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Diprotodonby *Gogosardina

Traditional Art / Drawings / Animals

Date: 2001
Medium: ink on paper

c.100,000 years ago, southern Australia

Diprotodon ("pair of forward forward-facing teeth") was the largest marsupial that ever lived and the largest land mammal known from Australia. Herds of these shaggy herbivores roamed across semi-arid Australia, with the largest males reaching weights of over 2.5 tonnes. They were among the most spectacular casualties of the megafaunal extinctions of the Late Pleistocene.

I remember breaking my back assembling the Diprotodon skeleton that is currently under the glass in the Diamonds to Dinosaurs gallery at the WA Museum.

~Charmed-Ravenclaw Nov 25, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Wow! Beautiful inkwork!

*Gogosardina Nov 25, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

Thanks. I don't normally have the patience for this sort of meticulous inking, hence the rarity of these pieces.

~Charmed-Ravenclaw Nov 26, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Heh heh, me neither

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