mauricio antón ortuzar, a spanish paleoartist and illustrator, has been specializing in the scientific reconstruction of extinct life since his teenage years. born in 1961 in bilbao, spain, he is well known for his influential paintings of hominids, extinct carnivores, and other vertebrate fossil groups. early life and career as a teenager in caracas (venezuela) in the 1970s, mauricio antón ortuzar became fascinated with the skeleton o…