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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Dinosaurs to Dragons” by @shreevebooks.bsky.social is an interesting look into the possible real-world inspirations behind various mythical creatures. It’s certainly thought provoking, though I would take some of the suggestions with a grain of salt. dinodadreviews.com/2026/10/05/d...

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Dinosaurs to Dragons

A book about mythical creatures and their possible real-world inspirations.

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dinosaurs in watercolor #sciart

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's #fossilfriday! Here's a guy from HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY: Arthropleura, a (probably!) herbivorous millipede relative that roams the coal forests of Carboniferous Scotland. Survival Verdict: YES. It's got a nasty nip, but we feel if you get bit, you have it coming.

A large, flat green millipede of unusual size crawls through a Carboniferous swamp forest, with some tiny tetrapods crawling on its back. Art by Stieven Van Der Poorten, from HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

When I saw the Titanosaur exhibition at NHM London with friends, @dinomaster.bsky.social suggested I drew a Pudgy Patagotitan. I had a hard time pudgifying what is already _beyond_ pudgy, and could have pushed the exaggeration much further. I merely ended up with a short-legged titanosaur.

Ink drawing of a Patagotitan with, despite earnest attempts, only slightly exaggerated proportions, seen in side view, facing and walking towards the right. It has a gently silly expression at least.

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Evolution for Curious Kids” caught my eye when browsing at the bookstore recently, but I was ultimately somewhat disappointed with it. Read my thoughts on it here: dinodadreviews.com/2026/09/25/e...

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Evolution for Curious Kids

A somewhat disappointing book on evolution.

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Joanna Kobierska @joannakobierska.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It disgusts me that my artwork appeared in OpenAI add

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I visited The Lightroom’s “Prehistoric Planet” show with @himmapaan.bsky.social over the summer! It was a little pricey perhaps, but I rather liked it. 🦕🦖 dinodadreviews.com/2026/09/03/p...

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Prehistoric Planet: Discovering Dinosaurs

The immersive, 360 degree show presented by The Lightroom.

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Here’s my review of Speed Thief: Volume 2, featuring more of Sean Hennessy’s witty and scientifically informed dinosaur comics. 🦕📖🦖 dinodadreviews.com/2026/08/31/s...

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Speed Thief: Volume 2

More of Sean Hennessy’s entertaining dinosaur comics.

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I finally got around to writing about my experience at #DinoConUK this year! The kids and I had a good time. Check out my review here! @dinoconuk.bsky.social #DinoConUK2026 🦖🦕 dinodadreviews.com/2026/08/30/d...

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DinoCon 2026

The second year of the UK’s premier dinosaur-themed event!

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Said Hi to Fern the Diplodocus the other day!

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My latest review covers “Great Dinosaur Mistakes”, written by Dr. Adam Smith & @jonathanemmett.com, and illustrated by @stievenvdp.bsky.social. It’s a fun look at how our views on prehistoric creatures have changed over time! dinodadreviews.com/2026/07/10/g...

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Great Dinosaur Mistakes

See how our views of prehistoric life have changed overe time!

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I’ve reviewed @juliuscsotonyi.bsky.social and Evan Johnson-Random’s excellent book “Dinosaur World”. It catalogues every dinosaur yet discovered (at time of writing at least)! Check out my review here: dinodadreviews.com/2026/06/20/d...

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Dinosaur World

The ultimate roundup of every dinosaur known!

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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Cetacea

Digital Drawing. An early whale (Pakicetus) stands at the water's edge, bending down for a drink. Behind it is a wall of tall grasses/reeds. The entire scene is shown within the shape of a blue whale. Despite the vast gulf in form and time between the two animals, they are of the same group: Cetacea.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Plumadraco bankoorum - a new Creatceous bird

Early Cretaceous bohaiornithid enantiornithine bird

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Finished the current build of #Subnautica2; it definitely left me hanging! I guess that's the price of playing early access.

