“The artwork is by artist Todd Marshall. I’ve always enjoyed his portrayals of prehistoric reptiles (he tends to get almost too fanciful with dewlaps and spikes though) ”

Funnily enough those dewlaps and spikes are why I like him so much. Sure we don’t have evidence for those things and he kind of jumped the shark by adding some things (like some small spines that look like protofeathers on his Rugops)but it makes his dinosaurs seem more real. While it is equally possible that dinosaur did not posses such structures, I like how he decided to guess which ends up making his dinosaurs actually look like real creatures that had a variety of spikes, colours, etc. Instead of just photocopied creatures straight from Greg Paul with no real creativity or artistic license that I think makes paleoart so interesting.

Ah well I hope National Geographic will actually show this documentary up here in Canada this time.