 1863

[markhors-menagerie]

†Dryopithecus fontani

Art credit: DiBgd

Once, there were great apes in Europe! About 12 million years ago, Europe was home to warm, wet, seasonal forests. In these forests lived Dryopithecus, a genus of great apes unlike any today. Estimated to weigh 97 lb (44kg), a little less than modern chimpanzees, it was likely a quadrupedal ape proficient at climbing for food. It is thought to have eaten fruit, honey, and leaves, and might have been able to build up fat reserves for the winter.

[simplifiedbiology-blog]

Human Evolution

Human Evolution Human evolution includes a single genus Homo with a single living species sapiens and a subspecies sapiens. All racial groups Mongoloid, Negroid, Caucasoid, and Australoid are the types of Homo sapiens sapiens. Primates originated in the Palaeocene epoch of the tertiary period about 65 million years ago. The beginning of primate evolution is presumed in Eocene of the tertiary…

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[kay-ness]

Drew this some time in the middle of last year when I was just starting to learn how to draw in a comic style using pen and ink, and only managed to colour it in the past few days.

Whale evolution clockwise: Indohyus, Pakicetus, Ambulocetus, Rodhocetus, Dorudon, Mysticetes

Human evolution top to bottom: Dryopithecus, Australopithecus afarensis, Homo erectus, Neanderthal