Illustrations done for this month's Texas Highways Magazine. 100% handpainted, really excited about a huge breakthrough with how I paint textural detail.
A herd of Alamosaurus sanjuanensis stroll across a beach while two Quetzalcoatlus fly overhead in what is now the Javelina Formation of Texas, 67 million years ago
What a magical moment, the swelling music over the sauropods in the beautiful setting give that joyful awe that these titans should evoke. These animals have that same beautiful majesty of whales in my eyes and I adore when paleomedia takes a second to just marvel in the wonder of them.
This death has such a tearful melancholy to it. The old Alamosaur doesn't die from a space rock or a T. rex pack, he just... lays down. His life is long and his body is old, he can't make it any longer, so he lays down on a serene beach and falls asleep, peacefully passing away to the sounds of the waves on sand.
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* profiles of multiple species of dinosaurs, sea lizards and weird ancient mammals
* a rundown of the park's fossil history
* operatic descriptions of changing landscapes, dancing seas, and churning volcanoes
* "time travel notes" reconstructions of the Big Bend's prehistoric landscapes. (Those last bits were the most fun to write, and include some fun set-pieces: a Cretaceous clam reef, a feeding frenzy around a rotting sauropod, battling camels, and more!)
And, of course, wonderful field-sketch style illustrations by the great Julius Csotonyi!
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Alamosaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous Period of what is now southern North America. It was a gigantic quadrupedal herbivore with a long neck and tail and relatively long limbs. Its body was at least partly covered in bony armor. Alamosaurus was the largest dinosaur yet discovered from North America, growing to a length of about 30 m and an approximate weight of 80 t. It is the only known sauropod to have inhabited North America after their nearly 30-million year absence from the North American fossil record, and probably represents an immigrant from South America.
Alamosaurus sanjuanensis! The Alamosaurus is a genus of opisthocoelicaudline titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs containing a single known species, Alamosaurus sanjuanensis, it is the largest known dinosaur in North America. No skull has ever been found but scientists have made possible recreations like the one in the drawing.