A reminder about the #SVP2025 workshop "Palaeoart Past and Present: the view from the UK" for those last-minute early-bird [=cheap] conference registrants! It's shaping up to be a great one-day pre-conference event: please come along if you're a #paleoart fan attending SVP!

🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨 We’ve just seen this, by creator “Menapian” - a 4,998-piece set of the Great Exhibition (1851) Crystal Palace - complete with a bonus Megalosaurus and Ichthyosaur… beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, coming Sept 23, 2025. Available worldwide. Thanks to the brilliant @restingdinoface.bsky.social for such a fantastic endorsement! “THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS”, written by @deanrlomax.bsky.social. #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Dinosaurs

Big thanks to Kallie Moore, palaeontologist, #science communicator, & co-host of @pbseons.bsky.social, for a fantastic endorsement! “THE SECRET LIVES OF #DINOSAURS”, written by @deanrlomax.bsky.social, is coming Sept 23, 2025. Available worldwide. #SciArt #PaleoArt #Paleontology #JurassicWorld

From the vault: my Nature cover art from 2017, featuring #Kulindadromeus, regarding the paper "A new hypothesis of dinosaur relationships and early dinosaur evolution," from Matthew Baron, David Norman, & @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social. #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #JurassicWorld

Heads up for #SVP2025 attendees: I'm running a day-long workshop about UK #paleoart on Nov 11th (the day before the meeting). Essentially a mini-conference, it's a day of talks on UK palaeoart history, conservation and current projects, as well as... 1/3

Are you thinking of @bobnichollsart.bsky.social "Double Death"? It is two Carcharodontosaurus and a Rayososaurus. www.newscientist.com/article/dn27...

What a dinosaur!

The programme is taking shape with details of talks now available, including: The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs & The Adventures of a Palaeontologist – with @deanrlomax.bsky.social The talk will be followed by a Q&A and a book signing with the author and illustrator @bobnichollsart.bsky.social

THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, by @deanrlomax.bsky.social, is out NEXT month! The book tour will include talks and book signings across the UK, USA, Canada, and Europe. I hope you can join us at one of these events. #PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #Dinosaurs #Pterosaurs #Palaeontology #Paleontology

Check out this awesome video that Tom Fishenden captured for us of DinoCon 2025! It was an absolute blast and we will see you all again in 2026! (updates still to come!) To find more of Tom’s work, see the links in the comments.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Zooms into Garden of the #Iguanodon, from my section in #MesozoicArt II, by @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social, @tetzoo.bsky.social & @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Pre-order: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-... #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Cretaceous #JurassicWorld

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... A closer look at Garden of the #Iguanodon, from my section in Mesozoic Art II, edited by @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social @tetzoo.bsky.social & @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Pre-order: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-... #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #JurassicWorld

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Here's another artwork from my section in Mesozoic Art II, edited by @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social, @tetzoo.bsky.social & @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Pre-order: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-... #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Iguanodon #JurassicWorld

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... A closer look at one of the artworks from my part of Mesozoic Art II, edited by @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social @tetzoo.bsky.social & @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Pre-order: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-... #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Megalosaurus #Jurassic

🦕Our first ever DinoCon was a roaring success!!! Thank you so so much to everyone who attended, our speakers, our vendors, and our volunteers! Thank you to all 861 of you!! An extra thank you to those who helped us raise £3265 for the World Parrot Trust!! We will see you all again in 2026!🦖💚

THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS is out NEXT month! We’ve been busy organising a book tour that will include talks & signings across the UK, USA, Canada & Europe. The first will be at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on Friday, 10 October 2025. #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Paleontology

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Zooms into Territory of the #Megalosaurus, from my section of Mesozoic Art II, edited by @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social & @tetzoo.bsky.social, published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-... #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Jurassic

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Here's one of the artworks from my section in Mesozoic Art II, edited by Steve White & @tetzoo.bsky.social, published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. Pre-order here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-... #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Megalosaurus #Jurassic

