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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs

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Exploring the Mesozoic world through art, science, and pop culture since 2009.

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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs@chasmosaurs.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gemma, Marc and Natee finally get around to discussing Neave Parker’s monochrome saurians. Then, Marc interviews American artist and author Timothy J Bradley on a career that encompasses Dinamation, toy design and literally hundreds of illustrations.

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 51 – Parkersaurs to Ultimasaurs

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 – Neave P…

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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs@chasmosaurs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We've finally reached episode 50, and it just so happens to feature an interview with Tim Haines of Walking With Dinosaurs (and Beasts and Monsters and specials etc. etc.) fame. We discuss his new series Surviving Earth, environmentalist messaging and much more besides. Do give us a listen. – Marc

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 50 – Half-Century Tim Haines Spectacular

In this no-doubt pivotal 50th episode of the somewhat irregular LITC podcast, Gemma and Marc interview Tim Haines about his latest televisual venture featuring CG recreations of prehistoric animals…

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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs@chasmosaurs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Podcast Episode 48! Of The Dinosaurs and The New Dinosaurs! We review Netflix' latest palaeodoc starring Morgan Freeman, and interview the maestro of speculative evolution himself, Dougal Dixon!

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 48 – Dougal Dixon and Netflix’ Dinosaurs

It feels like we’re doing this a lot now, but Marc, Gemma and Natee are once again reviewing a new television show with CGI dinosaurs! This time, the title is simply “The Dinosaurs&#822…

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕@restingdinoface.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What had big jaws and hooves? Let me tell you about Andrewsarchus. 🧪

This Giant Carnivore Ran on Hooves. Scientists Are Investigating Its Massive Skull and Crushing Teeth to Decipher the Beast's True Nature

For more than a century, paleontologists have been piecing together how the mysterious predator Andrewsarchus is related to other mammals, like the extinct “hell pigs” and “wolves with hooves”

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Darren Naish@tetzoo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

That sexual selection is one of the primary drivers in evolution is well established. Studies of Mesozoic #dinosaurs and #pterosaurs, however, have been dominated by the view that the variation, extravagance and diversity seen in these animals is not due to the pressures of sexual selection, but...

Sophie M.@sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Check out this unbelievably cool Jan Sovák painting! How often do you see plesiosaurs and dinosaurs interacting at all, let alone this cinematically? It’s unbelievable how productive Sovák was as an artist, I just keep finding more and more of his work that I’ve never seen before!

A splotchy-patterned Troodon and its chick flee from the sudden appearance of a huge, snake-necked elasmosaur. Its emergence sends a spray of water flying between them, nearly sweeping the young dinosaur away.
Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕@restingdinoface.bsky.social · 6mo ago

And Horner had a rep as a creep well before this. Marrying a 19 year-old-student when he was 65, then treating it as some kind of joke or unserious. Women MSU students who told me they were interested in paleo, until their interactions with him. Not to mention how got his fame by claim jumping.

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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs@chasmosaurs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New Vintage Dinosaur Art! And I'm happy to say that it's more Maurice Wilson from the 1950s, courtesy of reader Alexander Guridov. Wilson's art is remarkably well-observed and beautifully painted for the time, and I might get a bit gushing.

Vintage Dinosaur Art: Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles

Last month I reviewed A Guide to Earth History, our first foray into the world of Maurice Wilson’s illustrations in quite some time. At the end of said article, I asked readers (we still have…

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Natalia (娜塔莉)@nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Palaeoart, on paper, should not have the same systemic barriers of academia, ergo, be quite diverse. There's no staff hierarchy, lower financial barriers, most is online ergo relatively decentralised. And yet, looking at available stats, palaeoart is as bad as paleontological academia. Why?