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  • Arthur Lakes school teacher and amateur fossil hunter who touched off the great bone wars by sending fossils he collected near Morrison, Colorado to O.C. Marsh made this drawing at Como Bluff, Wyoming.
    scf4327-180-lakes aurthur como bluff.jpg
  • Arthur Lakes school teacher and amateur fossil hunter who touched off the great bone wars by sending fossils he collected near Morrison, Colorado to O.C. Marsh made this drawing at Como Bluff, Wyoming.
    Lakes Aurthur Como Bluff.jpg
  • The Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx is one of the most famous fossils in the world.  Seemingly half dinosaur and half bird, it has been called a fossil caught in the act of evolution.
    scf4327-032-archaeopteryx 0002.jpg
  • The Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx is one of the most famous fossils in the world.  Seemingly half dinosaur and half bird, it has been called a fossil caught in the act of evolution.
    scf4399-038_Archaeopteryx 0001.jpg
  • The Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx is one of the most famous fossils in the world.  Seemingly half dinosaur and half bird, it has been called a fossil caught in the act of evolution.
    scf4327-031-archaeopteryx 0001.jpg
  • The Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx is one of the most famous fossils in the world.  Seemingly half dinosaur and half bird, it has been called a fossil caught in the act of evolution.
    Archaeopteryx 0002.jpg
  • The Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx is one of the most famous fossils in the world.  Seemingly half dinosaur and half bird, it has been called a fossil caught in the act of evolution.
    Archaeopteryx 0001.jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    scf4327-211-sereno paul 0001.jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    scf4373-368_Sereno Expd Ischigual 1b.jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    Herrerasaur Skull Serenos 3.jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    scf4327-154_Herrerasaur Skull Sereno...jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    Sereno Expd Ischigual 1b.jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    scf4327-154-herrerasaur skull sereno...jpg
  • Paul Sereno holds the skull of a Herrerasaur found in the "Valley of the Moon" an area of Patagonia known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    scf4327-153_Herrerasaur Skull Sereno...jpg
  • Paul Sereno holds the skull of a Herrerasaur found in the "Valley of the Moon" an area of Patagonia known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    scf4327-153-herrerasaur skull sereno...jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    Sereno Expedition Ishigual.jpg
  • Paul Sereno holds the skull of a Herrerasaur found in the "Valley of the Moon" an area of Patagonia known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    Herrerasaur Skull Serenos 4.jpg
  • Paul Sereno holds the skull of a Herrerasaur found in the "Valley of the Moon" an area of Patagonia known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    Herrerasaur Skull Serenos 2.jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    Sereno Ischigualasto.jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    Sereno Paul 0001.jpg
  • Paul Sereno holds the skull of a Herrerasaur found in the "Valley of the Moon" an area of Patagonia known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    Herrerasaur Skull Serenos 1.jpg
  • Billed as the world's oldest house, a fossil shop near Bone Cabin Quarry is constructed of Jurassic dinosaur bones about 145 million years old.
    Fossil Cabin 0001.jpg
  • Terry Manning a fossil dealer and paleontologist from Leicester, England patiently prepares fossilized embryos with a diluted solution of acetic acid which eats away matrix at a few thousandths of an inch per day.
    Dino Egg embryo England.jpg
  • A thereizinosaur embryo how it would have appeared in its egg.  By artist Brian Cooley.  Terry Manning a fossil dealer and paleontologist from Leicester, England patiently prepared the real fossilized embryos with a diluted acid solution..
    scf4327-106_Dino Eggs Model 0002.jpg
  • A thereizinosaur embryo how it would have appeared in its egg.  By artist Brian Cooley.  Terry Manning a fossil dealer and paleontologist from Leicester, England patiently prepared the real fossilized embryos with a diluted acid solution..
    scf4327-106.jpg
  • A thereizinosaur embryo how it would have appeared in its egg.  By artist Brian Cooley.  Terry Manning a fossil dealer and paleontologist from Leicester, England patiently prepared the real fossilized embryos with a diluted acid solution..
    scf4327-106-dino eggs model 0002.jpg
  • Terry Manning a fossil dealer and paleontologist from Leicester, England patiently prepares fossilized embryos with a diluted solution of acetic acid which eats away matrix at a few thousandths of an inch per day.
