Paleo Artists often work closely with Museums and their Paleontologists. This partnership helps the Artists to create the most realistic depiction of those incredible animals that lived so long ago. Paleo Artists study the bones for how Dinosaurs moved. Working with Paleontologists they can recreate the muscle tissue and skin and feathers making Dinosaurs &…
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Gnatalie the Green Dinosaur
Mark your calendars for November 17th! Gnatalie, a Diplodocus – like long necked dinosaur will be unveiled at the Natural History Museum Los Angeles County. The Worlds only Green Fossilized Dinosaur! Nicknamed for the stinging gnats that attacked the excavators at the dig site. Gnatalie is the most complete sauropod skeletal mount on the West…
Fossils
Fossils tell Us a Great Deal about the Animals that left them behind – What they looked like, What they Ate, How they Moved about, Attracted Mates, Worked Together, Their Vision, We are even estimating what sounds they made. Unfortunately, many things must take place for an animal to be preserved. Therefore, we know about…
Bugs Before the Dinosaurs
Bugs have been around Millions of Years before the Dinosaurs. Can You image a Dragonfly with a 28 inch Wingspan? Well, Meganeuropsis was such an Insect with a 17 inch long body. I stood with my arms outstretched as if I could fly. If a Meganeuropsis landed on my chest. Its head would be beneath…
From the North Pole to Down Under!
Alaskacephale gangloffi with size comparison to human and larger Pachycephalosaurus by Karkenish own work. Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth for over 150 million Years! Fossils of their bones, eggs and tracks have been found around the globe. In Alaska which was much further North than it is today, Dinosaurs thrived. Although temperatures were warmer similar to…
Were Dinosaurs Good Dads?
We know from the fossil records many Dinosaurs protected and traveled with their young. Oviraptor (Egg Thief) received its inaccurate name when found on top of a nest of eggs. Over 50 years later a CT scan indicated the eggs were baby Oviraptors. The parent was protecting the nest from danger not steeling the eggs. …
National Dinosaur Day!
June 1st is National Dinosaur Day! What will You do for Your Dinosaur Today? A trip to the Museum… A visit to the Library… Or just Reading a Book or two at Home… Kite Flying at the Beach… Out for a Drive… Sketching Together… Or maybe something as simple as helping with an itch…
Dinosaur Claws & Feathers
Deinocheirus mirificus was discovered in 1965 by a Polish-Mongolian Expedition led by Professor Zofia Kielan-Jaworosha. A pair of large arms, huge claws, shoulder girdles and a few other bones were found in the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. Name by palaeontologist Halszka Osmolska – Greek for horrible hand. Believed to be a carnivorous dinosaur at the…
Wild & Crazy Ceratopsians
Above: Teresa the Triceratops with friends Mario, Logan, Noah & Corrine. Just when you thought you have seen the wildest head frill a new discovery is uncovered. Many times, from deep in the vast vaults of a museum’s collections. Sometimes due to original misidentification and other times from long overlooked items on the shelf. It…
Happy Easter!
What’s Up with the Easter Bunny? Why do the Bunnies get all the hype? As I mentioned in my previous post, there are lots of Eastersaurs and I’m sure other animals that Share Friendship and Goodwill! So how did the Rabbit get top billing? Sure, they’re cute but I think there are two reasons they…