Critterzoology

@Critterzoology@ecoevo.social

Scientific illustrator, specializing in the reconstruction of extinct animals. Communication designer. Sustainable design student.

#sciart #scientificillustration

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Critterzoology, to random

Watercolour drawing of a memory of me catching leeches from a pond when I was a child.

Critterzoology, to aliens

Few remember the National Geographic speculative evolution mini-series "Extraterrestrial – Alien Worlds". Even less remember that it had an official companion book. I'm glad I managed to get my hands on a copy a while ago. It was sold at a temporary exhibit themed after the tv program at the Science Museum London back in 2005.

#speculativeevolution #nationalgeographic #aliens #sciencefiction #speculativebiology #specevo #aurelia #bluemoon

Pencil drawings of the Mudpod inside the book. It is an amphibian-like creature with eyestalks and a large claw on one hand.
Pencil drawings of a Stalker inside the book. The Stalker is an alien creature that looks like a cross between a bird and a mosquito.

Critterzoology, to random

I painted a Meganeura today.

Critterzoology, to shark

Ptychodus decurrens hunting Neocardioceras juddii in Westphalia during the Late Cretaceous. Ptychodus has blunt teeth in order to crack shells.

Critterzoology, to random

The giant belemnite Megateuthis catching a Hypsocormus.

#megateuthis #hypsocormus #belemnite #cephalopod #palaeontology #jurassic #watercolour #watercolourart #animalart #wildlifeart #marineanimals #marinelife

Critterzoology, to random

A "Scaldicetus" I made for the Steinkern Magazine. "Scaldicetus" is considered to be a wastebasket taxon, consisting of various prehistoric sperm whales, often used as a name for tooth fossils.

Critterzoology, to AncientHistory

Here's a Pappocetus lugardi while I'm at it. For reference I looked at some Pappocetus specimens from Gueran in the Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra Region of Morocco and the drawings in the description by Charles William Andrews.

#pappocetus #whale #eocene #prehistory #prehistoric #morocco #nigeria #africa #palaeontology #fossil #sciart #watercolour #scientificillustration

Critterzoology, to egypt

I painted an Eocetus schweinfurthi the other day. It's odd that there weren't any proper life reconstructions of it made so far. A lot of Eocetus material got lost during WW2 but we know what it is related to and we even have a skull.

Critterzoology, to shark

A modern sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus) and its 5 m long relative Carcharias cuspidatus from the Oligocene. The size is known from a partial skeleton that was found near Rauenberg in Baden-Württemberg.

Critterzoology, to Reptiles

At the Scheuerberg of Eberbach in the Odenwald a roughly 250 million years old footprint with a length of 28 cm was found, that may have belonged to an erythrosuchid.

#triassic #permian #archosaur #reptiles #palaeontology #vertebrate_paleontology #odenwald #eberbach #sciart #scientificillustration #ichnofossil #footprint #prehistory #germany #badenwurttemberg #naturpark #neckartal #rheinneckar #saurier #urzeit #animalart #watercolour #watercolourart #painting

Critterzoology, to random

Eomys quercyi, also known as the Stöffel mouse, is a gopher relative that was able to glide from tree to tree and lived during the Oligocene in Germany.

Critterzoology, to random

Chelotriton paradoxus, a salamander from Miocene Eurasia.

Critterzoology, to random

Why do so many people go down the reactionary route instead of the communicator route? There are so many ways of incorporating natural history into climate activism, like, for example, literally what most natural history museums do. Even though it was a replica, the utter disrespect towards nature scientists here is just so gross to me. Researchers and science communicators fight at the front against global warming and this asshat just shits all over their efforts.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/activists-spray-paint-on-a-replica-dinosaur-skeleton-at-canadian-museum-of-nature

Critterzoology, to random

There are so many impressive titanosaur figures released at the moment by CollectA, PNSO and Haolonggood, but my wallet says no. Good thing that I made one myself a few months ago by modifying a Papo Brachiosaurus that I bought at an office supply store. You can still kind of see what it used to be due to the pose. The tail was lengthened with a left over Battat tyrannosaur tail.

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Critterzoology, to ocean

A Dunkleosteus, reconstructed with extensive facial soft tissue, about to bite into an ammonite. I painted this last year shortly after Engelman et al. 2023 was published, hence the stocky proportions.

#dunkleosteus #placoderm #fish #marinelife #palaeontology #devonian #prehistoric #palaeozoic #marineanimal #ocean #ammonite

Critterzoology, to Geology

Urda buechneri is a species of potentially parasitic isopod from the Middle Jurassic of Germany that was described by @mcranium et al. in 2023. The paper that describes U. buechneri also discusses how the genus Urda fits on the isopod family tree and how the associated fossils relate to the extant isopod family Gnathiidae.

#isopod #fossil #crustacean #arthropod #invertebratepalaeontology #palaeontology #geology #invertebrate #sciart #scientificillustration #jurassic #animalart #parasitology

Critterzoology, to random

Pencil drawing of a hawker dragonfly larva husk.

Critterzoology, to Animal

While not as well known as its cousin, the dodo, the Rodrigues solitaire is also quite important when talking about Holocene extinctions. Just like the dodo it was hunted by Europeans, while domesticated mammals introduced to the island went after its eggs, until the last one of them died in the mid 18th century.

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