The No-Bullshit Top Ten Beauty Products of 2016

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Choosing the Top Ten for 2016 turned out to be a mix of trustworthy names of the past and new names paving their way into the future of beauty. Here are the top ten not-usual-picks of The Unknown Beauty Blog in no particular order.

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An Upcoming Beauty Post and Holiday Wishes

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Pigs are flying outside my window!!!!! Or I am experiencing one of the other three miraculous moments.  (1) I am in a parallel universe. (2) I have died and gone to beauty heaven. (3) I am having an out-of-body experience.
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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Discovering Dinosaurs

Don't you love it when an otherwise quite run-of-the-mill old dinosaur book hides one or two remarkable secrets? The vast majority of Discovering Dinosaurs is as predictable as anything; it's 1960, so here are some green-and-brown Charles Knight rejects, statically positioned about the place and staring vacantly into the middle distance like they've just been forced to listen to someone explain how carbon dioxide couldn't possibly be a greenhouse gas because 'it's plant food'. However, there's more to Gustav Schrotter's illustrations than is first apparent...as we shall see.

Many thanks yet again to Charles Leon for sending me the scans you see here (and more besides). You're quite the wonderful bloke.

I'm sure most of this blog's readership will be able to identify the T. rex and Triceratops on the cover as straightforward Charles Knight copies. Strangely, the Triceratops appears to be based on one from a famous Knight painting in which it confronts a Tyrannosaurus...a much more anatomically correct Tyrannosaurus than this one, which appears to be based on one of Knight's first ever paintings of the animal. Why not just borrow elements of the T. rex from the same painting, especially the vastly superior head? It's all most peculiar, so it is.

To further add to the strangeness, Rexy's anatomy changes from page to page; here, it seems to sport two extra digits on each hand, as opposed to just one. Once again, it's a dead ringer for Knight's earlier version, complete with misplaced eye and ear; the croc-like scales are, I believe, Schrotter's personal touch and become something of a motif as the book goes on. The grumpy-looking brontosaurs aren't too remarkable, although it's worth noting how smooth-skinned they are when compared with the other dinosaurs depicted. No doubt it's because of their 'aquatic habits', but it was also a remarkably persistent trope.

Rexy pops up again inside,  this time sporting a more accurate-looking head and better-defined limbs while keeping the croc scales. The finger count is back down to three per hand. Note also the reversed hallux, which at least remains persistent.

Author Glenn Blough is fond of comparing dinosaurs with modern-day objects, encouraging kids to go out and do the same thing themselves, which is rather a nice idea. It also leads to this slightly offbeat illustration of a fat-tailed Rexy peering into a first floor window with a strangely warm, contented smile plastered on his ugly mug. While it's very common for old dinosaur books to describe Rexy as being tall enough to do this, the scenario is rarely illustrated, which makes this something of a treat. Of course, I have no doubt that Spielberg was thinking of this trope when it came to a certain scene in The Lost World: Malcolm Returns. Now if only this Rexy had a dog kennel dangling suspiciously from its mouth...

As strongly suggested by the cover, all the usual suspects show up to keep Rexy company. Here's an extremely Burianesque brontosaur hanging around on a shoreline with some horsetails, because horsetails were everywhere throughout the whole Mesozoic, like weeds or branches of Costa Coffee. This Bronto is somewhat more veiny and swollen-looking than those featured earlier, almost as if it's suffering from some rather unpleasant disease.

Everyone's favourite pea-brained plate rack also puts in an appearance, sporting a disconcertingly bony and cross-looking head, a bit like Peter Cushing (or Peter Cushing's CGI animatronic waxwork abomination of modern special effects, if you've just seen Rogue One). Given the spiky one's obvious prominence on this spread, it's all too easy to miss the more sprightly fellow in the background who is apparently posing for a figure painter just out of view.

Stegosaurus' erstwhile nemesis Allosaurus is also featured, although sadly they are not shown having a spirited disagreement with one another. I've often noted that classical depictions of Allosaurus omit those inconvenient horns and ridges on its skull, with the artist instead opting for a smoother look more akin to a monitor lizard. Well, not here! The horn configuration might be rather incorrect, but hey - at least there are horns at all. This allosaur is also missing the first toe on each foot, but that's just because they've been grafted onto the hands.

