Remembering my friend Richard Forrest, a marine reptile expert, with a week or two of marine reptile artworks. I'll start with this old acrylic painting, called The Wreck, which I created for Richard back in 2004.

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It's marine reptile Monday!
Okay, that's not a thing, but here is an old acrylic painting from 1999 (26 years old!). It depicts a Liopleurodon breaching with an unfortunate Metriorhynchus in its jaws. It was commissioned for a TV series that was never made.

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Delve into the history and inspiration behind the 1950s Marx Kronosaurus plastic toy: https://dinotoyblog.com/kronosaurus-marx/

This is one of the most insightful and thorough reviews to date on the @dinotoyblog, and also the final Marx figure to be checked off the reviewer's to-do list.

N.B. Controversially, the skeleton may not even be Kronosaurus (see, Eiectus).

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Paleoartist @BobNicholls kneels at his Liopleurodon shrine. All hail pliosaurs!

He was also touching up the paintwork while he was down there.

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I just posted a short 'Plesiosaur Bites' blog article about new (2018-2023) plesiosaur toys: https://plesiosauria.com/six-more-years-of-new-plesiosaur-toys-2018-2023/

Lots of links therein to #DinoToyBlog reviews.

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A few years ago @TashTaylor and I were shocked to find some pliosaurs swimming in the river. An artwork had been set up using projectors to create a surprisingly realistic impression of marine reptiles swimming just below the surface, and we had walked right past the sign. I think it should be made permanent, without signage, and Brisbanites should swear not to tell any tourists, but to look afraid if any mention the creatures in the river.

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I've updated my plesiosaur genera stratigraphic chart again with some more recently named taxa. I can hardly keep up! Please let me know if I've missed any.

https://plesiosauria.com/wp-content/uploads/stratigraphy_v5_2024_01.jpg

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Another story about the new pliosaur, this one in #NewScientist includes a good video showing footage of the excavation, interviews, and more views of the skull: https://www.newscientist.com/video/2407737-pliosaur-discovery-on-jurassic-coast-is-very-likely-a-new-species/

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Another news story about this spectacular new pliosaur discovery, this time on the BBC with some more photographs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67650247

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