Dr Dave Hone
@davehone.bsky.social
Palaeontologist specialising in the behaviour of dinosaurs and biology of pterosaurs. Reader in Zoology @QMUL. Author of several books, podcaster, general sci-commer. Thoughts my own. He / him. davehone.co.uk
Someone has DMed me on Bluesky. If you don't already know, the UK's new bizarre laws to attempt to control some bits of the internet means I can't easily access these anymore. So please email me instead.
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Someone has DMed me on Bluesky. If you don't already know, the UK's new bizarre laws to attempt to control some bits of the internet means I can't easily access these anymore. So please email me instead.
So last week I got to go to SVP for the first time in a decade. It was great to catch up with so many old friends and colleagues and talk about old times and new research. I felt like a proper scientist for the first time in ages. Here's me posing next to one of my posters under dreadful lighting.
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
So last week I got to go to SVP for the first time in a decade. It was great to catch up with so many old friends and colleagues and talk about old times and new research. I felt like a proper scientist for the first time in ages. Here's me posing next to one of my posters under dreadful lighting.
I've never used ebooks or equivalents. Are these typically sold / made available to purchasers as PDFs? I thought they were generally in some form of proprietary format on a kindle etc. or with a password / tied to a limited number of devices to prevent widespread sharing.
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I've never used ebooks or equivalents. Are these typically sold / made available to purchasers as PDFs? I thought they were generally in some form of proprietary format on a kindle etc. or with a password / tied to a limited number of devices to prevent widespread sharing.
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Rob is recording #FossilFiles episodes at #2025SVP! Listen to his thoughts and some of the superstars of the conference on libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts! @thefossilfiles.bsky.social fossils.libsyn.com/nanotyrannus...
The Fossil Files: Nanotyrannus and vertebrate origins: day 1 at the society of vertebrate paleontology
The Fossils Files are on Tour! Susie and Rob are in Birmingham for the massive Society of Vertebrate Paleontology conference which has made a rare trip to Europe. We will be meeting and chatting with ...
fossils.libsyn.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Rob is recording #FossilFiles episodes at #2025SVP! Listen to his thoughts and some of the superstars of the conference on libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts! @thefossilfiles.bsky.social fossils.libsyn.com/nanotyrannus...
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The famously left-wing bias of the BBC.
(From The Decade In Tory)
(From The Decade In Tory)
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The famously left-wing bias of the BBC.
(From The Decade In Tory)
(From The Decade In Tory)
Proper thread time! Today marks the publication of my fourth book, Spinosaur Tales, this one written with and illustrated by @markwitton.bsky.social. It's out now in the UK (hardback, audiobook, ebook) and will be out elsewhere in Jan 2026. It covers all things spinosaurian, including Spinosaurus.
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Proper thread time! Today marks the publication of my fourth book, Spinosaur Tales, this one written with and illustrated by @markwitton.bsky.social. It's out now in the UK (hardback, audiobook, ebook) and will be out elsewhere in Jan 2026. It covers all things spinosaurian, including Spinosaurus.
Publication day! The Spinosaur Tales with @markwitton.bsky.social is officially out today! I'll be going a much longer and more detailed thread later on as today is rather manic while I'm hosting 400 school kids to my uni campus, but I wanted to get this early post out.
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Publication day! The Spinosaur Tales with @markwitton.bsky.social is officially out today! I'll be going a much longer and more detailed thread later on as today is rather manic while I'm hosting 400 school kids to my uni campus, but I wanted to get this early post out.
For no reason whatsoever I'd like to remind producers that if you perceive the need for an expert and have gone to the trouble of finding them, hiring them, getting them to do a load of work, and discussing it, maybe use what they tell you and not just do whatever you wanted in the first place.
November 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
For no reason whatsoever I'd like to remind producers that if you perceive the need for an expert and have gone to the trouble of finding them, hiring them, getting them to do a load of work, and discussing it, maybe use what they tell you and not just do whatever you wanted in the first place.
I recently teamed up with Dino and Dog (www.myminifactory.com/users/Dino%2...) to make a 3D printable model of the rhynchosaur Fodonyx that I named way back in 2008. Nikola has done an amazing job and made some awesome renditions of it, including some showing speculative burrowing behaviours!
November 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I recently teamed up with Dino and Dog (www.myminifactory.com/users/Dino%2...) to make a 3D printable model of the rhynchosaur Fodonyx that I named way back in 2008. Nikola has done an amazing job and made some awesome renditions of it, including some showing speculative burrowing behaviours!
So looks like I was right and there's various people crowing about how they were always right about Nanotyrannus because they'd seen some private specimens or their take on the data was best or special and not at all about how the weight of evidence had shifted now. It's personal opinion > science.
November 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
So looks like I was right and there's various people crowing about how they were always right about Nanotyrannus because they'd seen some private specimens or their take on the data was best or special and not at all about how the weight of evidence had shifted now. It's personal opinion > science.
Nanotyrannus is cool and all, but what if there was a brand new book written with, and illustrated by, @markwitton.bsky.social on Spinosaurus? Wouldn't that be really cool?
Listen to use talk about it here before it comes out in less than a week!
terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s11e10-spino...
Listen to use talk about it here before it comes out in less than a week!
terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s11e10-spino...
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Nanotyrannus is cool and all, but what if there was a brand new book written with, and illustrated by, @markwitton.bsky.social on Spinosaurus? Wouldn't that be really cool?
Listen to use talk about it here before it comes out in less than a week!
terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s11e10-spino...
Listen to use talk about it here before it comes out in less than a week!
terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s11e10-spino...
Very much this.
Let me attempt to articulate something. As a former participant in the "teenage nerds talk about dinosaurs online" scene, I think some of us who follow paleontology as adults or do dinosaur stuff professionally care too much about the specifics of what's being discussed there. (cont'd)
October 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Very much this.
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...
October 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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.
October 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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...
Unboxing the first copies of Spinosaur Tales
YouTube video by Dave Hone
youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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...
Terrible Lizards: S11E10 Spinosaur Tales oo woo oo
Dave has *another* book coming out and so of course he wants to talk about it a bit on the pod. Happily for the listeners, this time out he has a coauthor and so we get to have palaeontologist and pal...
terriblelizards.libsyn.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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).
October 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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...
The Mystery of the Disappearing Dinosaurs: Where Did They Go?
YouTube video by DINO
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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.
October 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I have tulip bulbs for sale if anyone is interested.
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Outstanding interview, so many great quotes here. Loved the weightroom analogy:
October 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Outstanding interview, so many great quotes here. Loved the weightroom analogy:
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.
October 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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.
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Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
October 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
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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.
October 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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.