In addition to the generally formulaic life restorations, there are also a number of drawings of skeletons and wouldn't you know it, they're actually pretty good; the majority appear to have been drawn from life, or at least decent photographs. These include an illustration of the famous AMNH Allosaurus mount (above), which makes for an amusing juxtoposition with the fleshed-out version.

A number of fossil non-dinosaurs also feature, including what appears to be a teleosaur crocodyliform that might just be Steneosaurus. This illustration is remarkably good, and immediately cast my thoughts back to Telyers Museum in Haarlem. It's a gem among a cavalcade of lacklustre illustrations of dinosaurs.

I had to break open the ouzo after seeing this one.

 And finally...an illustration of a dinosaur that's so much more than just lacklustre. Admittedly, this has to be one of the earliest illustrations of Oviraptor that I've ever seen, but it's also one so spectacularly wrong in every aspect that it beggars belief. It's an illustration that grows all the more disturbing the longer one looks at it. At first, the temptation is just to think that the illustrator has copied a lizard; a sprawling, long-tailed animal sneakily devouring eggs at a nest. Alas, dear reader, for your fragile mind is simply defending you from the truth; closer inspection reveals the disturbing extent to which Schrotter has carefully detailed the humanoid musculature of this angry-eyed abomination. As Anna Taylor pointed out to me on Facebook, this creature has quite deliberately been given the arms and torso of a man. It reminds me of something from a Guillermo del Toro movie. It makes all the tiny-handed creeps from '80s and '90s dinosaur books look positively benign. This, dearest readers, is where palaeoart ends and your insidious childhood nightmares recommence.

And with that, may I wish you a merry Christmas, happy holidays and a wonderful new year! Don't get too drunk (advice to give, not to live by). Here's hoping for another wonderful year of dinosaur discoveries in 2017.

The Many Ways to Use Ben Nye Fireworks Fantasy Wheel

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Ben Nye Fireworks Fantasy Wheel ($20 USD) has been around for a long time. The very first time I bought it was a couple of decades ago. I was naive and thought of the product as is and the colors as fantastic as Joseph’s Technicolor Dreamcoat! The product ended up in a corner of a dark makeup drawer for me back then.
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The Chance of a Lifetime for a Z-Listed Beauty Blog - Koh Gen Do

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I bet you think I am one lucky beauty blogger.  Koh Gen Do makeup!! Wow!  Well, you can guess all you want, so read on about my adventure and what the makeup force had in store for me.
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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Animals of Long Ago

It seems that in the 1950s and 60s, there was a real explosion in the popularity of dinosaur books for kids. Perhaps it had something to do with broader pop culture trends of the period, such as the sci-fi B-movie boom. Although the Dino Renaissance had yet to take hold, there was a noticeable shift in tone - where dinosaurs were previously seen as evolutionarily unimportant, authors suddenly took great relish in detailing the huge size of their jaws, their flesh-tearing ferociousness, the sheer terror they must have induced in their prey. Animals of Long Ago, published in 1965, is a seminal example of a book from the period; the illustrations are somewhat half-hearted, er, homages, but the text is often rip-roaringly good. Many thanks to Charles Leon for sending me this one!

The cover makes clear this book's intentions from the off. The typeface for the title is simply fantastic, exactly like an old monster movie poster. The flesh-rending beast below is suitably hump-backed, sinister and strange looking, all reptilian gnarliness and overly-exposed teeth. Of course, its anatomy is complete nonsense, but unlike today's CG-rendered uglysaurs, there is a strange, painterly beauty to it. Or maybe I've been to too many tourist attractions with bad fibreglass models. Point is, illustrator Hamilton Greene could paint, even if he knew bugger all about dinosaur anatomy.

Greene pulls off a very nice Primordial Sunset, too, although his corythosaurs are a little inconsistent. The individual in the foreground looks quite bulky and even fairly 'modern' by 1965 standards, as if it's a quadrupedal animal rearing up. However, those in the background follow the 'gangly dork hadrosaur' trope a little more closely. Actually, there's something quite sinister about the foreground hadrosaur. It's probably the glowing eye, like it's activated the invulnerability cheat in Doom.

