The CAVAPS logo for 2009

This is the logo for CAPVAPS, the Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics. The design is by Katie Huang but it is based on the Thylacoleo I drew on my zoology practical book back in 2007. You can see the original in it's context below.

I was invited to attend these event and listen to palaeontologists talk about their research but unfortunately I was not able to go because it clashed with my exams. It was a real pity because I lost an opportunity to put myself forward as a future palaeontologist and a palaeo-artist. I regard this as my first big break and I don't get to promote myself!!!! I hope that Henk Godthelp will be kind to me and put in a good word for me. Henk has been so good to me as my contact in the University of New South Wales.

Prodraco reddiegoniensis

I am perfect.
Your thoughts are irrelevant.
You don’t count.
I am a mighty Reddiegonian Dragon.

Point is,
you can’t sway me.
See my crocodile jaws,
I can snap a horse in half.

Must admit,
Frying you would amuse me more.
Smell the pungent aroma of singeing live meat,
with smoking, flared nostrils.
Hear shrill, uncanny, moribund squeals,
with sabre-shaped ears.
See the dying writhe in flames,
with blood hued eyes.

Why?
There is no why.

I Kill, therefore I am.
Purposeful, just Lord Flickertongue
gifted me as embodiment of Death.

A predator?!
No!
I am more!
Predators kill to eat.
I Kill because I can,
because it’s ecstasy.

And I will Kill and Kill and Kill,
until nothing remains.
For I am more than Death.
I am Total Destruction.