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 thought processes behind his seminal 1988 The New Dinosaurs, of which a new edition is out now. Of course, Marc can’t resist asking him about a certain magazine from the 90s… Is The Dinosaurs better than Life On Our Planet? What does Morgan Freeman say if he isn’t allowed to use “Dynasty”? Is palaeopublishing dead? And will Gemma use this platform for shameless self-promotion? All of that in episode 48!
In the News
- Chasmosaurus russelli is no more. C. russelli has been moved into its own original genus, Cryptarcus. Read the paper here.
- The eighth short film in the Dinosauria Series by David James Armsby, DeadSound on Youtube, is out now! It’s called “Monsters Down Under”. Check it out!
The Dinosaurs
The Dinosaurs is a 2026 American television nature documentary miniseries produced by Amblin Documentaries and Silverback Films. Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, series directed by Nick Shoolingin-Jordan and narrated by Morgan Freeman, the four-part series focuses on the history of dinosaurs from their appearance in the Triassic period until their demise in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. A successor to Life on Our Planet (2023), the series was released on Netflix on March 6, 2026.
Smok
Dilophosaurus
Allosaurus
Magyarosaurus and Hatzegopteryx
Pleroplites
Edmontosaurus and titanosaurs
Edmontosaurus
Interview
Dougal Dixon (Dumfries, 1947) has not only written well over a hundred books on dinosaurs and geology, he is also considered one of the leading writers in the realm of speculative evolution, with seminal works such as After Man (1981), The New Dinosaurs (1988) an another book we don’t talk about. He also worked on the docuseries The Future Is Wild (2002). Most importantly of all, he served as the editor of Dinosaurs!Magazine in the 1990s!
The 2025 reissued version of The New Dinosaurs is available from Breakdown Press here.
A man and his Juratyrant
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- In non-dinosaur related news: Gemma has released a music video for her song Queen Latvia! Check it out also!
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2 Comments
Matt
April 4, 2026 at 3:41 pmIt was so wonderful to hear Dixon recount his first encounter with dinosaurs as a child. I believe one of my very first, if not THE first, dinosaur books I ever read was “The Age of Dinosaurs: A Photographic Record” which Dixon worked on with Jane Burton. The photographs were so convincing, that I believed these creatures were still alive and thriving
Michel
April 16, 2026 at 1:01 pmI literally just glanced at the back of one of my childhood paleo-themed choose-your-own-adventure books (illustrated by Douglas Henderson!), and discovered that Dixon was the author of Time Machine 7: Ice Age Explorer!