Dave Hone

But even so, that's true.

They turn up in places where lots of other dinosaurs don't tend to turn up.

including carnivores, which suggests they're eating something else.

If you look at the isotopic signature of the teeth, often it correlates with crocodiles, fish, turtles, and stuff that lives in water, and doesn't correlate well with other land-living dinosaurs that lived in the same time and same place.

So you put all of that together...

And it's really hard to argue, oh, in addition to the tiny detail of baryonyx, the British one was found with fish scales inside its chest cavity.

So you put all of that together, and yeah, I'm not saying it only ate fish.

I'm sure it ate big shrimp and turtles, and we know they were predating on terrestrial dinosaurs and pterosaurs, because again, stomach contents and teeth and stuff.

But fundamentally, this is an animal or a group of animals doing something different to the other carnivorous dinosaurs.

And it's probably linked to water and it's probably linked to fish as a predominant way of living.

So in the UK, it will be out in November.

In North America, January or February 2026.

Written with Mark Whitten, who did that picture.

It's a beautiful creature.

Which I think is in there.

Mark's done a ton of new artwork.

He helped write the book, but he's also the artist.

Not very is my take.

Does it live in the water?

Does it step in the water?