天上天下の天ちゃん

Tonight's #paleostream aired under the topic: "The things Apple denied us. Featuring creatures that could have appeared in #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge but didn't make it.
Deinotherium, Maokopia, Hadropithecus and Paranthropus the toolmaker.

ヴェロキラプトルとデイノニクス、ユタラプトル
Velociraptor, Deinonychus and Utahraptor

🐶ポケ

ニシゴリラとボルネオオランウータン
Western gorilla and Bornean orangutan
#drawing #gorilla #orangutan

Swallow Rabbit🐰🪶

Crested caracara with food for it's young one...

Elasmotherium and Crow #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge

King of all the antlers.
#Prehistoricplaneticeage #Megaloceros #ContinueThePrehistoricPlanet

More art for the Paleo Zookeeper Association, this time on Smilodon! His video on the subject is out and well worth a watch!

Link to episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq_A...

Trident deer feature heavily in this chapter, and become the favored prey of our twins. The migration of these cervids up and down the valley is a main drive for Tenir'ha and Baru exploring further from their mother's territory.

Another paleozookeeper episode, this time on the care and raising of Maiasaura! I did a lot of art for this episode, including a hypothetical crop study. Check it out!

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

Daddy Tops will not be contained.

Much of what the Assembly knows about entelodonts comes from study of this animal. While they have never been domesticated, and indeed are feared man-eaters in the wild, several tame individuals are known from the Roostercrest Zoo.

Yesterday we had a special #MonkeyCruise stream in honor of Jane Goodall! Her contributions to primatology and our understanding of animal intelligence changed the worldview of whole generations and her caring and critical voice will be missed.
Referenced artworks below...

カンムリカラカラの喉元を羽繕いするクロコンドル A black vulture preening a crested caracara in its throat

カンムリカラカラの頭を羽繕いするクロコンドル A black vulture preening a crested caracara on its head

ついにクロコンドルがカンムリカラカラに羽繕いするとこを見れた！
麗しき異種間友情よ永遠なれ

マチュピチュ展ですが、冒頭部にはこんな飾り布が掲げられています。
青は、空と水、黄は、太陽と砂漠を意味する、象徴的なものだそうです。

そして、近づいてみると、これは、コンゴウインコの羽でできているんですよ。木綿にインコの羽をびっしりと張り合わせて作っているのでした。

ね、生き物濃度高いでしょう？

最古のRNA配列、4万年前のマンモスの最期の詳細を明らかに 現在のシベリアで約4万年前に死んだ若いマンモス「ユカ」から古代のリボ核酸（RNA）が採取された。こうした生物学的な遺物が、マンモスの最期の瞬間に関する洞察を提供している。

「これほど古いRNAが解析された例は初めて」「メッセンジャーRNAとマイクロRNAが確認」
筋肉の代謝→最終脈動だった可能性。
今後、古代ウイルス研究の道が開ける可能性。

Detail from a pencil drawing of Anchiornis, a small feathered paravian dinosaur from late Jurassic China. It is mostly black and white with a red head crest and pins down a small lizard with one of its feet. The drawing is small and very intricate.

Anchiornis. Detail from a drawing from 2019.

A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.

(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Endangered Species of Japan- the illustration vs risograph print ☺️💖

Endangered Species of the Philippines 🇵🇭

［蒐書日誌］つくばから送った箱入り本が道後樋又に届いたので、開封して学科長室前に陳列する。学生にはまずは本を手に取ってもらわないと。ホッキョクグマの本：マイケル・エンゲルハード［山川純子訳］『ホッキョクグマ：北極の象徴の文化史』（2020年8月、白水社） www.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/book... を手にして「かわいい〜」を連発する女子学生たちに幸あれかし。

🐰ちゃん #OC

Sitting in the Lodge on Sealion watching the Striated Caracara..

Striated caracara with a "snack" ....Sealion island, Falkland Islands

Elephant seals...

Giant ant eater sketch studies and poses. I included a large front facing view and side vies as well as rendering the skull.

Today is #WorldAnteaterDay 🎉💙

Giant Anteater sketch study. Conservation status Vulnerable. They have a distinctive snout with a 2-foot-long tongue and no teeth, and feed almost exclusively on ants and termites.

#AnteaterDay #GiantAnteater #AnimalArt #SciArt #SketchStudy

Magpies are another animal I have used in my art a lot. I love these tuxedo clad opportunists, they are quite striking in sunlight with shades of blues, greens and purples on their seemingly black feathers. Here is a colloection of magpie art made throughout the years.