Cover for Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs, prominently featuring a charging green T.rex bursting through a stone gateway, knocking over turnstyles in the process. Behind it, a tiger-striped Smilodon and a green Triceratops peer out behind iron bars. The toothy grin of an Apatosaurus is barely visible at top right.
A selection of somewhat crude 3D renders of various dinosaurs (Velociraptor, Styracosaurus, Allosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, and Stegosaurus) from Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs. They are framed by a broken, Jurassic Park-style electric fence.
Thinking I might write an article for Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs (follow us at @chasmosaurs.bsky.social) on the prehistoric species of Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs! I did a big Twitter thread years ago and could probably go in greater depth than I did at the time. I absolutely adore this game!
24.07.2025 02:18 β π 52 π 9 π¬ 4 π 0
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid
Β‘Hola! Here at Chasmosaurs we observe a Golden Rule when traveling abroad: βany opportunity must be taken to visit a park exhibiting model dinosaurs in the woods, so long as it is within a reβ¦
Β‘Hola! Β‘Gemma's been to a museum in Spain! ΒΏDid we enjoy all the animals and mounted skeletons? ΒΏIs there anything we can learn from the MNCN? ΒΏAnd is Gemma going to do the Spanish interpunction thing all the way through? (yes)
30.07.2025 19:14 β π 17 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
I played this game to death! - Gemma
30.07.2025 19:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Vintage Dinosaur Art: Hubrecht at the Lyceum β Part 2
Itβs high time we go back to Amsterdam and talk about the Marie Hubrecht murals at the Joke Smit College. You may or may not recall me talking about the amazing Jurassic/Cretaceous mural. If β¦
Welcome back to Love in the Time of crinoids and brachipods! We're going to look at some more murals by our heroine Marie Hubrecht, but that does mean we're going to leave Dinosaur World behind and move into Deep Time...
17.07.2025 17:30 β π 26 π 6 π¬ 0 π 1
The @chasmosaurs.bsky.social podcast is always a great listen simply because of the dynamic between its three hosts, but this one is especially fun! Highly recommended for anyone who likes to listen to reviews by people who actually know about the subject matter.
10.07.2025 07:24 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
It was a delight to be on the show! I had a good time discussing WWD with the LITC crew. Give it a listen!
09.07.2025 14:31 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
A fair, solid review of #WWD2025. It faithfully points out the show's drawbacks but doesn't tear it apart because of that, and it fully recognises the good/great stuff that often gets overlooked amidst the strife. I really advise you to have a listen even if you disagree with most of the views!
09.07.2025 16:19 β π 16 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
Podcast Show Notes: Episode 42 β Talking Walking With Dinosaurs 2025
Episode 42 (insert Hitchhikerβs Guide reference here) sees Marc, Natee and Gemma team up with Andrew StΓΌck, the one and only Dino Dad, as we tackle surely one of the most divisive topics we hβ¦
We're talking Walking with Dinosaurs! This series has turned out pretty divisive, but what do your humble LITC podcasters think? And crucially, what do Andrew's children think? Thanks to @dinodadreviews.bsky.social for being on the show!
09.07.2025 10:54 β π 28 π 6 π¬ 1 π 3
A two-page spread titled "Pretty Jaw" from an illustrated dinosaur book, showing the small theropod Compsognathus. It's depicted with scaly, pebbly skin, streaks of green and yellow above countershaded with cream on its belly and limbs. Its stance is slightly crouched, and it's twisting its neck around to peer towards the viewer with one glaring orange eye.
TIL they had a third finger!
the image in my mind of Compsognathus is still largely this bit of nostalgia
(from The Great Dinosaur Atlas, Lindsay and Fornari, via @chasmosaurs.bsky.social)
chasmosaurs.com/2020/05/11/v...
12.05.2025 01:41 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Excellent, excellent news.
22.04.2025 10:33 β π 28 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
Suchomimus by Jan Sovak
Iguanodon by Jan Sovak
Andesaurus by Jan Sovak
Chasmosaurus by Jan Sovak
Apparently paleoartist Jan Sovak has passed away. Growing up in the period between Jurassic Park and the soft dinosaur revolution, I donβt think anyone captured the way dinosaurs FELT when I was a kid as well as he did. Itβs a hard feeling to describe, but Sovak nailed it.
