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Michael Tripoli
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Illustrator and Graphic Designer |
He/They | Natural History, Scicomm and Creature Design

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A pair of American Mastodon chow down on a (slightly fantastical) pumpkin patch 🍂✨️

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Digital painting of two fuzzy, dark brown American Mastodon eating pumpkins in a small pumpkin patch. The style emulated watercolor and pencil paintings. In the foreground the larger mastodon is leaning over to crush a very large orange pumkin with its weight, while the mastodon behind it snacks on pumpkin chunks. The forest around them is mixed with tall conifers and deciduous trees in various shades of fall reds, oranges and yellows
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Somebody posted the photo this is a study of on a discord I'm in but I haven't been able to find the original context for it. If anyone knows I'd be interested!
Photograph of a young girl wearing a school uniform and a backpack at a museum, cradling the skull of the giant Miocene hyena Dinocrocuta
October 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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A Girl and her Dinocrocuta

Messing around with some new brushes

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Digital illustration of a young girl with a backpack cuddling with the giant miocene hyena Dinocrocuta on a solid yellow background with pink hearts. She is hugging the hyena's head warmly, and the animal looks content Digital linework of a young girl with a backpack cuddling with the giant miocene hyena Dinocrocuta
October 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Scale chart of selected animals known from the Pliocene Shungura Formation of Ethiopia. The scale bar is 1 meter
April 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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To send off the Formation Frenzy theme for this year's #marchofthemammals2025, here's all this years animals scaled together with some bonuses from previous years and other projects

(Please ignore the fact its almost May...)

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Scale chart of selected animals known from the Cretaceous Djadochta Formation of Mongolia. The scale bar is 10 cm Scale chart of selected animals known from the Eocene Itaborai Formation of Brazil. The scale bar is 1 meter Scale chart of selected animals known from the Oligocene Brule Formation of the western USA. The scale bar is 1 meter Scale chart of selected animals known from the Miocene Riversleigh Fossil Site of Australia. The scale bar is 1 meter
April 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Our #marchofthemammals2025 wrap up post! Probably the smallest average size so far, which makes Palaeoloxodon look especially impressive!

As always thanks to @shunosaurus.bsky.social for organizing this! I've got one more little follow-up for this years formation theme, so stay tuned!
Vector illustration of various animals from this year's March of the Mammals calender, lined up scaled to one another, with a silhouette of a person in the middle
April 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Our last animal for #marchofthemammals2025, the very tall Palaeoloxodon recki!

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Vector illustration of Palaeoloxodon recki, a very large elephant from Pliocene Africa. It looks broadly like an African Elephant, with very long legs, a tall skull and straight tusks, with dark wrinkly skin
March 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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#marchofthemammals2025 day 26, a mother Dinopithecus ingens and her baby, going for a ride

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Vector illustration of Dinopithecus ingens, a large cercopithecid monkey from the Late Pliocene and Pleistocene of east Africa. The large baboon is a female, with a young child clinging to her back. They are both a dark tan color on thier fur, with the mother having a light ruff on its cheeks
March 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Beatragus antiquus for day 24 of #marchofthemammals2025, an ancient species of hirola antelope

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Vector illustration of Beatragus antiquus, a species of Hirola antelope from late Pliocene/early Pleistocene Ethiopia. It is very similar to the living hirola, with longer, straighter horns, and a darker face and back.
March 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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#marchofthemammals2025 day 24: Kolpochoerus limnetes! A big pig 🐖

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Vector illustration of Kolpochoerus limnetes, a close relative of the modern Giant Forest Hog. It is a large pig with short tusks and large swollend cheeks and knobs on its head. It is dark brown in color, with bright spots along its beard and ears
March 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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A very angry Ancylotherium hennigi for day 23 of #marchofthemammals2025

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Vector Illustration of Ancylotherium hennigi, a large schizotherine chalicothere from late Pliocene Ethiopia. It is rearing up with its claws beared, ready to stomp an attacker. It is similar to a large horse, with a long neck, claws, a stocky body and a dome on its forehead. It is sandy brown in color, with dark on its face, shoulders and feet
March 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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On to our last week of #marchofthemammals2025, the savannas of Early Pleistocene Ethiopia! Here's Dinofelis petteri chilling on a tree branch

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Vector illustration of Dinofelis petteri, a bobcat sized sabertoothed cat from the Pliocene of Ethiopia. It is relaxing on a large tree branch, looking out at the horizon. It resembles a small leopard with a notably shorter tail and a broad snout. It is orangeish in color with dark spots that stretch into long rosettes towards its back
March 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Rounding out the Riversleigh crew is the tapir sized diprotodontid Neohelos stirtoni for day 21 of #marchofthemammals2025!

