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4 12, 2014

Paying Tribute to the New Replicas from Safari Ltd

By Mike|2023-03-18T08:39:31+00:00December 4th, 2014|Adobe CS5, Dinosaur Fans, Everything Dinosaur News and Updates, Everything Dinosaur videos|0 Comments

New for 2015 Safari Ltd Prehistoric Animal Models

Team members at Everything Dinosaur announced sometime ago the new additions to the Carnegie Collection and Wild Safari Dinos model ranges (Safari Ltd). We are looking forward to stocking these models and can’t decide between us which one we like the best. As we look forward to 2015, we have taken time out to produce a very quick teaser video which features the five new models from Safari Ltd which will be available from Everything Dinosaur next year. After all, if a teaser trailer can be made for “Jurassic World”, then why not one for these exciting prehistoric animal replicas.

Safari Ltd Prehistoric Animal Figures

Everything Dinosaur’s “Teaser Trailer” – New for 2015 Safari Ltd Prehistoric Animals

Video credit: Everything Dinosaur

To view Everything Dinosaur’s current range of dinosaur and prehistoric animal models made by Safari Ltd: Wild Safari Prehistoric World Models.

Everything Dinosaur YouTube Video

In this short video (under forty seconds in duration), we show pictures of the five new figures, the Archaeopteryx, the horned dinosaur Nasutoceratops, Sauropelta and the feathered tyrannosaurid Yutyrannus huali. We also showcase the only scale model to be added next year, the 1:50 scale (approximate) replica of Velociraptor (V. mongoliensis). No doubt we will comment more on the potential scales (as in scale size, not to be confused with feathers) when we create individual reviews of these prehistoric animals.

To read a little more about these new introductions: Safari Ltd announce new models for 2015.

Our dedicated team members will be researching and writing fact sheets to accompany these new animal models. For every named prehistoric animal replica Everything Dinosaur supplies, a fact sheet all about that creature, is included. Scale drawings of all these animals have now been completed and the fact sheets themselves will be completed shortly.

Looks like 2015 is going to be an exciting time for dinosaur model and figure collectors.

23 11, 2014

Everything Dinosaur Stocks New Rebor Dinosaur Replicas

By Mike|2024-05-04T14:02:50+01:00November 23rd, 2014|Dinosaur Fans, Everything Dinosaur News and Updates, Everything Dinosaur Products, Everything Dinosaur videos, Main Page, Photos of Everything Dinosaur Products|0 Comments

Rebor 1:35 scale Yutyrannus huali available from Everything Dinosaur

Everything Dinosaur stocks Rebor dinosaur replicas. Rebor have released a 1:35 scale model of a tyrannosauroid whose fossils come from northern China (Yutyrannus huali). This is the first in this exciting new range and team members are keen to see how the Rebor range of dinosaur and prehistoric animal models develops.

A beautiful model of a Chinese tyrannosaur.

Rebor Dinosaur Replicas

The model has been nicknamed Y-REX a reference to the most famous tyrannosaur of all, Tyrannosaurus rex, although in terms of geochronological time, Y. huali (the name means beautiful feathered tyrant), lived at least fifty-five million years before T. rex evolved. In fact, in terms of when this dinosaur roamed, it is much closer to the likes of Allosaurus and the Chinese allosauroid Sinraptor which lived during the Late Jurassic than it is to the Late Cretaceous Tyrannosaurus rex.

One thing Yutyrannus has in common with the mighty T. rex is that it too, was probably an apex predator. At around nine metres in length and weighing as much as a Volkswagen Golf, this dinosaur, which was formally named and described in 2012, proved that in some parts of the world at least, tyrannosauroids were the dominant predators relatively early on in their evolutionary history.

Rebor Models and Figures

To view the Rebor range of scale prehistoric animal figures available from Everything Dinosaur: Rebor Dinosaur Replicas.

It certainly is a splendid model and Everything Dinosaur will post up a review of this replica very shortly. In the meantime, here is a short (5.47), video we put together in our board room, which provides a little more information about this intriguing and highly collectible piece.

Everything Dinosaur Introduces the Rebor 1:35 Scale Yutyrannus Replica

Video credit: Everything Dinosaur

Everything Dinosaur Stocks Rebor Dinosaur Replicas

In this video, we talk more about this remarkable dinosaur discovery, discuss how the replica reflects the known fossil material and show how well this model has been packaged and presented. Our YouTube video (as above), may only have been on-line for a few days but already it has had over 1,000 views and received twenty-one likes.