15.04.2025 16:01 β π 80 π 27 π¬ 1 π 3
King Tyrant by Mark Witton β review
Does the world need yet another book about Tyrannosaurus rex? Mark Wittonβs here to make a good case that it does. As one of the best-known and most well-studied of all charismatic Mesozoic dβ¦
The first review for King Tyrant is online, courtesy of @chasmosaurs.bsky.social. "It... remains highly compelling and readable... without becoming dry. Itβs richly illustrated with life reconstructions and skeletal diagrams and photography. Whatβs not to like?"
chasmosaurs.com/2025/04/08/k...
11.04.2025 14:52 β π 52 π 9 π¬ 3 π 1
It's #Songkran, the traditional Thai New Year! βοΈπ
I have nothing interesting to post, so I'm just re-sharing this Kinnareemimus, I suppose. π€·π»ββοΈ
14.04.2025 17:01 β π 192 π 44 π¬ 9 π 1
A sauropod overlooking a lagood with white birds, pterosaurs and plesiosaurus
Crocodile on wetlands with an adult and young Deinotherium
A landscape with woolly mammoths and rhino in the foreground
Landscape dominated by lush horsetails
Enjoy Ukrainian palaeoart πΊπ¦ from the 1930-1960s gracing the halls of Kyiv Natural History Museum. Featuring works of Ukrainian Greats, like ΠΠ²Π°Π½ ΠΠΆΠ°ΠΊΠ΅Π²ΠΈΡ or Π€Π΅Π΄ΠΎΡΠ° ΠΡΠΈΡΠ΅Π²ΡΡΠΊΠΎΠ³ΠΎ. Also Π. Π. ΠΠΊΠΊΠ΅ΡΡ and ΠΠ°ΡΠ°Π»ΡΡ ΠΠΎΠΊΠ°ΡΠ°Π΅Π²Π°.
27.02.2025 09:38 β π 448 π 132 π¬ 11 π 1
Podcast Show Notes: Episode 38 β Thomas Thiemeyer and the Triceratops Herd
After months of technical mishaps, we finally managed to get the podcast back up and running! Marc, Gemma and Natee start off by having a little moan about terrible dinosaur movies before moving inβ¦
Guess what? We're still doing the podcast! And what a doozy we have for you this month! Meet the Triceratops herd at Naturalis and the people who put it all together, and let's have a nostalgic trip into the late 80s with Das Grosse Buch der Saurier!
26.02.2025 20:40 β π 12 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
A book cover, featuring the text "Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Lost Creatures and Deep Time. Edited by Chris Manias." The cover image depicts a large long-necked Sauropod dinosaur, modelled after the famous animation "Gertie the Dinosaur" in a park, with a city skyline in the background. A range of humans are standing around Gertie, pointing at and admiring her. There is also a man in a ringmaster outfit standing on Gertie's shoulder.
"Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Lost Creatures and Deep Time" is out today, and is freely downloadable as an open access pdf, published by @uclpress.bsky.social !
uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon...
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21.01.2025 09:50 β π 500 π 178 π¬ 23 π 18
A pointed stone tool made out of flint. Stained brown by iron oxide. On its left hand side it shows sharp flaking scars from knapping, on its right hand side the smooth natural edge of the flint nodule. In its centre is set a round fossil of a see urchin. The five rays of its bodyform radiating out from its centre
The echinoid fossil in this 400,000 year old handaxe from Swanscombe, Kent, had quite a journey.
Living over 65 million years ago it survived Cretaceous seas, fossilisation, Ice Age rivers, Neanderthal culture, more rivers, & quarrying to enter our scientific record.
#FlintFriday
#FossilFriday
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27.12.2024 07:37 β π 478 π 117 π¬ 10 π 10
More or less definitive color tests for Europatitan, the peak of how some sauropods came to have a bauplan that borders on the absurd, some cervical vertebrae of this animal were well over a meter long
Furthermore, it was ridiculously large, perhaps more than 25 m long, a true titan
27.12.2024 12:43 β π 47 π 15 π¬ 2 π 0
jinglesaurs
23.12.2024 23:29 β π 537 π 161 π¬ 7 π 2
Two enamel pins. One is a lystrosaurus emerging from flames with the text "survive" underneath. The other is a tiktaalik perched on a pedestal above water with sunrise beams behind it and the text "Evolve."
