Pictures at a very old exhibition

If you've been looking for a website focusing on natural-history illustration, you've probably resigned yourself to disappointment.

After all, very few people in our degenerate times have the drawing and painting skills an illustrator needs. Of those few who have mastered the traditional media, fewer still have made the leap into digital technique.

And of that very select group, how many can add to their artistic skills the zoological and palaeontological knowledge a natural-history illustrator needs before he can even think about picking up a brush? I mean, you'd pretty much be limited to Carl Buell, wouldn't you, and Carl doesn't blog.

Until today, that is. Carl celebrates his 60th 59th birthday by unveiling Olduvai George, where you may begin to learn the secrets behind the wonderful animals that live in the upper left-hand corner of Pharyngula. Go wish Carl a happy birthday and enjoy the pictures he's sharing.