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Fantastic reconstruction of an Archaeopteryx I saw at Southampton Fossil and mineral show. It was part of an exhibition of fossil replicas exhibited by Southampton University.

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Last day! Back the new prehistoric comic book PALEOCENE #4 while you can!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book

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Two days left and 85% funded! Now’s the time to back PALEOCENE, the comic book series set 66 million years ago. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book

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The end is coming! Only three days left to back the next issue of PALEOCENE, the comic book series about our tiny, primate ancestors 66 million years ago, who survived the extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book

#paleontology #extinction #palaeontology #paleoart #prehistoric #comicart #comics #biology #primates #evolutionary biology #evolution

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It’s going away soon! Four days left to back the latest issue of PALEOCENE, a comic book series about our ancestors who survived the asteroid impact that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book

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Only 5 days left to back the latest issue of PALEOCENE, a comic book series about our tiny primate ancestors who survived the asteroid impact that ended the Age of Dinosaurs.

Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book

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Only six days left to back the latest issue of the prehistoric, post-apocalyptic comic book series, PALEOCENE. Hurry! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book

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Only one week left in the campaign for the fourth issue of Paleocene. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book

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Now available as a poster: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book

Inside back cover for Paleocene #4.

Read more about making this image. Check out the campaign to print the comic book!

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New add-on for the Paleocene #4 Kickstarter campaign: Original Pencils.

Most comic artists create their pencils directly on the Bristol board that the inks are done on. This is how I worked originally, but, starting with Paleocene #3, I switched to a different process. I draw the figures and environmental elements (vines, tunnels, etc.) separately, scan them in, composite them in Photoshop (sometimes adding 3D-rendered backgrounds), and then print that out on Bristol board, which I ink.

(Shown above: pencils/rough inks for pages 24 and 10.)

Check out the campaign!

#paleontology #extinction #palaeontology #prehistoric #paleoart #comicart #comics #pencil

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An illustration I made a while ago with PhyloPic silhouettes as part of my chapter on human evolution (“Three Histories of the Human Body”) in the anti-creationism volume God’s Word or Human Reason?.

This illustration is under the CC-BY 3.0 license. See here for more on this image.

Other diagrams I’ve made on evolution.

A paleofiction comic book series about much earlier human ancestors.

#paleontology #extinction #palaeontology #paleoart #prehistoric #biology #evolution #evolutionary biology #sciart #science #paleoanthropology #anthropology #hominidae #hominins #hominids #australopithecus #homo sapiens #homo neanderthalensis #neanderthal #homo erectus

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The front cover for my upcoming comic book, Paleocene #4. Check out the campaign to get it printed!

Sixty-six million years ago, the world ended.

A meteorite over ten kilometers in diameter slammed into the Earth. The explosion released two million times as much energy as the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated. All life in the vicinity was instantly obliterated.

For the rest of the world, death was slower. A shroud of soot and dust engulfed the Earth. Without sunlight, plants withered and died, setting off a domino effect up the food chain, all the way to mighty predators like Tyrannosaurus rex. Three quarters of all life on Earth perished, starving in the darkness.

But we survived.

Not “we” as in humankind. This was much earlier. But our early primate ancestors—they persisted. With clutched hands and shining eyes, they witnessed the end of the world … and the early dawn of a new one.

What's in the new issue?

After witnessing a predatory bird devour their fellow troop member, Mamma and Brother continue their search for Sister … now in the freezing cold of winter.

Could the little child possibly have survived? What will happen to Auntie and the rest of the troop in their absence? And, as Brother grows up, will he stay with his Mamma?

If you've been following the story so far, you'll definitely want to read this one, because, I promise, you will finally discover Sister's fate!

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Inside back cover for Paleocene #4.

Read more about making this image. Check out the campaign to print the comic book!

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The front cover for my upcoming comic book, Paleocene #4. Check out the campaign to get it printed!

Sixty-six million years ago, the world ended.

