Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The giant sail-backed carnivorous Spinosaurus is one of the most famous of all dinosaurs. It’s a staple of documentaries, books, movies, and video games, but a great deal of scientific mystery surrounds them. Their fossil remains are highly fragmentary, their evolutionary relationships elusive, and interpretations of their ecology and behavior are hotly contested. So what do we actually know about this “crocodile-headed” animal and its relatives, the spinosaurs?
Spinosaurs were some of the strangest predatory dinosaurs, and Dr. Hone’s new book, Spinosaur Tales (written with Dr. Mark Witton), explores the exciting, sometimes controversial world of spinosaur science. In our final episode of 2025, Hone presents the latest views on the evolution, anatomy, and lifestyles of an enigmatic yet charismatic dinosaur group.
David Hone is a paleontologist at Queen Mary University of London. Author of the acclaimed The Tyrannosaur Chronicles and several other books on dinosaurs, Hone’s research includes multiple scientific papers on spinosaur systematics and biology, and he was part of a team that named two new species in 2021.
This talk took place on December 18, 2025, at 7:00 pm EST.
The giant sail-backed carnivorous Spinosaurus is one of the most famous of all dinosaurs. It’s a staple of documentaries, books, movies, and video games, but a great deal of scientific mystery surrounds them. Their fossil remains are highly fragmentary, their evolutionary relationships elusive, and interpretations of their ecology and behavior are hotly contested. So what do we actually know about this “crocodile-headed” animal and its relatives, the spinosaurs?
Spinosaurs were some of the strangest predatory dinosaurs, and Dr. Hone’s new book, Spinosaur Tales (written with Dr. Mark Witton), explores the exciting, sometimes controversial world of spinosaur science. In our final episode of 2025, Hone presents the latest views on the evolution, anatomy, and lifestyles of an enigmatic yet charismatic dinosaur group.
David Hone is a paleontologist at Queen Mary University of London. Author of the acclaimed The Tyrannosaur Chronicles and several other books on dinosaurs, Hone’s research includes multiple scientific papers on spinosaur systematics and biology, and he was part of a team that named two new species in 2021.
This talk took place on December 18, 2025, at 7:00 pm EST.
