Bob Nicholls: Paleoartist Extraordinaire

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🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Robert (Bob) Nicholls has been painting, sculpting, and painting some of our favorite paleoart for decades. He joins us to share how he does it. Plus, a fossil found hundreds of feet below a natural history museum; The world's oldest cerapodan dinosaur; And new theropod and iguanodontian fossils

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Dinosaur of the day Emausaurus, a very early armored dinosaur to rival Scutellosaurus and Scelidosaurus.

Interview with Bob Nicholls, world-renowned paleoartist, painter, sculptor, and illustrator. His work has been published in more than 40 books (including the Secret Lives of Dinosaurs) and exhibited in nearly 50 museums, universities, and attractions around the world. He’s also appeared on a number of shows and he designed coins for the Royal Mint. Follow him @BobNichollsart

In dinosaur news this week:

Paleontologists found the world’s oldest cerapodan dinosaur in Morocco
Scientists found a dinosaur bone underneath the parking lot of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
New theropods have been found at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site in Utah, U.S.
There’s a new large iguanodontian dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic in what is now Portugal

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0:23.8	February 28th hello and welcome to I know dino keep up with the latest dinosaur discoveries and
0:36.4	science with us I I'm Garrett.
0:38.0	And I'm Sabrina. And today in our 557th episode, we have an interview with paleo artist Bob Nichols.
0:45.5	Oh yeah, he's done so much cool stuff. We also have some news, some dinosaur discoveries that don't yet have names,
0:52.4	including one that was found in a parking lot.
0:54.6	It's like that king, right? Wasn't he found under a parking lot?
0:58.4	Oh, yeah.
0:59.0	In the UK somewhere?
1:00.5	We know all about that because that's not dinosaurs.
1:05.0	You can tell.
1:06.4	That one king that time.
1:08.3	We also have dinosaur of the day, Emosaurus, an early armored dinosaur.
1:12.7	And a fun fact, which is if you're looking for places to see fossils in the U.S.,
1:17.7	the Bureau of Land Management, BLM, has a list.
1:21.0	Cool.
1:22.0	Yeah, they have a lot of land.
1:23.9	I think a lot of their land is like land that nobody else wants, which often is good for fossils because it can be very barren.
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