Graham Rosewarne was an artist whose work greatly elevated my beloved Dinosaurs! magazine (published by Orbis in the 1990s), alongside that by the likes of Jim Robins and Steve White. Unfortunately, books featuring work of his that isn’t just recycled from Dinosaurs! can be a little difficult to come by. I was therefore quite pleased to happen upon The Reign of the Reptiles in The Warehouse Antiques & Collectables while over in Norfolk (a shop we definitely didn’t just visit because it’s adjoined…
pigeons
Why don’t we see any four-winged feathered dinosaurs, these days? Time was, not so many hundreds of millions of years ago, that various theropods sported quite well-developed vaned feathers not just on their forelimbs, but on their hind limbs as well. The most famous, and perhaps most flamboyant of these animals (that we know of) was Microraptor, a small four-winged dromaeosaur known from fossils that, even given their tiny size by dinosaur standards, are among the most spectacular ever found.…




