Tag: art
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Throwback Thursday #296: More Don Auler Mineral Slab Paintings
Don was a very good artist. He did the artwork for the “Creature Corner” and ESCONI “Keys” books. He also was known for doing little painting on various mineral slabs. His paintings were integrated will the mineral colors and grain.
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Throwback Thursday #293: Field Museum – Charles Knight
This is Throwback Thursday #293. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! email:esconi.info@gmail.com. The Field Museum has an interesting Photo Archive page about Charles Knight. Knight was an American wildlife and…
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ESCONI October 2025 Paleontology Study Group Meeting – October 18th, 2025 at 7:30 PM via Zoom – “Creating 3D Digital Models for Paleontology”
The October 2025 Paleontology Study Group Meeting will be held on October 18th, 2025 at 7:30 via Zoom. The topic is “Creating 3D Digital Models for Paleontology”. It will be presented by Shellie Luallin. Shellie Luallin will be presenting “Creating 3D Digital Models for Paleontology”. 3D models increasingly appear in the digital realm – in…
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Video for ESCONI February 2024 – General Meeting, Topic: “Photographing Rock Art in Illinois and Missouri: A visual journey into the sacred, the unknown, and the creation of the universe”
The ESCONI February 2024 General Meeting was held on Friday, February 9th, 2024. The topic was “Photographing Rock Art in Illinois and Missouri: A visual journey into the sacred, the unknown, and the creation of the universe”. It was presented by Mike Chervinko. Mike is author of “Prehistoric and Natural Wonders of Southern Illinois”. The…
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UIUC: A mammoth tribute to Illinois history
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has a new statue… and it’s a mammoth! A statue of a woolly mammoth was installed recently near the Natural History Building. The statue was sculpted by Taylor Studios in Rantoul, Illinois. You can find the press release here. Thanks for the tip, Ben Riegler! The next, and past, big thing:…
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PBS Eons: How Horses Went from Food to Friends
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about the domestication of horses. Do our modern horses descend from just one domesticated population, or did it happen many times, in many places? Answering these questions has been tricky, as we’ve needed to bring together evidence from art, archaeology, and ancient DNA…Because, as it…
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Kids’ fossilized handprints may be some of the world’s oldest art
LiveScience has an article about what may be the oldest art ever found. 200,000 years ago on a high plateau, children squished their hands and feet into a sticky mud floor of a cave. In a paper published in the journal Science Bulletin, the authors argue this should be considered “parietal” art, which is art that…
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Art Exhibition “human / nature” at the Illinois State Museum
ESCONI member Andrew Young is participating in a new art exhibition at the Illinois State Museum. The exhibition is called “human / nature: the weight of our actions on the natural world”. It runs from July 31st, 2021 until January 29th 2022 and is sure to be an enlightening and stimulating experience. Check it out! …
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PBS Eons: How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna
There’s a new episode of PBS Eons. This one connects archaeology, paleontology, and ancient art. Beneath layers of rock art are drawings of animals SO strange that, for a long time, some anthropologists thought they could only have been imagined. But what if these animals really had existed, after all?
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43,900-Year-Old Cave Painting Portrays Part-Human, Part-Animal Beings
SciNews has a story about a very old cave painting discovered in Indonesia. Archaeologist excavating the limestone cave of Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi discovered a painting that is about 43,900 years old. The painting depicts a group of ‘therianthropes’, abstract beings which combine qualities of people and animals, hunting…
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Just Announced: Art Exhibit – The Art and Science of Paleontology
Rob Sula,(who is also the ESCONI Vice President) is having an art show, Dinosaurs: The Art and Science of Paleontology, from February 22 to May 3 with the Aurora Public Art Commission, 20 East Downer Place, Aurora, Illinois 60506, Phone: (630) 256-3340, Fax: (630) 256-3349, Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Friday, Noon – 4 p.m. The…
