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An Adventurer's Guide to the Dinosaurs of Paradise: Two New Dinosaurs!

First off, two new inductees to Victor’s Dinosaur Army Roll of Honor: Brooks Powell and Nan Silvernail. Thanks for boosting the book, kids!

Now: more dinosaurs!

Fatty:

Protoceratops andrewsi

This tubby critter is the analogue to pigs and sheep (no wool-gathering on Paradise, kiddies!) The Wikipedia entry describes them as a little bigger than I remembered: 6 feet [...]

The Dinosaur Lords - An Adventurer's Guide to the Dinosaurs of Paradise

Today we launch a new feature: An Adventurer’s Guide to the Dinosaurs of Paradise – a supplement to the free preview of my epic fantasy novel, THE DINOSAUR LORDS.

The world gets a little hornier

Two new horn-faced, plant-eating dinosaurs discovered! And one has the Geekiest Name Ever.

Marvelous new critters for my fantasy novel!

So today Sara sent me a link to The Top 10 Weirdest Dinosaurs! One of them was Jeholopterus, a weird beakless flier I’d never heard of. That in turn led me to -

Cute little spud, ain't he?

- this little guy. His name’s Anurognathus. As you can see, he was a sparrow-sized, [...]

Tiny Terror of the Cretaceous!

Scientists, those scamps, have turned up the smallest known predatory dinosaur in Canada.

Aww, aren't they cute li'l flesh-rending terrors?

Meet Hesperonychus elizabethae. At around two and a half pounds they’re half the size of your cat. Wait, that can’t be right, although I read it on some news service. A quarter-cat, say. Or less if [...]

Omnivorous dinosaur is supposed missing link

An Argentinian paleontologist, Oscar Alcober, claims an omnivorous dinosaur whose fossils he and an associate turned up three years ago constitutes a “missing link between carnivorous dinosaurs and giant four-footed herbivores.”

Not pictured: anyone who ever ate his veggies

I was frankly unaware that any link between carnosaurs and the big plant-eaters had [...]

Now this is awesome!

I love this kind of stuff: in 1999, a 16-year old kid named Tyler Lyson found a fossilized hadrosaur of the kind called Edmontosaurus in Hell Creek, North Dakota. (How great a name is Hell Creek, anyway?)

To start with, you go, Tyler! But it gets better. Turns out the fossil includes not [...]

“Tyrannosaurus rex … could have chased down David Beckham”

And I’d pay to see it!

No, not this video of a computer-simulated race. Who cares about that?

What I’d pay to see is a video of a T. rex actually running down and devouring an overpaid, has-been Brit soccer star. And I’d like the screen to then switch to his wife, Ubiquitous Spice or [...]

Epiphany: High Concept

(I’m tickled by the subject line because it sounds like the title of an anime. OK, that’s probably just me. Again.)

The Dinosaur Lords has gone on the back burner – also again, sigh – as I strive heroically to wrap up Annja’s latest adventure so I can get started on the new one. [...]

Reading, with dinosaurs

Yes, dinosaurs. As in, I make toy dinosaurs fight.

How can you possibly resist?

If you should happen to find yourself at NASFiC/Archon on Thursday afternoon, August 2, at 4:00 PM, clearly you can’t.

I’ll be reading from my finally-nearing-completion-dammit high fantasy epic novel The Dinosaur Lords. The excerpts I read at the Albuquerque Science [...]