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Exploring the Mesozoic world through art, science, and pop culture since 2009.
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It's the first podcast episode of the new year! Chris DiPiazza introduces us to a formative memory and joins the Chasmosaurs panel for an in depth look at the works of one Pam Mara!
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Podcast Show Notes: Episode 47 ā Pam Mara according to Chris
Weāre trying out something new for our first podcast episode of 2026! Marc, Natee and Gemma are joined by returning guest Christopher DiPiazza, teacher, palaeoartist and now budding palaeontoā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2026/01/29/podcast-show-notes-episode-47-pam-mara-according-to-chris/
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A cute children's book this time, as A Boy And His Dinosaur take a hike on foot into the Jurassic. Do you remember this one?
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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Dinosaur Dream
You know, Iāve only done one Vintage Dinosaur Art project in the entire year of 2025? Granted, it was the mammoth, three part project on Marie Hubrecht at the Lyceum, the results of which areā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2026/03/02/vintage-dinosaur-art-dinosaur-dream/
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Therbis
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Say hi to Damon, Perry, Piper and Sally! All from my new plush series Yuri&Friends 2, theyĀ“re all now waiting for new homes now in my shop š¦
therbisstudio.com
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What had big jaws and hooves? Let me tell you about Andrewsarchus. š§Ŗ
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This Giant Carnivore Ran on Hooves. Scientists Are Investigating Its Massive Skull and Crushing Teeth to Decipher the Beast's True Nature
For more than a century, paleontologists have been piecing together how the mysterious predator Andrewsarchus is related to other mammals, like the extinct āhell pigsā and āwolves with hoovesā
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-giant-carnivore-ran-on-hooves-scientists-are-investigating-its-massive-skull-and-crushing-teeth-to-decipher-the-beasts-true-nature-180988212/
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Darren Naish
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That sexual selection is one of the primary drivers in evolution is well established. Studies of Mesozoic
#dinosaurs
and
#pterosaurs
, however, have been dominated by the view that the variation, extravagance and diversity seen in these animals is not due to the pressures of sexual selection, but...
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Sophie M.
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Check out this unbelievably cool Jan SovĆ”k painting! How often do you see plesiosaurs and dinosaurs interacting at all, let alone this cinematically? Itās unbelievable how productive SovĆ”k was as an artist, I just keep finding more and more of his work that Iāve never seen before!
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From
@geopetalfabric.bsky.social
and
@maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social
. You can follow the podcast at
@weirdanddead.bsky.social
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The Epstein Files and Paleontology | Weird and Dead Podcast
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Riley Black š³ļøāā§ļø š¦
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And Horner had a rep as a creep well before this. Marrying a 19 year-old-student when he was 65, then treating it as some kind of joke or unserious. Women MSU students who told me they were interested in paleo, until their interactions with him. Not to mention how got his fame by claim jumping.
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Natalia Jagielska (åØå”č)
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Minimalist Microraptor
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Natalia Jagielska (åØå”č)
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For people outside of paleontology: This senior paleontologist, who married a 19-year-old, visited a convicted pedophile in 2012 & 2016. Is beefing over a conference argument from 13 years ago, angry because he was banned from a family-friendly event across the Atlantic. The level of petty.
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Natalia Jagielska (åØå”č)
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Dude, shave (Haolong dongi)
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Christopher DiPiazza
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Speed paint
#watercolor
#paleoart
of the recently published hedgehog dino, Haolong. What a neat creature!
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Ville Sinkkonen
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Haolong dongi with bit of color
#sciart
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Gabriel Ugueto
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Very quick rough sketch of the newly described spiky Hadrosauroid dinosaur Haolong dongi I had to at least rough sketch this beauty!
#paleoart
#sciart
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Andy | Paleocartoonist
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Haolong is so cool
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New Vintage Dinosaur Art! And I'm happy to say that it's more Maurice Wilson from the 1950s, courtesy of reader Alexander Guridov. Wilson's art is remarkably well-observed and beautifully painted for the time, and I might get a bit gushing.
