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Yuppie Echo's reference!
Finally I made the final design(I hope) for her. Tail length can change from art to art, I think
*Aenocyon dirus uralensis is my personal subspecies for my personal project
I will do a pinned post soon... Maybe. Maybe not.
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Get Out of the Tar Pit! (2025) aluminum plate lithograph, edition of 4
I'm so glad I get to finally share this recent big print with you all! The animal in this piece is a dire wolf (the real kind, Aenocyon dirus, not the Game of Thrones or Colossal-clone kind) running over an asphalt seep inspired by the famous site at La Brea. This plate was editioned during a weeklong workshop "Innovations in Lithography" at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in CO, taught by the amazing Valpuri Remling and Brian Shure. One of the really cool techniques I learned at this workshop was the method I employed to paint the tar pit in the foreground: the silhouettes of foliage are real plants, collected from the art center grounds, and used to create a resist for the pure black tusche wash. It was a great week, I met lots of amazing people, and learned an incredible amount about lithography, some of which I'm already incorporating into exciting new projects.
prints in this edition are available on my store
Meet the Real Dire Wolf
A digital impression of the large Ice Age canid Aenocyon dirus, the iconic heavily-built, bone-crushing pseudo-wolf whose ancestors split apart from other Canid genera 5.7 million years ago, evolved from A.edwardii and A.armbrusteri in the Pliocene and flourished throughout the Pleistocene, preying on horses, bison, and other large herbivores, and is distantly related to modern grey wolves and other species of the genus Canis, but is nonetheless a member of the subtribe Canina of the tribe Canini alongside the genera Canis, Lupulella, and Cuon. because Aenocyon dirus is known to have inhabited a wide variety of habitats ranging from grasslands to forests and from cold tundra to dry deserts and isn’t related to any Canis species, its coloration in life might have been far different and unique in some way from most other canid genera.
Not my best flocking but we tried :,)) Here’s Monolophosaurus, Aenocyon, Juravenator, and Zuniceratops
Sketches of the two major species of the Pliocene-Pleistocene North American canid genus Aenocyon, whose ancestors split apart form the lineage that would lead to the genus Canis around 6-5 million years ago, compared to the two species of Canis that crossed the Bering Land Bridge and coexisted alongside A.dirus (better known as the “dire-wolf”) . All the species depicted are not shown to scale. Contrary to what popular, sensational media, including the PR arm of a certain biogenetics company, might want you to believe, Aenocyon dirus is neither genetically nor morphologically related to Canis lupus, and belongs to a genus that evolved in the North American continent before the arrival of the Pliocene Eurasian canids that evolved from Eucyon, a genus that colonized the Eurasian continent 6 million years and eventually gave rise to the modern Canis species.
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Aenocyon dirus, the real Dire Wolf, was a large basal canine that lived in the Americas during the Late Pleistocene to early Holocene (125-10 Kya)
Once thought to be close relatives of wolves, being placed in the same genus, we now know it was its own genus and separated from Canis by about 5 million years. Their similarities are simply a result of convergent evolution.
Despite what a certain non-peer reviewed bioscience company would have you believe, the Dire Wolf was distinct from modern wolves and cannot simply be bred back to life.
my dad just watched a video where an "animal genetics expert" claimed the dire wolf is "95% identical in DNA to the gray wolf". 😬
a common misconception, and one that was considered true up until very recently! the genetic evidence for aenocyon dirus being separate from the canis genus was only published in 2021.
Dire wolves split from living canids around 5.7 million years ago and originated in the New World isolated from the ancestors of grey w
in fact, the placement of dires within their own genus is so recent that most museums haven’t even updated their literature or signage to reflect this classification. when i visited la brea tar pits in 2023, all of their signage still listed dire wolves as canis dirus, a “close relative of modern gray wolves”.
new information takes a while to replace old understandings, which is what makes the current ‘ressurection’ debacle so frustrating. this company has to know that the majority of the public still believe that dire wolves are true wolves, and they exploited this misconception to misrepresent their findings as more significant than they actually are.
huge deal made out of genetically modifying a grey wolf to make it superficially look like a dire wolf and then it does not even look like a dire wolf