Now here's a more familiar sight - Allosaurus stooped over and picking at bones, AMNH-style. This illustration interestingly combines a more slimline, Knightian allosaur with a Zallinger colour scheme (the latter's allosaurs being notably pot-bellied). "Allosaurus could kill any animal of his time," we are told (yes, the dinosaurs are inevitably all male) - what's more,

"His head alone is two and one half feet long. His teeth, with jagged edges, curve inwards towards his throat. His lower jaw is hinged in such a way that he can open his mouth extremely wide to attack other animals or to swallow huge chinks of flesh."

Alas, though, for "Allosaurus has a short career," lasting only until the beginning of the Cretaceous period. Sorry, Allosaurus.

Equally familiar-looking in a Burianesque sort of way are these sauropods, who are at least afforded the dignity of being depicted as terrestrial (no snorkelling here). Of course, they still inhabit a swampy landscape flatter than Lincolnshire, but probably slightly less depressing. Notably, Apatosaurus is described as having a "rather thick" neck, but not really illustrated as such; however, all of the sauropods are illustrated with nostrils at the ends of their snouts. I get the feeling that vintage artists used to do this simply because that's where nostrils are 'supposed' to go; it's just ironic that this placement turned out to be closer to the mark than many Dino Renaissance-era attempts.

I love the remark about T. rex missing out on Jurassic sauropod meat. It reminds me of Rule 1 for science journalists when reporting on palaeontology - always, somehow, crowbar in a reference to T. rex. Or Raquel Welch's fur bikini.

In spite of never getting to munch on Giraffatitan's innards, I'm sure Rexy was more than happy chowing down on THE DUCKBILLS. This illustration is strikingly similar to the sauropod scene, in that it depicts a bunch of rather static, grey-green-brown lizardy thingies hanging around in a swamp, looking a bit depressed. I mean, Edmontosaurus (or is it Anatosaurus? Or is it Edmontosaurus?) looks like it's just seen the famous photograph of Nigel Farage and Donald Trump together in front of the hideous gold doors. Poor old hadrosaurs.

At least no one's making a big fuss about the hadrosaurs' lack of brains, which is what inevitably said about poor old Stegosaurus. The illustration of Steggy is a straightforward Burian copy, but Greene's ankylosaurs are somewhat more interesting. They're typical of the period (very short-legged and short-tailed), but the illustration appears to be unusually original and interesting, particularly in terms of perspective. These beasts actually seem to make some kind of anatomical sense, which is a rare thing for retro anyklosaurs, which normally end up looking like squashed pineapples swatting ineffectually at tyrannosaurs.

And speaking of which, Rexy himself does of course put in an appearance. This image is quite wonderfully tropetastic; there's everything from the tripodal Rexy with three fingers and a reversed hallux, to a nondescript desert landscape 'cos plants are hard, to the obligatory smoke-spewing volcano in the background. Just fantastic. Naturally, Rexy also has more teeth than the Osmond family. Those Struthiomimus had better run.

"Tyrannosaurus is the most terrible animal that ever lived...With great strides, he hurls through the jungle, following a smaller creature. His tail whips from side to side through the undergrowth as he corners his victim. His great jaws open wide and rows of terrible teeth slash down...Tyrannosaurus is both beautiful and terrible. The world has not seen another creature like him. No wonder his full name is Tyrannosaurus rex - King of the Tyrant Dinosaurs."

I think I'm welling up.

Naturally, wherever Rexy goes, an epic showdown is sure to follow. Here, the Trump-handed giant coelurosaur confronts no fewer than three adult Triceratops at once, which is probably less than wise. Outdated as they are, the two Triceratops on the right are actually quite handsome in a Knightian sort of way; the lighting and skin textures are actually rather convincing, and attention has been paid to the animals' actual skulls in particular. The fellow in the middle is a bit of a perspective fudge victim, but it's far from the most egregious example I've ever seen. Rexy looks quite smiley.

And finally...bonus marine creatures! The retro, crested Tylosaurus makes me happier than three free rounds in the pub - I can't get enough of those guys. The Elasmosaurus has a fairly, er, unique interpretation of the animal's limb anatomy, and the resulting crumpled Autumn leaf flippers are hilarious. Also, Pteranodon. And a fish, which Wikipedia thinks is Xiphactinus audax, but there seems to be some doubt there. Feel free to chip in with a comment if you know more about fish than I  do.

