https://www.rothmanillustration.com/work-subject-area-selections daily 0.75 2026-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2fe3eda9e028d9874d9525/1546912325484-FBM35NAZ1QGB30NXMR8C/Cacao-%28cabruca-habitat-group%29-M.-Rothman-4-29-2013+adapted+for+mural+use+1500px+width.jpg Work Subject Area Selections - Cacao growing under the cabruca agroforestry system (2nd variant shown in a mural format) Cacao growing under the cabruca agroforestry system in a remnant Atlantic Forest experimental preserve in Brazil. A more vertically oriented version was published as the cover art of World Watch magazine 2001. A number of endangered plants and animals, such as the Golden Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia) and the Pink-legged Graveteiro (Acrobatornis fonsecai) have found refuge in these forests. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2fe3eda9e028d9874d9525/1548544690942-G6LTU50ZJOUYU9GO76Z6/Intermountain++%28Red+rock-North+America%29+habitat.jpg Work Subject Area Selections This habitat group depicts the fauna and flora of the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest. The broadleaf trees are called Mountain Mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius var. intermontanus) and their flowers are shown (right side) being pollinated by metallic green Sweat-bees (Agaostemon tetanus). A Black-chinned hummingbird (Archilochus alejandri) hovers (at left) near the bright red flowers of a Penstemon eatonii. The yellow flowers at the lower right are called Cleomella palmeriana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2fe3eda9e028d9874d9525/1547052052390-1VMSPMAWNMCBJ80GDC0S/Hoatzin+and+chicks+%C2%A9+M.+Rothman+2000+at+for+upload+1500pix.jpg Work Subject Area Selections - Hoatzin and two chicks Illustration of an adult Hoatzin (Ophisthocomus hoazin), depicted here with two of her young. The juveniles have functional claws on their wings and are able to swim. When danger threatens, the chicks can jump from their nest into the water below, hide in floating vegetation, and after the danger passes, climb back into their nest. The wing claws cease to function in adults. The adults eat only leaves. © M. Rothman 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2fe3eda9e028d9874d9525/1551468692966-X2XI29G2NDRMVICJJ231/Auk+painting+their+final+day+on+earth+1844.jpg Work Subject Area Selections This painting depicts the two last adult Great Auks (Alca impennis) just before they were killed by fisherman on the Icelandic Island of Eldey Rock on June 3, 1844. Their sole egg was simultaneously smashed when their bodies were collected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2fe3eda9e028d9874d9525/1549743971556-2NGDM63A6NH139HX6OJ4/Rothman%27s+Microvictoria+svitkoana+reconstruction+2-9-2019.jpg Work Subject Area Selections This is the first reconstruction of the earliest known member of the Nymphaeaceae family, Microvictoria svitkoana. It shares recognizable characters with the modern genus Victoria, which includes the giant Amazonian water lily. This newly described Cretaceous species, M. svitkoana, is vastly smaller in scale than its extant counterpart, V. amazonica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2fe3eda9e028d9874d9525/1653071085940-SA2GKMHFO17MDPJ6ZQ8E/%C2%A9+M.+Rothman+Pabiania+variloba+reconstruction..jpg Work Subject Area Selections - Pabiania variloba habit reconstruction Pabiania variloba habit reconstruction Pabiania variloba was a member of the order Laurales represented by numerous fossils found at the Rose Creek site in Nebraska and the Hosington III site in Kansas. (Eastern side of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, Early Cretaceous Albian). I examined images of fossils in their respective matrices in the paper "Early Cretaceous angiosperm leaves from the Dakota Formation, Hoisington III locality, Kansas, USA" (Wang, Dicher). (Palaeontologia Electronica 21.3.34A 1-49. https://doi.org/10.26879/841 palaeo-electronica.org/content/2018/2270-early-cretaceous-leaves). I then developed their habit and coloration based upon logical inferences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2fe3eda9e028d9874d9525/1549734502279-LIB7Z594WUY0UWN0XFJO/Walnut+Juglans+nigra.jpg Work Subject Area Selections Rear cover illustration a Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) for Kitchen Gardens Magazine (acrylic emulsion paints). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2fe3eda9e028d9874d9525/1764633042697-JFFJK6AKFHX634OXJJC1/Troy%252BReconstruction%252Bfor%252Bthe%252BNew%252BYork%252BTimes%252BScience%252B2002%252Bcopy.jpg Work Subject Area Selections - Ancient Troy during the Late Bronze Age. An urban scene Ancient Troy prepared for the New York Times Science Times Section. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2fe3eda9e028d9874d9525/1566420730921-07ERV8BRUPI59J4MZ5K2/Eocoracias+brachyptera+%2B+Staphylea+germanica+reconstruction+4+UPLOAD.jpg Work Subject Area Selections Reconstruction of an Eocoracias brachyptera roosting in a Staphylea germanica tree This is a reconstruction of the plausibly, blue-hued, Eocene proto-roller, Eocoracias brachyptera. The illustration was influenced by studying the recent Babarović, Puttick, Zaher, et al paper "Characterization of melanosomes involved in the production of non-iridescent structural feather colours and their detection in the fossil record". Journal of The Royal Society: Interface,16 (155). 20180921. ISSN 1742-5689), I prepared a ventral/anterior view of the bird perched in a tree from the Messel formation called Straphylea germanica. I emphasized the syndactyl feet present in the associated fossil specimens. 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