    Dino Egg embryo w text.jpg
  • Terry Manning a fossil dealer and paleontologist from Leicester, England patiently prepares fossilized embryos with a diluted solution of acetic acid which eats away matrix at a few thousandths of an inch per day.
    Dino Egg embryo bl bkgrou.jpg
  • A thereizinosaur embryo how it would have appeared in its egg.  By artist Brian Cooley.  Terry Manning a fossil dealer and paleontologist from Leicester, England patiently prepared the real fossilized embryos with a diluted acid solution..
    Dino Eggs Model 0002.jpg
  • The discovery of a fossil feather in Solnhofen Limestone Quarry in 1860 was a prelude to Archaopteryx, found one year later in the same quarry system.
    Archaeopteryx 0005 Feather.jpg
  • Prior to the opening of a fossil hall of the American Museum of Natural History a plesiosaur cast is assembled.
    scf4327-204_Plesiosaur 0002 American...jpg
  • From 1909-1913 in excess of 250 tons of fossil material, including Brachiosaurus, was transported over four-day marches on the heads + backs of ports from Tendaguru Africa to the port of Lindi 50 miles (80 k) away.
    Brachiosaurus 0007.jpg
  • The discovery of a fossil feather in Solnhofen Limestone Quarry in 1860 was a prelude to Archaopteryx, found one year later in the same quarry system.
    Archaeopteryx 0004 Feather.jpg
  • Prior to the opening of a fossil hall of the American Museum of Natural History a plesiosaur cast is assembled.
    scf4327-204-plesiosaur 0002 american...jpg
  • The discovery of a fossil feather in Solnhofen Limestone Quarry in 1860 was a prelude to Archaopteryx, found one year later in the same quarry system.
    scf4327-033-archaeopteryx 0005 feath...jpg
  • Prior to the opening of a fossil hall of the American Museum of Natural History a plesiosaur cast is assembled.
    Plesiosaur 0003.jpg
  • A year before The Berlin Specimen of Archaeopteryx was found this fossil feather was found in the Solnhofen Limestone Quarry in Bavaria.  One year after Darwin wrote "On the Origin of Species."
    Archaeopteryx 0003 feather.jpg
  • Prior to the opening of a fossil hall of the American Museum of Natural History a plesiosaur cast is assembled.
    Plesiosaur 0001 American Mu.jpg
  • The discovery of a fossil feather in Solnhofen Limestone Quarry in 1860 was a prelude to Archaopteryx, found one year later in the same quarry system.
    scf4327-033_Archaeopteryx 0005 Feath...jpg
  • Prior to the opening of a fossil hall of the American Museum of Natural History a plesiosaur cast is assembled.
    Plesiosaur 0002 American Mu.jpg
  • Stephen Czerkas sculpted this Carnotaurus, now in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.  At the Carnotaurus ("meat-eating bull") excavation site in Argentina they discovered huge patches of fossilized skin impressions.
    scf4399-050_Carnotaurus Czerkas 0001.jpg
  • Stephen Czerkas sculpted this Carnotaurus, now in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.  At the Carnotaurus ("meat-eating bull") excavation site in Argentina they discovered huge patches of fossilized skin impressions.
    Carnotaurus Czerkas 0003.jpg
  • Terry Manning paleontologist from Leicester, England patiently prepares fossilized embryos with a diluted solution of acetic acid which eats away matrix at a few thousandths of an inch per day over a year-long process.
    Dino Eggs Manning Terry.jpg
  • Stephen Czerkas sculpted this Carnotaurus, now in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.  At the Carnotaurus ("meat-eating bull") excavation site in Argentina they discovered huge patches of fossilized skin impressions.
    Carnotaurus Czerkas 0001.jpg
  • Stephen Czerkas sculpted this Carnotaurus, now in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.  At the Carnotaurus ("meat-eating bull") excavation site in Argentina they discovered huge patches of fossilized skin impressions.
    scf4327-054-carnotaurus czerkas 0001.jpg
  • Karen Chin, the world's expert on fossilized dinosaur dung (coprolites), with her collection of suspected droppings while researching for her doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
    Chin Karen Coprolites UC.jpg
  • Stephen Czerkas sculpted this Carnotaurus, now in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.  At the Carnotaurus ("meat-eating bull") excavation site in Argentina they discovered huge patches of fossilized skin impressions.
