Category Archives: Dinosaurs

Ubirajara, the controversy rages on.

Posted on 27/12/2020 by luisvrey

At the moment these pictures were happening, I couldn’t post them for obvious reasons… this is Hector “Splintersaurus” Munive and Dahlia Castillo working on the first-ever model of Ubirajara, the strange, protofeathered and exotically ornate Sinosauropteryx-like theropod from Brazil I … Continue reading →

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Bajadasaurus…where extremes reach a tipping point!

Posted on 26/02/2019 by luisvrey

Dinosaurs continue to be the source of amazement beyond all expectations. Now is the turn of sauropods, with the newly described South American dicraeosaurid Bajadasaurus. If you thought that the elongated cervical spines along the neck of Amargasaurus were a … Continue reading →

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Dinosaurios Hechos En Mexico. Monterrey and beyond. Our latest Dinosaur Saga.

Posted on 29/10/2018 by luisvrey

  When the “Dinosaurios Hechos En Mexico”  exhibition at the Planetario Alfa opened  a few months ago I was impressed by  the pictures, even if I couldn’t be at the opening. I knew that between Peter Norton‘s Gondwana Studios and myself … Continue reading →

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Dinosaurios Hechos En México opens in Monterrey (Part 2)… now for real!

Posted on 14/03/2018 by luisvrey

7500 visitors in two days can’t be wrong… ! After the preview in my last blog,  we have had the opening of Dinosaurios Hechos En México. As this little photo tour shows,  I think Planetario Alfa and Gondwana Studios have … Continue reading →

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Dinosaur Families Opens in Copenhagen…

Posted on 05/02/2018 by luisvrey

It took two years of brainstorming… And finally they they did it!  Copenhagen is the new site for a fabulous new version of Hatching the Past: http://video.ku.dk/dinosaurfamilier. The Danish team from the National Museum of Natural History  have worked very … Continue reading →

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Swerving across the path of controversy… Sinosauropteryx and Yi Qi.

Posted on 16/01/2018 by luisvrey

While we know a lot about Sinosauropteryx, to ‘almost’ even the level of colouration, we don’t know enough about Yi qi, the famous bat-like feathered dinosaur… its remains are not well enough preserved to be certain of many details like the … Continue reading →

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An Impaling Down Jurassic Fern Fields.

Posted on 10/11/2017 by luisvrey

Imagine yourself walking quietly searching for prey on a field of ferns in the middle of a Jurassic tropical forest. You have good colour vision to spot any unusual coloration in the sea of greens. You discover some  structures raising … Continue reading →

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Tyrannosaurus rex in Mexico?

Posted on 20/01/2017 by luisvrey

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 12/07/2016 by luisvrey

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 19/06/2016 by luisvrey

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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