A Walking with Dinosaurs special

 Cybersaurus - Short hard pebbles from the cliff-face of news.

Scientists Unearth Well-Preserved Remains Of A Predatory Dinosaur
Strange South American Fossil Mammals Found
New Sickle-Clawed Fossil Links Birds And Dinosaurs
New jaw in whale evolution story
New therizinosaurid from Yixian.
FBI recover T-rex jawbone.
Purdue Study Finds Prehistoric Couch Potato
New German theropod
Dastardly Down - Under Dino Dingo’s Done! By Cybersaur Denver Fowler
Computer modelling sheds new light on old footprints.
 
 

The Extinction Files

More from Michael Benton on the end of the world.

Book Reviews

Previewed by Richard Maddra this issue are Taking Wing, The
Raptor and the Lamb and The Dinosaur Egg and Embryo Project.

Walking with Dinosaurs

J’Accuse: Tim Haines

In 1993, producer Tim Haines saw the film ‘Jurassic Park’, and had an idea for a way to present a natural history series on dinosaurs.  No humans, no grass...just show prehistoric animals as animals, for their own sake.  His idea became flesh, along with some 19 million viewers of a show that knocked Eastenders and Coronation Street from the top of the ratings lists.  But it wasn’t plain sailing - along the way, the show came in from criticism from a few vocal members of the scientific community.
Here, Tim Haines gets the right to reply...

I Walked With A Dinosaur!

Kent Stevens, chief advisor for programme 2 of the ‘Walking With Dinosaurs’ television series, is a Professor of Computing Science.  This, at first glance, would seem to make him perhaps the most unlikely of consultants for the series.  We asked him how he got dragged from such a staid profession into the wild and whacky world of vertebrate palaeontology...

Afterthoughts

Last word from the main consultants on the series.

  Showing Now

The new display of the Earth Galleries at theNatural History Museum, London - is it ‘good family value’?
John Good considers the value to his family...

Palaeoartists of the Past

Neave Parker’s contribution to the art of recreating past life, reviewed and assessed by Allen A. Debus.
 

Journal Reviews
  New Model Army
Literary review by ‘The Doctors’, messrs Jones and Zeus.
Joe Cherrie on the Tsukuda tyrannosaur.