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2nd Thesis Image: Silurian corals

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Silurian, ~427 million years ago
The research boat came to a stop near a group of vertically-oriented cephalopods and got ready to set up camp. They lost their first drone quite unexpectedly, when the Pterygotus impacatus swam out as if from nowhere, grabbing ahold of the machine as if taking it for a meal. It's not like there was nothing else to eat - the coral reef teemed with life, full of trilobites, nautiloids, primitive armored jawless fish and multiple genera of sea scorpions.

After lengthy deliberation I decided to write my thesis on palaeontological illustration aka. palaeoart. and create a series of accompanying palaeontological illustrations depicting paleozoic Estonia.
Not to be confined to dry textbook work I furthermore decided to bring in a sci-fi element in the form of timetravelers conducting research on the prehistoric environments. Bringing in humans was meant to provide an "empathetic anchorpoint" for the viewing layperson, and to enhance a sense of contrast in the end result.

1st Thesis Image: Ordovician laboratory - click
2nd Thesis Image: Silurian corals - here
3rd Thesis Image: Devonian seabottom - click
4th Thesis Image: Devonian coast - click
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