One of the Pictures of our Model (Taken in the Boardroom)

Lots of detail to admire on this figure, it even has an articulated lower jaw.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

The manufacturer is to be congratulated, this really is a splendid dinosaur model.

10 11, 2014

Everything Dinosaur Stocks the New Rebor Yutyrannus Model

By Mike|2024-05-04T14:09:02+01:00November 10th, 2014|Dinosaur Fans, Everything Dinosaur News and Updates, Everything Dinosaur Products, Everything Dinosaur videos|0 Comments

1:35 Scale Yutyrannus Model Added to Everything Dinosaur’s Range

For some time now, team members at Everything Dinosaur have been working with Rebor and the people behind this brand of new, highly collectible prehistoric animal replicas. The first of the models in the Rebor series, the Yutyrannus (Yutyrannus huali) is going to be in stock at Everything Dinosaur very shortly. A few weeks ago, we made a quick video in our boardroom which introduces the Rebor range and looks at the Yutyrannus replica in detail.

Rebor Yutyrannus Model

The Rebor Yutyrannus (Y. huali) Video

Video credit: Everything Dinosaur

Rebor Yutyrannus huali Dinosaur Model

In this short video, five minutes and forty-seven seconds, we examine the packaging, discuss our involvement with Rebor and look at this beautiful tyrannosaurid model in more detail. We comment on the integument that can be seen on the replica and explain a little about what is currently known about this particular feathered Chinese tyrannnosaur. Team members are finalising a fact sheet on this dinosaur, it is our intention to include this fact sheet with this new model, thus helping to provide collectors and dinosaur fans with a little additional information about this dinosaur, that was only formally named and described in 2012.

The Rebor 1:35 Scale (YREX) Dinosaur Model

A 1:35 scale replica. The Rebor Yutryannus huali dinosaur model. Picture credi: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Everything Dinosaur

Everything Dinosaur intends to offer this limited edition model at a special introductory offer price.

For further information and for more pictures, simply email Everything Dinosaur: Contact Everything Dinosaur.

A spokesperson from the UK-based, award-winning dinosaur company stated that team members at Everything Dinosaur were looking forward to stocking this Rebor Y. huali dinosaur model.

The spokesperson added:

“The Rebor Yutyrannus model is fantastic, it is a superb 1:35 scale replica of a famous Chinese tyrannosauroid.”

To visit the Rebor models section of the Everything Dinosaur website: Rebor Prehistoric Animal Models and Figures.

6 10, 2014

Everything Dinosaur Video Review – CollectA Bistahieversor

By Mike|2023-03-16T18:35:13+00:00October 6th, 2014|Dinosaur Fans, Everything Dinosaur Products, Everything Dinosaur videos|0 Comments

A Video Review of the CollectA Bistahieversor Dinosaur Model

Team members have been so busy preparing for new models as 2015 approaches that we have still got a couple of reviews of the 2014 releases to complete. This is going to be rectified this month and the first of our last video reviews of new 2014 releases is a short video which features the rather wonderful CollectA Bistahieversor dinosaur model.

CollectA Bistahieversor Model (Video Review)

In the video (six minutes, forty-one seconds long), we discuss the significance of this New Mexico tyrannosaurid in terms of the provinciality of North American dinosaurs. We look at the model and reflect on how this replica is based on the known fossil material. We think this is our first feathered tyrannosaur model video review, however, we suspect that it is not going to be our last. Expect more feathered tyrannosaurids next year.

Everything Dinosaur Reviews the CollectA Bistahieversor Model

Video credit: Everything Dinosaur

To see all the videos that Everything Dinosaur has published on its YouTube channel: Everything Dinosaur on YouTube.

CollectA Bistahieversor Dinosaur Model

A spokesperson from Everything Dinosaur confirmed that the CollectA Prehistoric Life Bistahieversor dinosaur model had proved to be extremely popular with dinosaur fans and model collectors.

To view the range of CollectA prehistoric life models in stock at Everything Dinosaur: CollectA Prehistoric Life Models and Figures.

