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That was then… this is NOW!

Posted on 13/08/2014 by luisvrey

Paul Sereno has released his new version of Spinosaurus… the details are still to be disclosed, but by what I saw in the little picture of his new mounted skeleton, this animal is even weirder than we ever thought, so … Continue reading →

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Hatching The Past in the Catalonian Pyrenees!

Posted on 15/07/2014 by luisvrey

For the first time in a long time, Hatching The Past, this time known as: “L’ECLOSIÓ DEL PASSAT: OUS I CRIES DE DINOSAURES” , arrives home. Yes, the ESPAI DINOSFERA DE COLL DE NARGÓ in the Catalonian Pyrenees boasts the privilege of actually being … Continue reading →

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Cheap Thrills!

Posted on 28/06/2014 by luisvrey

Visiting your local boot sale in London is almost always guarantee that you’ll find some new dinosaur toy rejects… that’s what happened  couple weeks ago: spent £2 and got a full bag of selected dinotoys… among which I found a … Continue reading →

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The Deinocheirus Saga continues…

Posted on 03/06/2014 by luisvrey

Deinocheirus herd being stalked by a Tarbosaurus (here clad in my new feathered incarnation). This is definitively not my last take on this…  I have become rather obsessively interested in the (to my eyes at least) humped monster and spent many hours in these illustrations! … Continue reading →

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The Time Is Now: Finally Deinocheirus!

Posted on 20/05/2014 by luisvrey

Remember this? Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska** , the discoverer of Deinocheirus (the Terrible Claw) in awe of her own discovery…How many times have we stood and stared in awe of this fossil, imagining what the rest of the animal would look? Comparative anatomy deductions … Continue reading →

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Yet another for the African Saga…

Posted on 29/04/2014 by luisvrey

Continuing the Ouranosaurus saga… this time with a new restoration of Spinosaurus being groomed by several pterosaurs. I have done some sexually dimorphic spinosaurs for a change… mostly represented by the different coloration. Some people have pointed out that I reconstruct Spinosaurus in … Continue reading →

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The African Dinosaurs Saga continues…

Posted on 30/03/2014 by luisvrey

Or could I call it my continuous searching for staying as close as possible to Nature? Everything started as an imaginative exercise a long time ago for the Holtz/Rey/Random House Encyclopaedia… now I wanted to go a little further. When … Continue reading →

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Dinosnores at the NHM again…!

Posted on 15/03/2014 by luisvrey

Bringing Dinosaurs Back To Life goes to the British Museum of Natural History…and late at night! Approximately once every two months people gather in their hundreds to have dinner and spend the whole night being entertained (sleeping bags and  all) … Continue reading →

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‘Tiny Titans: Dinosaur Eggs and Babies’ opens at Yale Peabody Museum

Posted on 13/02/2014 by luisvrey

This is just a little tour of the extraordinary exhibition mounted by Stone And Company  at the Yale Peabody Museum. Yes it is “Hatching The Past” but in a very special venue…  The exhibition is going to be in residence … Continue reading →

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This is not a Dinosaur…

Posted on 28/01/2014 by luisvrey

  I am currently working in a another, brand new book about African prehistoric life with my friend Anusuya Chinsamy. She is the foremost expert in fossilised integument as well as African prehistory. We have worked in several books together … Continue reading →

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