Evolving Art Series 16: Cryptobiology* in Driftwood Art

   Evolving Art Series 16

Cryptobiology* in Driftwood Art

Re-constructing the likeness of the extinct dinosaurs in driftwood.

 (Triceratops, Monoclonius, and Protoceratops)

Dr Abe V Rotor

 

Once I dug a stump of an old tree,

    its roots like forked limbs in three,

its trunk splayed also into three,

    appearing like a fossil to me.

Years later when I was in college,

    I returned here at the forest edge;

like a book I turned page by page

    to realize how li'l is my knowledge.

It's not all science we believe in,

    but also the side for not winning,

that humbles us into believing,

    of a Power since the beginning. - avr

Triceratops had two horns above its eye, while Monoclonius

had only one, against a landscape mural, both artworks

of the author, at the Living with Nature Center, 

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur. 

 

Re-constructed Triceratops from fossil (Internet)

"Which first appeared, last to disappear -

     fossil reading limits us to Carbon 14,

beyond the laboratory we only dare

     to blame a Comet no one had seen.

It is test of faith that keeps our sanity,

     our enduring link with our ancestors,

richness of our culture, its continuity,

     quaintness of life, and all its favors." - avr 

   

Protoceratops had a tough bony collar to protect its neck.

Reconstructed Protoceratops from fossil (Internet)

* Cryptobiology is the study of cryptids, creatures around which myths exist but whose current existence has never been verified. Some famous cryptids include Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, and the Chupacabra, the great dinosaurs, . Cryptids are elusive creatures that dance on the fringes of human perception, whose existence has not been proven by science, but has been reported by many eye-witnesses. Modern science has proved the existence to creatures that existed only in imagination and fantasy.