and you thought the mammoths went extinct...

and you thought the mammoths went extinct...
05-12-2007

So unsurprisingly, i once again am working on a piece of artwork that involves countless representatives of our favorite animals. and so i'm doing my usual image-search googling looking for a good shot of the inside of a hippos mouth, so i can draw the shape of its teeth accurately, or a giraffes patterned coat, just so i get it just right (hey, i'm good but i can't remember everything off the top of my head!).

..and anyways, although i am someone who looks at pictures of animals almost every day (okay, probably everyday!), occasionally i still see these images that remind me just how utterly bizzare and breathtaking animals are.

the following images are dedicated to megafauna. images that for one reason or another, maybe just the way its leg was positioned or its eyes or something, reminded me just how lucky we are the world is still full of massive mega-faunal animals. so heres a bunch of images that i have seen here and there that hopefully remind you too, that if these never survived the last ice age, we would stare at paintings of them in books and think...

"man, imagine seeing that in real life!"

http://www.ecoafrica.com/Directors/i...hite-rhino.jpg

http://k53.pbase.com/v3/39/403439/1/...feDrinking.jpg

http://www.ratemyscreensaver.com/wp-...swimming25.jpg

http://www.ratemyscreensaver.com/wp-...phant-0012.jpg

(warning this one's waaay oversize!)
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/hippo.jpeg

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/200...06_468x290.jpg

anyway, feel free to add your own links, but lets keep this one for photos that really encapsulate the meaning of the word "megafauna"...

05-12-2007

Gee, what a fat hippo

Have also an link:

http://www.nature-rings.de/media/pro...fant_hires.jpg