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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

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The Art of Dinosnores

It happened almost in an instant… time flew, and suddenly… we had this marvellous stuff hanging on the walls! If this can be done in just forty minutes of FUN (including a talk),,, just imagine what we could do in a proper, … Continue reading

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Hatching The Past in the Catalonian Pyrenees!

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!

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…

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!

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…

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…

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…!

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

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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