Now up to three reviews all with five stars. Only a matter of time before the fame and fortune roll in.

Sorry we didn't get to chat more, it was, generally chaos! I had posters up two days so talked myself hoarse and left early on the last night to get home so there were a number of people I never really got to talk to the way I wanted. At least we finally crossed paths physically! :)

I think it is a Mossie. Has the slightly forward radiator grills on the base of the wings before the engine nacelles. #nerdery (It does look a bit oddly foreshortened through).

Damn. I'd planned to 'acquire' one of them when leaving and completely forgot.

Enjoy! Maybe next time. :D

I've heard stories of it being taken out as it was too shocking. I can easily imagine that was all apocryphal to boost the movie, but I'm amazed it might not have even been filmed.

I am so jealous. But that's an amazing view.

That's a really good read.

No, just good timing!

And the first customer review is now in:

We clearly got the right colour palatte at least.

Huzzah and hurrah!

So there it is, all of spinosaurs wrapped up in one neat and completely uncontroversial package. We hope you like it and if you do, please leave a score and review on the major websites. These help massively in the early days of a new book hitting the public, so it'd be much appreciated. Thanks!

And perhaps we should be. Here's some of Mark's illustrations with some select quotes from other palaeontologists you probably trust more than us.

So there's lots on Baryonyx, Suchomimus, Irritator, Ichtyovenator and things from east Asia, South America, Spain and all kinds of other places, as well as the classic material from the UK and North Africa. We really do try to cover everything. And we're pretty proud of it all.

Obviously it's pretty Spinosaurus-centric, given how much attention has focused on this animal, especially in recent years and the controversy over the idea it might have swum and swum well (spoiler, we *really* don't agree with that), but it's not a book of Spinosaurus, but all spinosaurs.

So we should both be well qualified to write about these animals. How they were first found, their anatomy, evolution, ecology, behaviour, relationships, their appearance in pop culture and plenty of other subjects all illustrated with Mark's signature style.

@tetzoo.bsky.social, @neilgostling.bsky.social and others in the baryonychines Ceratosuchops and Riparovenator. So this is an area I've long worked on, while Mark recently wrote a chapter on the history of these animals with Will Tattersdill for this book: www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2025/10/pala...