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Vector illustration of Neohelos stirtoni, a mid sized diprotodontid from the middle Miocene of Queensland, Australia. It looks roughly like a long legged wombat with a long narrow snout. It is seen from above jogging past the viewer. It is dark reddish brown in color with a darker underside and legs, and is covered in irregular white spots
March 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Ganguroo bilamina for day 20 of #marchofthemammals2025!

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Vector illustration of Ganguroo bilamina, a small early kangaroo from the rainforests of the middle Miocene Riversleigh Fossil Site of Queensland, Australia. It is dark grey and brown in color, and broadly resembles a rat kangaroo or a bettong
March 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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#marchofthemammals2025 day 19, Muriabacinus gadiyuli, a tiny thylacinid!

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Vector illustration of Muriabacinus gadiyuli, a small thylacinid from the middle Miocene Riversleigh Fossil Site of Australia. It looks roughly like quoll, staring at the viewer. It is dark brown with light grey on its feet and tail, with dark stripes
March 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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The powerfully named Crash bandicoot for day 18 of #Marchofthemammals2025

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Vector illustration of Crash bandicoot, an early bandicoot from the middle Miocene Riversleigh Fossil Site of Australia. It is curled up facing away from the camera. It is a gradient of orange to grey, with a light belly and cheeks and dark spots on its hands and brow
March 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The arboreal diprotodontid Nimbadon lavarackorum for day 17 of #marchofthemammals2025. A real wierdo!

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Vector illustration of Nimbadon lavarackorum, a sheep sized arboreal diprotodontid from the middle Miocene Riversleigh Fossil Site. The animal looks like a large wombat or koala, with long arms and large claws. It is climbing up the trunk of a tree, reaching out for an adjacent branch. It is colored grey with a gradient of orange and dark brown, with irregular grey and white spots along its back
March 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Beginning our trip to the lush forests of the middle Miocene Riversleigh Fossil Site with Obdurodon dicksoni for day 16 of #marchofthemammals2025

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Vector illustration of Obdurodon dicksoni, a platypus from the middle Miocene of Australia. It is snatching up a frog with its beak. Its got a straighter, broader snout than modern platypi, and a dark patch on its forehead and white on its cheeks and underside
March 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Rounding out our trip to the Brule Formation is the fearsome Hyaenodon horridus #marchofthemammals2025!

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Vector illustration of Hyaenodon horridus, a large carnivorous hyaenadont from the Oligocene of North America. It looks something like a civet, laying down looking over its shoulder. Its mouth is slightly open, showing its large shearing teeth. It is reddish brown in color with dark on its face and legs and light on its underside
March 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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#marchofthemammals2025 day 14, Hyracodon nebraskensis

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Vector Illustration of Hyracodon nebraskensis, a cursorial rhino relative from the Oligocene of the Great Plains. The animal looks like a long legged skinny hornless rhino, with 3 toes on each of its feet and a short mane. It is light brown with dark socks and a dark mask on its face, with white on its stomach, face and legs
March 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Look at this wierdo!
Graphic comparing the skulls of various mole like digging mammals, taken from Rose amd Emry 1983 The skull of Xenocranium (A-G) and Epocitherium (H-J). Taken from Rose and Emry 1983 Articulated partial skeleton of Xenocranium pileorivale, taken from Rose and Emry 1983
March 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Day 13 of #marchofthemammals2025, Xenocranium pileorivale. A tiny moleish animal related to pangolins!

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Vector illustration of Xenocranium pileorivale, a tiny mole like animal related to pangolins from the Oligocene Brule formation. It has long thing claws on its hands and a padded, shovel shaped nose to help it burrow. It is dark grey with a rusty brown underside
March 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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#marchofthemammals2025 day 12, the tiny oreodont Leptauchenia decora!
Vector illustration of Leptauchenia decora, a small oreodont from the Oligocene Brule formation of the Great Plains. The small hoofed mammal looks roughly like a tiny pig, with large eyes positioned at the top of its head and large scent glands on its snout. It is sandy yellow in color with a white underside and dark markings on its head
March 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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#marchofthemammals2025 day 11, a prancing Protoceras celer
Vector illustration of Protoceras celer, a strange artiodactyl from the Oligocene of the Brule Formation. It is a generally antelope shaped animal, seen here leaping towards the viewer. This individual is a female and does not have the iconic ossicones associated with protoceratids
March 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Day 10 of #marchofthemammals2025, our first resident of the Oligocene Great Plains, Daphoenus vetus (and a very unlucky Leptomeryx)

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Vector illustration of Daphoenus vetus, a small Amphicyonid from the Brule Formation of the western US. The animal resembles a civet or a long bodied coyote or fox, and it holding a small deerlike animal (Leptomeryx) in its mouth. It is sandy yellow, orange and gray with dark stripes on its shoulders and the tip of its tail
March 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM