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Published: 2018-09-29 16:46:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 1909; Favourites: 78; Downloads: 1
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Date: 9/27/18 - 9/28/18Artist's Notes: The last drawing got me in the mood for some Paleozoic paleoart. Diadectes was one of the first terrestrial animals to reach a large size and one of the first herbivorous vertebrates. It's so strange to think of a world in which the major herbivores were amphibians.
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This is a most lifelike illustration (one likes the sense of heft it gives the creature), but something about that plumpness and the "horizon line" on this beastie's side makes me think of a stuffed toy!
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Yeah, this guy was pretty plump and squat, I imagine it would have been very strange to see these guys wallowing around in the Permian swamps.
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Doubtless there would be plenty of other oddities in the Swamps of Deep Time too!
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Another Pineal Eye
I love the ridges on the back, gives it a more rough appearance
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Thanks, this guy had a pretty big pinela eye and a pretty tall vertebal column.
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