    Carnotaurus Czerkas 0002.jpg
  • Karen Chin, the world's expert on fossilized dinosaur dung (coprolites), with her collection of suspected droppings while researching for her doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
    scf4327-057-chin karen coprolites 00...jpg
  • Karen Chin, the world's expert on fossilized dinosaur dung (coprolites), with her collection of suspected droppings while researching for her doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
    Chin Karen coprolites 0002.jpg
  • Karen Chin, the world's expert on fossilized dinosaur dung (coprolites), with her collection of suspected droppings while researching for her doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
    scf4399-052_Chin Karen coprolites 00...jpg
  • Baron Cuvier, French Scientis, is considered to be the father  of modern paleontology and comparative anatomy. He popularized the idea of extinction and debunked the myth that  all creatures still existed in unexplored parts of the planet.
    scf4373-147_Cuvier Baron Georges 000...jpg
  • Jose Bonaparte with Amargasaurus, a "jibbed" sauropod from the Argentina at the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Buenos Aires.  Discoverer was Guillermo Rougier.
    scf4399-034_Amargasaurus 0003 Jose B...jpg
  • Jose Bonaparte with Carnotaurus the "meat-eating bull," predator from the Argentina at the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Buenos Aires.
    scf4327-397_Bonaparte Jose 0003a Car...jpg
  • Working eventually with more Iguanodon remains, Gideon Mantell made the first reconstruction of a dinosaur above.  From the Natural History Museum, London.
    scf4327-162_Iguanodon 0009 Drawing.jpg
  • Fast food restaurant near the Black Hills of South Dakota.
    Pop Culture 0003 Flinstone.jpg
  • Duckbill jaw showing how upper and lower jaw ground plants.
    scf4399-079_Duckbill Teeth 0001.jpg
  • Dinosaur Eggs Discovered by Family in Lamarque, Argentiana
    scf4327-080_Dino Egg 0020 Patagonia.jpg
  • Chinese apothecaries, like this one in Beijing, still sell ground-up dinosaur bone for pharmaceutical purposes.  "Stone dragon bones" are believed to have the power to cure a variety of ailments.<br />
Chinese apothecaries, like this one in Beijing, still sell ground-up dinosaur bone for pharmaceutical purposes.  "Stone dragon bones" are believed to have the power to cure a variety of ailments.
    scf4327-058-chinese apothecary 0001.jpg
  • Night watchman at the American Museum of Natural History in New York shines his light on a T. rex while making rounds.<br />
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T. Rex, "tyrant lizard king," was one of the largest-ever meat eating land animals.  The bi-pedal giant grew to some 40 feet (12 meters) and weighed up to 7 US tons (6.5 metric tons) and small two-fingered hands that were actually surprisingly strong.
    scf4327-029-americanmuseumnatural 00...jpg
  • Octogenarian bone hunter Same Welles, researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, with a cast of Dilophosaurus, the "double crested reptile," a Jurassic-aged carnivorous dinosaur he found on a Navajo Reservation.
    Welles Sam 0002 Dilophosaur-3.jpg
  • The T.rex called Sue was excavated and prepared by the Black Hills Institute and by their policy named after the discoveror, Sue Hendrcikson, an amateur paleontologist.
    T rex Sue 4 w bandages.jpg
  • A 129-foot-tall (39 m) T.rex hot-air balloon, owned by Thunder and Colt Balloons, glides over Dinosaur Provincial Park.<br />
A 129-foot-tall (39 m) T.rex hot-air balloon, owned by Thunder and Colt Balloons comes to a rest and the hot air is released by paleontologist Phil Currie (far right in field) who was riding in the gondola.<br />
T. Rex, "tyrant lizard king," was one of the largest-ever meat eating land animals.  The bi-pedal giant grew to some 40 feet (12 meters) and weighed up to 7 US tons (6.5 metric tons) and small two-fingered hands that were actually surprisingly strong.
    T rex Balloon 0001.jpg
  • Louie Psihoyos (left) with Skull of Edward Drinker Cope author of Hunting Dinosaurs and John Knoebber.
    Psihoyos Louie 0001Knoebber.jpg
  • All over the town of Drumheller, Canada dinosaur pop culture abounds, even at the rodeo grounds.
    Pop Culture 0002 RodeoGroun.jpg
  • Founded in 1969 Kokoro Company created the first mechanical dinosaur models which are distributed throughout the world.
