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First screening today of the amazing WHY DINOSAURS? film documentary in London. Details of other screenings and tickets here: whydinosaurs.com/watch
Have a fantastic time! Everything Dinosaur Dr Dean Lomax Crystal Palace Dinos

If you are going, we would love to see some pics!

Æthelflæd🌻 BBC Archive Darren Naish Not sure it’s massively helpful but the Genome project of historical tv listing has it too. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c698c6a6903645…. Notably it was produced by the amazing Molly Cox- an incredible pioneering broadcaster, engineer, and producer.

Saddened to hear of the death of author, painter, and naturalist Richard Ellis at age 83. Long a fan of his work, I was immensely proud when he contacted me in 2002 to dicuss my work on mosasaur biostratigraphy, which he discussed in Sea Dragons.

#AnimalFigureOfTheDay ... so we're done on allosauroids for now, but what about other theropods? Oh boy. Let's start with Cryolophosaurus, and this execrable #Schleich 2019 one. God it's bad. No redeeming features but I feel duty bound to say it has a mobile jaw. #dinosaurs

Just hearing (initially from Markus Bühler (Bestiarium-Blog)) that Richard Ellis has died, aged 86. I'll write longer thoughts, but he had a massive impact on me, loved his books and art, corresponded since late 90s and helped him with his sea reptiles book.

RIP to Richard Ellis, author of Monsters of the Sea, a book which greatly helped inspire me to create TONMO, which happens to be celebrating its 24th anniversary tomorrow, May 30th. Ellis also authored The Search for the Giant Squid, Sea Dragons, and created accompanying artwork

I am very sorry to hear that Richard Ellis has passed away. His books, especially the one about giant squids and those about other marine animals, are still among the best books in their genre.

For those curious, we know it is in fact a distinct species (rather than some mutant) because bone material inside the specimen contains usable dna, which has been sequenced and put in a phylogeny, showing to be distinct but CLOSELY related to both Leachianus and Chahoua geckos

Hot on the heels of the Giant Hummer paper in PNAS, another big-hitting bird speciation story appears, this time gracing the cover of Science. Langmore et al. show that coevolution between parasitic cuckoos and their hosts may drive sympatric speciation. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Just a reminder to sign up and join us on Sunday to learn more about the Fellowship and have the opportunity to ask any questions.

Head to buff.ly/3X1PY5v to register your interest.

EDGE Fellowship 2025 Webinar Sunday 2nd of June at 4pm India (UTC +0530).

Darren Naish Oliver D. Smith I made a video about this awhile back. It was definitely archived at the BBC somewhere (they used a short clip from it in a promotional video about 12ish years ago) but there seem to be no plans to release it

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One of the things I've discussed with David Attenborough is his 1970s TV series Fabulous Animals (he signed the book - co-authored with Molly Cox - for me). But what happened to the series? He didn't know. I don't know. Does anyone know? It seems to be lost media.

Darren Naish ...and a few more.

Darren Naish Since we are sharing bookshelves😀

Darren Naish’s “Ancient Sea Reptiles” is, without any doubt, THE book to have if you’re interested in fossil marine reptiles. Cutting edge artwork and science combine with Darren’s immensely readable text to create a volume that will remain relevant for years and years to come.

Scott Hartman Darren Naish I forgot I had that Czerkas book until now. IIRC it had a lot of photos of the Carnotaurus fossil in the slab because of a section on their sculpture reconstruction

Darren Naish A lot of nostalgia-triggering titles there. Dinosaur Systematics was the first technical book I bought (at my first SVP in Seattle) and I read it cover to cover my freshman year of college. Obviously I was the life of all the parties I attended...

We have a single specimen of the largest gecko ever and there is not one record of anyone ever seeing these things alive or anything about them in life. They are and forever will be a mystery to us.

Some mostly dinosaur-themed book shelves here. #books #dinosaurs