11 08, 2014

1:40 Scale CollectA Deluxe Therizinosaurus Video Review

By Mike|2023-03-16T07:45:20+00:00August 11th, 2014|Dinosaur Fans, Everything Dinosaur Products, Everything Dinosaur videos, Product Reviews|0 Comments

A Video Review of the CollectA Deluxe 1:40 Therizinosaurus Dinosaur Model

Those clever manufacturers CollectA have made an excellent replica of the bizarre theropod dinosaur known as Therizinosaurus. We at Everything Dinosaur have made a short video review of this new for 2014 replica. In this short video (six minutes and fifty seconds), we look at this model in more detail, discuss the fossil discoveries and compare this replica to the smaller, not-to-scale therizinosaur model introduced by CollectA a couple of years ago now.

CollectA Deluxe Therizinosaurus

Everything Dinosaurs 1:40 Scale CollectA Therizinosaurus Video Review

Video credit: Everything Dinosaur

In this video we introduce Sir Arthur Gauge. Sir Arthur is the name of the human replica that is included with many of the 1:40 Deluxe CollectA models. He provides a scale for the replica in question. In this particular case, estimating the scale of the CollectA Deluxe Therizinosaurus model is quite difficult, the fragmentary fossil material makes it tricky to provide a size guide for a fully grown animal. Some palaeontologists believe that Therizinosaurus cheloniformis weighed more than five tonnes and was over ten metres long. Based on our estimates, we calculate that this figure is around 1:35 to 1:40 scale.

Sir Arthur Gauge Provides a Guide to Scale Size

A clever way to provide a scale for dinosaur models.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

To view Everything Dinosaur’s range of CollectA Deluxe scale models: CollectA Deluxe Prehistoric Animal Models.

Those impressive claws, are very well depicted. The largest manual unguals (claw cores) associated with T. cheloniformis measure over seventy centimetres in length. In life, with the horny sheath covering the largest claws would have been around a metre long.

The Bizarre but Spectacular Therizinosaurus

A pair of therizinosaurs.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

8 08, 2014

CollectA Mosasaurus Model Video Review

By Mike|2023-03-16T07:27:08+00:00August 8th, 2014|Dinosaur Fans, Everything Dinosaur Products, Everything Dinosaur videos, Product Reviews|0 Comments

The CollectA Mosasaurus Model Video Review

The first account of a mosasaur fossil was written in 1764, so 2014 marks the 250th anniversary of the publication of this information. The fossil was found in Holland, near the town of Maastricht and here Everything Dinosaur team members contribute to the mosasaur database by publishing our video review of the excellent Mosasaurus model made by CollectA.

CollectA Mosasaurus

Everything Dinosaurs Video Review of the CollectA Mosasaurus

Video credit: Everything Dinosaur

A Video Review

CollectA made a not-to-scale replica of the mosasaur known as Tylosaurus a few years ago now, this new, larger replica brings the Mosasauridae right up to date with pterygoid teeth depicted on the roof of the mouth and a spectacular tail fluke. In this short video, (six minutes, forty-eight seconds), we point out these details and explain how this model reflects some of the latest scientific research on these amazing marine reptiles.

To view Everything Dinosaur’s range of CollectA figures: CollectA Prehistoric Life Models.

To read an article which reports on the study of a mosasaur fossil specimen that provides evidence of a tail fluke: Mosasaurs – A Shark’s Tale.

In the video, we also touch upon the chosen colour scheme of this model. It does remind us of the markings on the extant Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus), the biggest fish alive today. The largest members of the Mosasaurus genus would have grown to around the same length of a Whale Shark, perhaps fourteen metres or more, but the Whale Shark would have been many times heavier.

Whale Sharks may be gentle, slow-swimming plankton feeders but the mosasaurs were fast-swimming, predators with the likes of Mosasaurus hoffmanni, whose fossils have been found in Holland, preying on other large marine vertebrates such as plesiosaurs, large fish and turtles.

Super Colouration on this Mosasaurus Model

Fearsome marine predator from CollectA.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

These reptiles were believed to have been predators of the surface waters. Many palaeontologists think that these animals had relatively poor, stereoscopic vision so they would have most likely avoided the darker, deeper water, preferring to hunt in the relative shallows. Whale Sharks tend to swim in the top 100 metres or so of the sea as they collect food with their huge, cavernous mouths, this might explain the colouration chosen for the Mosasaurus replica.