    Kokoro Warehouse.jpg
  • At Stan Winston Studios outside L.A. in Van Nuys, CA., the dinosaurs, like this Dilophosaurus for Steven Spielberg's action epic, Jurassic Park are created by a Winston animator.
    Jurassic Park 0008.jpg
  • A caravan of vehicles on a paleontological expedition from the American Museum of Natural History travels near Ukhaa Tolgod in the Gobi Desert.
    Gobi Desert 0001.jpg
  • Paleontologist, Author Bob Bakker with Allosaurus Hand.
    Bakker Bob 0008.jpg
  • As Bob Bakker's warm-blooded theory heated up and gathered the support of the scientific community, museums around the world responded by mounting their dinosaurs in more active poses.
    Bakker Bob 0015 T rex-2.jpg
  • Paleontologist, Author Bob Bakker with Allosaurus Hand.
    Bakker Bob0009.jpg
  • As Bob Bakker's warm-blooded theory heated up and gathered the support of the scientific community, museums around the world responded by mounting their dinosaurs in more active poses.
    Bakker Bob 0014 T rex.jpg
  • Paleontologist Paul Sereno's expedition to Niger found this specimen of Afrovenator "African Hunter."
    Afrovenator 0001 Sereno P.jpg
  • At the Municipal Museum in Plaza Huincul, Rodolfo Coria, the leading paleontologist in the province of Neuquen prepares the vertebrae of an unnamed sauropod, the largest ever found from the Cretaceous.
    scf4399-056_Coria Rodolfo.jpg
  • A nest of Mussaurus "mouse lizards" prosauropods of the Late Triassic and some of the smallest dinosaur specimens ever found were discovered near Tucuman in Argentina.  Model by artist Matt R. Smith.
    scf4399-030_Mussaurus Hatchling 0001.jpg
  • A Seismosaurus site in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Part of the upper Morrison Formation dating 154 million years.  These gastroliths were found near the rib cage and are believed to have aided in digestion much like birds todays.
    scf4373-227_Gastroliths 0001.jpg
  • Shed teeth of Jurassic Perpetrators Allosaurus Ceratosaurus and Megalosaurus and the jaws of their lungfish victims.
    scf4373-194_Dinosaur teeth Perps Vic...jpg
  • Jose Bonaparte with Carnotaurus the "meat-eating bull," predator from the Argentina at the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Buenos Aires.
    scf4327-396bonaparte jose 0003 carno...jpg
  • Plateosaurus from the late Triassic in Western Europe on Display at the Stuttgart Natural History Museum.  The 26ft (8) long plant eater may have reared up to browse.
    scf4327-203-plateosaurus stuttgart.jpg
  • Paul Sereno, associate professor of paleontology at the U. of Chicago with reconstructed Carcharodontosaurus skull of this 90 million-year-old meat-eating dinosaur he discovered in the Sahara in Niger, Africa
    scf4327-050-carcharodontosaurus 0003.jpg
  • Reconstruction of 90-million-year-old Carcharodontosaurus skull discovered by University of Chicago professor Paul Sereno on expedition to Niger in the Sahara.
    scf4327-049-carcharodontosaurus 0002.jpg
  • Reconstruction of 90-million-year-old Carcharodontosaurus skull discovered by University of Chicago professor Paul Sereno on expedition to Niger in the Sahara.
    scf4327-048-carcharodontosaurus 0001.jpg
  • At Stan Winston Studios outside L.A. in Van Nuys, CA., the dinosaurs, like this Brachiosaurus for Steven Spielberg's action epic, Jurassic Park were created.  Stan is one of Hollywoods most innovative character creators.
    Jurassic Park 0016.jpg
  • Jim Jensen has excavated the shoulder blade of an animal, from Dry Mesa Quarry in Colorado, Ultrasaurus, perhaps the largest animal to ever walk the earth.  He stands with the extrapolated cast of its foreleg hung from a crane.
    Jensen Jim 0002.jpg
  • Jim Farlow, paleontologist with Indiana Univ. uses a displacement theory developed by R. McNeill Alexander of the Univ. of Leeds in England to calculate the weight of Mamenchisaurus at about twenty-three tons.
