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?

Say hi to Damon, Perry, Piper and Sally! All from my new plush series Yuri&Friends 2, they´re all now waiting for new homes now in my shop 🦖 therbisstudio.com

What had big jaws and hooves? Let me tell you about Andrewsarchus. 🧪

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...

Check out this unbelievably cool Jan Sovák painting! How often do you see plesiosaurs and dinosaurs interacting at all, let alone this cinematically? It’s unbelievable how productive Sovák was as an artist, I just keep finding more and more of his work that I’ve never seen before!

From @geopetalfabric.bsky.social and @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social. You can follow the podcast at @weirdanddead.bsky.social. www.patreon.com/posts/150459...

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.

Minimalist Microraptor

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.

Dude, shave (Haolong dongi)

Speed paint #watercolor #paleoart of the recently published hedgehog dino, Haolong. What a neat creature!

Haolong dongi with bit of color #sciart

Very quick rough sketch of the newly described spiky Hadrosauroid dinosaur Haolong dongi I had to at least rough sketch this beauty! #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs

Haolong is so cool

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.

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?

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.

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...

That's our podcast episode for March sorted, then!

A bittersweet article today as Gemma remembers a hidden gem in Emmen, a dinosaur museum that is no longer there.

It actually arrived! “The Last Great Dinosaurs” was one of my few remaining dinosaur book holy grails and I’m thrilled to finally add it to my collection after so many false starts. I can’t wait to get some good photos and share it with everyone over on the @chasmosaurs.bsky.social blog!

Bernard Robinson is an artist whose work I’ve 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.

For #FossilFriday I’m pleased to announce our new paper on investigating the cranial performance and evolution of feeding behavior in tyrannosauroids and other theropods. Here’s a thread on some of our major findings. #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Tyrannosaurus #Theropods

Paleoart has always been rife with cheap, inaccurate depictions and copied illustrations. Especially among children’s books, many authors aren’t experts and don’t 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

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!

More Bay State museums! Bones and bots in Boston! chasmosaurs.com/2026/01/06/b...

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...

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...

By popular request – and by that, I mean literally a single person asked for it – here’s another little look at Dinosaurs, published in 2000 as part of Kingfisher’s My First Encyclopedia series.

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

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.

What does Marc think of @davehone.bsky.social and @markwitton.bsky.social's foray into the world of spinosaurid palaeontology? Find out here!

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