My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Yesterday's hunter becomes the prey. Here's the mosasaur half of my large Western Interior Seaway mural (2021) for Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA. Featured are a group of Platecarpus fleeing a Tylosaurus, Apsopelix fish, and a variety of ammonites.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here are some zooms into my 2021 painting of Platecarpus hunting an Enchodus. This piece was commissioned by the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA.
Vyšel trailer k filmu Jurassic World: Rebirth! / The trailer for Jurassic World: Rebirth is out!
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This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Mosasaurus
In 1764, near Maastricht Netherlands, a skull was found in a chalk quarry. It was thought to be a whale.
In 1780, a second skull was found and the physician Johann Leonard Hoffmann thought it was a crocodile. Biologist Petrus Camper published that fossil as a whale.
In 1794, French revolutionaries looted Maastricht and by 1795 the skull had made its way to National Museum of Natural History, France.
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𝗠𝗮𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹 𝘇𝗶𝗷𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗮𝘀𝗮𝘂𝗿𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘂𝗴, 𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 1795 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗷𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝘁
Maastricht wil de schedel terug van een mosasaurus die eind 18de eeuw werd gevonden in de kalksteengroeves in de Sint-Pietersberg. Het skelet is destijds door Franse troepen na de belegering van Maastricht als oorlogsbuit meegenomen. Sinds 1795 ligt dat fossiel in het natuurhistorisch...
