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Digital paleoartist. He/him. Email for commissions/inquiries at [email protected] 🦖🦕🐚🐞🐠🦎🌺✍🏻👨🏻‍🎨✨

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#PortfolioDay I'm Liam Elward, digital paleoartist looking for work in scientific illustration & paleontology. Email for inquiries/commissions of any & all extinct or living organisms! 💼: artstation.com/prehistorybyl… 📧: [email protected]
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Brand new design available on my RedBubble! Featuring a tooth of the extinct shark Otodus megalodon, drawn by yours truly. Link below
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Megalodon tooth graphic by Liam Elward | Redbubble

Graphic illustration of a fossil tooth of the extinct shark, Otodus megalodon.

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Awesome new resource on shark anatomy: An open-access CT-based 3D anatomical dataset of extant sharks (Selachii) across all major lineages nature.com/articles/s41597-0…
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If you've ever wondered what it'd be like to be a small remora or pilotfish, check out Kewin Lorenzen's gorgeous photography. The insane clarity and detail makes each shark a landscape of denticles, and hydrodynamic curves
Velvet belly lanternshark (Etmopterus spinax) portrait [Kewin Lorenzen]

ALT Velvet belly lanternshark (Etmopterus spinax) portrait [Kewin Lorenzen]

Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) gills [Kewin Lorenzen]

ALT Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) gills [Kewin Lorenzen]

Hammerhead shark (Kewin Lorenzen)

ALT Hammerhead shark (Kewin Lorenzen)

Puffadder shyshark (Haploblepharus edwardsii) portrait [Kewin Lorenzen]

ALT Puffadder shyshark (Haploblepharus edwardsii) portrait [Kewin Lorenzen]

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Some more insaaaane pics, I don't know how he does it. I've never seen sharks at this magnification before but it's really special. Species are in the alt text
Broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) gills [Kewin Lorenzen]

ALT Broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) gills [Kewin Lorenzen]

Nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) eye & dermal denticles [Kewin Lorenzen]

ALT Nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) eye & dermal denticles [Kewin Lorenzen]

Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) eye [Kewin Lorenzen]

ALT Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) eye [Kewin Lorenzen]

Shark mouth closeup showing parasites (Kewin Lorenzen)

ALT Shark mouth closeup showing parasites (Kewin Lorenzen)

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Check out his work here: kewinlorenzen.com/
Spotted gully shark (Triakis megalopterus) [Kewin Lorenzen]

ALT Spotted gully shark (Triakis megalopterus) [Kewin Lorenzen]

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So excited for this!!! Features footage from ReShark, an organization helping to release Indo-Pacific leopard sharks into the wild (Shedd Aquarium is a part of this program and has recently sent eggs to the sanctuary!) youtube.com/watch?v=LvjlkoWk…

FIRST LOOK: Blue Planet III Trailer | Featuring JADE & Hans Zimmer |...

JADE joins forces with legendary composer Hans Zimmer for the origi...

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The song is unbelievably corny though, lol
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Excellent letter by world-renowned shark paleontologist Dr. Kenshu Shimada, a graduate of Fort Hays State University himself, on the absolute need to keep the Sternberg Museum open & its collections intact hayspost.com/posts/d21f9810-…
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"I’m in disbelief and heartbroken that FHSU, which I have adored, has completely betrayed my lifelong efforts to promote the preservation and protection of fossils and the importance of natural history collections."
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Some of the studies I made of the extinct megatooth shark Otodus megalodon, for an upcoming commission I can hopefully share soon. Megalodon is known almost exclusively from fossil teeth, which have not been found articulated with jaws.
Pencil sketches of Megalodon dentition based on Shimada et al's publications on lamniform dentition & @EvoIncarnate's reconstructions of Megalodon's jaws

ALT Pencil sketches of Megalodon dentition based on Shimada et al's publications on lamniform dentition & @EvoIncarnate's reconstructions of Megalodon's jaws

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Above sketches/drawings are all my own, some directly based on scientific figures from Shimada et al's work on lamniform jaws/dentition, Cooper et al's 2022 study on Megalodon as a transoceanic predator & @Evoincarnate's Megalodon skeletals & 3D models.
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I highly recommend reading Dental homologies in lamniform sharks (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) by Kenshu Shimada to get a sense of lamniform jaws/dentition. A selection of figures from the paper are below pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1174…
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If you share images on here, whether for general scicomm, paleoart, paleontology/scientific figures, photos etc PLEASE credit your source! Either in the the main tweet, alt text, or a reply. Artists like me rely on word-of-mouth and in the age of AI it's more important than ever
Original digital painting of the pycnodont fish Scalacurvichthys naishi by the original poster, Liam Elward

ALT Original digital painting of the pycnodont fish Scalacurvichthys naishi by the original poster, Liam Elward

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This is very crucial if you share scientific figures. An image search may not be able to track down the exact paper or source, but you (hopefully) have that information. ALWAYS CAPTION/CREDIT, even tag the author/artist if possible!
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There are some pretty popular scicomm folks on here, in the paleo world that never share image attribution. Even if it's your photos or art, say that explicitly!
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