http://olduvaigeorge.com Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:53:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It seems that every year about the time of my birthday (I'll be 61 on the 29th), I start this blog up again. I miss blogging and interacting with the Internet community, but family difficulties and the incredible workload I have right now make posting with any regularity ... http://olduvaigeorge.com/2007/11/17/im-not-back/ For those who would love a Mammuthus primigenius for Christmas as much as I would, click here! http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/23/for-the-holidayswhy-not-a-mammoth/ Sometimes when it looks like a cat and acts like a cat it's not; it's a nimravid! Nimravids are a rather problematic group in the order Carnivora of uncertain descent. Entering the fossil record in the late Eocene (36 million years ago), their exact relationship to other carnivore families ... http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/20/not-quite-a-cat-wasnt-this-supposed-to-be-about-whales/ I just start blogging again, and I'm suddenly busy with more paying work than I've had all year. Out of necessity, I'm posting an older acrylic painting and putting off another post on early whales until next week. I'm sorry, but this is good for me; I do ... http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/07/sometimes-you-have-to-take-the-good-with-the-good/ I've never painted anything that approached iconic, but this acrylic image of the early transistional whale Ambulocetus natans is certainly the closest I've come. I'm betting that most of the readers of this blog have seen it somewhere before. Based on a little pen and ink drawing I ... http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/12/01/march-of-the-hippoartiowhales/ This post was supposed to be about protowhales. This is my blog however, and I'm postponing the post! Why? Because today is November 29th, 2006. 60!!! Yes, 60 years ago today, early on Friday evening, November 29th, 1946, I wriggled and screamed my way into the world. It's been all ... http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/11/29/self-indulgent-post-number-1/ For a closer look at Orcinus orca click here. or this... For a closer look at Balaenoptera acutorostrata, the Minke Whale, click here. From this? For a closer look at Pakicetus click here. It took a long time and it's going to take a number of posts. We're back in time a little over 50 ... http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/11/22/how-do-you-get-this/ I know, I know, I said Tuesday and Friday and here it is Thusday. I'm still getting used to WordPress, and my work is nothing if not labor intensive. I spent all day yesterday painting hair on a bison. Bison latifrons is the big, long-horned, high-backed species of ... http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/11/16/a-day-late-and/ Back in the rich (for me) old days when I did quite a bit of work in advertising, I often had to draw things I knew very little about. Even then, the vast majority of subjects I dealt with were things biological, but I still had to admit ignorance ... http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/11/12/a-wet-posting/ I never intended to stay away so long, but as with the rest of my unplanned life, intention by itself never proved enough; very long, incredibly convoluted story, extremely condensed version. It took months to get this image up, please click here for a better view! People think that my specialty is ... http://olduvaigeorge.com/2006/11/07/olduvai-is-back-2/