A meteorite over ten kilometers in diameter slammed into the Earth. The explosion released two million times as much energy as the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated. All life in the vicinity was instantly obliterated.

For the rest of the world, death was slower. A shroud of soot and dust engulfed the Earth. Without sunlight, plants withered and died, setting off a domino effect up the food chain, all the way to mighty predators like Tyrannosaurus rex. Three quarters of all life on Earth perished, starving in the darkness.

But we survived.

Not “we” as in humankind. This was much earlier. But our early primate ancestors—they persisted. With clutched hands and shining eyes, they witnessed the end of the world … and the early dawn of a new one.

What's in the new issue?

After witnessing a predatory bird devour their fellow troop member, Mamma and Brother continue their search for Sister … now in the freezing cold of winter.

Could the little child possibly have survived? What will happen to Auntie and the rest of the troop in their absence? And, as Brother grows up, will he stay with his Mamma?

If you've been following the story so far, you'll definitely want to read this one, because, I promise, you will finally discover Sister's fate!

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The front cover for my upcoming comic book, Paleocene #4. Check out the campaign to get it printed!

Sixty-six million years ago, the world ended.

A meteorite over ten kilometers in diameter slammed into the Earth. The explosion released two million times as much energy as the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated. All life in the vicinity was instantly obliterated.

For the rest of the world, death was slower. A shroud of soot and dust engulfed the Earth. Without sunlight, plants withered and died, setting off a domino effect up the food chain, all the way to mighty predators like Tyrannosaurus rex. Three quarters of all life on Earth perished, starving in the darkness.

But we survived.

Not “we” as in humankind. This was much earlier. But our early primate ancestors—they persisted. With clutched hands and shining eyes, they witnessed the end of the world … and the early dawn of a new one.

What's in the new issue?

After witnessing a predatory bird devour their fellow troop member, Mamma and Brother continue their search for Sister … now in the freezing cold of winter.

Could the little child possibly have survived? What will happen to Auntie and the rest of the troop in their absence? And, as Brother grows up, will he stay with his Mamma?

If you've been following the story so far, you'll definitely want to read this one, because, I promise, you will finally discover Sister's fate!

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The front cover for my upcoming comic book, Paleocene #4. Check out the campaign to get it printed!

Sixty-six million years ago, the world ended.

A meteorite over ten kilometers in diameter slammed into the Earth. The explosion released two million times as much energy as the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated. All life in the vicinity was instantly obliterated.

For the rest of the world, death was slower. A shroud of soot and dust engulfed the Earth. Without sunlight, plants withered and died, setting off a domino effect up the food chain, all the way to mighty predators like Tyrannosaurus rex. Three quarters of all life on Earth perished, starving in the darkness.

But we survived.

Not “we” as in humankind. This was much earlier. But our early primate ancestors—they persisted. With clutched hands and shining eyes, they witnessed the end of the world … and the early dawn of a new one.

What's in the new issue?

After witnessing a predatory bird devour their fellow troop member, Mamma and Brother continue their search for Sister … now in the freezing cold of winter.

Could the little child possibly have survived? What will happen to Auntie and the rest of the troop in their absence? And, as Brother grows up, will he stay with his Mamma?

If you've been following the story so far, you'll definitely want to read this one, because, I promise, you will finally discover Sister's fate!

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Chart with PhyloPic silhouettes from an essay in the upcoming comic book, Paleocene #4. These are lineages that survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event but died out before the Holocene Epoch (which is almost too brief to be visible here—it is a thin sliver atop the Pleistocene). Figures are not to scale, and do not line up perfectly to lineage extinction dates, just to epochs. This chart is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license.

For more information about the silhouettes in the chart, see: https://www.phylopic.org/.../7dc1ae186d11d8c2ad9f502fc47d...

For more about the comic book, see https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book

#extinction #paleontology #dinosaur #paleoart #palaeontology #prehistoric #biology #zoology #botany #extinct animals #extinct species #extinct birds #cenozoic #sciart #palaeoblr #deep time #geologic time