Book review: Sticks ‘N’ Stones ‘N’ Dinosaur Bones

"I'll tell you a story -- and some of it's true -- that explores and explains what the Bone-Hunters do." You're probably already familiar with the Bone Wars, or the Great Dinosaur Rush, but you won't have seen this real-life rivalry between two prolific 19th century palaeontologists portrayed quite like this before.…

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Book review: Plesiosaur Peril by Daniel Loxton

In Plesiosaur Peril, author Daniel Loxton plunges us into the Jurassic ocean, to recount a day in the life of a baby Cryptoclidus. The book is the third in Loxton's 'Tales of Prehistoric Life' series, which includes the stories Ankylosaur Attack and Pterosaur Troubles. In this short children's story we follow a juvenile Cryptoclidus…

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New plesiosaurs, lots of new plesiosaurs!

There was a time when I'd leap into tippy-tappy action at the first sniff of a newly named plesiosaur. Unfortunately, I haven't been keeping Plesiosaur Bites up to date and a few new taxa have passed me by. Of course, when I say "a few", what I really mean is we are…

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‘Sea Monsters – Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep’ book review

I recently read and reviewed Mike Everhart’s new book for the online Journal Palaeontologica Electronica, I reproduce it here: Sea Monsters - Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep, is the official companion to the recently released IMAX movie of the same name. As Everhart explains in the preface to this book (and in…

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