Dr Dave Hone

I have a new paper out today with Rene and Bruce Lauer with a description of some new and incredibly well-preserved pterosaur soft tissues, including scales from the hands! archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/n...

With the trailers for both #WalkingWithDinosaurs and #JurassicWorld Rebirth apparently showing swimming Spinosaurus, I thought it might be time to go over why I think these animals were not good swimmers. After all, it's something I've written a fair bit about (with @arctomet.bsky.social) 1/many

This afternoon's job is proofing Spinosaur Tales. It should be out in November in the UK, and North America in Feb 2026. Chock full of illustrations by @markwitton.bsky.social and I even graciously allowed him to write some of the text too.

I'm pretty confident that certain online people are going to be cheering about how they were right all along on Nanotyrannus. Their take will be that they were right all along and their arguments, based on private specimens of uncertain provenance, photos of things without scale bars, and ideas...

Nanotyrannus, schmannotyrannus.

If you want a preview of Spinosaur Tales, here's a quick video of me opening up my first copies. youtube.com/shorts/fhbXO...

Pre-book promo podcast episode on Spinosaurus recorded with @markwitton.bsky.social terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s11e10-spino...

For this #FossilFriday, it's unsurprisingly Spinosaurus as I gear up to the publication of my new book with @markwitton.bsky.social on this most controversial of dinosaurs and the other spinosaurs. It's out in just a couple of weeks (in the UK, Jan 2026 elsewhere).

I was trying to find an old interview I did and came across this AI monstrosity. Worth skimming through for some of the most abysmal representations of paleontology you are ever likely to encounter. The resources that were wasted to make something this bad is awful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=03vf...

For #FossilFriday this week, and continuing the build up to my new book on spinosaurs with @markwitton.bsky.social, here's the tip of a dentary of a large Spinosaurus showing the huge sockets for the very large anterior teeth.

I have tulip bulbs for sale if anyone is interested.

For how many years now have the England 'band' been ruining the experience of watching football. There must surely be hundreds of thousands of people who would like them to shut up.

In advance of the publication of my new book with @markwitton.bsky.social, "Spinosaur Tales" (Nov 6th), for #FossilFriday, here's a nice close up of a tooth of Baryonyx sitting in the jaw of the holotype. More spinosaur goodness coming in the next weeks as I desperately try to promote the book.