My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's a cheat sheet for Megalograptus, commissioned in 2022 for a project I cannot talk about yet. The scientific consultant was Fiann Smithwick.
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Jawbone fossil builds richer image of ancient Denisovans https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/10/jawbone-fossil-builds-richer-image-of-ancient-denisovans #Palaeontology #Anthropology #Science
The Guardian · Jawbone fossil builds richer image of ancient Denisovans
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2022 I worked with McIlroy et al on a new reconstruction of Haootia (Stauroza), from the Late Ediacaran (550 Ma). The Haootia fossils from Newfoundland, Canada, have the oldest known evidence for animal muscle tissue.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "A stand against the sand" shows a male Citipati protecting a nest from an approaching sandstorm.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "A Portrait of Malignance," showing a Telmatosaurus with an ameloblastoma tumour.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Mire Siren," showing a family group of Utahraptors becoming trapped in quicksand.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Zooming into my 2022 Nature cover, featuring Tupandactylus. This painting was commissioned by Cincotta et al for their paper describing multiple feathers and their colours from a pterosaur fossil!
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's my 2022 Nature cover featuring Tupandactylus. This painting was commissioned by Cincotta et al for their paper describing multiple feathers and their colours from a pterosaur fossil!
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "Condemning the host," showing a prehistoric wasp (Xenomorphia) injecting an egg into a fly pupa.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The lady looks on," showing male theropods lekking to impress a female.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Some zooms from my 2022 painting of a Thescelosaurus (front lit by the low Sun from the west) amidst the Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous Chicxulub asteroid impact. Also features are Triceratops and Quetzalcoatlus.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's a 2022 painting of a Thescelosaurus (front lit by the low Sun from the west) amidst the Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous Chicxulub asteroid impact (the orange glow from the south). Also features are Triceratops and Quetzalcoatlus.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "His Best Moves," showing a male Confuciusornis showing off to a female.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2022, the Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dean R Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Formidable Opportunists," an Allosaurus pack tearing apart a rotting Camarasaurus.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
One last small spot illustration from 2022, for a book not yet published. This is Teraterpeton.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A small 2022 spot illustration of Dvinia, for a book not yet published.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A small spot illustration of Coelophysis (2022), for a book not yet published.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A small spot illustration of Spicomellus (2022), for a book not yet published.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Some zooms into my "Denizens of the Beach and Copse" painting (2022), showing the Severn Estuary in the Late Devonian. Featured are a group of Elginerpeton, an Ichthyostega, fungi, slime moulds, algae, rhyniophytes, zosterophylls, lycopsids, & equisetids.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The third and final Severn Estuary painting (2022), this time showing the Late Devonian. "Denizens of the Beach and Copse" features a group of Elginerpeton, an Ichthyostega, fungi, slime moulds, algae, rhyniophytes, lycopsids, equisetids, & others.