Reblog via Jonathan Emmett Just took a peek at my reader reviews on Amazon and came across these two for #ThePlesiosaursNeck one from the US, one from the UK, which put a smile on my face. 🙂
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Reblog via Adam S. Smith "David Attenborough film tells of risky mission to excavate ‘T rex of the seas’ from Dorset cliff": https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/dec/09/david-attenborough-film-tells-of-risky-mission-to-excavate-t-rex-of-the-seas-from-dorset-cliff Wow. Now, that's a rather impressive pliosaur skull! Possibly the best ever found in the UK I would think. #plesiosaur #plesiosaurs #pliosaur #pliosaurs #MarineReptiles #fossil #skull #Attenborough

Reblog via Adam S. Smith Oh my, what big eyes you have! The orbital openings of the plesiosaur Ophthalmothule make up a massive 29% of its skull length. The orbits are the big grey ovals in this illustration. What a googly-eyed creature it must've been in life. The full paper describing Ophthalmothule by Roberts et …

Reblog via Adam S. Smith "…a real winner of a book… a brilliant addition to any bookshelf! " Another review of 'The Tyrannosaur's Feathers', this time on Through the Bookshelf: https://www.throughthebookshelf.com/reviews/nnfn2023-the-tyrannosaurs-feathers The Tyrannosaur's Feathers is a non-fiction children's picture book by @JonathanEmmett and me, illustrated by @Stieven, and published by UCLan Publishing. If you know …

Reblog via Adam S. Smith New open access paper on 'The rise of macropredatory pliosaurids near the Early-Middle Jurassic transition' establishes a new genus of pliosaur, Lorrainosaurus:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-43015-y Congratulations @dinosven and team!

The Tyrannosaur’s Feathers book – out now!

Today is the official publication day for my new children’s picture book The Tyrannosaur’s Feathers. As previously announced on this blog, the book was co-written with Jonathan Emmett, illustrated by Stieven Van der Poorten, and published by UCLan Publishing. We are all so happy with how it has turned out. Tyrannosaurus rex is the main star of …

The Stewartby Pliosaur and the 1967 Liopleurodon reconstruction

Newman and Tarlo (1967) In 1967, Barney Newman and Lambert Beverley Tarlo authored a three-page short article in the popular magazine ‘Animals’, a short-lived periodical published weekly by Purnell from 1963 to, at least, 1967… I’m not sure when it eventually fizzled out. Their article entitled “A Giant Marine Reptile From Bedfordshire” provides an account of plesiosaur …