I visited the @MaybornMuseum in Waco, TX over the weekend to check out the temporary #SeaMonstersUnearthed exhibit about the ancient sea reptiles of Angola. I highly recommend seeing it while it’s there! dinodadreviews.com/2026/06/14/s...

Cetacea

Aviaries and aquariums in #PlanetZoo2! 👀 youtu.be/G6-yj80Guxg?...

Plumadraco bankoorum - a new Creatceous bird

Finished the current build of #Subnautica2; it definitely left me hanging! I guess that's the price of playing early access.

“Earth Clock” is a fun book on Deep Time that takes the classic analogy of mapping Earth’s history onto a 24 hour clock to help make sense of the vast units of time involved. dinodadreviews.com/2026/05/19/e...

Awwww heck yes! #Subnautica2

My contribution to the fertility decline discourse is to note that there has never, in the millions of years that hominids have existed on this planet, been a sustained global population boom like we've seen in the past 300ish years. Why in god's name would you think that growth is sustainable?

Late Miocene of Pikermi, #Greece. Ciconia gaudryi takes flight as an Amphimachairodus giganteus approaches the water. A pair of Acerorhinus neleus keep an eye on the cat whilst two Deinotherium proavum prepare for a bath. In the background, a herd of Cremohipparion mediterraneum #paleoart #sciart

My latest review covers Frederic Wierum’s “My Dinosaur Alphabet Coloring Book”. It’s a charming coloring book with two dinosaurs per letter of the alphabet. My son and I both enjoyed coloring it in! dinodadreviews.com/2026/05/14/m...

Aw yes! It’s about time! I finally got my copy of #OtherWorlds: The Art of @alexries.com. I contributed to its Kickstarter quite a while ago, but the wait was worth it!

I always see nonpartisan, righteous anger at public art. Everyone loves to hate a concrete blob bought with taxpayer money, what's it even meant to be etc. My hot take: art funding is good and there's no benign policy for keeping out 'bad' art. You really just gotta fund it until a good one happens

I’m getting trained on the air scribe at the Perot museum today! I’m gonna be a volunteer fossil preparator. 😁 They have me working on an ammonite with no collection data so that if I make a mistake I don’t break anything important. 😅

I wonder what whalefall communities survived on between the death of the great sea reptiles and the evolution of fully marine whales. Or did they just go extinct and have to re-evolve later?

Here’s my review of Dean Lomax’s “An Anthology of Fossils”, a collection of profiles on various fossils throughout Earth’s history. I rather like it, though I might have been stricter with the chronological order of things. 🦴🦖🦕🦣 dinodadreviews.com/2026/03/27/a...

This isn't finished yet but looks so good?? It's like I bent the background making skill to my will. Ngl I'm sooo glad I crunched out that comic paleomedia recently. It snapped something in me and rearranged my neurons idk making backgrounds tastes differently now #art #gamedev #ZidJourney

My social media silence is not because I'm dead, kidnapped, or abducted by aliens; I'm working around the clock to make Book 7 all that it can be before submission later this month. Here's a new #paleoart take on Microraptor and Yuanchuavis to show what I'm up to. OK, break over: back to work...

Here’s my review of Netflix’s excellent documentary, #TheDinosaurs! I highly recommend giving it a watch. 🦕📺🦖 dinodadreviews.com/2026/03/12/t...

Something I haven’t seen discussed in regards to Netflix’s “The Dinosaurs”… I like that Morgan Freeman never utters the word “bird” in reference to avians. They are always just dinosaurs, which nicely emphasizes that that is what they are.

I decided to stretch my brain a little and reviewed a German-language book on extinct animals. I remember less German than I care to admit, but I enjoyed the book anyway. 🦕🦖🦣🦤 dinodadreviews.com/2026/03/04/a...

“Freshly made jam is a popular treat for all species and making large batches goes significantly faster when you have large friends to help.” #amargasaurus #dinosaur #paleoart

This is making the rounds uncredited once again, so... 🤷‍♀️

I do’t care how “woke” Anthropic gets. I will never side with AI

#WorldPangolinDay #2026sketches Day 8 #art #illustration

For those who haven’t seen it yet, the award-winning documentary @whydinosaurs.bsky.social is now available free on YouTube! You should definitely watch it if you have the time. I’ve embedded the video in my review here. dinodadreviews.com/2026/02/19/w...

genAI is dying repost to make it die faster

We're horseposting post your horses.

This is draft text, but putting these words into all my books from hereon: "I, Darren Naish, can confirm that AI was not used at any level nor in any capacity in the drafting, writing, editing or production of this book." It'll have to be in front or end matter but I'll make sure it gets included.

A not-so-encyclopedic encyclopedia of prehistoric life, that nonetheless has some interesting artwork. dinodadreviews.com/2026/02/14/d...

Reposting for International Women and Girls in Science Day, because Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska deserves more recognition! dinodadreviews.com/2026/02/01/d...

Minimalist Microraptor

Dinosaurs 🦕

Here’s a children’s book called “Tiny Dino”, in which a hummingbird attempts to convince its animal friends that it is indeed a dinosaur. It makes for a decent introduction to the concept of comparative anatomy! dinodadreviews.com/2026/02/09/t...

A children’s book about the life of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska? Yes please! Learn more about the discoveries of the Polish-Mongolian Expeditions with “Dinosaur Desert”! 🦕📖🦖 dinodadreviews.com/2026/02/01/d...

Dinoland USA sees its final day of operation today. I will definitely miss it. Here I am posing with @suethetrex.bsky.social during my visit in 2013.

My latest review covers “Let’s Explore Dinosaurs Pop-Up”, which as you might guess, is a pop-up book about dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles. It’s got some impressive pop-up constructions, though some of the artwork appears to be copied from other sources. 🦖📖🦕 dinodadreviews.com/2026/01/29/l...

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

Animatronic dinosaurs at the Heard Museum.

A really cool plesiosaur skeleton (Trinacromerum) at the Heard Museum near Dallas, Texas.

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Protocera

Taking off! #paleoart #berensart2026

“You were the chosen one! You were supposed to sue the AI companies, not join them!” youtu.be/aGuRcnw7pX0?...

This. Also, NCAR doesn't just work on climate! They research weather, atmospheric chemistry and pollutioj, the sun and space weather. They developed the technology for lidar, a technology widely used in surveying, archaeology, forestry, seismology, laser guidance systems, and even self-driving cars.

New book review! TedRechlin’s “T. REX” is a fantastic look at the tyrant lizard king. From the scientific discoveries to its pop culture legacy, this comic book comprehensively details all things Tyrannosaurus. 🦖 @rextooth.bsky.social dinodadreviews.com/2025/12/11/t...

Andy Cruz ( @skinkpunch.bsky.social ) delivers another excellent dinosaur comic book, “Did You Know Dino? Jurassic America”. While his previous book focused on Hell Creek, this one focuses on the Morrison Formation, famous for its giant sauropods! 🦕🦖 dinodadreviews.com/2025/11/12/d...

New book review up! This popup and lift-the-flap book was kindly sent to me by fellow reviewer Herman Diaz. dinodadreviews.com/2025/11/06/t...