a rootless cosmopolite

blogging

EDIT: and shinies!

Courtesy Alain Truong

"You call *that* a horse?"

“Look how much we’ve changed”

PATREON | STORE | Runaway to the Stars

What you are looking at here is an early elephant relative from the Eocene of northern Africa. It is bizarrely build, with surprisingly long legs adapted for terrestrial locomotion (compared to Meoritherium for example, which was more semi-aquatic) but they are sprawling like in a dinocephalian. It's skull is very short and domed with evidence for sexual dimorphism (males having larger domes). it appears to have been a browser and was the largest land animal in the formations it was found in. The trunk was probably very short, similar to a tapir and the tusks weren't present yet.

Did you know glypodonts could apparently stand, maybe walk on their hind-limbs and had hairy shells based on the follicles in their osteoderms? Well, now you know.

A pair of brachiosaurids sing songs forever lost in time.

Part three. A Shringasaurus temple, Archaeotherium getting brushed, Stegouros burrow, Plateosaurus hatchery, Wakaleo enclosure, Eryops colony, Lystrosaurus lookout, Giganthopithecus canopy walk, Australoraptor waterfalls, Numudotherium pond and the Erlikosaurus canyon.

t-rex baby and diplocaulus

Here’s my newest painting, about dragons and Georges.

Udachny, Yakutia Series "Lucky" - by Hanne Van Assche