#dinosaurs

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This week's at the library:
- A second-hand copy of The Desert Bones: The and Paleoecology of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa by Jamale Ijouiher from Indiana University Press
- The just-published H. P. Collected Fiction Volume 3, the final of three annotated collections by S. T. Joshi from Chiroptera Press
- Following on from my review of Lechuguilla Cave, I found the earlier photographic book Lechuguilla: Jewel of the Underground by Urs Widmer from Speleo Projects for a very reasonable price on eBay.

@bookstodon

New review: The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs turns heads with its beautiful presentation and its selection of remarkable fossils, improving on the concept introduced in Lomax's previous book.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/11/12/book-review-the-secret-lives-of-dinosaurs-unearthing-the-real-behaviors-of-prehistoric-animals/

@BobNicholls @bookstodon@a.gup.pe

New review: A mouth-watering and remarkably diverse collection of the very best of current palaeoart, Mesozoic Art II takes all the winning qualities of the first volume to give us, yes please, *more* of the same.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/09/24/book-review-mesozoic-art-ii-dinosaurs-and-other-ancient-animals-in-art/

@bookstodon@a.gup.pe @TetZoo @WryCritic @gaelleseguillon @HimaRudolf @BobNicholls

The Inquisitive Biologist turns 8! Here's the latest review...

How would life have evolved had the dinosaurs survived? This facsimile reprint of Dougal Dixon's second classic work of speculative zoology imagines the answer and remains as captivating and entertaining as it was in 1988.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/09/19/book-review-the-new-dinosaurs-an-alternative-evolution/

@bookstodon

This week's at the library: I contributed to the very successful Kickstarter campaign of the and received my copy this week (@goodomens_hq). A gorgeous book with a lush slipcase, illustrated by @ColleenDoran. I also adopted a damaged copy The Biology and Ecology of Streams and Rivers from Oxford University Press, and bought a former library copy of a hardback of Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia, Supplement 4 from McFarland.

@bookstodon

THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS is out NEXT month!

We’ve been busy organising a book tour that will include talks & signings across the UK, USA, Canada, & Europe. The first will be at the wonderful Oxford University Museum of Natural History on Friday, 10 October 2025. I hope you can join us at one of these events – more details soon.

This week at the library: No new books; instead, I took two huge piles of books to and got them ALL signed (thanks @TetZoo and @markwitton for humouring me rocking up with a stack of your books). Overall, an excellent convention on which I will have more to say soon.

And yes, that is the just-published rerelease of Dougal Dixon's The New Dinosaurs from Breakdown Press! Keep your eyes peeled for a review in the near future.

@bookstodon @princetonupress

This is very well done, like the rest of the episodes. Great , impeccable —or history of paleontology, in this case—and a story about predator-prey conflict that doesn't end the way you expect. I recommend the entire series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH57rtnKCEM

The Crystal Palace don't look like anything that's ever lived on Earth, but they do look like something that *could* have lived. In retrospect, they're a lot more believable than the upright tail-draggers that dominated for most of the following century! So it's good to see them brought to life, even briefly. Somewhere in the ...