Hello #PortfolioDay! I illustrate extinct animals and their environments.

Meet the snow sloths of the Pleistocene in #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge, narrated by Tom Hiddleston. Premieres November 26 on Apple TV+

Nothing bonds players faster than disliking the same umpire.

When you're preparing a boring unidentified fossil specimen and suddenly realize it's something incredibly rare and important.

A new diplodocid skeleton was unveiled today at the Provincial House of the Dutch Province of North Brabant! It will be on display there for the rest of the month, until it returns to the Oertijdmuseum, which is where we originally prepared the skeleton.

The level of texture work I get to do when I don't have to draw the plants.

Can you spell ‘gn’ without using g or n? 👀

I haven't been posting much. But that doesn't mean I haven't been drawing any dinosaurs. 👀

Two articles have already been published and like the rest are freely accessible to everyone. The first two articles both feature art by me, including a skeletal and life reconstruction of Ardetosaurus viator, a new species first published in this volume. https://t.co/EDkvPR8mVN

A new giant project on diplodocoids! When finished, it will provide a look into the anatomy, diversity and phylogeny of these long necked dinosaurs. They just started a crowd funding campain, so if you want to see this project realized consider donating. https://t.co/1B3Sq0zJaY

Buried in the Sahara, Nat Geo explorer Paul Sereno and his team uncovered 55 tons of dinosaur fossils—including a Spinosaurus skull and one of Africa's earliest giant predators. These finds are helping rewrite the story of prehistoric life in Africa. 🔗

A beautiful thing is the joy of the Lord—the kind that wells up from deep within, making the heart feel too full to contain it, all because of the Lord's nearness. Joy is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit, a supernatural gift that doesn't always flow steadily like a faucet

I wrapped up a summer full of dinosaurs at Paul Sereno's Fossil Lab earlier this week. I had the privilege of working with a lot of great minds, on a lot of great projects.

Just noticed there are Tarchia in the background of #PrehistoricPlanet season 1... How do I keep finding new details on every rewatch 😭 I was too distracted by the Therizinosaurus I guess. The attention to detail is just astounding.

You'll all have seen the many announcements and PR pieces from #ColossalBiosciences. There are reasons to be concerned about the general message promoted by CB, one being that it's seen >by some< (US politicians in particular) as meaning that we can devalue conservation. 🧵1/n

From towering giants to baby sloths, it doesn’t get cooler than this. #PrehistoricPlanet: Ice Age — Streaming November 26

The @Cubs have six NL Gold Glove Award Finalists!

Thanks to @paleobyliam for organizing a wonderful Field Museum visit this #FossilFriday! And thanks to @AkikoS9 for showing us around behind the scenes.

Presented a poster today on my research on mammals from a new Lancian microsite. The poster is in Dutch but don't worry, I'm almost done with the paper which will feature significantly more material anyway.

Solar eclipse at the museum today

Here are the original sketches I made last year. At the time I didn't have the intention of turning them into a full illustration but here we are. https://t.co/ErbXvN5jm0

The bone core of completer crests were recently discovered in Niger and have not yet been described. This reconstruction is not based on those specimens (in which case I would have made them even taller, especially as they were likely covered by a keratinous sheath).

In case people are wondering about the crest: it is known that Spinosaurus had one, as the base of some have been found. Unfortunately no complete crests have been described, but seeing the extent of displays like the sail and tail, I find it likely the crest was quite prominent.

When it comes to the presence or absence of lips there are valid arguments for both sides. I usually reconstruct them with lips but chose not to this time. Reasons include: interlocking teeth, teeth angling out labially, and tight skin covering on much of the snout.