Ep #77 A Deep Dive Into the Paleostream with Artist Joschua Knuppe

Ep 77 Paleo nerds with Artist Joschua Knüppe

LINKS from this Episode

SalmonFest 2024
Alaska’s summer music-and-salmon celebration held at the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds in Ninilchik, featuring multiple stages and conservation-focused programming.

The Homer Spit
A 4.5-mile gravel bar jutting into Kachemak Bay, home to the harbor, shops, trails, fishing spots, and wide-open views of glaciers and mountains.

Ibbenbüren: City in Germany where Joschua lives
A town in North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany, historically tied to coal mining and situated on the edge of the Teutoburg Forest.

Arthropleura, the giant Carboniferous millipede
An enormous myriapod of late Paleozoic coal forests, reaching over 2 meters in length—one of the largest known land arthropods in Earth’s history.

Twitch, the live-streaming platform
An Amazon-owned, live video platform best known for gaming and creative streams, with real-time chat and interactive communities.

Discord, the instant-messaging “server” platform
A VoIP and messaging service organized into user-created “servers” with persistent text channels and voice/video rooms.

Joschua’s graphic novel review: Europasaurus: Life on Jurassic Islands
A palaeoart-focused review praising the scientifically grounded storytelling and lush visuals of the Europasaurus graphic novel.

Europasaurus, the star of Joschua’s book
A Late Jurassic dwarf sauropod from northern Germany—an island-dwelling macronarian that evolved small size (insular dwarfism).

The Messel Pit: perfectly preserved Eocene life
A UNESCO World Heritage lagerstätte in Hesse, Germany, famed for exquisitely preserved ~47-million-year-old mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, and plants.

Boverisuchus
An Eocene, largely terrestrial planocraniid crocodyliform (“hoofed crocodile”) known from Europe and North America—Joschua’s next book subject.

Styxosaurus from the Kansas chalk
A Late Cretaceous elasmosaurid plesiosaur with an exceptionally long neck; fossils are known from the Niobrara and Pierre Shale formations.

Plesiosaur neck flexibility (technical figure)
A research figure modeling range of motion in the plesiosaur neck (Seeleyosaurus), used to explore feeding and posture constraints.

Studio 252 MYA
An online shop for prehistoric-themed art and merch—prints, shirts, posters, and more from paleo-minded creators.

Thalattosaur species from Southeast Alaska: Gunakadeit
University of Alaska Fairbanks announcement of Gunakadeit joseeae, a new Late Triassic marine reptile described from the Keku Islands region.

Past guest: paleoartist Gary Staab
A master of museum-grade reconstructions and models; revisit his Paleo Nerds episode for process, materials, and science-first artistry.

Joschua’s “Monkey Cruise” example
An Instagram post from Joschua’s playful #MonkeyCruise series—pop-culture homages reimagined with primate passengers.

“Monkey Cruise: The Scream”
An X (Twitter) image post from the same series—a primate twist on Munch’s iconic painting.

Drepanosaur (image: Megalancosaurus)
Strange Late Triassic arboreal reptiles with specialized limbs and tails; this Wikimedia image shows a classic reconstruction of Megalancosaurus.

Longisquama
An enigmatic Triassic reptile noted for long, leaf-shaped dorsal appendages—an enduring puzzle in early reptile evolution.

Medusaceratops
A horned (centrosaurine) dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America, recognizable by its ornate frill ornamentation.

MUSIC

Trilobite/Ammonite by the Amish Robots
Cosmic Connection by the Ratfish Wranglers