Gregory Wenzel is an award winning writer and illustrator specializing in natural science subjects. His first illustrated book about Dinosaurs, The Monsters who Died was done in 1982 and since then he has written and illustrated books about dinosaurs, Giant Dinosaurs of the Jurassic and The Feathered Dinosaurs of China, as well as illustrating many other books covering a wide range of subjects from dinosaurs to creatures of the deep sea. His art has also been used on The Tonight Show, The Discovery Channel and in Michael Crichton’s book “The Lost World” as well as in natural history museums and on posters.

Greg is also an acclaimed sculptor creating 10 models for the Battat line of dinosaur toys, considered by many to be the best line of toy dinosaurs ever produced, as well as 26 wild animal toys for Safari, Ltd. His larger sculptures can be found on the halls of museums like the Boston Museum of Science.

Greg lives in Massachusetts with a studio filled with bones and fossils and all manner of natural history objects including his cat. He is not the only artist in his family. His brother, David Wenzel, is an illustrator and graphic novelist, (Kingdom of the Dwarfs, Middle Earth: The World of Tolkien Illustrated, The Hobbit, a graphic novel) and his nephew, Brendan Wenzel, is a children’s author and illustrator. (They All Saw A Cat, Hello, Hello, A Stone Sat Still)