Over on Twitter, I've been doing a thing called TetZoocryptomegathread, where I discuss the twists and turns pertaining to given pieces of 'monster' evidence, usually photos. They've been hugely popular. As an experiment, let's see how they fare here. Fingers crossed. Here we go...
Guanlingsaurus, my skeletal restoration of this giant ichthyosaur. A short, toothless snout, high vertebral count, and reduced ossification acrodd the skeleton make this a very unique animal
Man I haven’t posted on here in a while- here’s a currently unfinished painting of the supremely weird Sclerocormus
I did skeletal and some other illustration work for a new publication by Dr. Andrzej Wolniewicz et al., publishing a new of saurosphargid and a new scheme for sauropterygian evolution. Give it a read! https://elifesciences.org/articles/83163
Hello everyone! For anyone who didn’t know me before, I’m a paleontologist who studies intraspecific variation to understand vertebrate evolution. I’m currently a postdoctoral researcher at NC State on the Dueling Dinosaurs project studying the evolution and growth of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs.
It also has flippers. Dinocephalosaurids are close to Tanystropheids, but Dinocephalosaurus’ aquatic habits (far more specialized than Tany) and extreme neck were evolved convergently. Fascinating animal to be sure
Wait till you see the enormous neck with 27 vertebrae it has