#Artadventcalendar day 23... Throwback to these pins I designed in Spring of 2020. Tiktaalik sold out a while ago, and I just sold the last Lystrosaurus this week. Happy with these. π‘π¨
24.12.2024 00:14 β π 107 π 15 π¬ 1 π 0
#MosAdvent #23: a cast of Tethysaurus on display in the Perot Museum, mounted above a modern Varanus skeleton - regardless of your preferred mosasaur origin hypothesis, the ancestor to mosasauroids likely looked a whole lot like modern monitor lizards.
24.12.2024 02:46 β π 35 π 7 π¬ 0 π 1
(she/her) Of 'Joan's Journal' & 'Through Time and Clades'. Anthropology Undergrad Alumna. Mermaid at Heart. Natural History, Animation, Pinups. Art by Ilari PΓ€tilΓ€.
Hey there, Iβm Andrew! Iβm a dad and a dinosaur lover, and I review stuff occasionally. (he/him)
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Natural History Illustrator βπΌπΏπ¦
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Science-history writer, creator of the Manospondylus blog and the Har Deshur spec-evo project
Art Historian, illustrator, writer, poet, actor, filmmaker
Co-host of @lupinpod.bsky.social, contributor at @lupincentral.comβ¬
Occasional NSFW π No AI/NFT!
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Wij bestuderen al meer dan 200 jaar het leven op aarde. Klein en groot. Springlevend of miljoenen jaren dood. En dat is nu belangrijker dan ooit.
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Historian of science based at King's College London, working on history of evolutionary & deep-time sciences and environmental history. Runs #PopPalaeo ( www.poppalaeo.com ) and co-leads the King's Environmental Humanities network
Freelance illustrator with a special interest in wildlife; extinct, modern or future, from this planet or others, real or fictional...
Visit www.stieven.com for bigger versions, some simple animations and a link to my shop.
Metal & Mosasaurs π€π¦ : RGGS at AMNH : Skeleton Crew Paleo Co-Founder : NSF GRFP Fellow : Carthage College Alumna : she/her π€π€π : views my own. https://linktr.ee/tyrantlizardqueen
#Alaskan #Illustrator #PaleoArt | π«No NFT/AIπ« | Dino-nerd | NIN/MST3K fan | Hubs: @cgfx.bsky.social | she/they | "Mesozoic Art" book: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mesozoic-art-steve-white/1146400688 | https://ko-fi.com/alaskanime | cubelight.graphics
makes comics. dinomite. she/her/he/him
http://tasmukanik.com/wp/
(mildly nsfw, no kids allowed)
Freelance writing about the wild, old and dead. (Plus comics.) Bylines in The New York Times, SciAm, Undark, Texas Monthly, and lots of other places. Repped by @desir.ee at Looking Glass Literary.
A prehistoric paleontology podcast π¦βοΈ with Dave Strassman and Ray Troll for paleo nerds by paleo nerds. π Listen now! https://www.paleonerds.com
Palaeoartist, palaeontologist, author, documentary consultant and creature designer. Not necessarily in that order. More about me at markwitton.co.uk.
Professional paleoartist, concept artist and illustrator.
Brushes and 3d models: https://villes.gumroad.com
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π¦ PhD in Paleontology π¦ Soon a Researcher at CUHK ι¦ζΈ―δΈζε€§ε¦ π¦ Museum Collections Curator β Drawing Dinosaurs π¦ 1st Gen in Academia 𧳠Immigrant
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Since 2013, promoting the long-term conservation of the Victorian palaeontological statues and the larger Geological Court at Crystal Palace Park
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Argentinian paleobotanist, sketcher of living stuff, birdwatcher, occasional dungeon master.
PaleobotΓ‘nico argentino, bocetador de cosas vivas, espiador de aves, dungeon master cada tanto.
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Unexpected lover of fossils. It's never too late to hug a dinosaur, or a trilobite.
