FORGOTTEN GIANTS, #1: Puertasaurus
Ahoy there, dinosaur fans! After much anticipation and work, I am proud to announce the first installment of my new Sauropod reconstruction series:Forgotten Giants will focus exclusively on titanosaurs...
View ArticleSauropods and Storms
Greetings Paleo Fans! Last few weeks have been a bit slow, but the news of the eruption in Iceland and the insane economic collapse in Greece jolted just about everything I was thinking of... where was...
View ArticleThe Trilobites Have Landed!
It's been way too long, Paleo-fans. But I've finished my trilobite piece ;)Now I'm not strictly a trilobite fan. I'm more into extinct land vertebrates, mainly dinosaurs and synapsids. Not that I don't...
View ArticleThe "Archbishop" returns, in the first detailed restoration EVER!
.This is it. Put down that coffee and pause that youtube video! The mystery brachiosaur known as "specimen M23", a.k.a. "the Archbishop", is now drawn in a life restoration for the first time! Well...
View ArticleWhat Went Down in Pittsburgh! : SVP 2010 (Part 1)
Hello Paleo-fans! It's been a while, but here's the news: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) was excellent. I had been planning to go to to the October SVP convention in Pittsburgh for several...
View ArticleWhat Went Down in Pittsburgh : SVP 2010 (part 2)
Last time on What Went Down in Pittsburgh: ...the dark Rockies slowly moved into view.Wolfgang was Pucked. These gangly stick figures held no appeal for me...probably not Roethlisberger. He had been...
View ArticleGuess what? It's Draw a Dinosaur Day!
Well, I almost forgot to say that Draw a Dinosaur Day was on January 30th, but they are still taking submissions. Mad props to Trish over at ArtEvolved for getting the word out!You don't have to be a...
View ArticleFORGOTTEN GIANTS, #2: Argentinosaurus
It has been a LONG time, dino-fans. But after SVP 2010, its aftermath, writing and working on tons of other projects, I thought I'd show you all something that's already been making the rounds on...
View ArticleNew, strange, and HUGE titanosaurs!
While everyone's busy preparing for Europasaurus month and the International dinosaur illustration contest in Spain, here's a heads up on some new titanosaur discoveries.Traukutitan- a new midsize to...
View ArticleGreg Paul threatens legal smackdown!
Ok for those of you dino fans who haven't been keeping track of the Dinosaur Mailing List (and I don't blame you, because it's a pretty bland and downright primitive operation by modern internet...
View ArticleIs Paleo-Art Dead?!
I've been keeping track of the great Paleo-art debate on the Dinosaur Mailing List for a while now. It's generating a lot of buzz, and even my original blog post is getting some attention (and outside...
View ArticleAssertio Sacrametorum ars Paleontographica! . . . . . . . . . . . . . His...
April 11, 202 A.D. (After Darwin)The Vatican, ROME* - Today His Pauliness, Pope Gregory Paul I, expressed dismay that his recent inspired addresses to the world regarding the consistency and autocracy...
View ArticleExposing the Occult Alchemy of Paleo-illustration!
This will be hopefully my last post on the Greg Paul situation for now. It's also my repository for the distillation of a LOT of twisted and confused thoughts I've been having on this subject...
View ArticleThe Strange Journey of David Peters
Well some of you might already know this, but David Peters is back!That's right, the paleoartist whose pterosaur faux-pas and downright bizarre illustrations backfired on him and made him a...
View ArticleThe new look - what are your thoughts?
This is pretty off-topic but short. As most of you probably noticed, I have changed the look of this blog pretty recently. I was getting tired of the old basic look and some people were claiming that...
View ArticleBranding and logos: what we SHOULD take away from the Paul drama
This is intended as something like a capstone to the whole Greg Paul topic. But beyond the recent words of Greg Paul, there is the greater issue of artist branding and what exactly is intellectual...
View ArticleSauropod Necks - for high browsing, low grazing, or just sex?
Recently there's been a huge re-ignition of the sauropod neck debate. Originally it was a debate between whether sauropod necks were normally held vertical for high browsing, or horizontal for low...
View ArticleFinally, an ACTUAL commercial Greg Paul ripoff.
We've heard of them, we've wondered about them, we've so far been mostly unable to find them.... like Bigfoot it seems they just melt away into nothingness as soon as you seem to be onto their trail....
View Article15 "biggest" dinosaurs you've never heard of!
Just got back from SVP, but before I post on what happened in Vegas, here's something dino-related I've been planning to put up for a while now. Let's admit it. We all want to know which one was the...
View ArticleThe Giant that Never Was: All your Bruhathkayosaurus questions answered!
Happy New Year, everyone! A lot of new dinosaur discoveries in 2011, and 2012 promises to be even better. BHI's dueling dinosaurs (a large Nanotyrannus and a previously unknown chasmosaurine...
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