Coming next time: quite possibly, a guest post!

Mesozoic Miscellany 90

Time for another Mesozoic Miscellany, gathering cool news, blogging, art, and more from around the web over the last month.

One brief note about LITC first. If you're viewing us on the browser, you'll notice that we've added some ads in our sidebar via Project Wonderful, in addition to continuing our tip jar. All proceeds from this will go to moving us over to WordPress and covering related hosting fees. Project Wonderful is a platform particularly popular in the webcomic world. It works by auctioning off ad space and the value of our boxes depend on traffic here as well as click throughs, so don't be bashful about clicking ads that strike your fancy! I'm trying to keep anything too obnoxious off the site. I was pretty happy to find Ashfire Moon through ads, which features some innovative comics, including a "Lost World" inspired tale called "The Heart of the Hollow World."

With that out of the way, on to the dinosaurs!

In the News

Illustration copyright Studio252MYA/ Julio Lacerda

As featured in our 2016 gift guide, Studio 252mya has opened its doors. A project from the team behind Earth Archives and Pteros, the studio sells goods based on the artwork of their international roster of paleoartists and plans on launching an image licensing service soon. Check 'em out now.

Meet the muddy dragon, a new oviraptorosaur out of China. Read more at Science and from Brian Switek at Laelaps.

A new paper described two new late Triassic dinosauromorphs from Brazil, the lagerpetid Ixalerpeton polesinensis and early, carnivorous sauropodomorph Buriolestes schultzi. Read more from Jacquelyn Ronson for the Inverse and Joe Bauwens at Sciency Thoughts. Nice paleoart from Maurílio Oliveira, as well!

Around the Dinoblogosphere

At the Canadian science communication blog Science Borealis, Liz Martin-Silverstone and Raymond Nakamura write a nice article on the practice of paleoart, speaking with Mark Witton and Danielle Dufault.

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History recently hosted Dinofest, and Ashley Hall covered the event at her tumblr, Lady Naturalist.

The nostril openings - or nares - of ceratopsids are rather remarkable. Darren Naish writes about their possible explanations at TetZoo, inspiring a rash of paleoart (unfortunately not organized by any hashtag, so you kind of just have to search it out). Also, don't miss Darren's post on his new book with Paul Barrett, Dinosaurs: How they Lived and Evolved.

At Pseudoplocephalus, Victoria Arbour summed up her experience at SVP 2016 with lots of great photos from the museum, auction, and more.

Sarah Gibson has been writing about the Top 10 Open Access dinosaur descriptions of 2016 at the PLoS Paleo Community Blog, With recent posts on Spiclypeus shipporum and the delightfully named marsupial "lion" Microleo attenboroughi.

Head over to Beyond Bones to read about really, really, really old poop.

The Tetanurae Guy writes about recent travels, including photos from Dinosaur Ridge and its accompanying museum near Denver.

At the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Digging the Fossil Record blog, Antoine Bercovici writes about his time out in the field as part of a team mapping sites associated with the K-T Boundary in southwestern North Dakota and southeastern Montana.

At the RMDRC Paleo Lab blog, Anthony Maltese writes about how the lab acquired a fairly complete specimen of the rare Cretaceous turtle Chelospargis and cast a reproduction of the skeleton.

Michael Barton of the Dispersal of Darwin blog writes about Gregory S. Paul's new second edition of the Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs.

Crowdfunding Pick

I've written about the Virtual Museum of Natural History in the past, and figured it would be good to do an update. Their crowdfunding model was changed to a flexible goal, so the fundraising is ongoing. Dave Marshall sent out an email update on the current progress, and it sounds like a lot of fun. He writes:

The technology behind the V-NHM is now complete and we’ve even been able to take a tour around! The user interface is so intuitive to use and loads of fun to just run around with your friends; in fact, one of our trial runs ended up as a 30-minute-long game of chase! It just goes to show that the V-NHM is inherently fun, even before we’ve placed any content in the cabinets. With the website complete, the focus over the coming months will be on curating content, filling cabinets and weaving a narrative between exhibitions. We hope to be able to launch the museum early in 2017.

To contribute to the campaign, head over to Crowd.Science.

