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Pleistocene Museum Panel

Pleistocene Museum Panel

 

pleistocene scene | procreate | 24”x72” | 2024

Working with the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History and paleontologist Wayne Thompson, I recreated an environmental scene of the fauna of the Santa Cruz, Monterey, and Salinas areas ~13,000 years ago. Jefferson’s ground sloths browse at the forest edge as Pacific mastodon browse deeper in the forest. Colombian mammoths and camels graze in open areas beyond the forest. Modern animals, like foxes, owls, jays, and amphibians fill out the rest of the landscape, reminding us that these megafauna are not long forgotten relics that came after the dinosaurs, but relatively recent residents of our landscapes that shared the world with our own species.