Dinosaur playing cards. So many dinosaur playing cards.

Another Michael Benton dinosaur book? Hard to believe we haven't covered them all by now!

A Graveyard of Dinosaurs There's a dinosaur event at the legendary Burgers' Zoo! What could possibly go wrong? Hoo boy...

This will be rather eclipsed by other palaeo news today, I fear. 😅 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.

Had a great time doing this!

My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — 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.

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 and @tetzoo.bsky.social!

The website is back online!

It appears that our website is down. We're aware of the problem and trying to find a solution.

Who else can't wait for Prehistoric Planet Ice Age?

Let's bring it home! Part Three of Hubrecht at the Lyceum!

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!

New crowdfunding campaign funding science just dropped! Spread it, share it, donate! experiment.com/projects/rea...

A #DinoConUK-themed article and podcast from @chasmosaurs.bsky.social, yay! chasmosaurs.com/2025/09/23/p...

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

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

Introducing a crazy new look for Spicomellus, based on new osteoderms unlike anything we've ever seen before. I was brought in to produce a life reconstruction based on the new material, published today in Nature by Maidment et al:

Armoured dinosaurs have of course been on our mind, so a VERY GOOD MORNING to you from this..interesting depiction of a Hylaeosaurus - by “F.John” - from a series of cards produced by a German cocoa company, early 20th Century.. 1/2

correct this is a fantastic blog post

Here’s a fantastic blog post about the Reichardt Kakao cards, from our friends at @chasmosaurs.bsky.social chasmosaurs.com/2023/11/28/v... 2/2

#DinoConUK Wedel: Most sauropod adaptations appear to have worked best at large size. Maybe baby sauropods were just bad at being sauropods. Hence extremely high reproductive output, allowing them to take anything the Earth threw at time. Sadly they could not take everything space threw at them.

an extremely successful #DinoConUK met a lot of wonderful people and thank you for everyone that stopped at our shop to grab a little something silly posing with the velocinator 🤖

#dinoconuk was so inspiring, I should really draw more #dinosaurs! Here's an old piece of #paleoart from 2018. "Raptors at Night". Ink and gel pen on toned paper.

The difference between Saturday and Sunday morning at #DinoConUK lol... Maybe I'll be free to attend some talks today, yay!

@dinoconuk.bsky.social was A.MA.ZING! Paleo peeps are creative, kind and so generous with their knowledge. I could barely keep up taking notes of all the interesting paleontology/zoology/fabrication information! 🎨🦖 #paleoart #dinosaurs #dinoconuk

#DinoConUK 2025 is over, and what an amazing success, we the organising team are very proud :) Thanks to everyone who attended and took part - here's to an even bigger and better 2026!

What I went to #DinoConUK with... and what came home. Thanks to everyone who visited my stall, said hello, bought books, chatted about neat palaeo stuff, and to the organisers for putting everything together.

And that's the first ever #DinoConUK the bag! Did you go? Did you enjoy it? How much swag did you get? Expect our thoughts in podcast form soon! (And thanks to Sara for taking the picture)

Another museum? Another museum. Featuring mastodons, moas, plateosaurs and, of course, Plasterosarus himself.

Thinking I might write an article for Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs (follow us at @chasmosaurs.bsky.social) on the prehistoric species of Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs! I did a big Twitter thread years ago and could probably go in greater depth than I did at the time. I absolutely adore this game!

¡Hola! ¡Gemma's been to a museum in Spain! ¿Did we enjoy all the animals and mounted skeletons? ¿Is there anything we can learn from the MNCN? ¿And is Gemma going to do the Spanish interpunction thing all the way through? (yes)

Marc's gone and seen it. Thanks for taking one for the team, Marc.

Welcome back to Love in the Time of crinoids and brachipods! We're going to look at some more murals by our heroine Marie Hubrecht, but that does mean we're going to leave Dinosaur World behind and move into Deep Time...

The @chasmosaurs.bsky.social podcast is always a great listen simply because of the dynamic between its three hosts, but this one is especially fun! Highly recommended for anyone who likes to listen to reviews by people who actually know about the subject matter.

It was a delight to be on the show! I had a good time discussing WWD with the LITC crew. Give it a listen!

A fair, solid review of #WWD2025. It faithfully points out the show's drawbacks but doesn't tear it apart because of that, and it fully recognises the good/great stuff that often gets overlooked amidst the strife. I really advise you to have a listen even if you disagree with most of the views!

We're talking Walking with Dinosaurs! This series has turned out pretty divisive, but what do your humble LITC podcasters think? And crucially, what do Andrew's children think? Thanks to @dinodadreviews.bsky.social for being on the show!

New podcast dropped! Episode 41 is a bittersweet one as we dive deep into the amazing work of Jan Sovák, the great Czech artist who passed away last month.

…listen to the latest episode of the @chasmosaurs.bsky.social podcast, where I chat at length with Marc Vincent about the project... chasmosaurs.com/2025/05/08/p...

TIL they had a third finger! the image in my mind of Compsognathus is still largely this bit of nostalgia (from The Great Dinosaur Atlas, Lindsay and Fornari, via @chasmosaurs.bsky.social) chasmosaurs.com/2020/05/11/v...

It's podcast time! In episode 40, we interview @markwitton.bsky.social about his new book on T. rex, and find some Danish delights from the 1950s!

Excellent, excellent news.

Apparently paleoartist Jan Sovak has passed away. Growing up in the period between Jurassic Park and the soft dinosaur revolution, I don’t think anyone captured the way dinosaurs FELT when I was a kid as well as he did. It’s a hard feeling to describe, but Sovak nailed it.

I am saddened to hear of the passing of Jan Sovák, one of my favourite palaeoartists. His work in the 90s for The Great Dinosaurs, by Špinar and Currie, is among my most formative and cherished dinosaur art. His output has been straggering in both quality and quantity. We lost a legend.

The first review for King Tyrant is online, courtesy of @chasmosaurs.bsky.social. "It... remains highly compelling and readable... without becoming dry. It’s richly illustrated with life reconstructions and skeletal diagrams and photography. What’s not to like?" chasmosaurs.com/2025/04/08/k...

It's #Songkran, the traditional Thai New Year! ☀️🎊 I have nothing interesting to post, so I'm just re-sharing this Kinnareemimus, I suppose. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I've been to the zoo in Cologne, and I found some dinosaurs! Pretty good ones, too! But what's that on the poster?

Podcast Episode 39 is here! Once more please for the Grand Signeur, John Sibbick! We will discuss WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH!!! And interview T. K. Sivgin!!!!!!! It's very exciting.

Enjoy Ukrainian palaeoart 🇺🇦 from the 1930-1960s gracing the halls of Kyiv Natural History Museum. Featuring works of Ukrainian Greats, like Іван Їжакевич or Федора Кричевського. Also А. Л. Эккерт and Наталья Покатаева.

Guess what? We're still doing the podcast! And what a doozy we have for you this month! Meet the Triceratops herd at Naturalis and the people who put it all together, and let's have a nostalgic trip into the late 80s with Das Grosse Buch der Saurier!