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