Skip to content
  • About LITC
  • Contact Us
  • The LITC Palaeoartist Index
  • The Survey of Paleoartists
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs

Month: January 2020

Heterodontosaurus illustration by Dammir G. Martin

This Mesozoic Month: January 2020

This Mesozoic Month January 31, 2020January 31, 2020 by David Orr

A new decade begins, and once more we’ll wrap up the past month in Mesozoic news. In the News A non-pterodactyloid pterosaur trackway was discovered and hit the scientific press this month, an important new insight into their locomotion on the ground. Possibly made by a rhamphorynchid, it indicates that these little aerial archosaurs were …

Continue Reading
Stenonychosaurus by Steve Kirk

Vintage Dinosaur Art: The Big Book of Dinosaurs

Vintage Dinosaur Art January 24, 2020February 11, 2020 by Marc Vincent

Steve Kirk’s an underappreciated talent in the world of palaeoart, so I’m happy to say that we’ve featured his work a few times before, both here and over at our old home. Previously featured Kirk works have predominantly been from the 1990s, so imagine my delight when one John Conway thrust The Big Book of …

Continue Reading
Portrait view of Megalonyx jeffersonii skeletal model

Megajeff, Champion of Fossil Collections

Uncategorized January 21, 2020 by David Orr

January 20, 2020 marked the bicentennial of Indiana University, the august institution where I completed my MFA studies and am now employed as a graphic designer. It also was the day that the university unveiled a special reproduction of Jefferson’s ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii, fondly dubbed Megajeff. The reason the new model received a special …

Continue Reading

Vintage Dinosaur Art: Prehistoric Animals (Octopus) – Part 3

Vintage Dinosaur Art January 13, 2020 by Marc Vincent

By the popular demand of at least a couple of people, let’s have one last look at Prehistoric Animals (see parts one and two for dinosaurs and mostly Palaeozoic non-dinosaurs, respectively). It’s the mammals’ turn! Granted, there are an awful lot of models of fish in here too, which is quite remarkable for a book …

Continue Reading

Paradise Park Revisited

Attraction Review January 7, 2020January 9, 2020 by Niels Hazeborg

Many years ago, Marc introduced you all to the marvellous wonder that is Paradise Park. Early in 2019, he also introduced me to the place. Now I will re-introduce you to it, because I am on a mission to bring back Ugly Ugly Dinosaurs to LITC (or, as those savvy to today’s Internet lingo call …

Continue Reading

Welcome to Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs is a blog about the science, art, and pop culture of Mesozoic life. Founded in 2009, we moved to this site in December 2017. For LITC 1.0, click here.

  • Listen to our podcast!
  • Contact us.
  • Learn more about LITC and meet the contributors.
  • Follow us on Twitter.
  • Like us on Facebook.
  • Subscribe to our RSS feed.

Paleoart community resources

  • Read the Survey of Paleoartists.
  • Looking to buy some paleoart? Browse the paleoart shop index!
  • Check out the LITC Palaeoartists Index

We’re powered by patrons!

You can help support our blog and allow us to do more special projects by becoming one of our Patreon patrons!

Become a Patron!

Archives

  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017

Categories

  • Announcements
  • Attraction Review
  • Book Review
  • Conference
  • Dispatches from Himmapaanland
  • Film review
  • Filthy Lucre
  • Gift Guide
  • Golden Oldie
  • Illustration
  • Interview
  • Live Debate
  • Museums
  • Paleoart Gallery
  • Podcast Show Notes
  • This Mesozoic Month
  • TV review
  • Uncategorized
  • Vintage Dinosaur Art

Recent Posts from the Dinoblogosphere

  • Il bugiardino della Paleoarte Theropoda
  • i-draws-dinosaurs: Barosaurus lentus!One of the most... A Dinosaur A Day
  • alphynix: Aquilarhinus palimentus here was an early hadrosaurid... A Dinosaur A Day
  • i-draws-dinosaurs: Barosaurus does a big steppy! A Dinosaur A Day
  • albertonykus: New episode of Through Time and Clades! This time... A Dinosaur A Day
  • Corythosaurus (Caroline) (Prehistoric Animal Models by PNSO) Dinosaur Toy Blog
  • PNSO Austin the Pachycephalosaurus Everything Dinosaur Blog
  • Dinocómics (III): Cuando la Tierra era joven Koprolitos
  • ANCIENT OCTOPUS: KEUPPIA ARCHEA
  • SPARKing Change with Autism Research at HMNS BEYONDbones

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Site designed by David Orr. Theme based on Minalite by ZThemes. Fossil and fern images from Biodiversity Heritage Library, CC-BY-2.0. Chasmosaurus belli silhouette by Scott D. Sampson, Mark A. Loewen, Andrew A. Farke, Eric M. Roberts, Catherine A. Forster, Joshua A. Smith, and Alan L. Titus, CC BY-SA 3.0. Sourced from PhyloPic.