Category Archives: Dinosaurs

Dinosaur rEvolution has left the building!

Posted on 12/11/2024 by luisvrey

We are thankful to the Horniman Museum in London for six months of a very successful stay… much obliged! Now it’s time to search for new pastures… we have several candidate venues but for now we are open to suggestions… … Continue reading →

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Getting one (or two) of my dreams realised, step by step…

Posted on 15/04/2024 by luisvrey

As Carmen would say: “Why and how do you get this junk? Look’s terrible”… well it came all the way from Brazil from Rodrigo Henrique Gomes. And indeed at the beginning didn’t look very promising… but guess what happened next… … Continue reading →

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Tour de Force in Napoli.

Posted on 10/04/2024 by luisvrey

It’s been 20 years since the last time I did a talk and exhibition in Naples… and I madly wanted to return, this time specifically to see in person the Paleo-Aquarium murals commissioned to me by the Museum Darwin Dohrn … Continue reading →

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Getting Back From Mexico is always hard work!

Posted on 24/08/2023 by luisvrey

Not only it is difficult to leave behind so much rich exchanging with so many lovely people, but I had left with pending work here, and on top , everytime I come from my alternative “home” I have some marvels … Continue reading →

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NEWS… a week of frantic activities: after the return to the Geology Museum in Mexico, now the return to TetZoo in London and a South American Paleoart Convention!

Posted on 27/11/2022 by luisvrey

How long was it since at the last up close and personal TetZoo Meeting in London? 3 years, four years? I’m starting to show my age… but never forget the importance of being present and interact in person. I’m looking … Continue reading →

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The Joy of Customising Models and Casts, welcome back from Mexico, again!

Posted on 03/07/2022 by luisvrey

Every time I come back from Mexico I bring a lot of samples from Hector Munive. Dalia Castillo and other Mexican sculptors and casters… that means hours and hours of further customising of quality casts that need to be “brought … Continue reading →

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Never Try To Bite More Than You Can Chew.

Posted on 01/03/2021 by luisvrey

Maastrichtian in Dakota. A couple of young Dakotaraptor decide to try their luck and hike an adult Triceratops… or a relative. Is Dakotaraptor for real? There have been so many doubts but I also doubt that Utahraptor was the only … Continue reading →

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Ubirajara, the controversy rages on.

Posted on 27/12/2020 by luisvrey

At the moment these pictures were happening, I couldn’t post them for obvious reasons… this is Hector “Splintersaurus” Munive and Dahlia Castillo working on the first-ever model of Ubirajara, the strange, protofeathered and exotically ornate Sinosauropteryx-like theropod from Brazil I … Continue reading →

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Bajadasaurus…where extremes reach a tipping point!

Posted on 26/02/2019 by luisvrey

Dinosaurs continue to be the source of amazement beyond all expectations. Now is the turn of sauropods, with the newly described South American dicraeosaurid Bajadasaurus. If you thought that the elongated cervical spines along the neck of Amargasaurus were a … Continue reading →

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Dinosaurios Hechos En Mexico. Monterrey and beyond. Our latest Dinosaur Saga.

Posted on 29/10/2018 by luisvrey

  When the “Dinosaurios Hechos En Mexico”  exhibition at the Planetario Alfa opened  a few months ago I was impressed by  the pictures, even if I couldn’t be at the opening. I knew that between Peter Norton‘s Gondwana Studios and myself … Continue reading →

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