Journey to Belgium and Germany.

 I participated in the symposium on turtle evolution at Tubingen University.

Before go to Germany, I visited Belgian.


 The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

 The Löwentor Museum.

 Tubingen University paleontology museum.

The Hauff Museum in Holzmaden

The Jura Museum

Every museums were excellent!
I could see many famous and very interesting specimens.
And it was very happy for me to talk with some friends and many paleontologists.
I express my gratitude to everyone.

Velociraptor (2012)

Velociraptor mongoliensis 

length　５０ｃｍ 

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Main references, 

"Feather Quill Knobs in the Dinosaur Velociraptor"

  Alan H. Turner, Peter J. Makovicky and Mark A. Norell. Science  (21 September 2007)

"New Oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda) From Mongolia: The First Dinosaur With A Pygostyle". 

 Barsbold, R., Osmólska, H., Watabe, M., Currie, P.J., and Tsogtbaatar, K. (2000)

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica,

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Smilodon (2012）

Smilodon fatalis   

length 22cm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The photos of at work >here 

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Main references, 

"The Big Cats and their fossil relatives"

"Illustrated Encyclopedia of Extinct Mammals"

(published only the Japanese edition)

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Euhelopus model at The Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University.

I sculpted Euhelopus reconstruction model by order from The Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University.
And I accepted the images of the exhibition at the museum.

Sculpting this model was very exciting and pleasant work.

It's a very honor that my work is exhibited with the famous specimen!

Mosasauridae new exhibition

Natural History Museum Kishiwada City's Mosasauridae new exhibition.
This new Clidastes skeleton was assembled with supervising of Takuya Konishi(The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology).
The reconstruction illustration(Platecarpus） by Takashi Oda.
I did a bit of support for this exhibition.
It was very exciting work!

At work now - Smilodon 1-

Smilodon fatalis

length 24cm

Happy New Year ( Vermithrax, Dragonslayer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy New Year!

This year is the dragon by the twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac.
So I sculpted the head of my favorite dragon  Vermithrax for greeting New Year.

I'm looking forward to talking and meeting many people in this year.