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- Tears, sweat and blood... the saga of making a life-sized Velociraptor skeleton.
- Genesis of a Feast. The Trike Decapitation!
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Category Archives: African Prehistory
The extraordinary paleoart of 余国梁 (Passion Charger) … and my relation with it!
Growing up as a budding surrealist, I remember with a smile that Alejandro Jodorowsky, my mentor in the seventies, dedicated a phrase to my work: “If it is not excessive is not genius”… well, this amply applies to the work … Continue reading
Posted in African Prehistory, Carnosaurs, Dinosaur colouration, Dinosaur Models, Dinosaurs of Africa, Diorama, Giganotosaurs, Museum Displays, Original Art, Paleoart, Spinosaurs, therizinosaurs, Theropods, tyrannosaurs, Uncategorized
Tagged Acrocanthosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Passion Charger, Spinosaurus, tarbosaurus, Tenontosaurus, Therizinosaurus
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New Edition of Dinosaurs of Africa arrived today!
Just IN! Glad to report that Anusuya Chinsamy–Turan has updated her popular book, carrying all the weight of the edition herself! Very glad to continue to participate in her great work adding some new artwork… obviously most of the old … Continue reading
Popularising science… The right way!
Remember this? When I did this restoration of Sereno’s outlandish Spinosaurus, I could’t wait to hear the complaints… there were some but not as many as I expected! Now I have just purchased the new 1:40 scale Spinosaurus from the … Continue reading
Posted in African Prehistory, maniraptora, Spinosaurs, Toy Models, Uncategorized
Tagged Alan Gishlick, Collecta Toy Models, deinonychus, Spinosaurus
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Fossils For Africa is out… and not all are dinosaurs of course!
This little Euparkeria (revised by John Hutchinson and Dave Hone, both of whom I also thank here) is one of the several new illustrations featured in the new Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan book “Fossils For Africa” that I have been advertising here for a … Continue reading
Posted in abelisaurs, African Prehistory, Carnosaurs, Dinosaurs, Spinosaurs, Tetrapods, Theropods, Titanosaurs, Uncategorized
Tagged Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, Cambridge University Press, Carcharodontosaurus, Dave Hone, Euparkeria, Famous Dinosaurs of Africa, Fossils for Africa, John Hutchinson, Majnungasaurus, Ornithocheirus, Paralititan, Spinosaurus, Suchoimimus
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What happens when Spinosaurus runs ashore…
The continuing Spinosaurus saga has reached its peak with Paul Sereno and National Geographic’s final, detailed description of the new version of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. And things just couldn’t get weirder. Are we witnessing the first ever “cetacean-like” dinosaur? It has the bone … Continue reading
That was then… this is NOW!
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
Posted in African Prehistory, Dinosaurs, Spinosaurs, Theropods
Tagged Anusuya Chinsamy, Ichtyovenator, Paul Sereno, Spinosaurus
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The African Dinosaurs Saga continues…
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
This is not a Dinosaur…
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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