Well the new ceratopsian Nasutoceratops has been named and the paper is out. If you want to read a bit about it, I have a post up over on the Guardian here. Since that’s already written, I wanted to do something a bit different here and thanks to Mark Loewen, I’ve been supplied with a series of nice images and art of the beastie and it’d be a shame not to use them here.
Here’s Lukas Panzarin’s skeletal of the animal (note that most of the skull is known).
Here’s Samantha Zimmerman’s lovely scientific illustration of the skull in two views which really shows off the shape and pattern of the horns well.
Lukas Panzarin is back again with this life reconstruction of the head.
Next we have a Raul Martin piece of the whole animal, making its way through a swamp.
And finally Andrey Atuchin’s effort, another life reconstruction, this time with a nice tyrannosaur half hidden in the background.
All in all some beautiful stuff, but I had no room for it on the Lost Worlds, so I’m pleased to get it up somewhere. Thanks to the team for sharing and great stuff from all the artists.
Looks like a parrot crossed with a bull. Great paintings.
One error on your Guardian post – the photo of the skull reconstruction should be credited to Rob Gaston, not Lukas Panzarin. Lucas did the artwork.
Whoops, yes, you’re right. My bad. I’ll go fix it.
My my, that thing’s got a serious beak.
That lurking beast must be Teratophoneus!