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Finally back!
And I decided to come back with an animal I've wanted to do for ages- the Paraceratherium (better known as the indricotherium for anyone that watched the BBC's "Walking with Beasts").
This work was done by a new technique by collecting photographs of museum displays and also skeletal/anatomical diagrams (in this case of both the paraceratherium and the rhinoceros to double check how the flesh joins on) and drawing the animal over the top to ensure maximum accuracy.
Of course, there are some obstacles- a lot of displays and diagrams arrange the bones slightly differently- and there seems to be a HUGE discrepancy between different reconstructions over how long the neck vertebrae and the overall neck itself actually was- with some suggesting something much shorter (closer to most modern ungulates) and some other lengths very long indeed. I cautiously angled towards the slightly shorter end of the spectrum (though still vastly longer than some have depicted it). These proportions are roughly how most paraceratheriums are depicted.
And I decided to come back with an animal I've wanted to do for ages- the Paraceratherium (better known as the indricotherium for anyone that watched the BBC's "Walking with Beasts").
This work was done by a new technique by collecting photographs of museum displays and also skeletal/anatomical diagrams (in this case of both the paraceratherium and the rhinoceros to double check how the flesh joins on) and drawing the animal over the top to ensure maximum accuracy.
Of course, there are some obstacles- a lot of displays and diagrams arrange the bones slightly differently- and there seems to be a HUGE discrepancy between different reconstructions over how long the neck vertebrae and the overall neck itself actually was- with some suggesting something much shorter (closer to most modern ungulates) and some other lengths very long indeed. I cautiously angled towards the slightly shorter end of the spectrum (though still vastly longer than some have depicted it). These proportions are roughly how most paraceratheriums are depicted.
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I wonder if it didn't go extinct, could it possibly evolve into something even larger? Or is there a limit to terrestrial mammal size that only sauropods or aquatic animals can exceed?