My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2020 I illustrated DINOSAURS: NEW VISIONS OF A LOST WORLD, written by Prof Mike Benton. Here's Psittacosaurus and a few babies.
https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/dinosaurs-new-visions-of-a-lost-world-hardcover
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's the press release artwork that accompanied our 2020 paper, which was the world's first published description of a dinosaur cloaca. You can read the paper here: https://www.cell.com/curre.../fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31891-1
It's FossilFriday! And for my 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2020 I co-authored the world's first published description of a dinosaur cloaca. Our paper received lots of media attention, here's a screen grab of a punchline by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert...
You can read the paper here: https://www.cell.com/curre.../fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31891-1
It's #FossilFriday! And for my 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2020 I co-authored the world's first published description of a dinosaur cloaca. Our paper received lots of media attention, here's the coverage from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert!
You can read the paper here: https://www.cell.com/curre.../fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31891-1
It's #FossilFriday! And for my 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2020 I co-authored the world's first published description of a dinosaur cloaca. Here's my press release artwork and my reconstruction figures.
You can read the paper here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31891-1
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The last post from 2017: my artworks in an exhibition at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Pictured are my Psittacosaurus & Giraffatitan models & my Stegosaurus illustration.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Continuing with 2016 and the TetZooCon theme, here's a video from the TetZooCon 2016 palaeoart workshop. After I talked about reconstructing Psittacosaurus, the attendees sculpted their own psittacosaurs. Choosing the winner was tricky!
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Continuing with 2016 and the #TetZooCon theme, here are some photos from the TetZooCon 2016 palaeoart workshop. After I talked about reconstructing Psittacosaurus, the attendees sculpted their own psittacosaurs. Choosing the winner was tricky!
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
2014 was the year I built the world famous life-size Psittacosaurus model. Here are images of the the paintwork and the experiments done by the University of Bristol (part 2 of 2).
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
2014 was the year I built the world famous life-size Psittacosaurus model. Here are images of the the paintwork and the experiments done by the University of Bristol (part 1 of 2).
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
2014 was the year I built the world famous life-size Psittacosaurus model. Here are my photos of the building process (part 2 of 2), showing the moulding and casting.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
2014 was the year I built the world famous life-size Psittacosaurus model. Here are my photos of the building process (part 1 of 2), showing the armature and clay sculpt.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
2014 was the year I built the world famous life-size Psittacosaurus model. Here are my photos of the fossil, which shows melanin colour patterns, my skeletal and muscle reconstructions.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
2014 was the year I built the world famous life-size Psittacosaurus. The media called it the world's most accurate dinosaur reconstruction because of the near complete reference fossil. Info to follow today and tomorrow.
Researchers discover hidden step in #dinosaur feather #evolution https://phys.org/news/2024-05-hidden-dinosaur-feather-evolution.html
Cellular structure of dinosaur scales reveals retention of reptile-type skin during the evolutionary transition to feathers https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48400-3
"The study shows, for the first time, that #Psittacosaurus had reptile-like skin in areas where it didn't have feathers."
Is this the best headline ever or what?
This fossilized butthole gives us a rare window into dinosaur sex
https://www.popsci.com/story/science/first-dinosaur-butthole-cloaca/
My art in 2023 (3/12)
March: Sinosauropteryx does not want to share its tree. I still can barely believe we know the colours of both Sinosauropteryx and Psittacosaurus. Dinosaur colours always felt like something we’d never figure out without literal actual time travel before we figured them out.
I've just realized I totally forgot to listen to @KateShaw 's most recent episode of strange animals podcast:
https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2023/09/04/episode-344-psittacosaurus/
it was a very good episode about psittacosaurus.
Psittacosaurus and Repenomamus sketch
#paleontology #paleoart #dinosaur #psittacosaurus #repenomamus
