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September 18, 2025 70 mins

Dr. Dean Lomax and Bob Nicholls join to tell us about their upcoming book The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs (which includes some really cool fossils like an extremely rare two-headed fossil)

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Dinosaur of the day Calamospondylus, an Early Cretaceous oviraptorosaur that was probably under 2.5m (~8ft) long.

Interview with Dean Lomax and Bob Nicholls. Dean Lomax is an award-winning paleontologist, author, and presenter, as well as Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Manchester & 1851 fellow at the University of Bristol. He’s the leading authority on ichthyosaurs, and he also excavates and researches dinosaurs. Bob Nicholls is a world-renowned natural history artist who specializes in prehistoric animals, plants, and environments. His work has been published in more than 40 books and exhibited in museums, universities, and attractions around the world. There new book is The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs: Unearthing the Real Behaviors of Prehistoric Animals

In dinosaur news this week:

  • There’s a new iguanodontian dinosaur that had a large sail on its back, Istiorachis macarthurae

 

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