In recent years, with the discovery of fossils in both the arctic regions (mostly Alaska) and the Antarctic, we’ve seen more paintings and videos about dinosaurs adapting to winter with white or almost white feather plumage. So far the dinosaur toy manufacturers have only offered warm weather dinosaur toys and models. When a March snowstorm […]
A big bull leads a family of triceratops on the summer migration. (Various manufacturers, mostly dollar store, repainted)
An adult stegosaurus and her young in a Jurassic landscape. (generic toy store models)
Late Jurassic Late Cretacious
The last day in the life of a Pachyrhinosaurus. The Pachyrhinosaurus is probably my favourite among the Ceratopsidae, even though it may not seem as attractive as triceratops or Styracosaurus. That’s because back in 1990, I covered the announcement of the discovery of the Pachyrhinosaurus bone bed near Grand Prairie Alberta in what is called […]
Photographs of a pair of toy microraptors, one from PNSO and the second Zabwaka Figurka. The microraptor was a unique four winged dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the early Cretaceous, related to later larger Dromaeosauridae like the movie favourite Velociraptor. The microraptors were abundant in the period 125 to 120 million years ago. Examination of the fossils […]
A Dinosaur World velociraptor in a rain storm.
A dollar store protoceratops
In the 1950s, the Louis Marx toy company based its toy hadrosaur on one of Charles R. Knight’s first dinosaur images for the American Museum of Natural History, painted in 1897. The toy looks nothing like our modern understanding of the hadrosaur, although the image was still prevelant as late as the 1950s. Knight created […]