Yes indeed, the campaign has been extended to October 10, and as of this post, it is at $159,474 USD, meaning it just needs another $25,526 to achieve its goal!
Here are the add-ons and reward tiers. Those fossil magnets are pretty cool.
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Most prehistoric proboscideans followed the same basic body plan: a big body on big legs and a big head with big ears and a big nose. Even ones with comparatively small ears and noses like Deinotherium still had them bigger than any other group of mammals.
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Many readers will be familiar with the Fauna Figures site set up by our very own Sean Bell in 2019. The blog was a follow up to his online store of the same name, and explores his extensive toy collection, which ranges broadly across time and taxa.
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Leave it to the Jurassic World franchise to once again thrust an exceptionally fragmentary dinosaur into the limelight and give it the wrong name in the process. Becklespinax is one of many synonyms for the early Cretaceous English theropod now known as Altispinax.
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What’s this then? Haolongood has revealed images of a species that wasn’t shown on their big teaser poster earlier this year: Triceratops!
It appears that these two are based on “Yoshi’s Trike,” MOR 3027, which has the longest horns of any Triceratops specimen in proportion to its size (although it wasn’t fully mature when it died, so it may have grown into them more had it lived).
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Eofauna’s second prehistoric toy for next year is yet another famous face: Ankylosaurus!
Granted, Ankylosaurus has had plenty of toys over the decades, but very few truly good ones. This definitely looks like a good one.
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Funko has revealed three new POP! figures for their Jurassic World series, only this time, they’re the bare bones.
Well, bare bones still embedded in rock! These could pass for non-JW dinosaurs. They are slated for release in November.
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It’s been over ten years since fellow reviewer Gwangi covered a figurine of Sinosauropteryx, a small compsognathid theropod, produced by Kaiyodo under their renowned Dinotales series. Since that time, a grand total of… two, maybe three more figurines… have been produced of this seminal genus.
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There are just 9 days left until the Prehistoric Elephants Backerkit campaign ends. At the time of this posting, it is at $119,127 USD, which is unfortunately short of the $185,000 goal. So if you want these figures and you can afford to back them, now is the time to do it.
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Before we begin the review, I would like to thank the generous folks over at ToyMonster, for sending me a large selection of Captivz figures for me to share with the blog.
I love how quickly Nasutoceratops has risen in popularity.
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Earlier this week Eofauna teased something new for early next year with a partially redacted photograph. It was clearly a fifth proboscidean, but we wondered which one could it be? An American mastodon? A gomphothere of some sort? Or perhaps even a dwarf mammoth?
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Schleich’s 2025 prehistoric assortment will include their first ever Carcharodontosaurus. They did a fairly decent job with the head; you can immediately tell it’s the shark-toothed lizard. This is probably the best out of the four.
There’s also a new Dilophosaurus, but it frankly looks like a step down from the previous version.
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