How to Blow Up a Torosaurus
That’s “blow up” in the sense of enlarge, not explode. A recent comment to this post about a life-sized Torosaurus sculpture reveals that a 7-foot scale model the statuesque ceratopsian was sculpted by YPM Preparator Michael Anderson, but artist George Mummert was commissioned to scale the model up to life-size. A slideshow of the process is online here, and other impressive work for natural history museums is shown on the site.
—Matt Celeskey.
File under: Cretaceous, Dinosaurs, Paleo-Pop.
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Effigia Roundup
In the week since Effigia hit the web, a lot of virtual ink has been devoted to this wonderful critter. Highlights include:
An article from the AMNH, with renderings of the skull and skeleton.
A charming, big-eyed restoration of the reptile by Sean Murtha for the New York Times.
And just today, a killer restoration in an article on the diversity of crocodiles and their relatives over at Olduvai George.
—Matt Celeskey.
File under: Recent Discoveries, Reptiles, Triassic.
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