Midiaou Diallo
@midiaou
Political Ecology, Hominins, Art
A startled Hesperornithoides confronts a genuinely perplexed, uninterested and perhaps offended Allosaurus. Continuing the quick $30-$40 commissions just like this one to help with funds for an unexpected situation for another week, share &/or hmu💫
A vagrant Eurasian Homotherium female has met their untimely end, after naively disturbing Tokay the Gecko God's slumber. Doing $30-$40 1 hour sketches like this to help with funds for an unexp. situation for the next 2 weeks, share &/or hit me up!
"Blind Old Man" 1 Hour Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis sketch. An old male wanders along the beach, in search of scraps thrown back up by a sickened Western Interior Seaway Doing $30-$40 1 hour sketches like this to help with funds an unexp. situation for the next 2 weeks, hit me up or share pls🙏🏾 #sciart
These people funnily enough have a bit of a legacy with members of the genus Homo, passing over diseases and even shared archaic proteomic information with the Naledi peoples (per Madupe et al, 2026). Undoubtedly, something familiar yet alarming would fire off in our heads at the
These distant relatives of ours are quite the enigma, as we have relatively little complete postcranial material from them, but just enough cranial, proteomic & genetic info to start to paint a picture of who they were.
A Paranthropus boisei male stares intently into your eyes, drawing a connection between the contours of his face and yours, remarking the hairlessness of his skin and yours and wonders… “Have I seen them before?” #sciart
Besides touching grass, nothing makes you appreciate the story of life on Earth more than studying and illustrating it. Earth Day is everyday.
--> , thermoregulatory structures, due to their blood filled nature, or all of the above. Whichever it is, this new discovery shows us that our understanding of integument in Dinosaurs and other extinct creatures is incredibly limited and still full of surprises…
Along with overlapping dorso-caudal scutes and large flattened caudal scales, Haolong was covered in small spines. The purpose of these is so far unclear, however the current hypotheses land on them being defensive structures, display structures->
Haolong dongi, the “Porcupine” Iguanodont. At about 2.5 meters long, not much would stand out about this Hadrosauroid had we just their skeletal remains, but thanks to the preservational nature of the Yixian Formation, we’ve come to uncover amazing details about the anatomy of this animal #sciart 🧵>
Making sure the soft tissues and framework were not just copies of Orangutan tissues was of the utmost importance. That extends into the coloration as well. Enjoy the most recent reconstruction, along with 3 others from a few years ago🦧
At a forest clearing, you're greeted by the guardian, the wise old man of the forest, Gigantopithecus blacki. Recent commission of the big guy, inspired by #prehistoricplaneticeage. Although this guy is a Pongine-->
Larger surface areas are also at play, along with the pressures of your prey having particularly sharp color and central vision. Being dashing doesn't have to mean being super bright, many opt in for a trick: contrast. Combine that with seasonal coloration n changes in behavior, you're all set
Finding the balance between the pressures of developing disruptive coloration and conspicuousness (pattern development directed at conspecifics) is a tight line to walk when you're a 1-2 ton reptilian predator. The energetic and nutritional expenses of developing bright and complex colors over-->
A male Nanotyrannus lancensis sports their sharp and contrasting breeding season colors. They lift their head up and catch the whiff of the promise of hope... a female...
Ultimately, I would revisit the facial tissue a few years later, adding more extensive narial carilage and prominent nasolabial muscles (and corresponding mystacial pad). This is important to note, as many mammal reconstructions undersell just how much tissue is present, aiding the animals in life
Once the dental, skeletal base and it's muscular landmarks were created, the rest of the animal could come to life. The pattern chosen after much trial and error, would reflect the predatory nature of this species, living along the forest floor and understory.
Reconstructing a hypothetical adult took a lot of digging through literature surrounding the anatomy and build of related Proviverrine and Sinopine Hyaenodonts. This would inform the proportions, build of the muscles and key anatomical traits displayed in these families.