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BRONTOSMASH! in a kids’ book
Thanks to a comment from long-time reader Andrew Stuck, I realised he is also the tweeter @dinodadreviews, who pointed us to Xenoposeidon in a kids’ book. Now, a review on his website of Ted Rechlin‘s...
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Hello, ladies!
To my shock, I find that we seem never to have posted Bob Nicholls’ beautiful sketch Hello, ladies! on SV-POW!. His recent tweet reminded me about this piece, so here it is! Like so many classic...
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Zdeněk Burian at decent resolution
Next to Charles Knight, the Czech painter Zdeněk Burian was arguably the most influential and important of the early palaeoartists. His dinosaurs tend to have a stately quality that’s very much at odds...
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My sauroponderous birthday card from Brian Engh
Okay, so here on the Best Coast it’s not technically my birthday for another 3 hours, but SV-POW! runs on England time, and at the SV-POW! global headquarters bunker it’s already June 3. Oh, and...
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James Herrmann’s Aquilops bust
You may recall that sculptor James Herrmann did a life-size bronze of Aquilops (shown above) back in 2017. I love it, and I’d get one in a heartbeat if I had the disposable income or the space in...
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James Herrmann’s dinosaur sculptures for the Cincinnati Museum Center
This is a Galeamopus, roughly two feet long, sculpted by James Herrmann (who also made the life-size Aquilops sculpture and bust) for the Cincinnati Museum Center. Here’s what it looks like on the...
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Steve White’s impressionist BRONTOSMASH!
Darren Naish, the silent third partner in SV-POW!, alerted me to this piece by palaeoartist Steve White: In his own words, this piece is “Not what I set to do but was an interesting excercise”. I for...
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Parasaurolophus sculpture by Brian Engh
This past summer I did a post on my birthday card from Brian Engh, but I haven’t posted about my birthday present from him: this handmade fired-clay sculpture of Parasaurolophus. I don’t have a ton to...
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The Day of the Dinosaur, and the legend of the regrown sauropod tail
Two professionals, hard at work. After this year’s SVPCA, Vicki and London and I spent a few days with the Taylor family in the lovely village of Ruardean. It wasn’t all faffing about with the...
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The Snowmass Haplocanthosaurus project is now a museum exhibit
A life-size silhouette of the Snowmass Haplocanthosaurus, with Thierra Nalley, me, and Jessie Atterholt for scale. Photo by Jeremiah Scott. Tiny Titan, a temporary exhibit about the Snowmass...
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Welcome…to Jurassic Reimagined
Over the past few years I’ve dropped hints here and there about the work I’ve been doing in the Morrison Formation of Utah with Brian Engh, John Foster, ReBecca Hunt-Foster, Jessie Atterholt, and...
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A Haplocanthosaurus in the Salt Wash
If you’re thinking that it’s about time to look at some sauropod vertebrae from the Salt Wash member of the Morrison Formation, well, you’re gol-durned right, pardner. Let’s ride. Here’s a vertebra...
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At last it can be told: we found a big Brachiosaurus in the Salt Wash
FHPR 17108, a right humerus of Brachiosaurus, with Wes Bartlett and his Clydesdale Molly for scale. Original paleoart by Brian Engh. Last May I was out in the Salt Wash member of the Morrison Formation...
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Matt’s Brachiosaurus in the wild
No, not his new Brachiosaurus humerus — his photograph of the Chicago Brachiosaurus mount, which he cut out and cleaned up seven years ago: This image has been on quite a journey. Since Matt published...
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Apatosaurine cervicals of the ancient Maya civilisation
Our old sparring partner Cary Woodruff is a big fan of Monarobot, a Mexican artist who does all of her pieces in a Maya artistic style. So he commissioned this piece: Anyone can tell that this is an...
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Stevens & Parrish 1999 vs. Taylor et al. 2009
Credit: anonymous tattoo, Grant Harding for the caption. Update. Here is the Instagram post that Grant got this from. Unfortunately it seems to be from an account that specialises in reposting others’...
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The Dilophosaurus redescription by Marsh and Rowe is now freely available
The new monster redescription of Dilophosaurus by Adam Marsh and Tim Rowe came out in the Journal of Paleontology last week. I’m blogging about it now because the OA link just went live yesterday. So...
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John Conway’s BRONTOSMASH!
As John himsef admits in the tweet that announced this picture, it’s five years late … but I am prepared to forgive that because IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO BRONTOSMASH! As always, John’s art is not just...
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Saltapotamus, meet Obesethocoelicaudia
This just in from John Conway: John doesn’t say much about it in the tweet where he unveiled this piece: just “A new #painting, of a Saltapotamus”. His website is just a little more forthcoming:...
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You! Shall not! Pass!
OK, technically this is MB.R.3822, a dorsal vertebra of Giraffatitan brancai formerly known as HMN Ar1, in posterior view, rendered from a 3D scan provided by Heinrich Mallison. But you can’t tell me...
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