"I Contain Multitudes"

This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today.

The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)

October 03, 2025 - 14:24 UTC

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See the alt text for each number's name and some short descriptions.
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Guessing 20 is Thylacosmilus and 19 Sauroctonus?
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Omg this is amazing! Such a brilliant concept and wonderful execution. Absolutely amazing work!
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Would you ever consider selling this as a print? I’d love to put it on my wall!
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Thinking about it and doing posters
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Because Coyote will eat anything, he is of everything.
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This is so cool!
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This is fantastic
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I love the symbolism πŸ–€
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This is really great.
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This is awesome! Absolutely stunning lineage and wonderful showcase.
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Neat!
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I enjoy how much grey foxes just look like the proto-canines
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They are probably the closest morphologically. They are really old as a genus.
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All various doggies
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these are good ancestors
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This is just fantastic ❀️
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Gorgeous work!
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aho, dinosaur oyate πŸͺΆ
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Dimetrodon's not on the direct lineage, but I like sphenacodontids.
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Indeed! But I had to include one.
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A fitting tribute to a tenacious survivor against all odds. πŸ‘
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this is so awesome... i love the concept
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A truly breathtaking piece of art. It's amazing how a couple of cells led to all this beauty.
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Thank you! I agree, and I hope I impressed that upon my students this semester. Next semester we do a deep dive into how those first few cells came to be. ☺️
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I wanna just scoop up the miacid and all the 'cyons. I'm particularly fond of those transitional critters.
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Genuine Wallpaper Material. This is so pretty.
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This is cool as fuck
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I often look at my dog and think about the history that took to get to this moment and it’s quite overwhelming.
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