Elephant bird Wood Print

wood prints nature wood prints skeleton wood prints skull wood prints flightless bird wood prints largest bird wood prints bones wood prints madagascar wood prints megafauna wood prints extinct animals wood prints pleistocene wood prints aepyornis wood prints africa wood prints endangered animals wood prints iucn wood prints red list wood prints

digital art nature digital art skeleton digital art skull digital art flightless bird digital art largest bird digital art bones digital art madagascar digital art megafauna digital art extinct animals digital art pleistocene digital art aepyornis digital art africa digital art endangered animals digital art iucn digital art red list digital art

Elephant birds were part of the now extinct Pleistocene megafauna that once lived on Madagascar. The largest known species of these giant flightless birds stood at least 3 meters high and weighed on average about 650 kg – that makes them the largest bird species ever lived on Earth. There’s a lot of uncertainty and scientific speculation regarding the date and circumstances of their extinction, but humans were definitely an important factor in the process.

A few years ago I started a wildlife conservation-environmental awareness poster project called ‘12images’ - you can find more details and information about it on my blog: http://www.12images.net/endangered-and-extinct-animals/12-images-for-environmental-awareness/.

I started with two 12 piece series featuring already extinct and critically endangered animals and I plan to continue the project with more collections from time to time - this Madagascar series is the first I added. All the new collections will...

Collections featuring original artwork of illustrator and writer Moira Risen and carefully curated collections of digitally restored and cleaned illustrations from artists of the Golden Age, vintage botanical drawings, advertising posters from the early 1900's, traditional Chinese flower and bird paintings and some selected works of modernist painters. With licensing inquiries or any other questions please contact Moira personally via this email. You find more information about her and her creative projects on her personal website and on her blog. About Moira's artwork: 'I rather label my creations illustrations than classic fine art pieces because almost always there's a story (or at least a fragment of a story...) behind them -...