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

“Earth Clock” is a fun book on Deep Time that takes the classic analogy of mapping Earth’s history onto a 24 hour clock to help make sense of the vast units of time involved. dinodadreviews.com/2026/05/19/e...

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Earth Clock

The history of our planet in 24 hours.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My contribution to the fertility decline discourse is to note that there has never, in the millions of years that hominids have existed on this planet, been a sustained global population boom like we've seen in the past 300ish years. Why in god's name would you think that growth is sustainable?

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Stavros Svensson Kundromichalis @stavrossk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Late Miocene of Pikermi, #Greece. Ciconia gaudryi takes flight as an Amphimachairodus giganteus approaches the water. A pair of Acerorhinus neleus keep an eye on the cat whilst two Deinotherium proavum prepare for a bath. In the background, a herd of Cremohipparion mediterraneum #paleoart #sciart

Scene from the Late Miocene of Pikermi in Attica, Greece. A group of storks (Ciconia gaudryi) takes flight as an Amphimachairodus giganteus approaches the water’s edge to quench its thirst. A pair of hornless rhinocerotids (Acerorhinus neleus) keep a watchful eye on the big cat whilst two enormous Deinotherium proavum prepare for a bath. In the background, a herd of Cremohipparion mediterraneum can be seen.

A group of storks (Ciconia gaudryi) takes flight whilst an enormous Deinotherium proavum prepare for a bath.

An Amphimachairodus giganteus approaches the water’s edge to quench its thirst. A pair of hornless rhinocerotids (Acerorhinus neleus) keep a watchful eye on the big cat whilst two enormous Deinotherium proavum prepare for a bath. In the background, a herd of Cremohipparion mediterraneum can be seen.

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

My latest review covers Frederic Wierum’s “My Dinosaur Alphabet Coloring Book”. It’s a charming coloring book with two dinosaurs per letter of the alphabet. My son and I both enjoyed coloring it in! dinodadreviews.com/2026/05/14/m...

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My Dinosaur Alphabet Coloring Book

A delightful coloring book by paleoartist Frederic Wierum.

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Aw yes! It’s about time! I finally got my copy of #OtherWorlds: The Art of @alexries.com. I contributed to its Kickstarter quite a while ago, but the wait was worth it!

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Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I always see nonpartisan, righteous anger at public art. Everyone loves to hate a concrete blob bought with taxpayer money, what's it even meant to be etc. My hot take: art funding is good and there's no benign policy for keeping out 'bad' art. You really just gotta fund it until a good one happens

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I’m getting trained on the air scribe at the Perot museum today! I’m gonna be a volunteer fossil preparator. 😁 They have me working on an ammonite with no collection data so that if I make a mistake I don’t break anything important. 😅

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I wonder what whalefall communities survived on between the death of the great sea reptiles and the evolution of fully marine whales. Or did they just go extinct and have to re-evolve later?

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Here’s my review of Dean Lomax’s “An Anthology of Fossils”, a collection of profiles on various fossils throughout Earth’s history. I rather like it, though I might have been stricter with the chronological order of things. 🦴🦖🦕🦣 dinodadreviews.com/2026/03/27/a...

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An Anthology of Fossils

A collection of fossils both famous and obscure!

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twarda.bsky.social @twarda.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This isn't finished yet but looks so good?? It's like I bent the background making skill to my will. Ngl I'm sooo glad I crunched out that comic paleomedia recently. It snapped something in me and rearranged my neurons idk making backgrounds tastes differently now #art #gamedev #ZidJourney

A screen from the game showing the WIP background. Uncolored, only - unusually in my workflow - black and white elements marking the cell shading

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

My social media silence is not because I'm dead, kidnapped, or abducted by aliens; I'm working around the clock to make Book 7 all that it can be before submission later this month. Here's a new #paleoart take on Microraptor and Yuanchuavis to show what I'm up to. OK, break over: back to work...

Streaking through the sky like a bell-bottomed black-suited disco-ninja, the "four-winged" dinosaur Microraptor attempts to grab an early bird, the pintailed Yuanchuavis, from the Cretaceous sky with taloned feet. Fossils show that Microraptor had a diverse diet that included birds, alongside lizards and fish.

