Dr Dave Hone
@davehone.bsky.social
Palaeontologist specialising in the behaviour of dinosaurs and biology of pterosaurs. Reader in Zoology @QMUL. Author of several books, podcaster, general sci-commer. Thoughts my own. He / him. davehone.co.uk
And the first customer review is now in:
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
And the first customer review is now in:
And perhaps we should be. Here's some of Mark's illustrations with some select quotes from other palaeontologists you probably trust more than us.
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
And perhaps we should be. Here's some of Mark's illustrations with some select quotes from other palaeontologists you probably trust more than us.
Proper thread time! Today marks the publication of my fourth book, Spinosaur Tales, this one written with and illustrated by @markwitton.bsky.social. It's out now in the UK (hardback, audiobook, ebook) and will be out elsewhere in Jan 2026. It covers all things spinosaurian, including Spinosaurus.
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Proper thread time! Today marks the publication of my fourth book, Spinosaur Tales, this one written with and illustrated by @markwitton.bsky.social. It's out now in the UK (hardback, audiobook, ebook) and will be out elsewhere in Jan 2026. It covers all things spinosaurian, including Spinosaurus.
Publication day! The Spinosaur Tales with @markwitton.bsky.social is officially out today! I'll be going a much longer and more detailed thread later on as today is rather manic while I'm hosting 400 school kids to my uni campus, but I wanted to get this early post out.
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Publication day! The Spinosaur Tales with @markwitton.bsky.social is officially out today! I'll be going a much longer and more detailed thread later on as today is rather manic while I'm hosting 400 school kids to my uni campus, but I wanted to get this early post out.
I recently teamed up with Dino and Dog (www.myminifactory.com/users/Dino%2...) to make a 3D printable model of the rhynchosaur Fodonyx that I named way back in 2008. Nikola has done an amazing job and made some awesome renditions of it, including some showing speculative burrowing behaviours!
November 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I recently teamed up with Dino and Dog (www.myminifactory.com/users/Dino%2...) to make a 3D printable model of the rhynchosaur Fodonyx that I named way back in 2008. Nikola has done an amazing job and made some awesome renditions of it, including some showing speculative burrowing behaviours!
Nanotyrannus is cool and all, but what if there was a brand new book written with, and illustrated by, @markwitton.bsky.social on Spinosaurus? Wouldn't that be really cool?
Listen to use talk about it here before it comes out in less than a week!
terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s11e10-spino...
Listen to use talk about it here before it comes out in less than a week!
terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s11e10-spino...
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Nanotyrannus is cool and all, but what if there was a brand new book written with, and illustrated by, @markwitton.bsky.social on Spinosaurus? Wouldn't that be really cool?
Listen to use talk about it here before it comes out in less than a week!
terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s11e10-spino...
Listen to use talk about it here before it comes out in less than a week!
terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s11e10-spino...
A quick look at Reddit shows someone already said this an hour ago. Not quite what I've said, but it looks like it's very much from the same genre.
October 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A quick look at Reddit shows someone already said this an hour ago. Not quite what I've said, but it looks like it's very much from the same genre.
For this #FossilFriday, it's unsurprisingly Spinosaurus as I gear up to the publication of my new book with @markwitton.bsky.social on this most controversial of dinosaurs and the other spinosaurs. It's out in just a couple of weeks (in the UK, Jan 2026 elsewhere).
October 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
For this #FossilFriday, it's unsurprisingly Spinosaurus as I gear up to the publication of my new book with @markwitton.bsky.social on this most controversial of dinosaurs and the other spinosaurs. It's out in just a couple of weeks (in the UK, Jan 2026 elsewhere).
For #FossilFriday this week, and continuing the build up to my new book on spinosaurs with @markwitton.bsky.social, here's the tip of a dentary of a large Spinosaurus showing the huge sockets for the very large anterior teeth.
October 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
For #FossilFriday this week, and continuing the build up to my new book on spinosaurs with @markwitton.bsky.social, here's the tip of a dentary of a large Spinosaurus showing the huge sockets for the very large anterior teeth.
I was lucky enough to see a brown hyena in Namibia and my photo of it is not that good. This is amazing.
October 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I was lucky enough to see a brown hyena in Namibia and my photo of it is not that good. This is amazing.
