Spring has sprung and episode 40 of the LITC podcast arrives! Today, famous palaeontologist, artist and all-around international fabulous guy Mark Witton returns to the show as he geeks out with our own Marc Vincent about Tyrannosaurus rex! Mark’s upcoming new book, King Tyrant, is all about the toothy star from Hell Creek. For Vintage Dinosaur Art, Marc, Gemma and Natee go back to 1950’s Denmark and discuss a rare treat from illustrator Verner Hancke, or rather from Gemma’s attic.…
Does the world need yet another book about Tyrannosaurus rex? Mark Witton’s here to make a good case that it does. As one of the best-known and most well-studied of all charismatic Mesozoic dinosaurs (sorry, hadrosaurs), there’s more than enough to say about this infamous species to fill a coffee table book, and such is the ever-changing world of palaeontology these days that there’ll inevitably have been plenty of exciting developments since the last such book came along. Plus, and…
Today, we welcome Sam Bright to the blog for a guest post on the Crystal Palace dinosaurs. A recent Earth Sciences graduate from UCL, Sam worked on the holotype specimen of the ankylosaur Hylaeosaurus for his Masters thesis, using X-Ray tomography to describe its bizarrely-preserved skull. Since graduating he mostly spends his time shuttling to and from London, where he continues to be based part-time, and his home in Dorset. Follow Sam on Twitter @pipedreamdino, or check out his folk…
Due to illness, we missed an episode of the podcast, but we are back on track with the episode recorded in April! This time, Dr. Mark Witton takes us back to what might be the first large-scale expression of palaeoart in 3D: The dinosaurs at the Geological Court at Crystal Palace Park! Tying in with his new book with Ellinor Michel, he tells us all about their history, their surprising influence and their uncertain future. Also, a lot of unashamed…
In the latest episode of the podcast, Marc, Natee and Niels finally answer the age-old question: Is the P silent in “pterosaurs”? (no, it isn’t) [Yes – it is. M]. The LITC crew discuss one of history’s most celebrated palaeoartists, the late Ely Kish, and her work for Dale Russell’s An Oddyssey in Time. Some of us are big fans, while others need some convincing… Jed Taylor discusses the trials and tribulations of the beginning palaeoartist whose work blew up…
Teylers Museum of Haarlem, the Netherlands, has been featured on the blog before, when Marc gave the place his warm-hearted recommendation. In this age, when so many museums in this country want to be full-on sensory experiences and as a result start to look more and more like theme parks, because heaven forbid the kids should get bored, Teylers increasingly seems like the last museum standing. Even now, the Teylers is a most agreeably old-fashined collection of quietly beautiful halls,…
So, do you think you can palaeoart? As a reader of this blog, it’s quite likely that you’ve had a pop at restoring a prehistoric animal on paper (or, these days, on a screen – damn kids) at some point in your life. Even if it was just a silly doodle in order to enter one of our superb competitions. But if you want to get serious about your palaeoart, there’s an awful lot to consider – both scientific details…
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