Category Archives: Dinosaurs

Tyrannosaurus rex in Mexico?

Posted on January 20, 2017 by

Coastal Laramidia ( Late Cretaceous).  A couple of T. exes are feasting from a “Sabinosaurio” carcass, while several azdharxhids queue for their turn… Impossible? Not according to Dr.  Claudia Serrano Brañas  that after reading my comments in the previous blog about … Continue reading →

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Cretaceous México: Magnapaulia.

Posted on July 12, 2016 by

More than a  decade ago I was at the entrails of  the Instituto de Geologia Museum in Mexico City and René Hernández was laying on my lap an enormous and very heavy femur head of a gigantic hadrosaur. The  size was so … Continue reading →

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Cretaceous Mexico… the saga continues!

Posted on June 19, 2016 by

The mid-sized, 6 meter long hadrosaur Velafrons  attacked by a group of indeterminate dromeosaurs … Velafrons is one of the most complete lamboeosaurine hadrosaurs at the level of fossil remains in Mexico. As stated in the previous post, even if fragmentary the Mexican paleo … Continue reading →

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London’s Best Kept “Secret” Dinoexhibit Is About To Be Unveiled!

Posted on February 5, 2016 by

It’s finally here… and I have followed Peter Norton step by step build-up of Hatching The Past for the first time in London, at the Horniman Museum in South London and this time under the name of  “Dinosaurs Monster Families“ As usual, … Continue reading →

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Dinosaurs Take Flight opens at last!

Posted on December 1, 2015 by

There exhibition many of us were waiting for since last year is finally opening at the Kenosha Public Museum! It is a dazzling design by Nick Regester and Alanna Magovern dedicated exclusively to artwork representing Archaeopteryx and its dramatic development and … Continue reading →

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Nanotyrannus… is it or is it not?

Posted on July 28, 2015 by

Nanotyrannus  was considered  as a different tyrannosaur species right from its discovery (especially by Robert Bakker). However, soon his status started to oscillate between different tyrannosaur and  a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex. This has always been a source of  hot debate. We have had … Continue reading →

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Yi. Things will never be the same again (and again)!

Posted on May 7, 2015 by

When I started to get serious about the Dinosaur Renaissance  many years ago, I never dreamed that it will take me this far. If the speed of change of the image of the Dinosauria has been dazzling… what can I … Continue reading →

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