In advance of the publication of my new book with @markwitton.bsky.social, "Spinosaur Tales" (Nov 6th), for #FossilFriday, here's a nice close up of a tooth of Baryonyx sitting in the jaw of the holotype. More spinosaur goodness coming in the next weeks as I desperately try to promote the book.
October 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
In advance of the publication of my new book with @markwitton.bsky.social, "Spinosaur Tales" (Nov 6th), for #FossilFriday, here's a nice close up of a tooth of Baryonyx sitting in the jaw of the holotype. More spinosaur goodness coming in the next weeks as I desperately try to promote the book.
And finally we got @deanrlomax.bsky.social to say something nice too.
October 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
And finally we got @deanrlomax.bsky.social to say something nice too.
And Mike Benton was keen to say he liked it too:
October 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
And Mike Benton was keen to say he liked it too:
And here's what @stevebrusatte.bsky.social had to say about it:
October 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
And here's what @stevebrusatte.bsky.social had to say about it:
Here's what @chrisgpackham.bsky.social thinks of our work:
October 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Here's what @chrisgpackham.bsky.social thinks of our work:
My new book with @markwitton.bsky.social on Spinosaurus and their relatives is out a month today! It's available for preorder, so now is the time to get in on this amazing and well-illustrated book on these oddest of #dinosaurs. But don't take our word for it, here's what others have to say:
October 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
My new book with @markwitton.bsky.social on Spinosaurus and their relatives is out a month today! It's available for preorder, so now is the time to get in on this amazing and well-illustrated book on these oddest of #dinosaurs. But don't take our word for it, here's what others have to say:
Look @davehb.bsky.social you're popular enough to be ripped off by random pages on Facebook and shown to me:
September 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Look @davehb.bsky.social you're popular enough to be ripped off by random pages on Facebook and shown to me:
After an incredibly long gestation period, I have a new paper out reviewing all the data and evidence we have on the pterosaurian uropatagium. Full link to the paper is in the blogpost linked below:
archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/t...
archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/t...
September 16, 2025 at 6:52 AM
After an incredibly long gestation period, I have a new paper out reviewing all the data and evidence we have on the pterosaurian uropatagium. Full link to the paper is in the blogpost linked below:
archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/t...
archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/t...
Similarly, look at how elephant skin naturally cracks and splits to produce incredibly convincing 'scales' (e & g especially) that clearly aren't scales and don't rule out hair. (From Martins et al., 2018-https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06257-3).
September 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Similarly, look at how elephant skin naturally cracks and splits to produce incredibly convincing 'scales' (e & g especially) that clearly aren't scales and don't rule out hair. (From Martins et al., 2018-https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06257-3).
So here's the possibly fun bit... That's a camel. It's real skin on a dead camel that's been out in the sun and partially mummified with the fur peeling off. But at first and even second glance it does look like scaly skin from a reptile.
September 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
So here's the possibly fun bit... That's a camel. It's real skin on a dead camel that's been out in the sun and partially mummified with the fur peeling off. But at first and even second glance it does look like scaly skin from a reptile.
A bit of fun. While in Mongolia I got to see this really neat specimen. Photo shows a bit of leg near a joint, and the photo is of an area about 5 cm across. What kind of animal has this kind of scalation?
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
A bit of fun. While in Mongolia I got to see this really neat specimen. Photo shows a bit of leg near a joint, and the photo is of an area about 5 cm across. What kind of animal has this kind of scalation?
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September 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Font choice is important when advertising your Cafe Truck.
I saw this bad boy (or girl) on Friday. :)
July 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I saw this bad boy (or girl) on Friday. :)
In perfect timing for #FossilFriday, the proofs for my next paper, which has now been brewing for more than 15 years(!) have arrived. Not really relevant but all I could find at short notice pterosaur photo for reference. :) The paper will contain considerably more soft tissue than this specimen.
July 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
In perfect timing for #FossilFriday, the proofs for my next paper, which has now been brewing for more than 15 years(!) have arrived. Not really relevant but all I could find at short notice pterosaur photo for reference. :) The paper will contain considerably more soft tissue than this specimen.
This afternoon's job is proofing Spinosaur Tales. It should be out in November in the UK, and North America in Feb 2026. Chock full of illustrations by @markwitton.bsky.social and I even graciously allowed him to write some of the text too.
July 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This afternoon's job is proofing Spinosaur Tales. It should be out in November in the UK, and North America in Feb 2026. Chock full of illustrations by @markwitton.bsky.social and I even graciously allowed him to write some of the text too.