The Pasta Pack

A look into the life of two Italian Greyhounds, Dante and Piper, and service dog in training Silken Windhound, Fawkes. Mostly dog blog but I love gardening, birding, nature, and art too. They/them pronouns.

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Penguins are really magnificent.

I’m working on a series of infographics roughly representing the amazing evolutionary journeys of some animal groups like horses, whales and elephants! If you want to see more like this, check out my Patreon!

special thanks to @franzanth for helping me with this amazing idea.

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Evolution Series: The Conquest of Horses

Horses represent one of the most adaptable and resilient lineage of mammals, evolving from tiny forest-dwellers to fast-running grazers along with the expansion of grasslands in North America. 

*The animals represented here are not to scale and don’t represent a direct line of descent, but rather plausible models for how this amazing transition happened.*

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Evolution Series: The Walking Whales

Whales are perhaps the most remarkable group of animals to go back to sea, and their evolutionary journey is now quite well understood due to a variety of fossils found mostly in Pakistan. 

*The animals represented here are not to scale and don’t represent a direct line of descent, but rather plausible models for how this amazing transition happened.*

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Evolution Series: The Sea Dragons

Mosasaurs were a group of lizards that returned to the sea to become apex predators. They replaced many iconic sea monsters in their conquest of the Cretaceous oceans.

*The animals represented here are not to scale and don’t represent a direct line of descent, but rather plausible models for how this amazing transition happened.*

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Evolution Series: Reaching Ever Higher

Giraffes have always been in the center of discussions about evolution. Now we know that their history is not as straightforward as once believed, and spanned much more than just Africa.

*The animals represented here are not to scale and don’t represent a direct line of descent, but rather plausible models for how this amazing transition happened.*

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Evolution Series: The Cat Uprising

Today, cats all but rule the world from our living chairs. But their ancestors have been rising to power for millions of years, and some presented serious danger to our own precursors.

*The animals represented here are not to scale and don’t represent a direct line of descent, but rather plausible models for how this amazing transition happened.*

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Nobiliora

Pet portrait commission for @service-poodle, featuring their standard poodles Carlotta and Harlow.

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Evolution Series: A Caravan of Camels

When thinking of camels, images of hot deserts from the east come to mind. But these peculiar animals had almost all of their history happen in North America, and were first adapted to cold winters.

*The animals represented here are not to scale and don’t represent a direct line of descent, but rather plausible models for how this amazing transition happened.*

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Evolution Series: An Army of Rhinos

Living rhinos are generally associated with big horns, thick hairless skin and tropical habitats. But their ancestors didn’t always fit that description, with some living far up north and sporting luscious coats.

*The animals represented here are not to scale and don’t represent a direct line of descent, but rather plausible models for how this amazing transition happened.*

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Evolution Series: The Laughing Crew

Although mistakenly thought of as lowly scavengers, hyenas are important predators in their environments. These formidable predators went from nimble jungle-dwellers to giant bone-crushers.

*The animals represented here are not to scale and don’t represent a direct line of descent, but rather plausible models for how this amazing transition happened.*

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Evolution Series: A Gang of Horned Faces

Ceratopsians are one of the most famous dinosaur groups, with some species being known since the early days of paleontology. These living tanks evolved in Asia and soon conquered the entire northern hemisphere.

*The animals represented here are not to scale and don’t represent a direct line of descent, but rather plausible models for how this amazing transition happened.*

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