As we approach the end of the year, it is time to reflect on some of the articles featured on the Everything Dinosaur blog. We thought it would be interesting to review some of our blog posts. After all, we try and post every day and as a result, we have produced over three hundred and sixty articles.
Here is part one, covering January to June (2024).
January and February 2024
Everything Dinosaur won (once again) the coveted Feefo Platinum Trusted Service Award for outstanding customer service. We examined giant, predatory worms of the Cambrian (Timoresbestia koprii) and Kuehneosaurs were confirmed in the Late Triassic of southwestern England.
An artist’s impression of a gliding reptile Kuehneosaurus. Picture credit: Mike Cawthorne.
Picture credit: Mike Cawthorne
Our favourite article was published on January the 11th. A new species of Tyrannosaurus (T. mcraeensis) was announced.
To read the blog post about the new Tyrannosaurus species: A New Tyrannosaurus Species.
In February, we looked into the remarkable history of fossil holes, dinosaur locomotion and we recorded the earliest ever frogspawn being found in the office pond (February 18th). In addition, we wrote about a new species of Jurassic pterosaur from Scotland (Ceoptera evansae). However, our favourite story from February 2024 concerned the discovery of a new Hell Creek theropod. Eoneophron was discovered by Oklahoma State University student Kyle Atkins-Weltman when studying dinosaur limb bones.
Limb bones of the newly described Hell Creek Formation caenagnathid Eoneophron infernalis. Picture credit: Kyle Atkins-Weldman.
Picture credit: Kyle Atkins-Weldman
March and April and the Everything Dinosaur Blog
March saw us examining the oldest forest known to science as well as ancient amphibians and new insights into Spinosaurus. 2024 marks the two hundredth anniversary of the formal, scientific description of a prehistoric animal that was later to be classified as a dinosaur. Megalosaurus was named and described in 1824. This dinosaur featured in a set of new stamps introduced by Royal Mail. There were stamps celebrating the life and works of Mary Anning in circulation too.
Our favourite article discussed a new species of iguanodontian from Western Portugal (Hesperonyx martinhotomasorum). A co-author of the paper Miguel Moreno-Azanza was photographed with a titanosaur egg fossil and one of our favourite CollectA models. A CollectA Ampelosaurus figure featuring in a news story about a new dinosaur discovery. How exciting!
Miguel Moreno-Azanza, from Zaragoza University, co-author of the Hesperonyx scientific paper with a titanosaur egg fossil and an Ampelosaurus model. Picture credit: Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Picture credit: Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
As March saw lots of new dinosaur models from Schleich, PNSO and Haolonggood being introduced it seemed fitting to include a dinosaur model in a news story.
To view the range of CollectA Prehistoric Life models in stock: CollectA Not to Scale Prehistoric Life Models.
The International Union of Geological Sciences voted to reject the Anthropocene Epoch as a unit of geological time in April. Furthermore, we looked at old dinosaur drawings and several new dinosaur models. The highlight for us was the publishing of the scientific paper describing Ichthyotitan severnensis. This Late Triassic ichthyosaur could have been as big as a blue whale.
Everything Dinosaur’s Ichthyotitan article: Ichthyotitan – A Colossus of the Late Triassic.
May and June (2024)
In May, we once again featured a wide range of news stories. For example, we reported upon the evolutionary history of the Baobab tree, Glaswegian shrimp fossils and examined how artificial intelligence could up write pages on the Everything Dinosaur website. In addition, we wrote an article that challenged the findings from a paper that proposed that T. rex could have been as clever as a primate.
Scientific paper challenged: Famous Dinosaur Not as Clever as a Monkey.
The Eofauna T. rex dinosaur model introduced in May 2024. In addition, a scientific paper published that month refuted claims that T. rex was as clever as a primate. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.
Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur
June was a busy month for blog posts. We looked at new models from Haolonggood, Nanmu Studio and Beasts of the Mesozoic. In addition, a new Unenlagiine taxon was described from Patagonia (Diuqin lechiguanae). Carboniferous arachnids were examined, and we celebrated 170 years of the Crystal Palace dinosaurs.
Our favourite blog post for June 2024 featured a new taxon of horned dinosaur. The spectacular Lokiceratops was scientifically described.
Reconstruction of Lokiceratops surprised by a crocodilian in the 78-million-year-old swamps of northern Montana, USA. Picture credit: Andrey Atuchin for the Museum of Evolution in Maribo, Denmark.
Picture credit: Andrey Atuchin
The Everything Dinosaur Blog Review for 2024 (Part 1)
This concludes our review of the blog for the first part of 2024 (January to June). The second part of this series will conclude by looking at the articles we posted between July and the end of the year.
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