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June 2018

This Mesozoic Month: June 2018

This Mesozoic Month June 29, 2018

Big month! Good job diggin’, studyin’ and publishin’ all these fossils, paleontologists! In the News The next Jurassic Foundation grant deadline is September 15. If you’re in need of some money to fund research into non-avian dinosaurs and/or Mesozoic birds, check it out! It’s always important to test assumptions that have been handed down from previous generations, especially as new technology allows us to study fossils in novel ways. That’s Jordan Bestwick’s goal in new research that surveys at a…

Vintage Dinosaur Art: Dinosaurs of the World (Avi-Cha) – Part 2

Vintage Dinosaur Art June 22, 2018

Having covered this book’s theropods in a previous post, I suppose it’s time we give those Other Dinosaurs a quick look. I still think it’s a real shame that this series wasn’t published more widely; the illustrations are consistently excellent and serve as a wonderful reminder of where we were at in the late ’90s. This was the work of some of the best palaeo-illustrators around, and it’s never made more clear than when they apply the same care, attention…

Front of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

Call for Entries! New Mexico Museum of Natural History Paleoart Exhibition 2018

Announcements June 11, 2018

[Edited 6/17/18 to provide a few more details from the prospectus in the post] This year, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting takes place in beautiful Albuquerque, NM. As part of the event, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science is putting together a concurrent juried paleoart exhibition. Opening on October 6, it will run until January 4, 2019. For all of the details for submitting work, please check out this prospectus. Everything you need to know is…

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – Marc’s review

Film review June 7, 2018

So we’ve reached the fifth installment of the Jurassic Park franchise. I never thought I’d see it. It’s a series doomed to diminishing returns by the very nature of its first chapter. “Do you remember the first time you saw a dinosaur?”, Bryce Dallas Howard’s Claire asks Chris Pratt’s Owen during a rare quiet moment. Those of us old enough to remember watching the first movie in cinemas certainly do. It was a special effects breakthrough that ‘more of the…

Promotional graphic for David Orr's Flaming Dinosaur Skulls Kickstarter campaign

Dinosaur skulls… in flames!

Filthy Lucre Illustration June 4, 2018

After a few months of sketching, designing, and communicating with manufacturers, to fund a new set of enamel pins! I’ve been wanting to create some pins for a while, and decided to take the plunge with some flaming dinosaur skull designs I’ve been working on. The initial set consists of dinosaurs of Cretaceous North America: Deinonychus, Torosaurus, Parasaurolophus, and Gorgosaurus. I chose these because I wanted some distinctly dinosaurian forms and I wanted them to be appealing to a general…