by Marlin Peterson | Nov 26, 2012 | Science Illustrations
It is so cool to see my frugivorous diatryma eating on the BBC website. This screenshot you can click to link to the article.
by Marlin Peterson | Nov 26, 2012 | Science Illustrations
My image of the fruit-laden, lumbering Diatryma was featured in an article for Palaeontology by George Mustoe. Cool. I love how my fleshed out painting was aligned and mirrored facing a pic of the articulated fossil bones. The bird seems to be asking “does...
by Marlin Peterson | Dec 14, 2011 | Science Illustrations
I am finished with my paleo painting! It was quite the diabolical time sink, but I am quite pleased with how it came out. I have painted many discrete subjects over the years, but creating a fully rendered environment in and around a given creature is a full-on leap...
by Marlin Peterson | Jul 2, 2010 | Science Illustrations
..but I would love to be convinced that there is something even cooler. The larvae of the order Neuroptera have the most incredible repertoire of ambush predation…someday I hope to illustrate the best of them! This illustration was by far for me the most...
by Marlin Peterson | Feb 22, 2010 | Science Illustrations
I made this graphic to showcase the incredible evolution of venom-injecting structures that these major groups of arachnids have independently arrived at. The scorpion thru the telson, or the tip if the “tail”; the wolf spider (you can tell by the...
