DID A RUSSIAN PLIOSAUR RULE THE CRETACEOUS SEAS?
What was the largest Russian pliosaur and when did it live? Pliosaurs were a group of extinct macropredatory marine reptiles that lived from the Middle Jurassic to the early Late…
KRONOS RISING Promotional Piece #1 – Shark Hunters Find the Head of Xiphactinus!
For our first commissioned art piece for KRONOS RISING, we visit the scene in Chapter 1 where the illegal shark-finning ship Oshima has hauled in a grisly prize - the…
“How Plesiosaurs Swam: the Formal Paper by Max Hawthorne, et al on ResearchGate”
How Plesiosaurs Swam: New Insights into Their Underwater Flight Using “Ava”, a Virtual Pliosaur, by Max Hawthorne, Mark McMenamin, and Paul de la Salle, is now available on ResearchGate for…
KRONOS RISING Deleted Scene 2: the Pliosaur Comes Ashore!
Deleted Scene 2: The Pliosaur Comes Ashore Kronos Rising was my first novel and was originally written in 2004, over a period of nine months (technically twelve, as I took…
Max Hawthorne’s “Ava the Pliosaur” appears in a UK newspaper.
"Ava the Pliosaur", the animated swim cycle that demonstrates how plesiosaurs swam, appeared in a UK newspaper this week. The animation accompanies the pending research paper by Max Hawthorne, Mark…
