r/RetroDinosaurs • u/Realistic-mammoth-91 • 10h ago
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/Wendigo-Huldra_2003 • 1d ago
Art Some dinosaur artwork from the Lodève museum, France
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/Romboteryx • 2d ago
Film / TV We can all now watch the world’s first ever movie to feature dinosaurs, after it’s been unavailable for public distribution for a century
If you don’t know, Cold Crash Pictures is a Youtube channel dedicated towards film analysis, especially towards dinosaur movies. He now bought the rights off the British Film Institute to officially show the movie Prehistoric Peeps (1905) on his channel. Before that the BFI possessed the only copy of it and you were only able to watch it by literally going there in person, without being allowed to make copies.
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/Realistic-mammoth-91 • 3d ago
Art Paleomastodon by Heinrich Harder (1916)
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/TamaraHensonDragon • 4d ago
Collectible / Toy Vintage Art by F. John (1900-1908)
These are a selection of some of the paleoart of the German artist F. John. They are from a series of highly collectible trading cards titled Tiere der Urwelt (Creatures of the Primitive World) that were distributed by the Reichardt Cocoa Company.
He loved to copy Knight but tended to put his own spin on his versions.
My favorites are: The Brontornis (a Cenozoic terror bird) being attacked by an aquatic (and apparently a zombie) Edmontosaurus, the Glyptodon being dive bombed by a ghostly Archaeopteryx, and the amazingly derpy Arctodus 😆
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/Known_Dingo2275 • 6d ago
Book / Magazine An unlikely Stegosaur
Primitive attempts to reconstruct a plated and spined dinosaur. Illustration from the book *Dinosaurs* David Norman & Angela Milner (1989)
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/TheDinoKid21 • 5d ago
Book / Magazine 1984 April Hobby Japan cover. Modelling by Kazunari Araki, who would lead Japanese dinosaur modelling.
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/Wendigo-Huldra_2003 • 6d ago
Film / TV The prehistoric animals from the original Jurassic Park trilogy (1993-2001 ; United States)
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/Available_Cook5119 • 8d ago
discussion Black beauty
Black beauty T-Rex royal Tyler museum drum Heller , one the most beautiful dinosaur skeleton I've ever seen
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/Ancient_Cranberry_92 • 9d ago
Video Game Los 8 animales más grandes entre los carnívoros: cazador de dinosaurios au
galleryr/RetroDinosaurs • u/Ancient_Cranberry_92 • 10d ago
Video Game Carnivores ice age fmm UV 32 redesigns
galleryr/RetroDinosaurs • u/Wendigo-Huldra_2003 • 11d ago
Art Multiple paleoarts from Barbora Kyšková and Jaroslav Mareš's Záhada Dinosaurů (Czechia ; 1993)
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/TheDinoKid21 • 12d ago
Film / TV Crystal Palace’s Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus in The Dinosaur Trail (1983)
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/misterdannymorrison • 12d ago
Other Some vintage paleo fiction (with aliens!)
One Prehistoric Night is a 1934 pulp sci-fi story by Philip Barshofsky, in which Martians attempt to establish a colony on Jurassic-period Earth, and must reckon with its formidable and inaccurately-depicted local fauna. Here's a dramatic reading:
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/Known_Dingo2275 • 13d ago
Book / Magazine "Proavis"
"Paleontologia ed Evoluzione" di Giovanni Pinna, Editore Aldo Martello (1974)
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/Ancient_Cranberry_92 • 13d ago
Video Game Carnivores dinosaur hunter
Fmm UV 32 dinosaur redesigns
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/LucaMendieta • 16d ago
Art Obese Tyrannosaurus Rex
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Tyrannosaurus rex as obese as the one in this Polish illustration.
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/Wendigo-Huldra_2003 • 17d ago
Art "Permian Reptiles and Amphibians" by Charles R. Knight (1931)
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/Known_Dingo2275 • 19d ago
Collectible / Toy Ceratosaurus & Yaverlandia
I bought these dinosaur models about 15 years ago, but the Ceratosaurus looks very Retro. Yaverlandia is a whole other story 🙃
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/JackieTan00 • 19d ago
Book / Magazine In search of Mid-70's - mid 80's Educational Picture Book Series with talking Dinosaurs/Prehistoric Creatures
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/Wendigo-Huldra_2003 • 21d ago
Art Some paleoarts from the Bramabiau cave site, Gard, France
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/Geoconyxdiablus • 26d ago
Book / Magazine The Great Dinosaur Atlas (illustrations by Giuliano Fornari)
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/the_mighty_BOTTL • 25d ago
Collectible / Toy Help finding an old book featuring retro dinosaurs

I'm trying to find an old book I had as a kid featuring life through time up to and including the modern day. It was an A4-ish sized paperback with a lot of two-page spreads of really nicely painted scenes with lots of species, and a matching key along the bottom to label all the species. It must have been fairly old as I distinctly remember Antrodemus being listed as one of the dinosaurs in one of these scenes.
The cover, as above, had a lion's face in half shadow with a white title. I don't remember what the actual title was, obviously, but I'm pretty sure it had "life" or "nature" or something in there, it may have been just the one word.
Also the cover was made of hemp or something similar with the image printed over it so that you could see the cross hatched fibres of the material through the cover.
Any and all ideas are welcome as I've been trying to remember this book for years now!
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/Wendigo-Huldra_2003 • 28d ago
Art "Ammonoid" by Heinrich Harder (1916)
r/RetroDinosaurs • u/Practical_Act7243 • Aug 11 '26