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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles
Last month I reviewed A Guide to Earth History, our first foray into the world of Maurice Wilsonās illustrations in quite some time. At the end of said article, I asked readers (we still haveā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2026/02/10/vintage-dinosaur-art-fossil-amphibians-and-reptiles/
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Natalia Jagielska (åØå”č)
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Palaeoart, on paper, should not have the same systemic barriers of academia, ergo, be quite diverse. There's no staff hierarchy, lower financial barriers, most is online ergo relatively decentralised. And yet, looking at available stats, palaeoart is as bad as paleontological academia. Why?
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Thank you,
@dinoconuk.bsky.social
. Abuse has no place in the palaeo community. We stand in solidarity with this message, and wtih all the victims of the horrible crimes commited by the Epstein organization.
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Finally, I can break silence! I did a lot of creature design work for this show (collaborating, of course, with the production team) and think the animals are looking pretty good here! This was a lot of fun to work on - will be watching on Mar. 6!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ZB...
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The Dinosaurs | Official Trailer | Netflix
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That's our podcast episode for March sorted, then!
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The Dinosaurs | Official Trailer | Netflix
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A bittersweet article today as Gemma remembers a hidden gem in Emmen, a dinosaur museum that is no longer there.
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Remembering the Biochron
Zoos and dinosaurs. I have written a lot about Dutch zoos and dinosaurs on these pages. Most zoos in my home country have some degree of dinosaur presence, in the shape of permanent or temporary moā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2026/02/04/remembering-the-biochron/
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Sophie M.
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It actually arrived! āThe Last Great Dinosaursā was one of my few remaining dinosaur book holy grails and Iām thrilled to finally add it to my collection after so many false starts. I canāt wait to get some good photos and share it with everyone over on the
@chasmosaurs.bsky.social
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Bernard Robinson is an artist whose work Iāve always been happy to stumble upon. He was extremely skilled and both the quality of his work and its obviously retro nature make it hugely nostalgic for many.
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Vintage Dinosaur Art ā Prehistoric Animals (Macdonald First Library)
Bernard Robinson is an artist whose work Iāve always been happy to stumble upon, ever since I first reviewed the Ladybird bookĀ Dinosaurs back in 2011 (can you believe Iāve been writing ā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2026/01/30/vintage-dinosaur-art-prehistoric-animals-macdonald-first-library/
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#UglyUglyDinosaurs
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For
#FossilFriday
Iām pleased to announce our new paper on investigating the cranial performance and evolution of feeding behavior in tyrannosauroids and other theropods. Hereās a thread on some of our major findings.
#Dinosaurs
#Paleontology
#Tyrannosaurus
#Theropods
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Riley Black š³ļøāā§ļø š¦
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Paleoart has always been rife with cheap, inaccurate depictions and copied illustrations. Especially among childrenās books, many authors arenāt experts and donāt know what to look for. ai slop is making it worse, whatever looks dinosaur-ish treated as accurate because it appeared on an image search
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It's the first podcast episode of the new year! Chris DiPiazza introduces us to a formative memory and joins the Chasmosaurs panel for an in depth look at the works of one Pam Mara!
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Podcast Show Notes: Episode 47 ā Pam Mara according to Chris
Weāre trying out something new for our first podcast episode of 2026! Marc, Natee and Gemma are joined by returning guest Christopher DiPiazza, teacher, palaeoartist and now budding palaeontoā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2026/01/29/podcast-show-notes-episode-47-pam-mara-according-to-chris/
about 2 months ago
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More Bay State museums! Bones and bots in Boston!
chasmosaurs.com/2026/01/06/b...
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Boston Museum of Science
I think enough time has passed between now and my previous write-up of the Harvard Museum of Natural History that I can post the other big museum I visited during my adventures in Massachusetts, inā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2026/01/06/boston-museum-of-science/
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From all the way back in 1958, here's some more work from the ever-superb Maurice Wilson, as featured in Richard Carrington's 'A Guide to Earth History' (the Pelican version). It's in black and white because everything was back then, you know. Enjoy.
chasmosaurs.com/2026/01/04/v...
