Field guide
These short entries come straight from our reading-circle notes. They're written for fellow enthusiasts, not for a textbook — friendly, curious, and honest about what we still don't know.
Late Cretaceous · North America
The one everybody knows — and still full of surprises. Recent work keeps refining how it grew, how fast it moved, and just how strong that bite really was. A reliable way to start an argument at any meetup.
Late Jurassic · North America
All neck and tail and gentle enormity. We love it for the engineering problems it poses: how do you hold up a neck that long, and what on earth do you eat to keep a body that size running?
Late Jurassic · North America
Those plates are a genuine open question — display, temperature control, or a bit of both? A perennial favourite for sketch night because nobody can quite agree on how they were arranged.
Late Cretaceous · Mongolia
Smaller and feathered — nothing like the film version, and all the more interesting for it. A great entry point for talking about how close dinosaurs and birds really are.
Paleontology moves fast, and half the fun is watching the picture change. If an entry here goes out of date, that's not a failure — it's the field doing exactly what it should. We revise these notes whenever the reading circle finds something new.