Category Archives: Mammals

Bristol’s best kept “secret”…!

Posted on April 11, 2013 by

  You won’t see many prehistoric mammals in this blog… but after last year’s visit to Bristol University I couldn’t resist to take a few pictures and do a restoration of a fantastic Smilodon skeleton mount they (inexplicably, it should … Continue reading →

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Mammal Evolution

Posted on June 29, 2012 by

The strange world of mammal evolution is present in these two pieces.  The dog-like cynodont therapsid Cynognathus and the utterly handsome dinocephalian (more like a side branch in evolutionary terms) Estemmenosuchus. Both have been published in Anusuya Chinsamy’s  ”Forerunners Of Mammals” previously mentioned … Continue reading →

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Some mammal stuff from “Prehistoric Monsters”

Posted on June 25, 2012 by

Denizens of the Ice Age and Platybelodon protecting its baby…. These two pieces that are part of the Prehistoric Monsters book I did with Dr. Bob Bakker some years ago and in turn they are now part of the newly … Continue reading →

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And now for something completely different… Mammals!

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

After we did together our now famous Dinosaurs From Africa book, there was always some room to do some more collaborations. Anusuya Chinsamy is famous for her histology and metabolic studies of fossil animals… here’s my latest work illustrating her … Continue reading →

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PSITTACOSAURUS CRECHE ATTACKED BY REPENOMAMUS

Posted on June 20, 2012 by

The discovery of a giant mammal with a baby dinosaur in its belly was all the rage a few years back. The concept of a mammal that could attack and eat dinosaurs in the Cretaceous (when everybody had assumed that … Continue reading →

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