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A teaser for our book, THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, written by Dr Dean Lomax, illustrated in colour by me, & published by Columbia University Press.

Each chapter helps to reveal a unique narrative of the grand cycle of life, based on extraordinary evidence of behaviours written in the rocks.

Out September 2025. Pre-order now!

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Fossils found in Japan have revealed that squids evolved 50 million years earlier than previously thought. It is hard to learn about cephalopods as they have soft bodies which don't fossilise very well. But using grinding tomography more has been learned, including the fact that they dominated the ancient seas.
cosmosmagazine.com/history/pal

fossils in rock
Cosmos · Fossils from Japan reveal squids evolved and dominated in dinosaur age seasA new technique for studying fossils revealed squids evolved more than 50 million years earlier than previously thought and dominated ancient seas.

"All good ships have appropriate names. Our ship was christened Diplodocus, with a picture of the beast painted on the side for our talisman - also as a lure for dinosaurs under the ground."

So wrote Barnum Brown in 1935, opening an article about using an airplane to survey the western USA for fossils.

I have mixed feelings about these old articles from the history of paleontology, but here it is:
archive.org/details/naturalhis

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#sauropodSaturday
#sauropods
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Internet ArchiveNatural History : American Museum of Natural History : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveThe magazine of the American Museum of Natural History, -v. 111, no. 7 (Sept. 2002)

The blood-curdling #Permian monsters that ruled the Earth before #dinosaurs.

The Permian, an obscure era of geological history where the planet was ruled by giant, bone-chilling beasts that ran with a characteristic waddle and sometimes snacked on sharks. During this living nightmare, there were occasionally more carnivores around than there were prey for them to eat on land.

bbc.com/future/article/2025062 #globalmuseum #fossils