When Tyrannosaurus rex was named by Henry Osborn in 1905, it was described alongside a second gigantic theropod, the armour-plated, Ceratosaurus-like Dynamosaurus imperiosus….
Heptasteornis, My Beloved; Alvarezsaurids in Europe, the Backstory
My Weird 2000 Paper on Tree-Climbing Dinosaurs
Every now and again – speaking here as someone who’s published some number of articles, books and technical papers – I find it worthwhile to look back at the things I’ve published in the past. For whatever reason, I’m doing that a fair amount right now, and right now I want to talk about a peculiar short paper I published in 2000…
A New Theropod Dinosaur Assemblage from the Older Part of the English Wealden
Post-Truthism, Brian J Ford’s Aquatic Dinosaurs, and the Fate of ‘Too Big To Walk’
Late in the afternoon of Friday November 8th, my paper ‘The response to and rejection of Brian Ford’s Too Big to Walk, a 21st century effort to reinstate the aquatic dinosaur hypothesis’ saw digital publication in Historical Biology (Naish 2024)…
T. rex the Tool Maker -- Testing Controversial Claims About Dinosaur Smarts
The Third Edition of Naish and Barrett's Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved
Among the proudest of my achievements is the publication of Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved, DHTLE for short, co-authored with Professor Paul Barrett and published by the Natural History Museum, London. I think it’s fair to say that it’s the flagship ‘dinosaur book’ of the museum. It’s also one of only a handful of dinosaur-themed books written at ‘adult level’. “Finally, a modern, intelligent, trade book on dinosaurs for thoughtful readers”, to quote a reviewer at Quarterly Journal of Biology.
Alan Feduccia’s Romancing the Birds and Dinosaurs: Forays in Postmodern Paleontology
Discovering 'Hidden' Diversity Within Wealden Spinosaurid Dinosaurs
Over recent years, myself and colleagues at the University of Southampton have published a series of studies on the spinosaurid theropods of the English Wealden Supergroup (Barker et al. 2021, 2022, 2023a). And we’ve succeeded in improving our knowledge of Wealden spinosaurid diversity. But wait — there’s more!
A brain for Baryonyx: using CT-scanning to examine British spinosaurid brains
Robert Plot’s Lost Dinosaur Bone
The Eotyrannus Monograph Is Finally Published
A Giant Spinosaurid Dinosaur from the Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight
Announcing the All Yesterdays Range of Collectible Figures
My New Book: Dinopedia from Princeton University Press
Two New Spinosaurid Dinosaurs from the English Cretaceous
Dr Angela Milner and the Discovery of Baryonyx
Reminiscing About Walking With Dinosaurs, Part 2
In 1999, the BBC TV series Walking With Dinosaurs aired on British TV. In the previous article, I discussed some of my recollections as a ‘witness’ of unfolding events. In this second article, we continue…