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Here’s my review of Netflix’s excellent documentary, #TheDinosaurs! I highly recommend giving it a watch. 🦕📺🦖 dinodadreviews.com/2026/03/12/t...

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The Dinosaurs (Netflix)

The excellent sequel series to “Life on Our Planet”.

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Something I haven’t seen discussed in regards to Netflix’s “The Dinosaurs”… I like that Morgan Freeman never utters the word “bird” in reference to avians. They are always just dinosaurs, which nicely emphasizes that that is what they are.

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I decided to stretch my brain a little and reviewed a German-language book on extinct animals. I remember less German than I care to admit, but I enjoyed the book anyway. 🦕🦖🦣🦤 dinodadreviews.com/2026/03/04/a...

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Ausgestorben

A German edition of a book on extinct animals.

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Curtis Lanaghan @clanaghan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

“Freshly made jam is a popular treat for all species and making large batches goes significantly faster when you have large friends to help.” #amargasaurus #dinosaur #paleoart

A woman carries a large tub of berries to make jam as an amargasaurus squishes them with its back foot

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

This is making the rounds uncredited once again, so... 🤷‍♀️

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Candy Corn Studios (SFW) 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇽 @candycornstudios.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I do’t care how “woke” Anthropic gets. I will never side with AI

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

For those who haven’t seen it yet, the award-winning documentary @whydinosaurs.bsky.social is now available free on YouTube! You should definitely watch it if you have the time. I’ve embedded the video in my review here. dinodadreviews.com/2026/02/19/w...

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Why Dinosaurs?

The highly-anticipated documentary by Tony and James Pinto!

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MarioBG navecitas go vwoom edition @mariobg.eurosky.social · 18/02/2026

genAI is dying repost to make it die faster

The Sunday Guardian headline: Big Tech Loses $1.3 Trillion in 2026 as AI Spending Fears Trigger Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia Stock Plunge—What’s Happening?
Follow-up says: Big Tech loses $1.3 trillion in 2026 as AI spending fears hit Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Apple and Alphabet. Investors demand profit visibility. TSMC, Samsung, Walmart gain.
The article is written by Prakriti Parul and was last updated yesterday morning.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

We're horseposting post your horses.

stylized, simple drawing of a horseshoe crab colored in yellow, green, and blue, with the name Tachypleus gigas in the corner

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

This is draft text, but putting these words into all my books from hereon: "I, Darren Naish, can confirm that AI was not used at any level nor in any capacity in the drafting, writing, editing or production of this book." It'll have to be in front or end matter but I'll make sure it gets included.

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

A not-so-encyclopedic encyclopedia of prehistoric life, that nonetheless has some interesting artwork. dinodadreviews.com/2026/02/14/d...

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Dinopedia: An Encyclopedia of Prehistoric Beasts

A colorful look at some prehistoric creatures.

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Reposting for International Women and Girls in Science Day, because Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska deserves more recognition! dinodadreviews.com/2026/02/01/d...

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Dinosaur Desert

All about the life and discoveries of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska!

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Minimalist Microraptor

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Gusya @angrygooseberry.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Dinosaurs 🦕

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Here’s a children’s book called “Tiny Dino”, in which a hummingbird attempts to convince its animal friends that it is indeed a dinosaur. It makes for a decent introduction to the concept of comparative anatomy! dinodadreviews.com/2026/02/09/t...

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Tiny Dino

A hummingbird attempts to convince its friends that it is a dinosaur.

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A children’s book about the life of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska? Yes please! Learn more about the discoveries of the Polish-Mongolian Expeditions with “Dinosaur Desert”! 🦕📖🦖 dinodadreviews.com/2026/02/01/d...

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Dinosaur Desert

All about the life and discoveries of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska!

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Dinoland USA sees its final day of operation today. I will definitely miss it. Here I am posing with @suethetrex.bsky.social during my visit in 2013.

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