To read an article about the study of organic material found by Swedish scientists as they examined a Mosasaur specimen: Soft Tissue in a Mosasaur Fossil?

Recently, palaeontologists identified a species of mosasaur that lived in freshwater, to read about this discovery: Freshwater Mosasaur from Hungary.

26 07, 2014

A Video Review of the CollectA Arsinoitherium Model

By Mike|2023-03-14T10:22:20+00:00July 26th, 2014|Dinosaur Fans, Everything Dinosaur Products, Everything Dinosaur videos, Product Reviews|0 Comments

CollectA 1:20 Scale Deluxe Arsinoitherium Reviewed

Another day and another video review to post up onto the Everything Dinosaur blog, this time a video review of the CollectA Deluxe 1:20 scale model of Arsinoitherium. One of the most bizarre-looking mammals that ever existed, if team members at Everything Dinosaur were asked to sum up this huge, plant-eater in one sentence, something like “here was a distant relative of elephants, that looked a bit like a rhinoceros and probably lived a bit like a hippopotamus”, would probably be appropriate.

Arsinoitherium Model

Everything Dinosaur stocks a huge range of prehistoric mammal models including the CollectA Deluxe 1:20 scale Arsinoitherium model. Take a look at the prehistoric mammal replicas available from Everything Dinosaur: Prehistoric Mammal Models.

The CollectA Arsinoitherium Model Reviewed

Video credit: Everything Dinosaur

The video runs for seven minutes and in the video we review this model, assign a species name to it and discuss what the fossil record tells us about these ancient creatures that roamed what was to become Egypt around thirty million years ago. We even suggest some uses for those enormous horns that grew out of the skull. The Arsinoitheres died out during the Middle Oligocene epoch and there is not a single species of animal alive today that is directly descended from this group, which is a shame.

A spokesperson from Everything Dinosaur confirmed that the CollectA Deluxe 1:20 Arsinoitherium model was extremely popular amongst model collectors.

To view Everything Dinosaur’s range of CollectA Deluxe models, including Arsinoitherium: CollectA Deluxe Prehistoric Animal Models.

23 07, 2014

CollectA Carcharodontosaurus – A Video Review

By Mike|2023-03-14T10:07:19+00:00July 23rd, 2014|Everything Dinosaur Products, Everything Dinosaur videos, Product Reviews|1 Comment

CollectA Deluxe Carcharodontosaurus Dinosaur Model Reviewed (Video)

With a new batch of CollectA Deluxe Carcharodontosaurus dinosaur models newly installed into our warehouse, it was time to make a brief video review of this dinosaur model. Introduced by CollectA in 2014, in the company’s Deluxe range of scale models of prehistoric animals, this replica of potentially one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs that ever lived, has proved to be a big hit. In this short video (seven minutes and twenty-two seconds), team members at Everything Dinosaur discuss the model in detail and provide information on the fossil discoveries made in Africa.

CollectA Carcharodontosaurus

Everything Dinosaur’s Video Review of the CollectA Carcharodontosaurus

Video credit: Everything Dinosaur

In this video we hint at the role that the sea may have played in the evolution of carcharodontosaurids and their eventual extinction. A blog article has been prepared which provides further information on this theory.

To read the blog article: The Evolution and Extinction of the African Carcharodontosauridae.

To view Carcharodontosaurus and other Collecta scale models available at Everything Dinosaur: CollectA Deluxe Prehistoric Life Figures.

This dinosaur genus provides and exemplar for the way in which study of the Dinosauria has progressed in the last decade or so. The genus was erected in 1931 and it had one species assigned to it. However, fossil discoveries in the late 1990’s led to the description of a second species (Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis). This new species was announced just seven years ago. It is likely that more species of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur (and abelisaurid, for that matter), will be discovered in Africa.

Look out for more news on the “shark toothed lizards”.

In the meantime, check out Everything Dinosaur’s article on the announcement of the second species of Carcharodontosaurus species from 2007: New Giant African Meat-Eater.

