Jurassic Park

The art of extinction

11 June 2022 9:00 am

Sam Kriss on the power of paleoart

A betrayal – despite moments of spectacle that would have made John Martin gasp

Cynical, one-dimensional and oddly colourless: Jurassic World – Fallen Kingdom reviewed

9 June 2018 9:00 am

Back in the mists of prehistory, when I was eight, dinosaur films followed a set pattern. The dinosaurs themselves would…

An imaginative depiction of Archaeopteryx, in the transitional phase between non-avian feathered dinosaurs and modern birds

We still live in the age of dinosaurs

12 May 2018 9:00 am

The age of dinosaurs is a perennial favourite on any time traveller’s wishlist. Even though we’re technically still in it…

The unentertaining fact is that resurrecting animals that died out 65 million years ago is likely to remain far beyond the bounds of possibility for a very long time to come

If we recreate the mammoth, it will be 99.999 per cent white elephant

16 May 2015 9:00 am

Years ago, in an ill-conceived attempt to break into natural history radio, I borrowed a nearly dead car from a…