Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs

Eeeee!!!! I got interviewed by Gemma for LitToC podcast!!!!

Thanks so much for th invite; it was really fun getting to talk to you about plants and palaeoart!
#paleobotany #paleoart #podcast

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 45 – Heinrich Harder and Julianne Kiely Gemma, Natee, and Marc are back for another attempt at entertaining prehistorically inclined people with carefully edited commentary and interviews with people who actually know what they’re …

In this episode, David Armsby's back and better than ever, Darren Naish's hair is slicker than ever, and Gemma interviews palaeobotanist and artist @palaeojules.bsky.social, who's here to save us all from painfully generic and/or inaccurate flora in palaeoart.

Spinosaur Tales – review Back in 2016, Dave Hone (for it was he) wrote The Tyrannosaur Chronicles, a book all about the best little clade of theropod dinosaurs that there ever was. Earlier this year saw the publication of …

What does Marc think of @davehone.bsky.social and @markwitton.bsky.social's foray into the world of spinosaurid palaeontology? Find out here!

Vintage Dinosaur Art: The Famous Dinosaurs Playing Cards Themed playing card sets are a dime a dozen, offering a fun spin on the standard deck that we’ve all seen thousands of times. As we at Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs know, there’s no b…

Dinosaur playing cards. So many dinosaur playing cards.

Vintage Dinosaur Art: Dinosaurs (Kingfisher My First Encyclopedia) Right then – who remembers this one? Hopefully quite a few of you, as it was originally published in 1990 in hardback as part of the Young World series, with this paperback recycling appearing in 2…

Another Michael Benton dinosaur book? Hard to believe we haven't covered them all by now!

A Graveyard of Dinosaurs When the days get shorter and leaves start to fall, there’s always a zoo somewhere in the Netherlands that gets taken over by dinosaurs. In previous years, I’ve covered dinosaur events …

A Graveyard of Dinosaurs

There's a dinosaur event at the legendary Burgers' Zoo! What could possibly go wrong? Hoo boy...

Thank you! We hope you enjoy :)

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs Natural Sciences Podcast · Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs: The Podcast is the audio supplement to the blog of the same name,exploring the science, art, and popular culture of the Mesozoic world. We d...

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This will be rather eclipsed by other palaeo news today, I fear. 😅 But for Ep. 44, we discuss the work of the much under-celebrated Brian Franczak, who sadly left us too soon. Plus Marc interviews @tetzoo.bsky.social & Steve White on their jointly edited new palaeoart compilation, Mesozoic Art 2.

Had a great time doing this!

The Case of the Tiny Tyrannosaurus Might Have Been Cracked

My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this:

Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 44 – Brian Franczak and Mesozoic Art II Your Charmosaurs crew is here again with a cool new episode. This month, we’re discussing the works of the late, great Brian Franczak as it appears in The National Audubon Pocket Guide: Dinos…

Podcast Episode 44!

We get knocked down, but we get up again. You're never gonna keep the podcast down! Discussing the work of Brian Franczak and featuring a double interview with @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and @tetzoo.bsky.social!

The website is back online!

It appears that our website is down. We're aware of the problem and trying to find a solution.

You don't have to answer this, but does it feature, at any point, a saber toothed squirrel trying to bury an acorn?

Who else can't wait for Prehistoric Planet Ice Age?

I asked Donna to be on the podcast but she was shy. She did give some followup to the episode where we featured Dinosaurium though. - Gemma

Vintage Dinosaur Art: Hubrecht at the Lyceum – Part 3 It’s time to bring it home, the big project of discussing the seven massive paintings by Marie Hubrecht on the walls of the Joke Smit College, once the Girl’s Lyceum, in Amsterdam. Havi…

Let's bring it home! Part Three of Hubrecht at the Lyceum!

It's happened a few times. Graham Rosewarne and Giovanni Caselli have also been known to comment on reviews of their own work. - Gemma

YouTube video by cmkosemen So Bizarre! 🇫🇷🐍 Reviewing Obscure French Palaeo Trading Cards

C. M. Kosemen, artist extraordinaire and friend of the blog, just uploaded this lovely review of some very strange French trading cards featuring all sorts of prehistoric critters. If you like Vintage Dinosaur Art give it a watch, you won't regret it!

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Podcast Show Notes: Long Live DinoCon! It’s that time of year again, even though it’s at a different time each year. Natee, Gemma and Marc attended the very first iteration of DinoCon, the spiritual successor to TetZooCon, b…

A #DinoConUK-themed article and podcast from @chasmosaurs.bsky.social, yay! chasmosaurs.com/2025/09/23/p...

Podcast Show Notes: Long Live DinoCon! It’s that time of year again, even though it’s at a different time each year. Natee, Gemma and Marc attended the very first iteration of DinoCon, the spiritual successor to TetZooCon, b…

Here it is! Our long awaited briefing on the very first DinoCon! Was it a worthy successor to TetZooCon? (yes) Find out here! #DinoCon2025 @dinoconuk.bsky.social

As previously stated, we've had an illness so we haven't been able to release our DinoCon coverage as quickly as we'd hoped. But it's all been recorded now and it's coming in a few days, so look out for that! - Gemma

Introducing a crazy new look for Spicomellus, based on new osteoderms unlike anything we've ever seen before. I was brought in to produce a life reconstruction based on the new material, published today in Nature by Maidment et al:

Colour illustration. A squat Hylaeosaurus sits atop a rocky outcrop, looking somewhat mournful. Its armoured spikes are more like tufts of fur, extending all the way to its strange stumpy tail. Its beaked head looks to the sky, as if asking the creator/illustrator why it has been given such short limbs

Armoured dinosaurs have of course been on our mind, so a VERY GOOD MORNING to you from this..interesting depiction of a Hylaeosaurus - by “F.John” - from a series of cards produced by a German cocoa company, early 20th Century..

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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Tiere der Urwelt (Reichardt) – Part 1 And it’s a proper Vintage Dinosaur Art as today, we’re looking at a rather obscure collection of paleoart from the very beginning of the 20th century. Let’s lay down some groundwo…

Here’s a fantastic blog post about the Reichardt Kakao cards, from our friends at @chasmosaurs.bsky.social

chasmosaurs.com/2023/11/28/v...

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#DinoConUK Wedel: Most sauropod adaptations appear to have worked best at large size. Maybe baby sauropods were just bad at being sauropods. Hence extremely high reproductive output, allowing them to take anything the Earth threw at time. Sadly they could not take everything space threw at them.

photo of petra in a grey t-shirt, holding a skeleton structure model but made from moveable metal and 3D printed parts of a velociraptor on a stand, but it is only one glasses eye while the other is behind the raptor's torso.

photo of fiona in a light blue ammonite shirt holding a 3D and metal printed velociraptor model where you can move each join in a specific way, she is looking at it lovingly like a baby.

an extremely successful #DinoConUK

met a lot of wonderful people and thank you for everyone that stopped at our shop to grab a little something silly

posing with the velocinator 🤖