My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Transient Oasis," showing a colony of Seirocrinus crinoids drifting on deadwood.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Mire Siren," showing a family group of Utahraptors becoming trapped in quicksand.
New review: On the Wing is an excellent, factual primer on the evolution of flight that helpfully assumes little background knowledge.
#Books #BookReview #Scicomm #Evolution #Flight #Biomechanics #Paleontology #Palaeontology @bookstodon @EvolLetters
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Zooming into my 2022 Nature cover, featuring Tupandactylus. This painting was commissioned by Cincotta et al for their paper describing multiple feathers and their colours from a pterosaur fossil!
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's my 2022 Nature cover featuring Tupandactylus. This painting was commissioned by Cincotta et al for their paper describing multiple feathers and their colours from a pterosaur fossil!
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "Condemning the host," showing a prehistoric wasp (Xenomorphia) injecting an egg into a fly pupa.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The lady looks on," showing male theropods lekking to impress a female.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Some zooms from my 2022 painting of a Thescelosaurus (front lit by the low Sun from the west) amidst the Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous Chicxulub asteroid impact. Also features are Triceratops and Quetzalcoatlus.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's a 2022 painting of a Thescelosaurus (front lit by the low Sun from the west) amidst the Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous Chicxulub asteroid impact (the orange glow from the south). Also features are Triceratops and Quetzalcoatlus.
Workers uncover 'weird' dinosaur in the Gobi Desert. What do we know?
By Charmayne Allison and Sohani Goonetillake
Scientists say the Duonychus is like a "giant feathered sloth" with "big, sharp and nasty claws".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-26/weird-dinosaur-unearthed-in-gobi-desert/105097288
Workers uncover 'weird' dinosaur in the Gobi Desert. What do we know?
By Charmayne Allison and Sohani Goonetillake
Scientists say the Duonychus is like a "giant feathered sloth" with "big, sharp and nasty claws".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-26/weird-dinosaur-unearthed-in-gobi-desert/105097288
This is your captain speaking with an update from the flight deck: a double review on the evolution of flight is en route to https://inquisitivebiologist.com
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "His Best Moves," showing a male Confuciusornis showing off to a female.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2022, the Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dean R Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Formidable Opportunists," an Allosaurus pack tearing apart a rotting Camarasaurus.
I only just found out that #RichardFortey has died via the Economist podcast. I enjoyed his books and TV programmes.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/13/richard-fortey-obituary
"Palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum who was also a bestselling science writer and accomplished TV presenter"
7- Once you have the scan, you can make replicas of your fossils by 3D printing them! Here a fossil predentary, along with the 3D scan.
Thank you to the presenters for doing such a good job, the organizers for putting this together, and the participants for making it all possible! This was an amazing way to end the Paleo 2025 symposium, and we can't wait to see you all next year!
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5- High-tech photogrammetry setup! This allows us to get images of the fossil from 360 degrees. This setup, along with the app to create the scans, was significantly cheaper than my car.
6- Participants break out to scan their own fossils
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2- As a Pachyrhinosaurus looks on
3- The structured light scanner along with a hadrosaur jaw, set up for scanning. This scanner cost more than my car!
4- Jackson Sweder demonstrating the scanner. Truly, living in the future is amazing.
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To cap off an amazing weekend, Dr. Emily Bamforth and Jackson Sweder from the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum along with Atharva Roy presented on 3D scanning and printing of fossils! We learnt how 3D scans are made and used to advance the field of palaeontology. We saw demonstrations of the structured light scanner and then created our own low-cost, easy photogrammetry scans using an app on our smartphones!
1- The presenters!
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