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Old drawings (of heads)
I was organizing my files in DropBox and I found a folder of old drawings I’d almost forgotten about. I drew this back in the late 90s. It was used on a t-shirt by the OU Zoology Department. I got the...
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Valley of the Mastodons is coming at the Western Science Center in Hemet,...
(c) Brian Engh and the Western Science Center Quick hit here: all this week there are mastodon-themed events going on at the Western Science Center in Hemet, including talks from paleontologists and an...
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Xenoposeidon: the crucial importance of 3D models
In writing the recent preprint “Xenoposeidon is the earliest known rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur” (Taylor 2017), it was invaluable to have a 3D model of the Xenoposeidon vertebra available. Here’s a...
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Promo pandemonium: Prehistoric Times, Mark Hallett calendar, public talks,...
Here’s a bunch of cool stuff that is either available now or happening soon: Sauropod Dinosaurs book excerpt in Prehistoric Times Been on the fence about the sauropod book Mark Hallett and I wrote? Now...
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Listen to Mark Hallett and Matt Wedel on the I Know Dino podcast
Hey sports fans, as the year winds down I bring you another podcast appearance. This time out I’m rolling with Mark Hallett, and we’re talking about sauropods through the lens of our...
View ArticleTutorial 17: preparing illustrations. Part 4: go big
Matt just commented to me: “One thing I am realizing is that I have loads(*) of cleaned-up, ready-to-post photos in old talks, that I’ve never posted.” I too have that experience. The problem is, they...
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The New Dinosaur Dictionary, Mark Hallett, and the best Christmas present ever
When I was nine, a copy of Don Glut’s The New Dinosaur Dictionary turned up in my local Waldenbooks. It wasn’t my first dinosaur book, by far – I’d been a dinosaurophile since the age of three. But...
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Brontosmash: The Field Trip (the teaser)
This past weekend I was camping up the coast at Hearst San Simeon State Park, with my son, London, and Brian Engh. We went to see the elephant seal colony at Piedras Blancas. It was my first time...
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What it’s like to watch a Hugo-winning artist draw your dinosaur
So, here’s a cool thing that happened at Norwescon. On Saturday afternoon, there was an autograph signing session. Probably to the surprise of no-one, a lot more people were interested in having...
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In quest of monsters – last week’s Utah adventure
Last Wednesday, May 9, Brian Engh and I bombed out to Utah for a few days of paleo adventures. Here are some highlights from our trip. We started at a Triassic tracksite on Thursday. But I’m not going...
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Another Utah trip, and Aquilops on display at Dinosaur Journey
I was back in Utah the week before last, looking for monsters with Brian Engh and Jessie Atterholt. It was a successful hunt – more about that another time. We made a run to Fruita, Colorado, to visit...
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You have been summoned! Announcing the SummonENGH 2018 Paleoart Contest
My good friend, frequent collaborator, and fellow adventurer Brian Engh has won the John J. Lanzendorf Paleoart Prize for 2D paleoart (there are also categories for 3D paleoart and scientific...
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You have been BEATEN!! Announcing the SummonENGH 2018 Paleoart Contest winner!
Well, that didn’t take long. Earlier today, my subterranean hacker collective released thousands of emails exchanged by Mike Taylor and Brian Engh, which touched on numerous issues of national and...
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Fiona’s talk on documentary music at TetZooCon 2018
Last night, Fiona and I got back from an exhausting but very satisfying weekend spent at TetZooCon 2018, the conference of the famous Tetrapod Zoology blog run by Darren Naish — the sleeping third...
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#MikeTaylorAwesomeDinoArt at TetZooCon 2018
The afternoon of Day 1 at TetZooCon 2018 was split into two parallel streams: downstairs, some talks that I would have loved to see; and upstairs, a palaeoart workshop that I was even keener not to...
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Mike Taylor interview by Szymon Górnicki
A while back — near the start of the year, in fact — Szymon Górnicki interviewed me by email about palaeontology, alternative career paths, open access, palaeoart, PeerJ, scholarly infrastructure, the...
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Please welcome Mirarce eatoni
Skeletal reconstruction of Mirarce by Scott Hartman (Atterholt et al. 2018: fig. 19). Recovered bones in white, missing bones in gray. The humerus is 95.9mm long. Today sees the publication of the...
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Lydekker’s (1893) illustration of Xenoposeidon
Matt’s drawn my attention to a bizarre fact: despite 17 separate posts about Xenoposeidon on this blog (linked from here and here), we’ve never shown a decent scan of Lydekker’s (1893) original...
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Aquilops skull, take 3
Nothing really new here, not like a new skull recon or anything. The original version I did for Farke et al. (2014) had the jaw articulated and closed. Then in 2017 I posted a version with the lower...
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Bone cancer in a Triassic stem turtle
Cool new paper out today by Yara Haridy and colleagues, describing the oldest known osteosarcoma in the vertebrate fossil record. The growth in question is on the proximal femur of the Triassic stem...
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