Henry Meyers

‘Things keep evolving into anteaters.’ Odd animals arose at least 12 separate times Findings speak to the dramatic impact ants and termites can have on mammalian evolution

Crab-like creatures are famed for having evolved five times in evolutionary history. But anteaters have evolved at least 12 times--in half the evolutionary span. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social for @science.org

Limestone, on left a bird line dinosaur on right a long snouted pterosaur

A slab preserving both Anchiornis and an darwinopteran pterosaur, from the 遇见博物馆 Exhibition 🐥

Sketch of the dromaesaurid Shri rapax with the fossil

New dromaeosaurid, Shri rapax. What an amazing fossil!

Alright. In my next project I'm going to have separate point & vector types, as they should be. We have this at work in our C++ engine and I can't go back. This guards against things like accidentally adding together two Vector3's that represent points. #GameDev #MadeWithUnity

At some point you’ve gotta lean into this branding. It’s making this site seem rad as hell.

YouTube video by Subnautica Subnautica 2 - "Take a Deep Breath" (Gameplay Reveal Teaser)

Our team has spent years pouring ourselves into this.

Some of the creatures I designed are among the best of my career, if I may say so. I have even been able to work a little with the lore team. I cant wait to share it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK5N...

Big things have small beginnings...

Illustration of three species of aetosaurs. Top: Aetosaurus ferratus, middle: Scutarx deltatylus and bottom: Desmatosuchus spuriensis

Reconstruction of two species of Aetosaurs. Top: Typothorax coccinarum. Bottom: Paratypothorax andressorum

Why is my book taking so long to finish? Well, one of many reasons are Aetosaurs! They are very complicated to reconstruct AND my book has a lot of them! 😅 But Aetosaurs are awesome!

Aetosaurs are pseudosuchians, and thus related to modern crocodilians

#paleoart #aetosaurs #art

An illustration depicting Plesiosuchus swimming in shallow coastal waters viewed from below. Several ammonites are in the scene as well

Today is #WorldCrocodileDay and to celebrate here is Plesiosuchus mansellii, a super interesting marine crocodilian relative that lived during the Late Jurassic in Europe

Plesiosuchus was a thalattosuchian, a group of crocodylomorph that evolved extreme aquatic adaptations

#paleoart #art

Reconstructions of Coloraderpeton (top) and Oestocephalus (bottom)

Let’s go way back in time to the Late Carboniferous for #FossilFriday Being legless in the Carboniferous! Meet two Oestocephalid aistopods! The tiny Oestocephalus amphiuminus and the larger Coloraderpeton brilli

#paleoart #conceptart #tetrapods

Reconstruction of a Dire Wolf standing in alter pose (bottom) and two sketches of the head of Aenocyon growling (top left) and almost from the front (top right)

Dire Wolf (Aenocyon dirus) thread.

No, those wolves in the news yesterday are NOT dire wolves. To be clear those are Gray Wolves with just a few genes modified based on Dire Wolf DNA through CRISPR

#paleoart #direwolf #aenocyon

I just saw the first episode of the TLOU Season 2 side by side with people who worked on the game…✨🥹
What an experience. Cannot wait for people to see it. And cannot wait to see the rest of the season

Lydon slide on Jurassic Park book discussion of Sattler.

Lydon slide showing Jurassic World Evolution and Saurian images.

Lydon: fossil plants sorta get representation in #JurassicPark as Sattler does discuss plant blindness... but she's a bit weird in the film, not really a palaeobotanist. Some game projects do give fair coverage to plants!

the perfect Technical Designer interview

A reminder that DC has a larger population than several states and the only reason we've been denied statehood is because residents OVERWHELIMINGLY vote blue

A plate depicting the therocephalians of the Beaufort Group of South Africa. There are eight species arranged in a stylized cladogram. Promoschorhynchus, Zorrillodontops, Olivierosuchus, Moschorhinus, Regisaurus, Tetracynodon, Ericiolacerta and Scoloposaurus

Another sneak peek! The Therocephalians of the Beaufort Group of Early Triassic Africa

This is one of the plates from my book about the Tetrapods of the Triassic, which I am still working on

#paleoart #sciart #therocephalians #art

A cladogram (tree of life) showing at the groups of plants. It is composed of curved lines connecting to coloured ovals with major clade names in them, or short side branches, which end in names of smaller clades.

I wasn't really sure what to share today as all of my most recent art is still secret. But here's something I don't think I've shared here:
This is a cladogram showing all the major groups of plants (living and extinct), which I put together a while back!!!
#botany #plants #Paleobotany #FossilFriday

Screenshot (slightly awkward) of me greenscreened into the title page for Saurian. Behind me are lovely depictions of a Tyrannosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Edmontosaurus, a dromaeosaur, and more, all in profile

Could it be that I'm actually playing a VIDYAGAME on #Twitch today??

You better believe it. I'm currently extolling the virtues of SAURIAN, the best dinosaur simulator game currently available -- and I'm waxing lyrical about its depiction of the Hell Creek flora and fauna

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

Dusted off my old Microraptor rig for a nice little hour-long animation practice

Developing a game: 1000s of inspirations and life experiences fused into a unique and multi-faceted gem via an epic soul breaking journey.

Selling a game: List the one game you copied and how your clone is better.

Studies of Diolocaulus swimming in five different positions

Quick studies of the bizarre boomerang-headed Diplocaulus magnicornis from the Late Permian

#paleoart #conceptart #diplocaulus

Reconstructions of the mesozoic ferns Coniopteris and Todites

Reconstructions of the Mesozoic trees Elatides and Ginkgo

I've got the go ahead to post concept art I did for the Video Game Prehistoric Kingdom. I helped with the design of their Palaeobotany system. First up are the ferns and trees from the 'Coastal' biome. Check out the Dev Diary below to see some of those plants as in-game models!

Dank flora bro

Geez you look away for one second and suddenly you have over 5k followers! In light of recent events I do not want to post on the other place anymore, gunna try to update on here more often. Here is some herbs and ground plants I made for Saurian!

To be clear, biology abhors a binary. We try to classify things like species and sexes in neat boxes, but biology squirms out of those boxes, bursts through, releases a cascade of hormones and changes into something new.

Time for us all to be as ungovernable as biology.

RFK Jr I mean Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks

Trump I mean Robert Loggia in Lost Highway

All of the MAGA creepazoids I mean Frank Booth in Blue Velvet

JD Vance in your bedroom I mean Robert Blake holding up a camcorder to his face in Lost Highway

The aesthetics of American politics in this era is sadly so psychotic evil freak men from David Lynch movies coded

This is sick Em!!

I’m shocked and very sad 😭😭😭. David Lynch has been a huge inspiration to me and a huge influence on my work. Rest in peace.