Rudolph the Red-Nosed Hadrosaur

Just in time for December: a pair of Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis, an Arctic hadrosaur from Northern Alaska.

Ugrunaaluk lived well north of the Arctic circle, in a region that experienced a four-month long polar night. During this time, temperatures probably stayed mostly around zero degrees Celsius with plenty of rain, sleet and occasional heavy snow. A permanent polar cloud cap suggested by British-Russian scientists would have made the long polar winters more than reasonably depressing.

Drawn for the Finnish daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.

I also wrote a Botany for paleoartists blog post about the vegetation of Ugrunaaluk's world. Check it out here: hummingdinosaur.wordpress.com/…