Paleoartist Hodari Nundu puts his creativity and talent for drawing in service of paleontology by creating portraits of extinct wildlife and their ecology based on available fossil evidence. Scientific artists like Hodari are crucial for paleontology because their renderings are the only way we can have a visual representation of long gone animals. To learn all about the routine aspects of Hodari's work, his take on some major debates in paleontology, and his vision for the future of conservation, listen to episode 3 of The Snakeman's Lair!

Soundtrack: Desert Blues North Africa (Carlos Chagas) from Jamendo