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1 post published by David Hone during July 2025| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
1 post published by David Hone during July 2025| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
Jurassic World Rebirth is now out. I’ve not seen it yet, but all the indications are that it will be another summer blockbuster than will rake in a ton of cash and then presumably in another two ye…| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
1 post published by David Hone during June 2025| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
Pterosaur fossils are rather paradoxical in that they are generally very rare and fragmentary outside of the few places of exceptional preservation, where they become not only common, but contain t…| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
Time does fly. I still have very clear memories of various science and biology classes at school, many of my lectures at university, my Masters and my PhD work, and plenty of other formative experiences that led me into my career. But arguably I really became a ‘proper’ scientist when I published my first peer-reviewed […]| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
The azhdarchid pterosaurs are well known for including the largest flying animals of all times in their ranks. Giants like Quetzalcoatlus could reach 10 m in wingspan, and in addition to being huge…| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
Typical, you wait ages for a paper on Rhamphorhynchus ontogeny and then they all come at once. Ok, maybe not that quickly, but this is now the second paper on this general subject in the last few months and the third in the last few years. I’ve long gone on about how important taxa like […]| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
I’m delighted that today I have a new paper out with a really exciting new pterosaur, that I think adds an awful lot to our understanding of pterosaur evolution, as well as the animal itself being rather interesting. It’s often fairly easy to say that a new find ‘fills a gap in the fossil record’ […]| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
By now I imagine that almost everyone reading this is aware that I have a new book out, but if you somehow did not, then here’s a chance to catch up and learn a bit more about it (and hopefully I can entice you to buy a copy). The title, as is rather given away […]| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
It’s been too long since I got involved in spinosaur research, but I have recently re-entering the fray with a new paper. It was out last week, but I’m in the field and only just got the time and internet access to be able to put this post out. A couple of years back I […]| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
It has been a long time since I wrote such an important post, but this is a big subject and science is about self-correction and it would be wrong not to note when I made the error (and though hope…| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
So today a paper breaks that has managed to cause controversy and misunderstanding for the last couple of years without having even been published. But today it is formally out and I’m sure t…| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
Over the years I’ve muttered about intraspecific variation on here a fair bit. In general, it’s a problem for vertebrate palaeontology as our sample sizes are really low, so working out if having t…| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
Courtesy of Davide Bonadonna (www.davidebonadonna.it) For anyone with the misfortune to be a long time reader of these pages, you’ll know I’ve done a fair bit of work on bite traces on various bone…| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
Ok, so new pterosaurs come out all the time and yes, the Solnhofen region of Southern Germany is home to many, many pterosaurs in general and many ctenochasmatids specifically. This probably isn’t …| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
Pterosaurs flew! No big shock there, but obviously flight places major constraints and selective pressures on the skeleton and we see that with the incredibly conservative nature of the pterosaur s…| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
I remember from some years ago a pub chat with John Conway about what makes ‘good’ palaeoart. We came to the conclusion that it was down to three main things, 1) is it good artistically – is there …| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
It’s been more than a while coming but here’s an actual normal blogpost for the blog that’s not just PR for one of my own papers or projects (don’t worry, more of that coming sooner or later). This…| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
Yes, it’s very early in the year but before 2023 had even hit, this paper managed to squeeze out actually appearing online on New Year’s Eve when I, and indeed most of the world, were not keeping t…| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
Ok, if we are being totally reductionist, one Microraptor ate part of one mammal once. But that’s certainly indicative of a pattern and that’s quite exciting. As you might guess, I have a new paper…| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
The Musings has been very quiet the last few years. I’ve obviously been busy at work and a lot of my outreach has shifted with the podcast (now more than 50 episodes done), various books (2 o…| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
After numerous substantial delays, my next popular science book is out now with Hodder. Called by the slightly cryptic title of ‘The Future of Dinosaurs’ the subtitle rather better explains what it…| Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings
