#94: PNSO 2020 Miragaia (Rosana) Review

Erratum:
I've mentioned elsewhere that geography isn't my strongest knife in the drawer and I think it's time I sharpen it! Thanks to viewer Bernardo Filipe, who pointed out that the map I used to show Miragaia is actually incorrect.

There are two Miragaias in Portugal, the one where the actual dinosaur is from. The correct one should be the the actual village of Miragaia closer to the City of Lourinhã (aka the Capital of Dinosaurs of Portugal). The Miragaia in my video is a small neighbourhood in the city of Porto, and has nothing to do with the dinosaur except in name.

Inicidentally, Bernardo Filipe is a really talented paleoartist as well. I love his black and white illustrations on Instagram. Look him up!

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I’ve used the word “beautiful” for many PNSO dinosaurs. But while in those contexts, there are laymen who would call me crazy, for this dinosaur, not even the most uninterested layman could disagree.


This Miragaia is one of PNSO’s most beautiful pieces yet. It has the same quality of its previous stegosaur, Tuojiangosaurus, and far obliterates that of its previous Stegosaurus. PNSO has taken great creative licence in its conjecture in the shape of the plates and spines, while not neglecting the rest of the animal with a poverty of detail and texture.


The proportions are very nicely captured, and what would normally be the showcase of this animal, the neck, isn’t lost in the splendour that is the array of plates. The result is a total package of beauty, not a one trick pony of plates. If there is a top 3 of MUST HAVES from PNSO, this certainly takes up one spot!