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Podcast Show Notes: Episode 43 – Long Live DinoCon!

Conference Podcast Show Notes September 23, 2025

It’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,…

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 42 – Talking Walking With Dinosaurs 2025

Podcast Show Notes July 9, 2025

Episode 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…

Walking With Dinosaurs 2025: Marc’s review

TV review June 2, 2025

Back in the seemingly long-vanished and quasi-mythical past of…2019, I wrote an article reflecting on the original Walking With Dinosaurs, two decades on from its debut. At the time we were still awaiting an obvious successor; while a number of series had featured computer-generated dinosaurs in the interim, none had matched the grandeur, ambition, confidence, and verve of WWD. Well, we now do have a worthy successor…and it’s Prehistoric Planet. Meanwhile, the WWD name has been attached to various projects, including a stage show (which…

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 41 – A Salute to Sovák

Podcast Show Notes May 30, 2025

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…

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 38 – Thomas Thiemeyer and the Triceratops Herd

Podcast Show Notes February 26, 2025

After months of technical mishaps, we finally managed to get the podcast back up and running! Marc, Gemma and Natee start off by having a little moan about terrible dinosaur movies before moving into a fun German book Gemma found at a school! We got some typical late 80s fare, with some very unusual depictions of dinosaurs… Then, Gemma and Marc interview Yasmin Grooters, head of the dinosaur lab at Naturalis Leiden, who recently finished work on a whole herd…

Walking With Dinosaurs, 20 years on

TV review October 11, 2019

In the beginning, there was Jurassic Park. Well, OK, that wasn’t the beginning; Jurassic Park was actually just one in a long line of movies that attempted to trick audiences into believing they were seeing living (non-avian) dinosaurs on the big screen. But as everyone knows, it did so in a way that no film had ever managed before. Much of that was due to advances in special effects technology, of course, but there was also a concerted attempt to…