Here's a Pappocetus lugardi while I'm at it. For reference I looked at some Pappocetus specimens from Gueran in the Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra Region of Morocco and the drawings in the description by Charles William Andrews.
I painted an Eocetus schweinfurthi the other day. It's odd that there weren't any proper life reconstructions of it made so far. A lot of Eocetus material got lost during WW2 but we know what it is related to and we even have a skull.
A modern sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus) and its 5 m long relative Carcharias cuspidatus from the Oligocene. The size is known from a partial skeleton that was found near Rauenberg in Baden-Württemberg.
At the Scheuerberg of Eberbach in the Odenwald a roughly 250 million years old footprint with a length of 28 cm was found, that may have belonged to an erythrosuchid.
Urda buechneri is a species of potentially parasitic isopod from the Middle Jurassic of Germany that was described by @mcranium et al. in 2023. The paper that describes U. buechneri also discusses how the genus Urda fits on the isopod family tree and how the associated fossils relate to the extant isopod family Gnathiidae.
While not as well known as its cousin, the dodo, the Rodrigues solitaire is also quite important when talking about Holocene extinctions. Just like the dodo it was hunted by Europeans, while domesticated mammals introduced to the island went after its eggs, until the last one of them died in the mid 18th century.
The book Elolliset (eng. ~the living beings) by Iida Turpeinen would deserve a translation. Also fun to look up the described illustrations.
Here the only known depiction of a Steller’s sea cow that presumably was drawn from life, in Turpeinen’s words looking like a ”surprised potato with a fish tail”, published in Pallas’ Zoographica Rosso-Asiatica. #literature#history#scientificIllustration
Is there a scientific illustrator on here who could do a reasonably easy piece of work quite quickly (within the next 2 weeks or so say) for an article I'm writing?
Or can anyone recommend somebody?
EDIT to add: it's a climate/ice sheet visual btw
If you're looking to commission someone to do scientific illustrations, i want to recommend my friend, Pai! She has her portfolio and CV here: https://yunjinpai.net/portfolio