Paleoart Pick

For the second year in a row, Raul Ramos pumped out an amazing volume of beautiful paleoart during #DrawDinovember. Hard to pick just one to feature, but I particularly love this backlit Protoceratops.

Protoceratops andrewsi by Raul Ramos, used here with the artist's permission.

Follow Raul on Twitter, Facebook, DeviantArt, and at his site, which promises a store soon.

The Case of the Stolen Tylosaurus

Do the words "giant Antarctic mosasaur" get your attention? Sure they do. Why wouldn't they? Meet Kaikaifilu hervei. Everything Dinosaur has the story, or read Rodrigo Otero et al's original paper for the princely sum of $37.95 at ScienceDirect.

Unfortunately, the figure in the paper is yet another case of art theft in the scientific literature. And this time, LITC's own Asher Elbein is the victim. Compare the images below.

Figure on left from Otero et al 2016; figure on right from Asher Elbein's DeviantArt account, dated October 16, 2012. Images used here under fair use.

This is plainly an incidence of art theft. It seems that at some point, someone posted Asher's original to Dinopedia, changing the license to a creative commons license (hopefully by the time you're reading this, the site has responded to Asher's DMCA takedown notice by removing it). Then Otero or someone working on the paper found it one one of those two sites and traced it (looks like it is a slightly modified Illustrator auto-trace) without credit or compensation.

Scientists, you cannot just take art for your papers. Asher deserves to be compensated and credited in this paper. How do you people expect artists to produce the work you clearly depend on to illustrate your research if you're not willing to do the bare minimum to credit and compensate?

Some folks haven't liked it when I've said it in the past, but I'll say it again: there is no paleontology outreach without paleoart. Own up to it.

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Update: 3pm EST, December 4, 2016

Well, this post certainly inspired conversation. In fact, it is by a long stretch the most commented upon post in LITC history. I appreciate all of the comments, critical and supportive.

There are some takeaways.

First of all, it's clear that the authors of this paper did not willfully infringe Asher's copyright. No one was trying to rip him off. In fact, Rodrigo Otero left a lengthy comment which explained how this happened, but it has since been deleted (more on this below).

So, the most charitable explanation is that the author(s) were unaware of what a Creative Commons license entails - at the very least, it would require attribution, therefore a misattribution would imply an understanding of the license. Since there was no attribution, there's a clear misunderstanding of ethical image use.

This is a misunderstanding many people share. It is not limited to the authors of this one paper. So, in an effort to add to the conversation in a productive way, I'll be putting together at the very least an "Introduction to Creative Commons" post, and perhaps a broader "Image Use Best Practices" post as well, with the goal of dispelling misunderstanding about exactly what a CC license is, and what responsibilities it entails. I have no illusions that this would fix the problem, but it may help. Note that I can be charitable and also call this stuff out. There's really no excuse for not understanding image use guidelines.

I allow that the image was used in a graphical abstract, if not the paper itself, though I had no way to peer over the pay wall to know that. Whether in a graphical abstract or a paper, the point remains. I understand that not everyone enjoys reading angry words from artists. This anger is rooted in a pervasive culture of devaluing artists' work, a problem that even occurs in the vaunted world of science. This anger is warranted, even if you feel blindsided by it. I've had my mind opened to societal problems by the anger of victims, so I'll maintain that muted civility is not the only tool we have to change an unsatisfactory status quo.

Regarding the deleted comment: I'd like to repeat here that I did not delete a single comment on this post. If I delete a comment, I will always provide an explanation. Any removed comments were either deleted by their original poster on purpose or by mistake, or by a Blogger glitch. If you had a comment removed by accident or glitch, I can easily email it to you. Just let me know! All comments are delivered to me by email, so there is record of them in their original form. Then you can repost it. If this seems to be a glitch that's happened repeatedly, I will report to Blogger (though I'm not optimistic that it will be fixed, thus my intention to move to WordPress).

Whoa, that update was longer then the original post! Anyhow, thanks for reading and contributing to the conversation in the comments.

Update: 4:10pm EST, December 4, 2016

Rodrigo Otero has written another comment below, please be sure to read it. Seems we have a good resolution here. Thanks for the comment, Rodrigo!

