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The Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, 2nd-4th May 2014: heaps more palaeoart!
This weekend (May 2nd - 4th) sees the 2014 Lyme Regis Fossil Festival taking over a small portion of south Dorset and offering all manner of talks, activities, stands and experiences for...
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Last week I gave a talk on the significance and methodologies of palaeoart to attendees of the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival. The presentation was filmed with the intention of being posted online but,...
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Godzilla and MUTOs vs. birds and newts: reasons why the creatures in Godzilla...
Inside every 29 year and 11 month year-old man is a 5 year old who only watches monster movies so he can produce little doodles of them afterwards.After much hype, Godzilla (2014) has finally stomped...
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Book review: The Paleoart of Julius Csotonyi, Csotonyi and White 2014
From Titan Books.The Paleoart of Julius Csotonyi: Dinosaurs, Sabretooths and Beyond (Csotonyi and White 2014) is another palaeoart-focused book from Titan Books, who brought us the acclaimed Dinosaur...
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Darwinopterus vs. Bat Out of Hell
Darwinopterus robustodens and his pal, a European robin (Erithacus rubecula). When not posing for artwork, they drive around in a van solving mysteries.Wukongopterid pterosaurs have been on my mind...
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Azhdarchid pterosaurs - invading TetZooCon this July!
Mountains of respect to whoever can name the sources and years of each of these silhouettes. If your surname is 'Naish', you're not allowed to play. Title slide from my TetZooCon talk.What are you...
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Azhdarchid pterosaurs vs. the world
Azhdarchids: also available in flying. Depicted animal here is based on Quetzalcoatlus sp., but no taxon in particular.In just a few weeks the world will stop for TetZooCon, a one day convention of all...
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TetZooCon 2014: the event the palaeozoological blogosphere deserves
Last Saturday hosted an event which might, in future years, be considered a strange experiment. Set up in typical convention manner with attendance fees, invited talks and interactive audience...
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"Think Batman x Iron Man": how pterosaurs are inspiring the next generation...
Admit it, whatever you drive to work seems a little less adequate now.Pterosaurophile Mike Habib was recently featured in a Scientific American article about the utility of pterosaur research. Let's...
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'Thalassodromeus sebesensis': pterosaur out of time and space? Nope, just a...
Thalassodromeus sethi after some worms. Note: not a turtle. From Witton (2013)Today sees the publication of an article challenging an exciting claim made in recent pterosaurology (Grellet-Tinner and...
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Lies, damned lies, and 'Thalassodromeus sebesensis'
Yesterday, a huge team of authors called out the science behind 'Thalassodromeus sebesensis', an alleged new pterosaur species 40 million years and thousands of miles out of time and space...
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Scleromochlus taylori: more than just 'the early ornithodiran'
The Triassic ornithodiran Scleromochlus taylori depicted as a nocturnal desert-specialist with filamentous insulation, fuzzy feet for purchase on drifting sands and a saltatorial means of locomotion....
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The accuracy of palaeoart and the 'new' Spinosaurus
Spinosaurus, big and small versions, poking about a stream in Cretaceous Morocco. Someone's about to ask if these chaps should have humps or sails - head to Palaeontology Onlinefor my thoughts on this,...
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Hey Dreadnoughtus, not so close
I try to avoid hopping on the bandwagons following new discoveries - few internet experiences are more tiresome than seeing social media and inboxes swollen with discussions and pictures of the same...
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The new African titanosaur which (almost) got away: Rukwatitan bisepultus
Rukwatitan bisepultus a new titanosaurian sauropod from the Middle Cretaceous (Aptian/Cenomanian) of Tanzania. Why does this otherwise chirpy scene feature a dying Rukwatitan? Read on...Hot on the...
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The 'Spinosaurus reboot': sailing in stormy waters
UPDATE: 21/09/14: Following chats with Nizar Ibrahim and Simone Maganuco, it appears the Spinosaurus 2014 saga has another twist to take concerning the controversy over the revised hindlimb...
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The Spinosaurus hindlimb controversy: a detailed response from the authors
No-one with an interest in Mesozoic reptiles will have missed the week of controversy following Ibrahim et al.'s (2014) new reconstruction of Spinosaurus. The most important debate has focused on the...
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Does Deinonychus really have one of the most powerful bites of all dinosaurs?
Quick sketch of Deinonychus antirrhopus with expanded, bone-puncturing jaw muscles, a requirement of having a bite as strong as a modern alligator. Say what? Read on...There's a part in Michael...
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'Support Original Palaeoart': we take it to the mainstream
The industry of reconstructing extinct animals in illustration, sculpture and animation - we all know it as 'palaeoart' - is a paradoxical place. One the one hand, there is more demand for palaeoart...
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Dorygnathus tweets its way through development
For various - and mostly good - reasons, there's not been much chance for blogging of late, but the upside is that I have a lot of new art, discussion and science to share in the near future. In the...
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