Status Updates From Science of Creature Design:...

Finished! Gorgeous illustrations that would be helpful for creating good wire frames for animal needle felting projects (not what it was created for, but whatever). As far as the "science" aspect goes, it's less great - lots of skeletal and muscle details, but it's generally left to the reader to figure out how aspects of real animals were combined to create imaginary ones.

Elephant feet are weird and fascinating. This book is so neat and beautiful.

This book is splendid! "In fact, cows are closer to whales and horses are closer to wolves, phylogenetically speaking."

Lots of cool tips for reference materials on this page.

YES: "A dragon, however stylized, that has a working anatomy similar to what we've observed in real crocodiles or theorized in dinosaurs, enables us to believe not only in it, but also, more importantly, in the story."