    Farlow Jim Mamenchisaurus.jpg
  • Dinosaur Tracker, Martin Lockley investigates brontosaur trackways near the Purgatoire River in S.E CO.  The parallel tracks, along an ancient lake shoreline of the Morrison Formation are convincing evidence sauropods were social.
    Dinosaur Tracks Lockley0005.jpg
  • Dinosaur Tracker, Martin Lockley crouches in the hole of giant sauropod footprint as he prepares to make a cast.
    Dinosaur Tracks Lockley0004.jpg
  • Artifacts from the lives of archenemies O.C. Marsh (left) and Edward Drinker Cope.  From Yale University, the Marsh pick became the standard for today's paleontologists.  Marsh's commissioned drawings of a Ceratosaurus, from the archives of the Smithsonian Institution, provide a backdrop for his compass and portrait of him (center row middle) and his 1870 field crew to the West.  Cope artifacts include: his pick and field diary from the American Museum of Natural History; from the Smithsonian archives, headlines of the original New York Herald chronicling their public fued; field specimens discovered in the vaults of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, left as Cope had prepared them for shipment - still wrapped in newspapsers of the day, the Fargo Forum and the Sioux County Herald, both dated 1893.  From the University of Pennsylvania, the bones of the legendary bone hunter himself, Professor Edward Drinker Cope.
    Cope 0003CopeMarshStillLife.jpg
  • One of the strange mutations that developed when South America split off from the other continents for 65 million years was Carnotaurus, the "meat-eating bull," a predator that grew horns on its head.  Circa 1993
    Carnotaurus 0003 Bonaparte.jpg
  • William Walker, plumber and discoverer of Baryonyx, found the specimen while walking in smokejack's Quarry near Dorking on his day off and brought it to Angela Milner at the British Museum of Natural History pictured.
    Baryonyx 0001 Angel Milner.jpg
  • After sixty-five million years you can still cut yourself on a T.rex tooth.  T. rex had serrated edges on the fore and afte edges of its teeth, and like sharks they constantly rejuvenated teeth throughout their lives.
    scf4399-103_ 0004 BlackHills.jpg
  • Founded in 1969 Kokoro Company created the first mechanical dinosaur models which are distributed throughout the world.
    scf4399-086_Kokoro Maiasaura 0002.jpg
  • Paleontologist Jack Horner at Dinosaur Field Station near Choteau, Montana where teepees hold up better to the strong mountain winds than traditional tents.  Jack was the inspiration for Jurassic Park.
    scf4399-083_Horner Jack 0008b teepee...jpg
  • Perle, Mongolian Paleontologist with a Giant Duckbill Dinosaur at the Ulan Bator State Museum in Mongolia.  The plant eater was found in the Gobi Desert.
    scf4399-078_Duckbill Mongolia w Perl...jpg
  • Molecular Biologist Chen Zhangliang of the College of Life Sciences at Peking University who works with paleontologist Zhang Yun says he can extract DNA from dinosaur eggs.
    scf4399-060_Dino Egg DNA Extraction0...jpg
  • The T.rex called Sue was excavated and prepared by the Black Hills Institute.  Founders Pete (left) brother Neal Larson (Center) and Bob Farrar (right).
    scf4373-388_T rex Sue 3 Black Hills ...jpg
  • A number of dinosaur theme parks attempt to reconcile the biblical version of creation by displaying religious icons and statues along with dinosaurs.
    scf4373-343_Pop Culture 0004.jpg
  • Mesozoic bonehead with modern head-banger gear.
    scf4373-330_Pachycephalosaurus 0001.jpg
  • Priest and dinosaur tracker Giuseppe Leonardi, who understands some thirty languages, has crossed piranha-infested streams and flooded rivers and robbed three times by bandits searching for tracks.
    scf4373-198_Dinosaur Tracks 0019 Gui...jpg
  • As Bob Bakker's was one of the leading paleontologists that championed the idea that birds descended from dinosaurs.  Today there are about 9000 species of birds and some 4500 species of mammals.
    scf4373-077_Bakker Bob 0020 GoldenEa...jpg
  • T. Rex was one of the largest-ever meat eating land animals.  The bi-pedal giant grew to some 40 ft (12 meters) weighed up to 7 US tons (6.5 metric tons) and sported teeth that were nearly a foot-long (centimeters) with the root.
    scf4356-438_T rex Portrait Side 1.jpg
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