Therizinosaurus Birthday Card

A birthday card for another friend and Dinosaur Toy Forum member, Dr. Andre Mursch, biologist and Research Associate at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Dept. of Evolutionary Ecology and Animal Biodiversity.

Sepia ink on card. The original is 12.5cm square.

His saurian portrait is a Therizinosaurus (yes, another one. There are a number of therizinosaurs on the DTF, it seems). Also present is a Dynastes granti beetle, who is supposed to signify Andre's love of insects (among a host of other things) as much as because I fancied drawing it.

Stefan Steps Down

As regular readers will have noted, often, the smallest seed of a picture will plant itself in my head from the vaguest of references, and I would find myself unable to resist realising it in illustrative form.

So it is with this drawing, which perhaps will only have any real significance for the members of the Dinosaur Toy Forum, but which I nevertheless hope will afford you a moment's visual entertainment.

Stefan (the Therizinosaurus), one of the long-standing members of the forum staff (and Dinosaur Toy Blog author), has decided to step down from the team. And although he still remains as a regular member on the forum, the news was a rather sad one. Here, the team says goodbye. They are, from left; Adam (Rhomaleosaurus -- who, by the way, is able to swim through the air much in the manner of the whales in the Pines of Rome sequence from Fantasia 2000), our forum admin and plesiosaur expert, whom you've encountered here before; Lisa (Coelophysis -- scaled up, because this is all in fun); Ashley (Amargasaurus); yours truly (Diplodocus) and Chris (Allosaurus), whom we also welcome as the newest recruit to the moderating team.

And here is an even larger copy of the image.