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What is Paleoart?
Paleoart is artistic depictions of prehistory, focusing on subjects such as dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals, archaic plant life, ancient insects, early hominids, and the environments they lived in.
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Spinosaurus by Fabrizio De Rossi
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With some speculative touches. (omg i suck at drawing legs lmao)
Leedsichthys problematicus and the basking shark get colors
Leedsichthys' colors are very trout inspired
Decided to switch it up and do a few days with micron/gel roll pens
Phorusrhacos longissimus done with graphite
A trio of Protocyon chase off a lone Maned Wolf.
Quick sketch featuring gentle giants Leedsichthys Problematicus and a basking shark (Cetorhinus Maximus)
Leedsichthys Problematicus is such an awesome animal that isnt brought up that often, when people talk about a prehistoric animals that lived in the ocean, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, plio and plesiosaurs and sharks are brought up often, but this titan is left out of the convo pretty often, idk if its because it is not a powerful predator, but it was the largest animal of its time, some plesiosaurs could rival it in length but it was (maybe) the largest marine animal of its time, it is not the largest fish to ever exist, that title goes to the megalodon, it is not the largest animal that ever existed, that title is claimed by blue whale, but the title of "largest bony fish" goes to this titan, and that is what makes it special in my heart
Both individuals are large specimens and do not represent the average
a lot of research and speculation went into this one, inspired by one I saw in the field.
I made a drawing of three sharks Species are in order of size from largest to smalles
Ginsu Shark (Cretoxyrhina Mantelli) Great white shark (Charcharodon Charcharias) Shortfin mako (Isurus Oxyrinhcus)
All sharks are large individuals and do NOT represent the average (cretoxyrhina is kinda an exception since we only have size estimates, but the accepted upper size is 8 meters or so as of writing this)