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... A few more zooms with species from my #MistakenPoint #Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with @dmcediacaran.bsky.social at Memorial University, #Newfoundland. #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Zooms with species from my #MistakenPoint #Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with @dmcediacaran.bsky.social at Memorial University, #Newfoundland. #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #FossilFriday #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Here's my 2024 #MistakenPoint #Ediacaran landscape reconstruction, created with @dmcediacaran.bsky.social & his team at Memorial University, #Newfoundland. #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Fossils #FossilFriday #Beothukis #Fractofusus #Arborea #Charnia

An endorsement from renowned palaeontologist & bestselling author, Steve Brusatte. “THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS”, by @deanrlomax.bsky.social, illustrated by @bobnichollsart.bsky.social & published by @columbiaup.bsky.social, is out Sept 2025 (pre-order now!). #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Books

Still 1 week left to buy tickets to DinoCon! See: www.dinocon.co.uk I will be there all weekend and taking part in the palaeoart panel discussion on Sunday 17th. #DinoCon #SciArt #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs

The #EverythingDinosaurEvolution 1:33 scale #TRex model packaging has no single use plastic! Designed by Everything Dinosaur, @bobnichollsart.bsky.social, Glen Southern & @deanrlomax.bsky.social. Pre-order: everythingdinosaur.info/evolution-pr... #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Tyrannosaurus #Models

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... In 2024 I designed the #IceAge Giants coin series, for The Royal Mint & the @nhm-london.bsky.social. The coloured silver coins came with acrylic presentation blocks, here's my #GiantDeer block artwork. #SciArt #PaleoArt #Megaloceros #GiantIrishElk #Coins

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... In 2024 I designed the #IceAge Giants coin series, for The Royal Mint & the @nhm-london.bsky.social. The coloured silver coins came with acrylic presentation blocks, here's my #WoollyRhinoceros block artwork. #SciArt #PaleoArt #WoollyRhino #Coelodonta #Coins

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... In 2024 I designed the #IceAge Giants coin series, for the The Royal Mint & the @nhm-london.bsky.social. The coloured silver coins came with acrylic presentation blocks, here's my steppe mammoth artwork. #SciArt #PaleoArt #Mammoth #SteppeMammoth #FossilFriday

My Isoxys reconstructions made it into this paper. 😀

1:33 scale #Tyrannosaurus rex, made by Everything #Dinosaur, palaeoartist @bobnichollsart.bsky.social, palaeontologist @deanrlomax.bsky.social, & sculptor Glen Southern. Secure yours today: everythingdinosaur.info/T-rex-pre-or... #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #TyrannosaurusRex #TRex #DinosaurModels

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... In 2024 I designed the Ice Age Giants coin series, for the The Royal Mint & the @nhm-london.bsky.social. It was a time to reflect on how long I'd been drawing dead things! #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #IceAge #WoollyMammoth #Mammoth #SteppeMammoth #FossilFriday

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Into 2024 with a new version of "Elevenses," featuring #Sinosauropteryx, for the cover of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Fifth Edition, by Prof Michael J. Benton. #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Dinosaurs #Dinosaur #Palaeontology #Paleontology #FossilFriday

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... A reconstruction of the lost Crystal Palace #Palaeotherium (2023), by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Commissioned by @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social with guidance from @nhm-london.bsky.social & @markwitton.bsky.social. Part 4 of 5. #SciArt #PaleoArt #CrystalPalacePark

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... A reconstruction of the lost Crystal Palace #Palaeotherium (2023), by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Commissioned by @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social with guidance from @nhm-london.bsky.social & @markwitton.bsky.social. Part 4 of 5. #SciArt #PaleoArt #CrystalPalacePark

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... A reconstruction of the lost Crystal Palace #Palaeotherium (2023), by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Commissioned by @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social with guidance from @nhm-london.bsky.social & @markwitton.bsky.social. Part 1 of 5. #SciArt #PaleoArt #CrystalPalacePark

Now you know... #Slash is a palaeo-fan. "Dean Lomax has written a fantastic book that is as educational as it is entertaining. It’s one of the most fun nonfiction #dinosaur books I’ve read." Pre-order THE SECRET LIVES OF #DINOSAURS now Coming September 2025 #SciArt #PaleoArt #GunsNRoses #SciComm

