If my research is correct, it has been 13 years since Safari Ltd. released a prehistoric animal TOOB. Their last was the Cambrian Life TOOB, released in 2013 and retired from production 4 short years later. And in fact, all of the best Safari prehistoric animal TOOBs were retired in 2017, including the Prehistoric Sharks, Crocodiles, and Sea Life TOOBs. But while prehistoric TOOBs may have […]

Happy Draw a Dinosaur Day, y'all!

This year I've drawn 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘴, an early sauropod ("prosauropod") from the late Triassic who might be about 8 meters long. I used 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘋𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘴 by Gregory S. Paul as a reference.

What dino might 𝑦𝑜𝑢 draw today?

#DrawADinosaurDay #DrawADinosaurDay2026 #Plateosaurus #prosauropod #sauropods #dinosaurs #Triassic

A photographer finds thousands of #dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue https://apnews.com/article/italy-dinosaur-footprints-olympics-bipedal-herbivores-5a6ab5e5c68398716d339dba56a04112

"The discovery in the #Stelvio NP was striking for the sheer number of footprints, estimated at 20,000 over some 5 km, and the location near the Swiss border, once a prehistoric coastal area, that has never previously yielded tracks of #dinosaurs... they have been made by long-necked bipedal herbivores that were up to 10 m long, weighing up to 4 tons, similar to a #Plateosaurus"

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Dinosaurs were a funny bunch. Here's a parade from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR (2023), by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Gigantoraptor #Ichthyovenator #Stegosaurus #Bajadasaurus #Euoplocephalus #Shantungosaurus #Plateosaurus #Sapeornis #Torosaurus #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #CampCretaceous #WildlifeArt

Dino mit Peitschenschwanz: Wie sich der Plateosaurus verteidigt haben könnte 🦖

War der #Plateosaurus besser bewaffnet als bislang gedacht? Eine Studie unter Beteiligung von Thomas Filek vom Institut für Paläontologie liefert überraschende Hinweise: Der pflanzenfressende Dinosaurier, der vor rund 215 bis 205 Millionen Jahren in der späten Triaszeit lebte, könnte seinen langen Schwanz aktiv zur Verteidigung eingesetzt haben – ähnlich wie einige heutige Echsen.

Mehr dazu: ⤵️
https://fgga.univie.ac.at/forschung/forschungsportal-detailansicht/news/dino-mit-peitschenschwanz-wie-sich-der-plateosaurus-verteidigt-haben-koennte/

Top 10 Triassic Dinosaur Toys

https://makertube.net/w/4xSrP2iyi9aNLjqzow29yN

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's how I built Plateosaurus for "In Search of Water," a digital composite painting (2015) for Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, Switzerland. The digital skeleton was supplied by Heinrich Mallison.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Plateosaurus #JurassicWorld

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Yesterday I posted "In Search of Water," a digital composite painting (2015) for Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, Switzerland. Here's how it came together, part 2 of 2.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Plateosaurus #JurassicWorld

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Yesterday I posted "In Search of Water," a digital composite painting (2015) for Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, Switzerland. Here's how it came together, part 1 of 2.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Plateosaurus #JurassicWorld

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's "In Search of Water," a digital composite painting from 2015. It was commissioned by Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, Switzerland. Plateosaurus skeletal references were supplied by Heinrich Mallison.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Plateosaurus #JurassicWorld