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Vintage Dinosaur Art: A Guide to Earth History
Should you ever visit the historic Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, England (itās a UNESCO World Heritage Site, you know), be sure to drop by the superb Ironbridge Book Shop. There youālā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2026/01/04/vintage-dinosaur-art-a-guide-to-earth-history/
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In the season of Santa and weather so bleak, Three natural history nerds take a peek At young ancient mammals, so fluffy and twee As seen on the new show on Apple TV.
chasmosaurs.com/2025/12/29/p...
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Podcast Snow Notes: Episnowed 46 ā Prehistoric Planet Ice Age Extravaganza
In the season of Santa and weather so bleak, Three natural history nerds take a peek At young ancient mammals, so fluffy and twee As seen on the new show on Apple TV. In landscapes so snowy and icyā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2025/12/29/podcast-snow-notes-episnowed-46-prehistoric-planet-ice-age-extravaganza/
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By popular request ā and by that, I mean literally a single person asked for it ā hereās another little look at Dinosaurs, published in 2000 as part of Kingfisherās My First Encyclopedia series.
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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Dinosaurs (Kingfisher My First Encyclopedia) ā part 2
By popular request ā and by that, I mean literally a single person asked for it ā hereās another little look atĀ Dinosaurs, published in 2000 as part of Kingfisherās My First Encyclopediā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2025/12/09/vintage-dinosaur-art-dinosaurs-kingfisher-my-first-encyclopedia-part-2/
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Eeeee!!!! I got interviewed by Gemma for LitToC podcast!!!! Thanks so much for th invite; it was really fun getting to talk to you about plants and palaeoart!
#paleobotany
#paleoart
#podcast
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In this episode, David Armsby's back and better than ever, Darren Naish's hair is slicker than ever, and Gemma interviews palaeobotanist and artist
@palaeojules.bsky.social
, who's here to save us all from painfully generic and/or inaccurate flora in palaeoart.
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Podcast Show Notes: Episode 45 ā Heinrich Harder and Julianne Kiely
Gemma, Natee, and Marc are back for another attempt at entertaining prehistorically inclined people with carefully edited commentary and interviews with people who actually know what theyāre ā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2025/11/30/podcast-show-notes-episode-45-heinrich-harder-and-julianne-kiely/
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What does Marc think of
@davehone.bsky.social
and
@markwitton.bsky.social
's foray into the world of spinosaurid palaeontology? Find out here!
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Spinosaur Tales ā review
Back in 2016, Dave Hone (for it was he) wroteĀ The Tyrannosaur Chronicles, a book all about the best little clade of theropod dinosaurs that there ever was. Earlier this year saw the publication of ā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2025/11/23/spinosaur-tales-review/
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Dinosaur playing cards. So many dinosaur playing cards.
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Vintage Dinosaur Art: The Famous Dinosaurs Playing Cards
Themed playing card sets are a dime a dozen, offering a fun spin on the standard deck that weāve all seen thousands of times. As we at Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs know, thereās no bā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2025/11/21/vintage-dinosaur-art-the-famous-dinosaurs-playing-cards/
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Another Michael Benton dinosaur book? Hard to believe we haven't covered them all by now!
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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Dinosaurs (Kingfisher My First Encyclopedia)
Right then ā who remembers this one? Hopefully quite a few of you, as it was originally published in 1990 in hardback as part of the Young World series, with this paperback recycling appearing in 2ā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2025/11/04/vintage-dinosaur-art-dinosaurs-kingfisher-my-first-encyclopedia/
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A Graveyard of Dinosaurs There's a dinosaur event at the legendary Burgers' Zoo! What could possibly go wrong? Hoo boy...