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... A reconstruction of the lost Crystal Palace #Palaeotherium (2023), by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Commissioned by @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social with guidance from @nhm-london.bsky.social & @markwitton.bsky.social. Part 1 of 5. #SciArt #PaleoArt #CrystalPalacePark

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... A reconstruction of the lost Crystal Palace #Palaeotherium (2023), by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Commissioned by @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social with guidance from @nhm-london.bsky.social & @markwitton.bsky.social. Part 1 of 5. #SciArt #PaleoArt #CrystalPalacePark

A reminder that the #Tyrannosaurus rex I designed with the Everything Dinosaur team will be available later this year! More news SOON! #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Dinosaur #TRex #TyrannosaurusRex #EverythingDinosaur #EverythingDinosaurEvolution #JurassicWorld #JurassicWorldRebirth

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Here are my 3D sculpt design drawings for the 2023 #DINOSAUR CELEBRITIES coin series. The first T.rex was too feathered. Designed for The Royal Mint & @nhm-london.bsky.social. #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Tyrannosaurus #TRex #Stegosaurus #Diplodocus #Coins

I'll be there all weekend, and I'll be a part of the palaeoart panel on Sunday 17th.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Here are the skeletal illustrations from the 2023 #DINOSAUR CELEBRITIES coin series acrylic blocks. I designed them for The Royal Mint & @nhm-london.bsky.social #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Tyrannosaurus #TRex #Stegosaurus #Diplodocus #Coins #CoinCollecting

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... In 2023 Dom Coyote, the Bristol Old Vic, & Dr Jakob Vinther (Uni of Bristol) produced THE COLOUR OF DINOSAUR musical show for children, which featured my life-size model of #Psittacosaurus. It is still going! #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Dinosaur

A teaser for THE SECRET LIVES OF #DINOSAURS, UNEARTHING THE REAL BEHAVIOURS OF PREHISTORIC ANIMALS, by @deanrlomax.bsky.social, illustrated by me, & published by @columbiaup.bsky.social. Out September 2025. Pre-order now! #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaur #Paleontology #JurassicWorld #Psittacosaurus

A teaser for THE SECRET LIVES OF #DINOSAURS, UNEARTHING THE REAL BEHAVIOURS OF PREHISTORIC ANIMALS, by @deanrlomax.bsky.social, illustrated by me, & published by @columbiaup.bsky.social. Out September 2025. Pre-order now! #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaur #Paleontology #JurassicWorld #Psittacosaurus

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... The limited edition #DINOSAUR CELEBRITIES print. I designed it in 2023, for The Royal Mint and @nhm-london.bsky.social, featured are #Tyrannosaurus, #Diplodocus, and #Stegosaurus. #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #TRex #JurassicWorld #Coins #CoinCollecting

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Here's the #Diplodocus packaging art from the 2023 #DINOSAUR CELEBRITIES coin series. I designed them (also #Tyrannosaurus & #Stegosaurus) for The Royal Mint & @nhm-london.bsky.social #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #TyrannosaurusRex #TRex #JurassicWorld #Coins

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Here's the #Stegosaurus packaging art from the 2023 #DINOSAUR CELEBRITIES coin series. I designed them (also #Tyrannosaurus & #Diplodocus) for The Royal Mint & @nhm-london.bsky.social. #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #TyrannosaurusRex #TRex #JurassicWorld #Coins

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Here's the #Tyrannosaurus packaging art from the 2023 #DINOSAUR CELEBRITIES coin series. I designed them (also #Stegosaurus & #Diplodocus) for The Royal Mint & @nhm-london.bsky.social. #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #TyrannosaurusRex #TRex #JurassicWorld #Coins

#EverythingDinosaur Evolution #TyrannosaurusRex: 1:33 scale museum-quality #TRex model Display base included Grounded in science Stunning #Palaeoart Join the Evolution here: everythingdinosaur.info/EverythingDi... #SciArt #Tyrannosaurus #DinosaurModels #Palaeontology #Palaeoart #TyrannosaurusModel