Scientific Illustration

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Amargasurus |Sarcosuchus attacking a group of Iguanodon. By Víctor Zubeldía:

“My main goal is to create atmospheres in my illustrations, my skills allowed me to paint scenes the way I like them to be, always trying to take to a different place than the usual and more strict paleo-llustration. I want to portrait a more imperfect and realistic world, where dinosaurs are dirty, or sick; where their color is more opaque, where there is beauty around them too.”

Read more about Víctor Zubeldía’s process: HOW I CREATE A PALEO ILLUSTRATION. Very interesting.

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“It may be hard to believe, but Antarctica was once covered in towering forests.

One hundred million years ago, the Earth was in the grip of an extreme Greenhouse Effect.

The polar ice caps had all but melted; in the south, rainforests inhabited by dinosaurs existed in their place.

These Antarctic ecosystems were adapted to the long months of winter darkness that occur at the poles, and were truly bizarre.

But if global warming continues unabated, could these ancient forests be a taste of things to come?” Full article (BBC News). Art by Peter Trusler.

(via dendroica)

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Cutaways by Steve White

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Archosaur Musings: What is your favourite piece of palaeo art that you have produced?

Larry Felder: My favorite piece is more a life study of one of my favorite dinosaurs, Parasaurolophus, that I did for my book “In the Presence of Dinosaurs”.  I did an extended series of paintings of the animal, from adults, to courtship displays, nesting sites, hatchlings and behaviorial studies.

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“Cretaceous Spain” by Pablo Lara

citrussucker:

Paleoartist Charles R. Knight working on a stegosaurus in 1899. This man could be seen as a forerunner of Willis O’Brien and Ray Harryhausen.

(via paleoillustration)

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Pachycephalosaurus by Vlad Konstantinov

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“Prehistoric” by Jonatan Iversen-Ejve:

“This one is for a poster with an evolution timeline”. See the missing pictures here.