We’re back for one last look at Tim Bradley’s JP Institute dinosaurs. If you missed the last parts, go check them out (here and here) before you read this one! Today, we’ll be taking a look at some of the ornithischians featured on the site. There’s quite a lot of ground to cover, so let’s get started. The JP Institute Dinopedia, in its aim to be totally comprehensive, was crawling with little ornithischians like this Abrictosaurus! Dinosaurs like these tend…
As promised, here’s another look at Karen Carr’s work as published in Lone Star Dinosaurs, a book about Texan dinosaurs (duh) written by Texan palaeontologist Louis Jacobs and published by Texas A&M University Press in 1995. Do go and read the first post if you haven’t already, in which I reveal my embarrassing lack of knowledge about obscure American ornithopods. This time, there’ll be a lot less Tenontosaurus and whatever “Pleurocoelus” was in this context, and a lot more ceratopsians â including…
Back in July (25 & 26), Marc and Natee attended DinoCon 2026 in Birmingham, the successor to DinoCon 2025 in Exeter, which was the spiritual successor to all those TetZooCons. It was huuuge. In Episode 52 of our questionably punctual podcast, they discuss the pros and cons of the venue, favourite talks, how Steve White is surely now richer than astronauts, and the Great Tim Haines AI Controversy. Then, all three hosts review NBC’s Surviving Earth, the latest CG prehistory-fest…
While it’s true that That Movie launched the dinosaur obsessions of (possibly) millions in ’93, it’s always important to remember that it rode in on the peak of a wave of Dinomania inspired by the Dinosaur Renaissance. Dinosaurs were no longer the tail-dragging, swamp-hogging, brown dullards of the mid 20th century, but were now athletic, dynamic, colourful and exciting. Popular books and documentaries (like the Walter Cronkite-starring Dinosaur!), along with the latest generation of life-sized roaring museum robots and cool…
Karen Carr is one of those artists whose lack of presence on this blog seems to defy explanation; originally from Texas (but now living in New Mexico), she has a huge palaeoart back catalogue, with work featured in a wide range of institutions and publications. Go and check out her website for just a taste. She’s chiefly a natural history artist, although that’s definitely underselling the diversity of her art, which ranges from murals to sculptures to maps. Of course,…
Remember a time before The Franchise had a near-monopoly on movie dinosaurs? Me neither. To avoid any references to the Crichton and Spielberg-spawned behemoth, you’d have to travel in time all the way back to the 1980s. And that seems like as good a reason as any to set the ‘modern day’ portions of any new dinosaur films during that decade â it’s the most recent era during which the characters can quite plausibly encounter Mesozoic beasties and not start…
Having examined the changing image of Tyrannosaurus in 2023’s The Tyrannosaur’s Feathers, Adam Smith, Jonathan Emmett and Stieven van der Poorten have returned with a similarly-themed follow-up book â only this time, featuring a whole range of prehistoric animals. That’s right â in spite of the title, this book isn’t confined to our favourite Mesozoic reptile pals (it’s just that Great Dinosaur andotherprehistoricanimal Mistakes wasn’t quite as snappy). Can it maintain the difficult balance between nuanced scientific accuracy, child-friendly brevity, and pun-laden dialogue between two…
In this slightly-delayed-by-the-heatwave episode, Gemma, Marc and Natee finally get around to discussing some of the best-known and most widely reproduced and copied palaeoart of all time â Neave Parker’s monochrome saurians as published in the Natural History Museum (or rather, British Museum (Natural History))’s 1960s book entitled Dinosaurs. Then, Marc interviews American artist and author Timothy J Bradley on a career that encompasses Dinamation (see episode 49), toy design for Hasbro and literally hundreds of illustrations for the Jurassic Park Institute…
Following my first post on Usborne’s Children’s Encyclopedia of Prehistoric Life (aka Prehistoric Life, part of the In School and At Home series in Russia in the ’90s), at least four people wanted me to carry on and review some of the non-Mesozoic, non-dinosaurian illustrations. So here we go! Rather than start with the smelly mammals of the Cenozoic, I’d prefer it if we could first go back to a simpler, better time…the Permian, or possibly the early Triassic. (Who can tell?)…
“Seaton Tramway operates narrow gauge heritage trams between Seaton, Colyford and Colyton in East Devon’s glorious Axe Valley,” according to their website, providing superb views across the wetland habitats of curlews, lapwings, egrets, shelducks, swans, and many more. But just in case you’d rather see Mesozoic dinosaurs, Seaton Tramway (Enterprises) Ltd. also operates Jurassic Discovery, a venue filled with robotic saurians located directly next to their Seaton station. (And an indoor soft play area, but that doesn’t concern us.) What’s…
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Chasmosaurus belli silhouette in custom bulleted list by Scott D. Sampson, Mark A. Loewen, Andrew A. Farke, Eric M. Roberts, Catherine A. Forster, Joshua A. Smith, and Alan L. Titus, CC BY-SA 3.0. Sourced from PhyloPic.
