Dodgers vs Yankees: Pleistocene Edition

It's the world series baseball fans dreaded, but one that appeals to history fans like me! Two storied franchises about to duke it out in the Fall Classic!

Representing LA and the Dodgers is Smilodon! Representing NYC and the Yankees, is the American Mastodon!

Women's History Month 2024 - Mary Buckland and Megalosaurus

It's International Women's Day! Featuring Mary Buckland, the OG Paleoartist, AKA the lady who drew the iconic Megalosaurus jaw described by her husband William in 1824!

Coincidentally, Megalosaurus' first scientific description turned 200 years old earlier this year!

A commission for @thewoollyviking !

Two Nanuqsaurus' attempting to hunt a Woolly Mammoth!

It's the 200th anniversary of Megalosaurus' description.

Happy Birthday to the ORIGINAL Dinosaur!

Raptor Rush

Basically a tribute to velociraptor, deinonychus, and their legacy in pop culture!

From Dinobot of Transformers, to Dinorexmon of Digimon, to Pod and the Walking with Dinosaurs Utahraptor, and of course, Blue and the other raptors of Jurassic Park fame.

Happy New Year's Eve Everyone!

Happy New Year's Eve everyone!

May it be full of oodles of science-y goodness, new dinosaurs and perhaps yet another change in our understanding of Spinosaurus.

Dinosaurs of Chaos - Triceratops of Hashut

Well thanks to the response I got from my other chaos-influenced dinosaurs, I thought it'd be a neat idea to explore a Triceratops gifted by Hashut!

Blessed by the god of fire, heat and subjugation, this Triceratops burns with arcane energies within, and feeds on the very soil itself, as well as whatever ashes and charcoal that it burned.

Tyrannosauruses of Khorne are locked in a constant arms race with it, as it tries to out-resist the searing heat of the Three Horned Face of Iron, while the Horned Beast of Hashut always tries to burn hotter and its iron hide to be even more resiliant.

Dinovember 2023 - Carnotaurus of Slaanesh

Blessed by the god of excess with speed and adrenaline that already builds on top of a carnotaurus' already well known speed... but at a price in that it has to CONSTANTLY feed itself, lest it starves in less than a day.

A fight might actually be a death sentence if it takes too long.

Pando - The Largest Single Organism by Mass and 14,000 years old, and some perspective on just how old that is.

A random thought came to my head last night...

This is Pando.

All of this? Is a single male aspen tree. This entire thing is a single tree with multiple stems sharing a single root system.

It is the largest tree by mass, and the heaviest single organism, weighing in at 6000 metric tons. For perspective, that's 20 blue whales in mass.

But what also intrigues me is that... well. It's an old tree.

Established in 12,000 BCE, meaning it would be 14000 years old by 2023.

By the the last Smilodons died out in 10,000 BCE, it would have already been 2000 years old.

And Pando is still a youngster compared to the high estimate age of this clonal colony of sea grass estimated to be 100,000 years old.

For perspective, when the last Neanderthal died in 40,000 BCE?

This sea grass would have already been 60,000 years old.

If human civilization (as in, the kind of organized polity that can be identified with things as "states" and "urbanization" among a plethora of other things) was established during 5000 BCE, and thus 7000 years old:

Pando would have already been 5000 years old.

The Sea grass colony would have already been 93,000 years old.

And considering that the oldest vertebrate, that is the Greenland Shark can live for 500 years?

All of human civilization encompasses the lifespans of just 14 Greenland Sharks.

I dunno... it just really shows that we pretty are a tiny blip in the grand scheme of Earth's geological history.

A very humbling thought if you ask me.

Dinovember 2023 - Tzeentchian Therizinosaurus

Despite its many blessings from the God of Change, this Therizinosaurus remains quite normal in behavior, using the gifts Tzeentch gave simply to have a leg up over its normal counterparts.

It helps that he can use his main head as a periscope, safely feeding with his mouth head while looking with its many eyes so as to not draw attention from the local Khornate Tarbosaurus.

It's July the 4th, thought I'd whip up something for my American followers, alongside a tribute to the paleontological contributions of the United States, though in Hawaii's case, it's also a case of just how human activity can make "modern" critters follow the path of the dead.

Guess the paleo critters if you can!

Jurassic Park 30th Anniversary - A Celebration of Change in Science

So, I’ve made a series of drawings celebrating Jurassic Park’s 30th anniversary, specifically highlighting how much science has changed vs. when the original movie came out, and how much it affected the dinos of the franchise’s history.

First is the raptors, with a JP raptor here with Utahraptor and its namesake, Velociraptor.

Second is Spinosaurus, because JP3 has it’s 22nd anniversary this year, and the dude has changed repeatedly.

And finally, Tyrannosaurus rex itself. The modern T.rex is every bit as mighty and formidable as its fictional counterpart, and in some aspects (vision, overall build etc.) even more so. It’s only just much slower.

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