Lewis LaRosa
@lewislarosa
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Comics, paleo & character design artist. All work is trad media on board. No AI. My art book Carbon Based is now on Kickstarter (see pinned tweet)
Georgia, USA
Joined April 2016
Cover to my first art book collection Carbon Based. Hoping people will dig it & hoping it’ll allow me to catch up on some things & hopefully seek relief for my back problems I’m always whining about. Thanks guys! https://t.co/S2oU9S9y0k
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Years of work involving an amazing team at @bbcstudios @Framestore @AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!
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Well-preserved Triceratops skulls have a sharp falloff on the rear frill from a vascular texture to "scooped out" cavities. It is likely these cavities were filled out by neck musculature. Many reconstructions overlook them, ending up with necks that are prorbably far too skinny.
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Sad news of Garfield Minott, a prolific dinosaur modeller and palaeoartist, recognised for contributions to the description of dinosaur binocular vision, passed away.
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Great time at NC Comicon, thanks to all the wonderful people who stopped by! Got all the sigs & remarques done for Megalith & my art book.
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While soft tissue rarely preserved, that doesn’t mean we don’t find examples of it. For example, below are sections of Triceratops skin, featuring large scales, some of which qualify as “feature scales”
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‘Teenage T. rex’ fossil is actually a different species
nature.com
Nature - The discovery of smaller predator Nanotyrannus could prompt a rethink of tyrannosaur evolution.
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
nytimes.com
Did certain small tyrannosaur fossils belong to “teen rex” or another species? New analysis of a recent fossil appears to have settled the debate.
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Nanotyrannus lives!!!
It's real. And it's spectacular. Sometimes, one fossil really can change everything you think you know. NEW PAPER (see bottom of thread) AND 🧵
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