042March 5, 2021

Seen in the village of Frick, Canton Aargau, Switzerland: the herbivorous respectively omnivorous dinosaur Plateosaurus with mouth-nose mask. After the Covid-19 pandemic has had a more or less firm grip on humanity already for one year accompanied by hard economic and social restrictions, jokers have taken the liberty of having a bit of fun.

041November 27, 2020

One of our Emericiceras models moved for six months into a showcase of the Zurich restaurant Maison Manesse and watches the guests there eating.

038September 12, 2020

The Golden Ratio or Golden Section, which is known since ancient times, is the division ratio of a distance or other size, where the ratio of the whole to its larger part is equal to the ratio of the larger to the smaller part. Pictures and objects that are constructed according to the proportions of the Golden Section are said to have a special aesthetic effect.

037August 23, 2020

After months of both hard and satisfying work we were able to launch our new homepage last night. We have put a lot of effort into improving the usability and graphics of the site to provide a better surfing and shopping experience for our customers.

033August 24, 2018

We are working hard on the development of stylish PALAEOLOVE T-Shirts with genuine PALAEOLOVE subjects.

032May 6, 2018

Heteromorph ammonites belong to the most spectacular cephalopods that have ever lived in the seas of our planet.

031July 24, 2017

In 1910 the Società Anonima Miniere Scisti bituminosi di Meride e di Besano started its commercial activity with the opening of the oil factory Spinirolo close to Meride, a small village situated on the southern slop of the Monte San Giorgio, Canton of Ticino, Switzerland.

030June 12, 2017

In 2017 the annual reception of the Zurich City Pharmacists (Verband Stadtzürcher Apotheken) took place on Thursday 8. June in the tower restaurant of the University of Zurich (Restaurant uniTurm).

029June 4, 2017

We just went live: Sunday 4. June 2017 at 6.00 pm. We thank all friends, partners and collaborators of the PALAEOLOVE project for their support and excellent work!

028May 21, 2017

First models of prehistoric animals – 3D printed and nicely coated/finished – manufactured according to life reconstructions from the 1850s can now be purchased by our customers.

027March 10, 2017

Our jewellery or master mark «PL» certifies that the stamped jewellery pieces are designed and manufactured by PALAEOLOVE. Furthermore, this sign is our registered and protected responsibility mark for our jewellery pieces made of solid precious metals.

026January 5, 2017

Since the year 2000, the Pantone Color Institute selects every year a particular charming respectively stimulating colour as the «Colour of the Year» that corresponds to the Zeitgeist.

025November 2, 2016

From now we are able to offer first pieces of jewellery (brooches, pins) in various materials. Please ask us if you like a special decorative item that you cannot find in our current range. We try to produce it for you.

024August 15, 2016

A tide gate of a flood barrier in the town of Glückstadt on the Elbe river is sprayed with graffiti art devoted to fish, seafood and nautical equipment.

023July 30, 2016

Our appealing handmade PALAEOLOVE Caffè-Tè Cups are decorated with exquisitely drawn subjects of organisms and are almost ready for sale.

022June 26, 2016

The title of this small still life painted by the Finnish female artist Annu Kapulainen is «halkaisija (Finnish) = diameter» (Magistrat Salzburg 2016 a-b), respectively «The morning of all mornings (aikojen aamu, Finnish = old morning)».

021June 14, 2016

Once one of the PALAEOLOVE guys together with the staff of the Sauriermuseum Frick, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, had the opportunity to develop a stamp edition focusing on Mesozoic fossil vertebrates on behalf of the Swiss Postal Service.

020June 8, 2016

The «labyrinthodont» amphibian Mastodontosaurus JAEGER, 1828 [Labyrinthodon OWEN, 1842 (1842a-c)], a giant Mesozoic temnospondyl, was at first reconstructed for a long time as enormous toad or frog with the mouth and dentition of a lizard.

