Dimetrodon from memory vs. reference. I clearly don't know what they look like in my brain. #paleoart #Dimetrodon

Now it's time for my favorite non-dinosaur dinosaur! I've always been fascinated by early proto-mammals, especially dimetrodon. Halfway through I realized I didn't have enough paper but I think I made it work.

#Dimetrodon #synapsida #paleoart #paleontology

A song about Dimetrodon, by The Doubleclicks

https://thedoubleclicks.bandcamp.com/track/dimetrodon-2?action=download

When I wake up on the wrong side of the planet
And the creamer for my coffee has gone bad
And the people on the streets should really can it
'Cause I don't think they would like me when I'm mad

Down at the bottom, I have a secret trick
I have a thing to bring me up when I am low
It is simple, it's easy, and it's real quick
And it went extinct two hundred million years ago

Dimetrodon
They ate sharks and were 10 feet long
Dimetrodon
It's a thought that I can count on

When my darkest thoughts have got a hold on me
I close my eyes and I remember all their giant teeth
To shake off all the problems I have piled on
I picture the sail-backed giants of Dimetrodon

I am walking in a mall or in an airport
And I'm filling up with loneliness and fear
Like I'm not really a member of this species
And I don't think I am special, I'm just weird

When I am feeling this, one thing can make me smile
There are other folks who never quite fit in
They're kind of mammals but they look like reptiles
But I bet that difference never bothered them

When my darkest thoughts have got a hold on me
I close my eyes and I remember all their giant teeth
To shake off all the problems I have piled on
I picture the sail-backed giants of Dimetrodon

Be yourself
Count on your inner strength
Find your people
Hunt the weak

#Dimetrodon
#Paleontology
#Music

This is actually the third time I've drawn #dimetrodon. First time was as a bonus to my Humans and our Cousins project ( https://sauropods.win/@Vickysaurus/109596904981495602 ). It was one of the first times I ever drew #paleoart, and I wish I hadn't made it so scaly. The second time was a silly image that popped into my head when I read of an old hypothesis that sail-backed #synapsids used their sails to surf across the water. 'Surfin' synapsids' fits the rhythm of 'Surfin' USA' perfectly.

#MyArt

A first person view of petting a #dimetrodon like the big pupper it is.

This one popped into my head fully-formed when I saw a Dimetrodon skull at the Paris natural history museum. It looked so friendly and loveable, and in that moment I could easily imagine it laying its head in my lap to ask for pets.

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#synapsid #paleoart #MyArt #permian #Paleopet

This is deeply wrong, but it’s an interesting kind of wrong.

Our perception of the past telescopes: there’s the recent past, what we remember; the middle past, what our parents and grandparents remember; the long past, out of living memory but still preserved in familiar stories; and everything else. As I’ve said before, a lot of Americans’ idea of human #history seems to go roughly as follows:

1. #Cavemen.
2. #Pyramids.
3. #Jesus.
4. Robin Hood and King Arthur.
5. #Columbus and #pirates.
6. #Pilgrims and George Washington.
7. #Cowboys.
8. World War Two. (One must have happened somewhere?)
9. #Hippies and #Vietnam.
10. The real world begins with the momentous event of my birth.

Nor is this uniquely an American problem—some places have better educational systems than others, but I think people everywhere hold similar mythologized versions of world events leading uniquely and inevitably to their own central place in the world.

So here’s an extreme version of the same phenomenon applied to natural history. Most reasonably educated people have some idea that not all prehistoric animals lived at the same time (although poor #Dimetrodon is forever going to be mixed in with #dinosaurs) but they do tend to lump enormous spans of time together: #mammoths and #sabertooths, before that all dinosaurs all at once, and before that … I dunno … jellyfish or something.

#Creationists, of course, turn it up to 11.

This is deeply wrong, but it’s an interesting kind of wrong.

Our perception of the past telescopes: there’s the recent past, what we remember; the middle past, what our parents and grandparents remember; the long past, out of living memory but still preserved in familiar stories; and everything else. As I’ve said before, a lot of Americans’ idea of human #history seems to go roughly as follows:

1. #Cavemen.
2. #Pyramids.
3. #Jesus.
4. Robin Hood and King Arthur.
5. #Columbus and #pirates.
6. #Pilgrims and George Washington.
7. #Cowboys.
8. World War Two. (One must have happened somewhere?)
9. #Hippies and #Vietnam.
10. The real world begins with the momentous event of my birth.

Nor is this uniquely an American problem—some places have better educational systems than others, but I think people everywhere hold similar mythologized versions of world events leading uniquely and inevitably to their own central place in the world.

So here’s an extreme version of the same phenomenon applied to natural history. Most reasonably educated people have some idea that not all prehistoric animals lived at the same time (although poor #Dimetrodon is forever going to be mixed in with #dinosaurs) but they do tend to lump enormous spans of time together: #mammoths and #sabertooths, before that all dinosaurs all at once, and before that … I dunno … jellyfish or something.

#Creationsts, of course, turn it up to 11.

A fun #painting project last summer: refurbishing a large #Dimetrodon model at the Cape Breton #Fossil Centre!

Paleo Pines inspired Dimetrodon ornament. Purples - purpleheart, Camatillo
Yellows & orange - yellowheart, osage orange, canary, chakta viga
Black - ebony
White - holly, birdseye maple
#notadinosaur #paleontology #woodworking #scrollsaw #dimetrodon #paleopines #intarsia

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Day 3 #JURASSICWORLDDOMINION Advent calendar adds another popular #dinosaur #Dimetrodon!

Yeah, I know, it's a #synapsid. I'm actually happy to have it.

Anachronisms are fun, and so is breaking the 4th wall. I think this time I got the six panel format working better here.

#art #comics #inkdrawing #trex #dimetrodon #mastodon #anachronism #breakingthefourthwall