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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Giant Dinosaurs of the Jurassic – Part 2

Vintage Dinosaur Art June 8, 2026

Gregory Wenzel’s gorgeous Giant Dinosaurs of the Jurassic is well deserving of a second entry, especially as I showed my terrible theropod bias last time. Given the predominance of carnivores in the previous post, why not kick off with the completely harmless, very innocent and almost certainly meek and impeccably well-behaved Dryosaurus this time? While certainly not a Giant Dinosaur, Dryosaurus helps flesh out the wider ecosystem surrounding Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus and the rest. While it maintains the same rather sleek, Paulian aesthetic as the…

Vintage Dinosaur Art: Jurassic Park Institute – Part 2

Vintage Dinosaur Art June 5, 2026

Last time, we took a look at some of the many theropods illustrated by Tim Bradley for the now-defunct Jurassic Park Institute Dinopedia. Let’s check out a few more of those before moving on to the sauropods. Thanks again to Tim for providing these illustrations, it’s a real pleasure to be able to see them again after all these years! I foolishly neglected to include a tyrannosaur last time, so here’s Daspletosaurus to make up for it. The intensity of the blue,…

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 50 – Half-Century Tim Haines Spectacular

Podcast Show Notes June 2, 2026

In this no-doubt pivotal 50th episode of the somewhat irregular LITC podcast, Gemma and Marc interview Tim Haines about his latest televisual venture featuring CG recreations of prehistoric animals in photogenic settings – Surviving Earth! But before that, a short preamble packs in Isle of Wight shoutouts, Thai-ropods (or something like that), and Gemma’s boundless flair for the dramatic. In the News Marc’s been back to the Dinosaur Expeditions Centre on the Isle of Wight, the home base and showcase…

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 49 – Robots and Comics

Podcast Show Notes May 15, 2026

Episode fifty minus one is finally here, and we’re back looking at some non-traditional forms of palaeoart! Gemma, Marc and Natee discuss the beloved animatronics made by the Dinamation company in the 1980s and 1990s. Then, Natee and Gemma interview the unsung Sean Hennesy, whose dinosaur comics under the name “Speed Thief” combine art with comedy. We discuss how cartoons can inspire curiosity, and how a little bit of humour can make the knowledge go down better. Is dino animatronic…

Vintage Dinosaur Art: Giant Dinosaurs of the Jurassic – Part 1

Vintage Dinosaur Art May 12, 2026

As regular readers will hopefully be aware, our sole criterion for Vintage Dinosaur Art is that the art in question must be at least 20 years old. (We’re also aware that ‘vintage’ is not synonymous with ‘old’, but you don’t mess with the brand.) Now that we are – rather frighteningly – well into the 2020s, that means works from the 2000s now fall within our purview. Unfortunately, the era immediately after Walking With Dinosaurs saw many publishers demanding ‘photo real’…

The Hagenbeck Dinosaurs

Attraction Review Vintage Dinosaur Art April 27, 2026

You all know about the Crystal Palace dinosaurs. In my lifetime, these went from the poster children of outdated, stodgy views of ponderous swamp dinosaurs, to being the most celebrated monuments of early dinosaur art around. And they are not alone. I’ve made it my mission to visit as many historic, unique dinosaur models in Europe as I can find, such as Boudewijn Bollee’s dinosaurs of Artis in Amsterdam and the dinosaurs of Chorzów Zoo in Poland. This spring, I…

Vintage Dinosaur Art: The Life and Death of the Dinosaurs

Vintage Dinosaur Art April 24, 2026

While John Sibbick Normanpedia knock-offs were pretty ubiquitous in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the illustrations in this book just might be unique in combining classic Sibbickisms with a more John McLoughlin-like, monochrome, stipply style. A rather obscure little volume very kindly sent over from the States by Herman Diaz, The Life and Death of the Dinosaurs was published in 1990 by the Palos Verdes Peninsula Audubon Society, written by Joseph K Slap (great name), and illustrated by Elaine…

Vintage Dinosaur Art: Jurassic Park Institute – Part 1

Vintage Dinosaur Art April 12, 2026

It might be hard to believe these days, but the Jurassic Park franchise was once used as a force for palaeontological education. The Jurassic Park Institute website, a kid-friendly hub for dinosaur edutainment, went online in 2001 to coincide with the release of the infamously divisive Jurassic Park 3. This site was a mainstay for my generation of dinosaur lovers, hosting a huge array of articles, activities, and games. Arguably the biggest draw of the site was the Dinopedia. This…

Vintage Dinosaur Art: All About Dinosaurs – Part 2

Vintage Dinosaur Art April 9, 2026

By the popular request of a single commenter, here’s yet more All About Dinosaurs, written by Rupert Oliver, illustrated by Bernard Long, and first published in 1983 (with this edition arriving in 1990). I conveniently forgot that said commenter (Andreas Johansson) enthusiastically responded to the promise of more non-dinosaurs that I might have made, and have instead mostly scanned a number of further dinosaur illustrations by Long. Hurrah! We’ll start with this Corythosaurus, for it actually serves as the frontispiece for the…

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 48 – Dougal Dixon and Netflix’ Dinosaurs

Podcast Show Notes April 2, 2026

It feels like we’re doing this a lot now, but Marc, Gemma and Natee are once again reviewing a new television show with CGI dinosaurs! This time, the title is simply The Dinosaurs, a four-part miniseries on Netflix narrated by that fellow from Driving Miss Redemption of the Seven Penguins. Also, Marc has an in-depth chat with Dougal Dixon, the maestro of speculative evolution and the writer of half of all of our dinosaur books. He speaks enthousiastically about his…

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