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Phat Air meets wide gauge
So, here's something you don't see every day: giant azhdarchid pterosaurs and sauropods, living together in peace and harmony. Well, living together, anyway. This azhdarchid looks like a bit of a jerk,...
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The Mysterious Mysteries of Feather Resistance
So, the Jurassic Park 4 'No Feathers' controversy has continued to roll across the Internet, spilling out from the palaeo blogosphere (notable articles here and here) into mainstream media such as New...
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Pterosaurs will launch this Autumn
Get out your diaries, calendars and stone circles to set a date, folks: Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy (or P:NHEA, presumably pronounced 'ne-ah', what with the silent 'P' and all) is...
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They're reptiles Jim, but not as we know them
A couple of Therizinosaurus cheloniformis in a Cretaceous woodland, one of whom is making the loudest 'coo coo' noise you've ever heard, and one of whom couldn't care less.There is no 'saur like a...
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The Walking with Dinosaurs 3D trailer lands
Good news, everyone: the PR machine behind Walking with Dinosaurs 3D has provided our first detailed look at the film with its first trailer. I'm rather excited about this because it's my first real...
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Ray Harryhausen, 1920-2013
A prehistoric animal being lassoed by cowboys alongside ruined temples in a barren landscape? Sounds like a Harryhausen movie. Oh wait: it kinda was.There aren't many people in the public eye who I...
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Another new Plateosaurus
A modern reconstruction of Plateosaurus engelhardti as a relatively bird-like, bipedal animal rather than a tubby, sprawling quadrupedIt turns out that you can teach an old dinosaur some new tricks....
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Another Pterosaurs preview, and the soft bits of Tupandactylus
Tupandactylus navigans reclining by sunset, pycnofibres a-glowing.Holy Toledo, the publication date of Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomyis now only weeks away. In exactly one month,...
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Wesserpeton evansae: making 'albanerpetontid' a household name
Two Wesserpeton evansae get in each other's faces, because that's what albanerpetontids did.You could be forgiven for thinking otherwise, but the Mesozoic wasn't just the remit of dinosaurs,...
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Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy: out at last
Ornithocheirus and Anhanguera welcome you to Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy. Double spread from Witton (2013).So, a rather unexpected and heavy package arrived in my office this week...
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What Daleks, xenomorphs and slasher movies tell us about palaeoart
A Mesozoic slope supporting a nesting Torvosaurus tanneri, one of the biggest and most distinctive predators of the Jurassic, and yet strangely under-represented in palaeoart compared to other...
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Praise for Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy
Before there were pterosaur fossils, there were rotting pterosaur corpses. This here is the rotting skull of Dsungaripterus weii, one of the largest dsungaripteroid pterosaurs known. His eye socket...
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Rhamphomummies and zombie skim-feeders
A 'mummified' Rhamphorhynchus muensteri entangled with the spear-like rostrum of Aspidorhynchus acutirostris, presumably reflecting a failed predation effort by the latter. Painting of a privately-held...
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Something R'lyeh different
Detail of "Mark Witton's greasy, flowing mass", for Matt Wedel's Collect Call of Cthulhu. If my Facebook and Twitter feed tell me anything, it's that folks with interests in palaeontology are also very...
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The Golden Age of Palaeoart?
Polacanthus foxii, a Lower Cretaceous ankylosaur from southern Britain, trying to shake some tiny birds off his nose as he strolls around a knoll of horsetails. It's a bad time for many industries,...
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Engaging my Disacknowledgement
Tupandactylus imperator, a rat, and the Disacknowledgement. Not in that order. From Witton (2013).Weirdest thing happened today: I finished two planned bits of work ahead of time (I know. I'm scared...
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Pterosaurs: The Natural History Museum Talk, September 2013
HyPtA D does the NHM logo. What's a HyPtA D? You need to buy Pterosaursto find out, or attend the Pterosaurs NHM event in September. HyPta D image from Witton (2013); NHM logo borrowed from here.Those...
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Childhood dinomania: the greatest of all palaeontological mysteries?
Sinornithoides youngi, a long-legged, gracile troodontid from China. But why are he and his contemporaries so darned popular, and particularly with children?Perhaps the greatest question that surrounds...
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Pterosaurs invades the newpapers, this weekend!
Good news, everyone! If you've not already made the plunge and bought Pterosaurs, you can enjoy a teaser article in this Sunday's (11/08/13) Observer to sample it's flavour, available both online and...
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9 things you may not know about giant azhdarchid pterosaurs
The 2013 version of the giraffe vs. azhdarchid vs. person image, now in it's fourth iteration (see the general history of these images through the years: 2006; 2007; 2009). The giraffe is a big bull...
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