And yes, as Matt Martyniuk suggests in a comment below, Blogger's comment platform is garbage. I swear I'm intending a WordPress migration as soon as it's feasible.

The 2016 Dinosaur Gift Guide

It's that time of year again, and once more your trusty paleo-bloggers of LITC are here to offer some very cool dinosaur gifts sure to satisfy the enthusiasts of Mesozoic megafauna in your life. As in years past, we will focus on products that look cool, reflect the modern state of paleoart, and come from independent artists and creators.

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Taurus Dinosaur Zodiac © Les Valiant, used with the artist's permission.

Dinosaur zodiac! This adorable collection by comic artist Les Valiant on Redbubble is available as individual pieces in various formats, or as a poster of the entire set.

Tyrannosauroidea poster © Gabriel Ungueto, used with the artist's permission

Miami-based artist Gabriel Ungueto has been creating some lovely posters recently, for sale through Redbubble. Choose between Tyrannosauroidea and Dromaeosauridae, Ornithomimosaurs and Alvarezsaurs, or buy 'em all!

Tyrannosaurus Calligram © Scott Elyard, used with the artist's permission

The Alaskan creative duo of Scott Elyard and Raven Amos of Cubelight Graphics have some great new stuff this year. Check out Scott's fantastic dino skull calligraphics, including the tyrannosaur above.

"Aurora Ornatus" © Raven Amos, used with the artist's permission

I also love Raven's Aurora Ornatus, available as a sweet tee at NeatoShop. Who says southerners make the best sweet tees? Hardy har har.

Tyrannosaurus rex © Studio 252MYA/ Franz Anthony, available via Studio 252 MYA and used here with permission.

Studio 252mya is a new paleoart studio featuring an international team of artists. It's been built by the team who also created the sites Earth Archives and Pteros. There's a treasure trove of wonderful art to pick from. I love Franz Anthony's T. rex illustration above, and it sure makes a handsome iPhone case! Also available as a framed print, mug, and more. Be sure to browse their entire shop.

"Allosaurus v. The Extinction" © Natasha Alterici, used with the artist's permission

Artist Natasha Alterici runs a shop on Society 6, featuring her distinctive dinosaur art. I love her hellish Allosaurus v. The Extinction. Plus, all of her proceeds are being donated to the ACLU presently!

The cover of Witton's "Recreating an Age of Reptiles"

Mark Witton published Recreating an Age of Reptiles this year. Signed copies are available in his online shop (along with prints of his work). It costs just a bit more than the unsigned edition. "Rec-A-Rep" a must-have for anyone who cares about paleoart, and a wonderful demonstration of how art and science are inseparable in paleontology. To be further convinced, read our very own Marc Vincent's review from July.

"Spinosaurus" © Francesco Delrio, used with the artist's permission

One of my favorite illustrations of new-look Spinosaurus comes from Francesco Delrio, which manages to make the oddly proportioned beast look graceful. Available as a variety of print formats.

The cover of Naish and Barrett's "Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved"

Darren Naish and Paul Barrett's Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved. Marc reviewed the tome in October, and had high praise: "So, should you get it? Yeah, you should get it. It's essentially the perfect summation of 'where we're up to' with dinosaur science, allowing for differences in opinion and areas where More Research is Needed."

The Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite © Brian Engh, used here with the artist's permission.

If you're looking for a stunning piece to stop people in their tracks, Brian Engh's beautful panorama of the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite should do the trick nicely. Additionally, you can support his work via Patreon, and get early access to an assortment of new originals he's auctioning off. The Patreon-specific auction lasts until December 11, at which point it will be opened to the general public, concluding on December 17.

Mammoth is Mopey by David & Jennie Orr

Finally, if you're new to LITC, you may not be aware of my children's book, Mammoth is Mopey, created with my wife Jennie and published in 2015. This year, we've got a big holiday sale on. Limited edition hardcover copies are only $10 through the end of the year, and as always each one comes with a complimentary ebook, which features an educational appendix that isn't in the print version.

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That's a wrap for this year's guide! These are always fun to put together - I always find a new artist or two as I look for items to feature. Of course, many of the products featured in our previous gift guides would still make delightful gifts. So please do browse our 2015 and 2014 (parts one, two, and three) posts as well. Let's support independent creators, the people who bring the current paleontological golden age to vivid life!