"A" is for Archaeopteryx

I am currently in clean-out-my-life mode... but if I weren't I'd buy this and hang it conspicuously on my wall:

Palaeobet: An Alphabet of Ancient Animals

Click on the image to see all it's delights close up.

Plus I think this comic by the same artist, Rosemary Mosco, is rather brilliant: Mid-Cambrian Morning

via Retaliatory Vandalism