Stephen Hurrell

And it’s time for another review of the year, so here’s some of what happened in 2025. One of the highlights of my year was the first ever DinoConUK held in the University of Exeter. As you might ... Review 2025 - DinoConUK and some sad losses dinox.org/review2025.html

The world's best dinosaur-themed event - #DINOCONUK 2026 - happens July 25th-26th at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, and tickets are on sale now. We have a huge vendor hall, an exciting schedule, and numerous events occur the weekend: exhibitions, a quiz, auction, workshops...

Great work, Stephen! Your preprint reached 700 reads Achieved on May 22, 2026 Preprint: A Palaeogravity calculation based on weight and mass estimates of Euoplocephalus tutus researchgate.net/profile/Stephe…

Just thought I'd repost this... A Palaeogravity calculation based on Euoplocephalus tutus dinox.org/euograv.html

翼竜型羽ばたき機の開発の歴史 Development history of the pterosaur type ornithopter

A perfect visualization of the enshittification of Google search. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

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Take five minutes to understand how a company has already successfully extracted usable electrical energy from the vacuum of empty space.

@earthexpansion It is a fundamental question.

1. "See something, say something" 2. So what do you see, mountains? // valleys? // clouds? //blue sky? // => a label including two hopeful words : "Constructive debate"? 3. Or what? "Seeing is believing" ? 5. Clue : "Hints and Allegations" maybe 6. => (How *real* science is done)

Pronouncing dinosaur names: kids vs palaentologist edition. 🦕 Meet them all in our new VR experience, Age of Dinosaurs.

@PedroMa23765483 Can you please tell me the minimum femur circumference of the AMNH 5240 specimen? I don't seem to have that dimension for some reason.

Corythosaurus is one of the most complete lambeosaurinae ever found, and one of the most unique dinosaurs ever! #paleoart

A continuation of comparisons of Earth expansion reconstructions from 118 million years ago... youtu.be/UPRAdS9JSXc?si…

Has anyone ever come across the minimum femur circumference of Compsognathus (either specimen)? They seem to be a nice complete specimens so I'm surprised I can't find any circumference dimensions - just femur lengths.

plesiosaur reconstruction peerj.com/articles/21146/ via @PeerJLife

Individual journalists of all stripes are pushing back on efforts by news publishers to prevent WebArchive aka The Wayback Machine from archiving work done by reporters they employ. As someone who often uses the archive, I whole heartedly agree. wired.com/story/the-inte…

Known from over 800 specimens, including mummified, Brachylophosaurus is one of the best represented dinosaurs from the Judith River formation. It’s also the largest known at 10 meters and 5 tons in weight. #FossilFriday

Proto-mammals laid eggs. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Here's an insect that joined me in the garden for a while.

Here's a new study in Nature showing that oxygen supply through the tracheolar–muscle system does not constrain insect gigantism. It's all related to effective size limits as discussed in 2022. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Dragonfly Size Limit dinox.org/dragongrav.html

This release was kinda the best month of my life. Did I fall behind on weeks of university work? Yes. Did I seriously neglect multiple social relationships? Also yes. Was it worth it? Hell freaking yes. It's difficult to verbalise how big of a deal this all felt.