It's cool, but it also sucks because Irritator is yet another case of scientific colonialism and the fossil black market. Not only that, but fossil poachers broke and defiled the skull to smuggle it out of the country. It was named "Irritator" because it was irritating to figure out which parts were real bones and which were plaster.
Here's a good vid on it too.
Once thought to have appeared in the Triassic, apparently ichthyosaurs decided to screw with paleontology and evolve way before the Permian mass-extinction instead. The mass extinction that killed 90% of life on earth, and these guys were just chillin'.
https://www.sciencealert.com/oldest-ichthyosaur-known-to-science-discovered-on-remote-arctic-island
Good for them.
I didn't make much art that year due to absolutely everything bad happening, but I did manage to fart out one third of Inktober. Or Drawtober in this case.
The theme was modern birds as dromaeosaurs.
