#extinct animal illustration

[artemholubievgolubev]

Artwork elephant, large canvas wall art prints

Unusual gift for boyfriend, girlfriend gift, husband gift, new home gift.

This is a European forest elephant that lived in Europe during the Pleistocene. Along with the forest rhinoceros, "Merka" was one of the main ecosystem engineers in Europe.



[stavrosskundromichalis]

Friday evening means dance off for this couple of Qianlong shouhu during the Early Jurassic in China 💃🏼🪩🕺🏽🦕🦖

[taimira]

Commission for a person from ych.commishes of a lovely hatzegopteryx! This is the first time in a while I drew a pterosaur, but I'm quite satisfied with the result.

[ferntern]

Thylacine studies from the colorized footage.

[awkwardbirdsdreaming]

Day 12 of January extinct birds - the imperial woodpecker

These are officially classified as CR - possibly extinct... but the hope of them still surviving is pitifully low as almost all viable habitat has been destroyed. These woodpeckers, endemic to Mexico, were enormous, around 60cm in length. They were often seen in small groups that search together for large dead trees to extract bugs from. Because of their size, they needed large amounts of habitat and were also targeted by loggers for fear of them ruining timber.

[malvacae]

[alex-fictus]

13/20 Thylacine! I almost didn’t include the stripes, I don’t think you would’ve recognized it without them.

Get this sticker here!

[mabelcreature]

THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION!!! i love these guys

[saint-nevermore]

drawing i did of the yule Deinonychus skin from Prior Extinction! it’s one of my favs haha

[extinctionstories]

This 36x48” oil on canvas diptych is part of a series I’ve been working on based on the thylacine, also known as the “Tasmanian Tiger” or marsupial wolf.

One of my biggest interests has always been animals, and in particular the ones that humans have destroyed. Every lost or vanishing species is its own story, and as an illustrator theirs are the stories that I am the most invested in telling (hence the blog).

The thylacine is one of the classic examples of human-caused extinction: an utterly unique creature, deliberately exterminated due to a combination of greed, ignorance, hubris, and fear.

Scared or anxious marsupials have a habit of stretching their jaws in a display known as a yawn (you’ve probably seen memes of opossums that look like they’re yelling—it’s the same thing). This display was especially striking in the thylacine, which could open its jaw to over 90°. Some of the most famous photos of thylacines capture them in this attitude of fear.

Unfortunately for the thylacine, humans have more direct methods of dealing with the things that scare them.

The title of this pair of paintings is ‘When They Are Frightened, They Show Their Teeth’.

The overall series is called ‘Here Be Monsters’, as a nod to both the far-flung environs of the thylacine, and the behavior of those who intruded upon it.

Stay tuned for more.

[frognapsart]

A little thylacine :)

[artemholubievgolubev]

Artwork elephant - Forest European elephant - Palaeoloxodon antiquus

This is a European forest elephant that lived in Europe during the Pleistocene. Along with the forest rhinoceros, "Merka" was one of the main ecosystem engineers in Europe.

This exclusive and unrepeatable painting can be purchased here: https://www.etsy.com/KapelkaStudio/listing/1498323241

[supermoemaid]

experimental !!!! ena :33

[taimira]

The cub lived for only a few weeks, and yet it never knew how important it will become in the far future. Thank you, little cat, for giving us another glimpse of your beautiful species that once roamed the Earth.

Inspired by a relatively recent discovery of a homotherium cub mummy. The first snow has fallen in my town, so I've also got a little mood from that.

[vhsdogs]

timeline of the evolution of the dog spanning over 50~ million years 🌿

(not 100% accurate but I tried my best)

[awkwardbirdsdreaming]

Its 2024!!! Happy new year, or happy new year's eve depending on where in the world you are.

And a great time to begin a new art challenge. I have a list of extinct birds for january, starting (ofc) with the passenger pigeon. These are such a great representative species for extinct birds imo - they used to be one of the most numerous birds on Earth, numbering in the billions, yet they vanished within a century. So gorgeous too!

As a communally roosting bird, their sheer numbers used to snap even large branches and they often piled on top of each other to roost. And then. Poof. None left.