22 07, 2014

Evolution and Extinction of the African Carcharodontosauridae

By Mike|2023-03-14T10:05:14+00:00July 22nd, 2014|Dinosaur Fans, Everything Dinosaur videos, Geology, Main Page, Palaeontological articles|0 Comments

“Shark Toothed Lizard” – The Rise and Fall of Carcharodontosaurus

The Carcharodontosaurus genus currently consists of two species, the first of which Carcharodontosaurus saharicus (originally called Megalosaurus saharicus), is known from fossil material found in North Africa. The second species, named and described in 2007, was erected following fossil finds, including skull material from the Echkar Formation of Niger, this species is known as C. iguidensis. Although both species are known from fragmentary material and a few isolated teeth, differences in the shape of the upper jaw and the structure of the brain case enabled scientists to confidently establish Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis as a second, distinct species.

An Illustration of a Typical Carcharodontosaurid Dinosaur

Fearsome “Shark Lizard”. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Carcharodontosaurus

Carcharodontosaurus means “shark-toothed lizard”, a reference to the fact that the teeth of this huge carnivore, reminded scientists of the teeth of sharks belonging to the Carcharodon genus of sharks, such as the teeth of the Great White Shark (C. carcharias). It is ironic that this terrestrial predator should be named after a marine carnivore, as changing sea levels very probably influenced the evolution of these dinosaurs and may have ultimately led to their extinction, at least from Africa.

To view Everything Dinosaur’s range of CollectA dinosaur models including a 1:40 scale Deluxe Carcharodontosaurus: CollectA Deluxe Prehistoric Life Replicas.

Pronounced – Car-car-oh-dont-toe-sore-us, the oldest dinosaur currently assigned to the Carcharodontosauridae family is Veterupristisaurus (Vet-ter-roo-pris-tee-sore-us). This dinosaur was named and described in 2011, although the fossil material was discovered over seventy-five years ago. The fossils come from the famous Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, it lived during the Late Jurassic and the trivial name V. milneri honours the now retired Angela Milner who worked at the Natural History Museum (London).

A Cretaceous Predator

Carcharodontosaurus lived during the Cretaceous (Late Albian to mid Cenomanian faunal stages). During this time, the great, southern super-continent called Gondwanaland continued to break up and as sea levels rose, so populations of dinosaurs became separated by the inflow of sea water.

Rising Sea Levels Influence Dinosaur Evolution

Rising sea levels but off dinosaur populations.

Rising sea levels isolated dinosaur populations. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Communities became isolated and this may have provided a boost to the evolution of new species. The map shows the approximate location of fossil material associated with C. saharicus and C. iguidensis. Populations of carcharodontosaurids may have become cut-off from each other and this gave rise to new species of Carcharodontosaurus. This may help to explain the abundance of super-sized predators that lived in this part of the world during the Cretaceous.

Both species of Carcharodontosaurus shared a common ancestor, but their separation led to the evolution of two, distinct species. This natural process is called allopatric speciation.

Sadly for the mega fauna that inhabited the coastal swamps and verdant flood plains of North Africa, rising sea levels in the later stages of the Cenomanian led to the destruction of much of this habitat. The loss of habitat probably led to the demise of the ecosystem and the vulnerable apex predators such as the carcharodontosaurids and the spinosaurids became extinct.

To read an article on the discovery of C. iguidensis: New Giant Meat-Eating Dinosaur from Africa.

20 07, 2014

A Video Review of the CollectA Saurophaganax Dinosaur Model

By Mike|2023-03-14T09:50:18+00:00July 20th, 2014|Dinosaur Fans, Everything Dinosaur Products, Everything Dinosaur videos, Product Reviews|0 Comments

CollectA Saurophaganax – A Video Review

Everything Dinosaur team members have been busy writing scripts for video reviews on the latest batch of CollectA prehistoric animal models to be received into our warehouse. The first of these model reviews features Saurophaganax, arguably one of the biggest meat-eating dinosaurs known to science. In this short (six minutes, thirteen seconds) video, we look at the CollectA Saurophaganax dinosaur model in more detail, explain why there is still confusion over this genus and reflect on how a 145-million-year-old dinosaur is still capable of harming people today.

CollectA Saurophaganax Dinosaur Model

Everything Dinosaur’s Review of the CollectA Saurophaganax Dinosaur Model

Video credit: Everything Dinosaur

To view Everything Dinosaur’s range of CollectA prehistoric animals: CollectA Prehistoric Life Models.

CollectA have made a number of allosaurid models, they certainly have expanded their model range in recent years and this CollectA Saurophaganax dinosaur model is a super addition to the company’s not-to-scale model series.