Podcast Show Notes: Episode 45 – Heinrich Harder and Julianne Kiely

Podcast Show Notes

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 talking about. 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 Julianne Kiely, who’s here to save us all from painfully generic and/or inaccurate flora in palaeoart. Will Gemma dare challenge Julianne’s assertion that plants are cooler than animals?…

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Spinosaur Tales – review

Book 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 Mark Witton’s King Tyrant, a book also dedicated to tyrannosaurs and one species in particular (can you guess?). Now, the two have joined forces to produce a book about…spinosaurs! Well, they’ve surely written enough about tyrannosaurs at this point. What’s more, it’s unsurprisingly rather good, although I…

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Vintage Dinosaur Art: The Famous Dinosaurs Playing Cards

Vintage Dinosaur Art

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 better theme than dinosaurs! The Heritage Playing Card Company, purveyor of innumerable themed decks, clearly knew this and released a set of dinosaur-themed cards back in 2002. This was a time of Jurassic Park sequels, Walking with Dinosaurs, and so much more iconic dinosaur…

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A Graveyard of Dinosaurs

Attraction Review

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 at ZooParc Overloon and the former Dierenrijk, now Eindhoven Zoo. This year, to my mild surprise, it was the turn of our biggest and best zoo, the legendary Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem. Of course, the general quality of Burgers’, combined with the pretty great animatronic dinosaurs on display at…

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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Dinosaurs (Kingfisher My First Encyclopedia)

Vintage Dinosaur Art

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 2000. It may well have been translated into other languages, too (Agata seems to remember a Polish edition). It’s just one of the hundreds and hundreds (probably) of kids’ books about dinosaurs churned out by well-known palaeontologist Michael Benton while on his coffee breaks in…

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Podcast Show Notes: Episode 44 – Brian Franczak and Mesozoic Art II

Podcast Show Notes

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: Dinosaurs. Rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? Mark, Natee and Gemma discuss the merits of an unfairly forgotten palaeo master of the ninetes. Then, old familiar voices Steve White and Darren Naish come on the show to discuss their new palaeoart compendium, Mesozoic Art II. Who is the…

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Mesozoic Art II – Marc’s review

Book Review

If, like me, you struggle to keep up with the glut of quality palaeoart emanating from all corners of the world these days, then Steve White and Darren Naish have another book for you. The sequel to 2022’s Mesozoic Art (and spiritual successor to the earlier Dinosaur Art books), Mesozoic Art II, is a fatter-than-ever compendium of the work of no fewer than 25 palaeoartists (as opposed to the paltry 20 found in MA1). Whereas the leaps between Dinosaur Art, Dinosaur Art II and Mesozoic…

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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Hubrecht at the Lyceum – Part 3

Vintage Dinosaur Art

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. Having discussed the major dinosaur painting first and the early stages of the Palaeozoic second, it’s time we crawl back up out of the time abyss, towards and into our familiar Mesozoic. In the middle of the Southern wall, above three different doorways, we have the second-largest painting…

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Vintage Dinosaur Art: The Reign of the Reptiles – part 2

Vintage Dinosaur Art

Who’d like some more Rosewarne? In my last post on The Reign of the Reptiles, looking predominantly at illustrations depicting contemporaneous animals in prehistoric landscapes, I mentioned that there were also a great many illustrations of individual animals isolated against white backgrounds, and that I’d consider a follow-up post if anyone actually read that far and wanted to see them. Well, someone did! BrianL left the following comment: The smaller illustrations in The Reign of the Reptiles, like the Dimorphodon…

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Podcast Show Notes: Episode 43 – Long Live DinoCon!

Conference Podcast Show Notes

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, but more bigger, more dinosaurier and more in Exeter! Join our crew as they reminisce about their adventures and misadventures, the perilous journey to Devon, the informative talks and highlights, the colourful characters, the quiz, the costumes and the merch. Is DinoCon a worthy successor to TetZooCon? What changed,…

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