Comments on: March of the Hippo/Artio? Whales http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:44:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: OGeorge http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11730 OGeorge Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:11:53 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11730 R.Arthur: I'm not exactly sure what the BBC people were looking at when they "created" their Ambulocetus. That broadheaded animal was certainly not what I or Hans was seeing. As for the way it swam, think otter, paddling yes, but combined with dorso-ventral flexing of the powerful back and tail to give those webbed back feet added push. R.Arthur: I’m not exactly sure what the BBC people were looking at when they “created” their Ambulocetus. That broadheaded animal was certainly not what I or Hans was seeing. As for the way it swam, think otter, paddling yes, but combined with dorso-ventral flexing of the powerful back and tail to give those webbed back feet added push.

]]> By: R. Arthur Wilderson http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11705 R. Arthur Wilderson Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:38:44 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11705 Well, the BBC's walking with prehistoric beasts production inexplicably had an ambulocetus terrorizing the denizens of Germany's Messel formation. Maybe if they actually had lived there, they would have been preserved with hair intact like Messel animals often do? As with ludodactylus, we can always hope life imitates art. How did this animal propell itself? It looks mostly like a paddler. Well, the BBC’s walking with prehistoric beasts production inexplicably had an ambulocetus terrorizing the denizens of Germany’s Messel formation. Maybe if they actually had lived there, they would have been preserved with hair intact like Messel animals often do?

As with ludodactylus, we can always hope life imitates art.

How did this animal propell itself? It looks mostly like a paddler.

]]> By: Stanton http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11631 Stanton Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:51:04 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11631 I've seen the top one... They used it in "After the Dinosaurs," didn't they? I’ve seen the top one…
They used it in “After the Dinosaurs,” didn’t they?

]]> By: perspective inc http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11483 perspective inc Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:33:44 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11483 Wow!!Totally impressed!! Wow!!Totally impressed!!

]]> By: Mike http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11357 Mike Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:10:44 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11357 Carl: wonderful pictures. They look more like illustrations from life than reconstructions. If you were to show a portfolio of your work to someone unfamiliar with many of the extant animals as well as the extinct, I suspect they'd have problems deciding which were the living animals and which the long passed. Oh, and, here's the gift of a defence for the long femur in the first of those Ambulocetus paintings from a bureaucrat and thus naturally given to spin: it was an early Ambulocetus! Carl: wonderful pictures. They look more like illustrations from life than reconstructions. If you were to show a portfolio of your work to someone unfamiliar with many of the extant animals as well as the extinct, I suspect they’d have problems deciding which were the living animals and which the long passed.

Oh, and, here’s the gift of a defence for the long femur in the first of those Ambulocetus paintings from a bureaucrat and thus naturally given to spin: it was an early Ambulocetus!

]]> By: JW Tan http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11355 JW Tan Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:17:42 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11355 Carl, I really enjoy your blog. Your work brings the science to life for me. I don't know if you listen to requests, but I was hoping you would might entertain this one. Could we have Kutchicetus next? Pretty please? Carl, I really enjoy your blog. Your work brings the science to life for me.

I don’t know if you listen to requests, but I was hoping you would might entertain this one. Could we have Kutchicetus next? Pretty please?

]]> By: A Blog Around The Clock http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11334 A Blog Around The Clock Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:53:19 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11334 <strong>Blogrolling: O...</strong> Let me know what's missing - in the past installments I missed some of the obvious biggies (and you did not tell me!) like MyDD, Juan Cole, Crooks & Liars...!!!!...... Blogrolling: O…

Let me know what’s missing - in the past installments I missed some of the obvious biggies (and you did not tell me!) like MyDD, Juan Cole, Crooks & Liars…!!!!……

]]> By: Siamang http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11283 Siamang Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:08:45 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11283 Love it. I really dig the transition to whales. But as an animator I'm longing to see the clouds of silt churned up in the water by that attack. Whatsamatter, Carl, you didn't want to hide the animal in a bunch of murky water? ;-) Love it. I really dig the transition to whales.

But as an animator I’m longing to see the clouds of silt churned up in the water by that attack. Whatsamatter, Carl, you didn’t want to hide the animal in a bunch of murky water? ;-)

]]> By: DouglasG http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11262 DouglasG Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:28:29 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11262 Terrific as always! Thanks! Terrific as always! Thanks!

]]> By: Ron Sullivan http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11180 Ron Sullivan Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:11:49 +0000 http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/#comment-11180 You remind us of why this is all so much fun! Really, it's acience fiction uncircumscribed by the limits of human imagination -- but filled in and fleshed out by that same faculty. You use color and line the way a poet uses letter and sound, and stretch and bend it all to the outline of what's known so far the way a poet uses rhyme and/or meter, instress and music, to make it all dance and fly. I hope you save your "outtakes." You remind us of why this is all so much fun! Really, it’s acience fiction uncircumscribed by the limits of human imagination — but filled in and fleshed out by that same faculty. You use color and line the way a poet uses letter and sound, and stretch and bend it all to the outline of what’s known so far the way a poet uses rhyme and/or meter, instress and music, to make it all dance and fly.

I hope you save your “outtakes.”

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