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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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…
Podcast Show Notes: Episode 44 – Brian Franczak and Mesozoic Art II
Podcast Show Notes October 30, 2025Your 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…
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…
Podcast Show Notes: Episode 43 – Long Live DinoCon!
Conference Podcast Show Notes September 23, 2025It’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,…
Usually I’m perfectly happy to stay in my lane and review Euro-kitsch. I didn’t really expect to be visiting the United States any time soon. Life takes some unexpected turns, though, and suddenly I find myself in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It’s a town named after a famous university that houses a completely different famous university. And where there’s universities, there’s museums. So let’s make every Bostonian cringe and pahk the cah at hahvahd yahd. (Joke’s on us, you can’t actually park…
¡Hola! Here at Chasmosaurs we observe a Golden Rule when traveling abroad: “any opportunity must be taken to visit a park exhibiting model dinosaurs in the woods, so long as it is within a reasonable traveling distance” (M. Vincent et al, 2025). My corollary to that rule would be: if model dinosaurs are unavailable, a natural history museum will surely do. And so we find ourselves in Madrid, the sunny, colourful and vibrant capital of Spain, a perfect place to…
It’s high time we go back to Amsterdam and talk about the Marie Hubrecht murals at the Joke Smit College. You may or may not recall me talking about the amazing Jurassic/Cretaceous mural. If not, that will be your homework (we are at a school, after all). That was a while ago, and I promised you more. Of course, “more” in this case means we have to leave my comfort zone of Dinosaur World and dive all the way into…
Podcast Show Notes: Episode 42 – Talking Walking With Dinosaurs 2025
Podcast Show Notes July 9, 2025Episode 42 (insert Hitchhiker’s Guide reference here) sees Marc, Natee and Gemma team up with Andrew Stück, the one and only Dino Dad, as we tackle surely one of the most divisive topics we have ever discussed on this show: the 2025 revival of Walking With Dinosaurs. Will it be a beloved classic like the original 1999 series, an embarassing turkey like the 2013 movie, or something in between? Are we as blown away as we were when we saw…
Episode 41 of the famous Chasmosaurs Podcast is here, and it’s a bittersweet one. Today’s episode is a tribute to the recently departed Czech palaeoartist Jan Sovák (1953 – 2025) and his frankly ginormous body of work. So ginormous in fact, that we just had to dedicate an entire episode to him. But there’s more to talk about. For one thing, there’s the new Walking With Dinosaurs series, which we refuse to review in this episode! Also, there’s a whole…



