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? How handsome is a cockroach? Can we still be confident that an illustration of a dinosaur was AI-generated? Find out…by listening.
In the News
- The LITC shop has moved to Bonfire.
- Gemma visited a dinosaur event at Burgers’ Zoo and was unimpressed by the so-so robots and use of AI-generated art.
- The new episode in David James Armsby’s Dinosauria Series, “Hunted by Moonlight” is out. Watch it below!
- Marc reviewed Spinosaur Tales by Dave Hone and Mark Witton. You can also read a proper review over on the Inquisitive Biologist blog.
- Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age is out now, to be reviewed in the next episode of the podcast. (No further mentions will be made of scientists’ grooming.)
Vintage Dinosaur Art
In the late 1910s, the Reichardt cocoa company in Germany published a series of collectible cards illustrated by Heinrich Harder, part of their Tiere der Urwelt series. They feature dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, with one or two modern animals thrown in, often in rather curious (but always beautifully painted) guises.
- Gemma’s initial review can be found here!
Diplodocus
Stegosaurus
Iguanodon
Hadrosaurs
Archaeopteryx
Pteranodon
Echidna
Tuatara
Ammonites
Ichthyosaurs
Moa
Glyptodon
Megatherium
Elasmotherium
Deinotherium
Coelodonta
Sivatherium
Pterodactylus and Rhamphorhynchus
Archegosaurus
Interview
Julianne Kiely, famously, knows rather a lot about prehistoric plant life. Which is impressive and unusual enough on its own, but there’s much more to her oeuvre than that. Listen to Gemma’s interview for more information on how she became quite so interested in palaeobotany, what she’s been up to recently, and just how tormented she now is by all the slapdash flora in other people’s palaeoart.
You can find Julianne on Instagram, Bluesky, Blogspot and Patreon.
Anchiornis
Alderblattina simmsi
Alderblattina: The more colourful WIP version.
Oxroadia gracilis
Late Devonian
A Forest Encouter
Spinosaurus Leaves
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