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Here goes nothing (redux)
It occurs to me that I don't really have much of an easily updatable, online home at present. My regular internet haunts aren't really suitable for rapid uploading lots of images or interacting with...
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You've come a long way, baby
Way back at the end of 2009 I illustrated the image above, showing the size range of everyone's favourite rhamphorhynchine pterosaur, Rhamphorhynchus. This animal was first discoverd in the 1830s and...
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The Joy of Rex
There is enough text, imagery and pop culture references to Tyrannosaurus rex that, if laid end to end, they would give the Martian rover Curiosity a bridge back home. (Image above: my painting of...
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Out with the old, in with the, er... old
There are busy, exciting times afoot. Not only did my book proofs arrive this morning, but my PR image of the oldest known dinosaur, which accompanies the hot-off-the-press paper by Sterling Nesbitt...
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Deconstructing All Yesterdays, or How palaeoart is flawed, but everything's cool
It's time to face facts. Try as we might, we will never reconstruct long extinct animals accurately. We may be able to cobble together fairly accurate images of Pleistocene mammals through analysis of...
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Chilly pterosaurs and rushed festive wishes
Christmas is all well and good, but it doesn't half take up a lot of time, which can be a bugger if you're already busy with what seems like 100 other things. With this in mind, I won't dawdle and will...
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Pteranodon sternbergi does the cover of TREE
Exciting news: thanks to Rob Knell, Dave Hone, Joe Tomkins and Darren Naish, my old image of a male Pteranodon sternbergi and his harem has made the cover of the latest edition of TREE! This is the...
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Skin-deep: the 'One Skin Fits All' approach to integument reconstruction in...
The snowy, chilly plains of Maastrichtian Alaska, where Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum roamed. But were they scaly like other ceratopsids, or covered in protofeathers, as shown here?So... no pressure here,...
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And now... a word from our sponsors
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Burrowing dinosaurs are also cool. Honest.
I figured that the internet would be awash with palaeoart of Oryctodromeus cubicularis, the small, Blackleaf Formation hypsilophodontid famous for living in family groups within burrows of their own...
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Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy: finally landing June 23rd
Very shortly after New Year, I completed compiling the index for Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy (or 'my book', as it's known around these parts). This means that my work on it is...
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Overexposure of Stegosaurus, but in a good way
Is it just me, or are stegosaurs not quite as popular as they used to be? Stegosaurs are iconic dinosaur species that, like tyrannosaurs and ceratopsids, have been drawn to death by generations of...
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Ornithocheirus and Anhanguera: 4 m wingspans are rubbish
It's been a bit pterosaur-light around these parts since I opened the blog in November, with dinosaurs dominating most posts. This week, to start setting things right, we're returning to the warm,...
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy BigQuetz
Back in 2010, when I was employed in building a series of giant pterosaur models for the University of Portsmouth and Royal Society, I painted the above image of several giant azhdarchids in flight for...
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"There's something in the mist!"
One of the most effective movies I've seen in recent years is the 2007 science fiction siege thriller, The Mist, which isn't to be confused with the considerably more forgettable eighties pirate...
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Putting the 'sin' in Junggar BaSIN
See what I did there? Not good? I know. Never mind.The reaction to a very detailed commission, development of the minimalist theme of my misty azhdarchid painting and an overindulgence in Prodigy...
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Rexperiments in black and white
Another black and white sketch, another awful pun...After last week's moody Dsungaripterus, here's a stylistically similar image with a pair of tyrannosaurs. This was thrown together quickly yesterday...
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Daisy's dragon: the full painting
Sadly, I've been too busy this week to synchronise posting of the image above with the wave of publicity now surrounding Vectidraco daisymorrisae, the new diminutive Isle of Wight azhdarchoid recently...
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The 'no feathers' Jurassic Park tweet: statement of intent, or simply...
No surprise about what this post will cover: the announcement by Jurassic Park IV director Colin Trevorrow that his new JP instalment will not feature feathered dinosaurs (unlike the new image, above,...
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Book news for Easter: more from Daisy and the Isle of Wight Dragon, and...
Two bits of good news, everyone! You can now purchase Martin Simpson's Daisy and the Isle of Wight Dragon, which I co-illustrated, direct from Amazon for a mere £5. To celebrate, here's an vaguely...
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