019June 7, 2016

Iguanodon MANTELL, 1825 (Ornithopoda, Ornithischia) is the first herbivorous dinosaur that was scientifically described.

018May 14, 2016

Treat yourself with an airbrushed version of our detailed scientific 3D models like this modern life reconstruction of a Mesozoic cephalopod (Ceratites) and enjoy enhancing it by having the object painted according to your wishes.

017April 10, 2016

Plesiosaurs were typical marine reptiles of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods that were relatively lifelike depicted even in early scientific literature.

016April 6, 2016

Even large new mammalian taxa can still be discovered.

014March 25, 2016

Arthur Éloffe was born in 1826 in Vesoul, Franche-Comté (Freigrafschaft Burgund), France. He was a trained taxidermist and ran a naturalist preparatory business as well as a small school in the Rue de l'Ecole de Médecine 20, Paris.

015March 25, 2016

Henry Augustus Ward (1834 to 1906) was an academic who had a variety of educational experiences including studies at various establishments in the United States and the Paris School of Mines (LAMBRECHT & QUENSTEDT 1938).

013March 24, 2016

Ichthyosaur fossils were first interpreted as being remains of fish, crocodiles, lizards, dolphins, sea lions or «sea-dragons». ­

012January 14, 2016

The idea behind this product is to put on sale cups with handles adorned with anatomically accurate illustrations of both fossil and living animals and plants plus precise scientific information that are suitable for right-handed and left-handed persons.

010November 15, 2015

In the middle of the 19th century life-size sculptures of large to giant extinct animals of the Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras created by the English sculptor and natural history artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 to 1889) were arranged in the Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham, South London, for the world's first prehistoric park (LAMBRECHT & QUENSTEDT 1938).

011November 15, 2015

Our stylish, handmade PALAEOLOVE Latte Cup in blue, red and green colour shades are ready for sale.

009September 25, 2015

We proudly present our new PALAEOLOVE Latte Cup. The shape of the cup follows a plain but timeless and pleasant design.

008September 1, 2015

If we are interested in wildlife or the evolution of animals and plants, respectively their behaviour, ecological requirements or systematics, we will encounter disciplines of organismic biology (neontology) and palaeobiology (palaeontology). The same will happen if we are interested, e.g., in mushrooms/fungi or early and primitive life.

007August 29, 2015

The history of the Earth, which began with the formation of the planet approximately 4.5 billion years ago, is divided into named units of unequal ranks like «Mesozoic», «Triassic», «Jurassic», «Cretaceous» and so on (see below).

006July 23, 2015

In biological sciences there are two approaches for establishing family trees or cladograms of organisms: based on fossil data on the one and on molecular data on the other hand.

005July 9, 2015

Edwin Stephen Goodrich (1868 to 1946), born in France and most of his life a scientist working at the University of Oxford, was a famous English zoologist and palaeontologist, who was interested in research on comparative anatomy and faunistic classification.

004June 30, 2015

The classical, non-avian theropods are a major group of mostly carnivorous dinosaurs that lived from the Late Triassic to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago and, therefore, survived more than 160 million years of the Mesozoic.

003June 10, 2015

Today the basis for the denomination of animals and plants is the binominal nomenclature that was introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné (1707 to 1778, born as Carl Nilsson Linnaeus [Linnæus]) in 1753 for plants («Species Plantarum») and in 1758 for animals («Systema Naturae», 10th edition).

002June 6, 2015

The logo of the new trademark combines the lettering «PALAEOLOVE» in a modern font and the silhouette of the rauisuchian Ticinosuchus ferox KREBS, 1965 to a word and figurative mark: Ticinosuchus is walking along the lettering.

001May 24, 2015

In the late spring of 2015 three practitioners from different occupational disciplines met to enjoy a good bottle of wine and to discuss the possibility of cooperating by combining their extensive knowledge in design, scientific illustration, modelling and organismic biology.