This photograph of Spinosaurus dinosaur bones that Josh Smith found in a German museum is the only photographic proof of German researcher Ernst Stromer´s discovery of Spinosaurus, a dinosaur similar in size to the famed Tyranosaurus rex. All but Stromer´s drawings of his find were lost wh...
and crucially, no indication of whether the tail elements were found articulated or whether the spikes were found isolated and subsequently moved to the end of the tail. It may be that Remes at al. know something I don’t, of course — they might have a translation of Zhang (1988...
(I think Todd Marshall’s pencil drawings are absolutely sensational, as for example in this Spinosaurus, but for me the colour versions of his work seem to lose something in comparison.) There’s also a Shunosaurus-whacking-Gasosaurus piece that’s cropped up in various places, but I won...
Guest post: the genesis of Davide Bonadonna’sSpinosauruspainting September 16, 2014 In thelast postI pointed out some similarities between Davide Bonadonna’s newSpinosauruspainting and Brian Engh’sSpinosauruspainting from 2010. I also suggested that Davide might have borrowed from Brian and might...
In the fall of 2008 the folks at Dangerous Ltd, a London-based film production company, asked me if I’d be interested in being part of a new documentary project, which had the working title “Dino Body” (this isn’t a trade secret or anything, that title was on the Dangerous webpa...
In the case ofAegyptosaurus, we know exactly what happened to the type material: it was blown to hell and gone, along with the original material ofSpinosaurusandCarcharodontosaurus, when Allied bombs hit the museum in Munich in 1944. The type material ofAegyptosaurus baharijensisconsisted of ...
Guest post: the genesis of Davide Bonadonna’s Spinosaurus painting September 16, 2014 In the last post I pointed out some similarities between Davide Bonadonna’s new Spinosaurus painting and Brian Engh’s Spinosaurus painting from 2010. I also suggested that Davide might have borrowed from ...
biting their tails, and the clubs evolved in response to that. Or something. There’s a similar, but even more mystifying, situtation in the late Early Cretaceous Sahara, where the theropodSpinosaurus, the ornithopodOuranosaurusand arguably even the sauropodRebbachisaurusall evolved sails. Why ...
(I think Todd Marshall’s pencil drawings are absolutely sensational, as for example in thisSpinosaurus, but for me the colour versions of his work seem to lose something in comparison.) There’s also aShunosaurus-whacking-Gasosauruspiece that’s cropped up in various places, but I won’t...