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A Graveyard of Dinosaurs
When the days get shorter and leaves start to fall, thereās always a zoo somewhere in the Netherlands that gets taken over by dinosaurs. In previous years, Iāve covered dinosaur events ā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2025/11/06/a-graveyard-of-dinosaurs/
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This will be rather eclipsed by other palaeo news today, I fear. š But for Ep. 44, we discuss the work of the much under-celebrated Brian Franczak, who sadly left us too soon. Plus Marc interviews
@tetzoo.bsky.social
& Steve White on their jointly edited new palaeoart compilation, Mesozoic Art 2.
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Had a great time doing this!
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My latest for
@nytimes.com
! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur ā named Nanotyrannus ā was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this: Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
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The Case of the Tiny Tyrannosaurus Might Have Been Cracked
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/science/nanotyrannus-tyrannosaurus-rex-fossil.html
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Podcast Episode 44! We get knocked down, but we get up again. You're never gonna keep the podcast down! Discussing the work of Brian Franczak and featuring a double interview with
@sharkbitesteve.bsky.social
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@tetzoo.bsky.social
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Podcast Show Notes: Episode 44 ā Brian Franczak and Mesozoic Art II
Your Charmosaurs crew is here again with a cool new episode. This month, weāre discussing the works of the late, great Brian Franczak as it appears in The National Audubon Pocket Guide: Dinosā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2025/10/30/podcast-show-notes-episode-44-brian-franczak-and-mesozoic-art-ii/
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The website is back online!
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It appears that our website is down. We're aware of the problem and trying to find a solution.
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Who else can't wait for Prehistoric Planet Ice Age?
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Let's bring it home! Part Three of Hubrecht at the Lyceum!
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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Hubrecht at the Lyceum ā Part 3
Itās time to bring it home, the big project of discussing the seven massive paintings by Marie Hubrecht on the walls of the Joke Smit College, once the Girlās Lyceum, in Amsterdam. Haviā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2025/10/14/vintage-dinosaur-art-hubrecht-at-the-lyceum-part-3/
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C. M. Kosemen, artist extraordinaire and friend of the blog, just uploaded this lovely review of some very strange French trading cards featuring all sorts of prehistoric critters. If you like Vintage Dinosaur Art give it a watch, you won't regret it!
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So Bizarre! š«š·š Reviewing Obscure French Palaeo Trading Cards
YouTube video by cmkosemen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6fRTLNfscU&list=LL&index=6
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New crowdfunding campaign funding science just dropped! Spread it, share it, donate!
experiment.com/projects/rea...
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Reassessing the evolutionary family tree and biogeography of the iconic sauropod group Diplodocoidea
We are working on a special open-access volume dedicated to the famed diplodocoid sauropods (like Diplodocus). We aim to publish several papers describing their anatomy, osteology, evolutionary relati...
https://experiment.com/projects/reassessing-the-evolutionary-family-tree-and-biogeography-of-the-iconic-sauropod-group-diplodocoidea
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A
#DinoConUK-themed
article and podcast from
@chasmosaurs.bsky.social
, yay!
chasmosaurs.com/2025/09/23/p...
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Podcast Show Notes: Long Live DinoCon!
Itās that time of year again, even though itās at a different time each year. Natee, Gemma and Marc attended the very first iteration of DinoCon, the spiritual successor to TetZooCon, bā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2025/09/23/podcast-show-notes-long-live-dinocon/
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Here it is! Our long awaited briefing on the very first DinoCon! Was it a worthy successor to TetZooCon? (yes) Find out here!
#DinoCon2025
@dinoconuk.bsky.social
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Podcast Show Notes: Long Live DinoCon!
Itās that time of year again, even though itās at a different time each year. Natee, Gemma and Marc attended the very first iteration of DinoCon, the spiritual successor to TetZooCon, bā¦
https://chasmosaurs.com/2025/09/23/podcast-show-notes-long-live-dinocon/
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As previously stated, we've had an illness so we haven't been able to release our DinoCon coverage as quickly as we'd hoped. But it's all been recorded now and it's coming in a few days, so look out for that! - Gemma
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