Vintage paleoart

C.B. Davis, 1912

Would love to have had this book with artwork by Zdenek Burian, but didn't.

Camille Flammarion 1886

Not every kids' dinosaur book of the early 1970s featured lumpen and entirely static mounds of flesh dotted around belching volcanoes. Album of Dinosaurs - from 1972 - is a beautifully illustrated (by Rod Ruth) and sizeable book that's absolutely dedicated to dinosaurs being exciting animals. Yes, there's a fair amount of volcanic activity and typically, er, loose interpretations of the animals' anatomy, but this is still a fantastic book for the time. Of course, in many ways this remains a…

Uintatherium ("Beast of the Uinta Mountains") is an extinct browsing mammal. There are two recognized species: U. anceps from North America during the Early to Middle Eocene and U. insperatus from China during the Middle to Late Eocene. 13 ft). About 5 - 6 ft tall and weighing up to 2 tonnes, it was similar to today's rhinoceros.

From the Golden Book of Dinosaurs, one of my all time favorite images.. Tyrannosaurus Rex gets a Pachycephalasaurus! One of the first pictures I saw that made me realize the girth of the mighty Tyrannosaur!!! I had some interesting dreams THAT night...

Since the 19th century, artists have depicted colourful – if sometimes fictional – dinosaurs and prehistoric environments, mingling science with unbridled fantasy