Category Archives: Theropods

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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… and then México once again!

Posted on 23/11/2013 by luisvrey

Every year, Mexico’s foremost asset to Palaeontology, Dr. René Hernández Rivera, allowed me the honour to speak to his students at his classroom in the UNAM (Mexican Autonomous University), the true temple of popular knowledge in Mexico from which I … Continue reading →

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Outtakes from the Big Golden Book (Part One)

Posted on 15/10/2013 by luisvrey

A busy scene from the Cretaceous North America, with Albertosaurus chasing Maisaura and chicks (there’s a really 9ld version of this one where Albertosaurus had only a timid feather fan round its arms… things move fast!) ,  Originally the big … Continue reading →

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The Therizinosaur Rookery is at last finished.

Posted on 20/09/2013 by luisvrey

You saw the process of making this piece-de-resistance. All the protagonists are now in place and the hypothetical life cycle is now complete. Of course it wouldn’t be complete without  the opportunistic mammal trying to predate on the newborns. Regarding … Continue reading →

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The day Safari got inspired by yours truly!

Posted on 10/09/2013 by luisvrey

Remember this old painting… ? It was first released in Extreme Dinosaurs more than 13 years ago. It became famous enough for something extraordinary to happen… suddenly  recently suddenly it became a Safari ltd 3D miniature(Oviraptor On Nest Version 2)! … Continue reading →

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Step by Step: Working on a new mural…?

Posted on 01/08/2013 by luisvrey

Setting up the scenery… there should be a surprise in every corner… it’s starting to hatch! I think in these days it’s difficult to find  to find new themes for really striking, original material regarding dinosaurs… nevertheless I decided to … Continue reading →

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A Diary: Sharing the MUJA and Hatching the Past experience.

Posted on 05/07/2013 by luisvrey

Looks like paradise isn’t it?  Well it seems that every picture I took in Asturias  could be made a tourist postcard!Now imagine that in the middle of all this beauty,  you, an obvious palaeontolgy buff  had the opportunity to visit … Continue reading →

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The John R. Hutchinson Team does it again… in NATURE.

Posted on 24/04/2013 by luisvrey

Embargo lifted and here we are…Kudos to John R. Hutchinson! He has made it once again and this time in the prestigious science magazine  NATURE. Hutchinson is not only a man of science, but also a man with imagination and sense of … Continue reading →

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Classic prehistoric Isle Of Wight revisited…

Posted on 05/11/2012 by luisvrey

Now that I’m getting towards the end of my new Random House/Robert Bakker new project, I decided to revisit some classics. My visit to Brussels early this year gave me ammunition to try and restore Iguanodon again… this time based … Continue reading →

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