The colours of sunset and sea.

A warm up sketch of an elderly wolf I photographed some years ago in Ähtäri Zoo, central Finland.

Putting tales of big bad wolves aside, most wolves have a quite gentle-looking face. Looking at them, it doesn’t seem to odd our distant ancestors ended up befriending them.

A speculative reconstruction of Thyreosaurus, a mysterious newly named stegosaur relative found in Morocco.

Known from a partial skeleton, there’s quite a bit of artistic liberty in the appearance of this one.

Another fish, because why not. Ptomacanthus was a Devonian freshwater fish very distantly related to today’s sharks, rays and chimaeras.

These animals possibly had a decent color vision, later lost in the shark lineage, and thus could have been colorful.

Spiny friend.

A male Dacenturus presenting his mating call - which I’m sure is very noisy. Based on the skeletal by Dan F

Before fish had jaws, they were already a diverse bunch. And quite amusing.

Drawn after 3D models by Ville Sinkkonen and inspired by his enthusiasm.

A little fun thing I doodled in a work meeting: Juravenator, a tiny little dinosaur.

🚨New paper Science Magazine led by my PhD student Cooper Malanoski on extinction selectivity. We find taxa will go extinct regardless of their traits if climate change is great enough: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
University of Oxford Dan Lunt Alex Farnsworth🌻 Graphic by: Maija Karala

Steppe bison.

Based on my earlier drawings of European bison. I was visiting relatives for the past few days and had practically no time for coherent thoughts. This is what I was able to do on autopilot.

Beasts with horns.

Though I spend a lot of time thinking about extinct animals, it’s important not to forget so many amazing animals still exist in the world today. So much to cherish and protect.

Death of a dragon.

Based on a newly published fossil of the Triassic marine reptile Dinocephalosaurus, a distant relative of birds and crocodylians.

So. Many. Scales.

Pakicetus - a very early cetacean - showing an expression of fearful, defensive aggression widely shared among mammals. I'm fascinated by the deep roots of emotions and body language in animals. Much of it is shared between species separated by immense gulfs of evolution.

Last art of the year, probably. An impulsive painting from late last night, showing the sun just peeking over the horizon on New Year's eve on some long gone year close to the Arctic Circle.

Threat display.
A little Triceratops doodle.

Since almost nobody liked my Legend of Zelda fan art earlier today, I did the only logical thing and… made another one. And had fun with it.

I got a complete art block during Christmastime, but finally managed to break it with this. A little style experiment with Rauru, the first king of Hyrule.