A Notiomastodon, relative of today's elephants, walks through a marsh waving a stick to scare away a group of broad-snouted caiman, while a jabiru stork watches from its perch on a log.
A pair of Doedicurus, car-sized heavily armored armadillo relatives, watches as a jaguar passes them by. A red-legged seriema stands on top of one of their shells.
A maned wolf stands between a pair of feeding Eremotherium, giant ground sloths, holding one of the wolf-apples (a fruit native to the region) that has fallen due to the sloths' diturbance of the trees.
A scenic view of a small lake surrounded by tropical vegetation, representing what Central Brazil would be like 15,000 years ago. Pictured are the extinct species: Smilodon, Notiomastodon, Xenorhinotherium, Eremotherium and the empty shell of a Glyptodon, as well as the still-living species: broad-snouted caiman, jabiru stork, nine-banded armadillo, caracara, and caatinga parakeets.
A while ago I did a short series of illustrations showing extinct species coexisting with still living ones in my home country of Brazil, as would have happened around 15-10k years ago. #paleoart #SciArt #artbyjulio
