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.

Plagiarism is bad in all it's forms. Here's the cover of a book I saw tyoday with an incredibly obvious rip off of Gerald Scarfe's wonderful animation for Pink Floyd's The Wall movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLpR...

I look around at the state of the world today and I think, "If only, *is only* there were more weird AI generated video ads about getting toned for Christmas with tai chi walking?".

Everyone has issues with the peer review system, but I think it's getting worse. Could all be incorrect as it's based on my recent experiences, but chats with various colleagues suggest this is a growing problem: archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/r...

I'm trying to write a supporting reference for a PhD candidate. I have to fill in these two boxes. I have 300 and 1500 characters respectively (with spaces!) to write out all this information that they have asked for. Utter, utter madness.

For #FossilFriday have this lovely picture of a baby Protoceratops to accompany this short piece I've written on problems with current trends in publications in science. TLDR: all references in a paper should be cited. It'd fix some problems. archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/t...

Last Wednesday of the month is #TerribleLizards day and here's the latest episode where @iszi.com and I interview the all-round crocodylian supremo Chris Brochu about his research on these amazing animals (both living and ancient) terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s12e03-crocs

Not now brain-eating virus.

What actually constitutes sufficient information to make a scientific paper science? Specifically when it comes to hypothesis testing: archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/i...

New achievement unlocked! I've done something cool and interesting enough to be ripped off uncredited by a random Facebook page. At least they link to the original @newscientist.com video so that's a start.

Referees and editors need to understand that taxonomy and systematics are different things and the former is in no way reliant on the latter: archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/u...