March 17, 2013

Sabertooth Diaries 5: concepts you will not see in the book. By Mauricio Antón.

- Feel free to delete this when you reblog:

This is the last “Sabertooth Diaries” entry I post. I’m just cloning Mauricio’s blog and that’s not what this is all about: I want my blog to be a bridge, something that makes you want to pay a visit to the artist’s gallery. The main reason I always include a link to the author’s page is so you can go there and see the amazing works I’m not sharing. There’s a lot to see outside Tumblr.

January 24, 2013

Thylacosmilus atrox by Viergacht

“Though Thylacosmilus is one of several predatory mammal genera typically called “sabre-toothed cats”, it was not a felid but a sparassodont, a group closely related to marsupials, and only superficially resembled other sabre-toothed mammals due to convergent evolution.” Wikipedia

January 20, 2013
Miocene scene by Mauricio Antón

Miocene scene by Mauricio Antón

(Source: asecic.org)

November 16, 2012
Phorusrhacos “Terror bird” by Antarctic Spring

Phorusrhacos “Terror bird” by Antarctic Spring

November 9, 2012
Hiskatherium by Jorge Antonio González

Hiskatherium by Jorge Antonio González

October 2, 2012

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Illustrations by Robert Nicholls:

Mega Tooth Rising:

“The Miocene oceans were dangerous places to swim. Even the great baleen whales, such as Cetotherium, could fall victim to toothed physteroids and, of course, Carcharocles megalodon. Known to many simply as, megalodon, this 16m long predator possessed the size and strength to kill and eat the largest creatures on Earth.

ORIGINAL unavailable  PRINTS: £15.00  POSTER PRINTS: L=£80.00 O=£120.00 M=£160.00” 

Bait Ball:

“Commissioned by the Museum of Jurassic Marine. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, thousands of Thrissops fish swarm together into a bait ball. Trachyteuthis, belemnites and Pectinatites ammonites also take action to leave the scene as three ichthyosaurs (unnamed) hunt for prey. The youngest ichthyosaur darts into the bait ball causing the Thrissops to separate and open a writhing circular window to the ocean surface above.

ORIGINAL (26cm x 56cm): £650.00  PRINTS: £15.00  POSTER PRINTS: L=£90.00 O=£135.00 M=£180.00”

(Source: archosaurmusings.wordpress.com)

April 11, 2012

Purussaurus by Jorge Antonio González

(Source: Gonzalezaurus.deviantart.com)

April 8, 2012

Making a model of Stegotetrabelodon syrticus. Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey

Some of the data used to help with the reconstruction

Video of the model rotating

March 14, 2012

NeoproterozoicPaleozoicMesozoicMiocene and Pleistocene, by Alain Bénéteau for the Toulouse Museum.

March 3, 2012

Compelled by Dailyfossil’s post, (follow that tumblr now) I’m on a quest to find the best Argentavis magnificens‘ paleoillustration. 

So far I’ve found these three, by Jaime Chirinos, Laura Cunningham and *WanderingAlbatross (who got the feathered head right).

The picture of Dr. Kenneth E. Campbell, proudly posing next to his reconstructed bird, is too good to be left out of the post.