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  • 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
  • A school boy in a tradional dell (or deel) on a class tour stands proud with a sauropod femur on display at the Ulan Bator State Museum in Mongolia.
    scf4327-208_Sauropod bone UBBOY 0001.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
  • Phil Currie, curator of dinosaurs for the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology in Drumheller, Canada excavates an egg nest on Green Dragon Mountain in Hubei Province of China.
    scf4373-136_Currie Dino Egg China 00...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
  • Crisp deliniations of sedimentary layers help define the bleak landscape of Badlands National Park in South Dakota.
    scf4327-691badlands 0001.jpg
  • Crisp deliniations of sedimentary layers help define the bleak landscape of Badlands National Park in South Dakota.
    scf4327-691_Badlands 0001.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
  • 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.
    scf4327-064-cope 0002copemarshstilll...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
  • Fast food restaurant near the Black Hills of South Dakota.
    Pop Culture 0003 Flinstone.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Duckbill jaw showing how upper and lower jaw ground plants.
    scf4399-079_Duckbill Teeth 0001.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
  • 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
  • Venetian entrepreneur and dinosaur expediton leader Giancarlo Ligabue with Ouranosaurus, a herbivorous sail-backed dinosaur excavated from the Sahara Desert of Niger on a joint campaign with Philippe Taquet.
    scf4327-197-ouranosaurus 0003 ligabu...jpg
  • Mononykus, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia was considered a primitive bird.
    scf4327-186-mononykus 0003 w rooster.jpg
  • Portrait of O.C. Marsh, founder of the Yale Peabody Museum and arch rival of Edward Drinker Cope.
    scf4327-183-marsh portrait 0001.jpg
  • Paleontologist Jack Horner holding a baby maiasaur from a display at Museum of the Rockies as her mother seems to look on.  Jack his in charge of the paleontology department there.<br />
Paleontologist Jack Horner holding a baby maiasaur from a display at Museum of the Rockies as her mother seems to look on.  Jack his in charge of the paleontology department there.
    scf4327-156-horner jack 0007 maiasau...jpg
  • Miners of the Smoky River Coal Company discovered a spectacular dinosaur footprint site during strip-mining operations near the foothills of the Canadian Rockies near Grand Cache, Alberta.
    scf4327-123_Dinosaur Tracks Grand 00...jpg
  • Therizinosaur nest from the Cretaceous in China about 110 - 65 million years ago.  They were related to T.rex but much smaller, about ten feet-long (3 meters).
    scf4327-096-dino egg nest china 0002.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
  • Insects in amber from the Humboldt Museum in Berlin.
    scf4327-028-amber insect 0002.jpg
  • Dave Thomas drives his 33-foot-long (10M) allosaurus to California past the Zia Pueblo Reservation in Arizona.
    scf4327-026-allosaurus on pickup 000...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
  • A mold of a T.rex tooth is made before it is cast at the Black Hills Institute in South Dakota.
    T rex Tooth 0001.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
  • T. Rexwas one of the largest-ever meat eating land animals.  The bi-pedal giant grew to some 40 ft (12 meters) and weighed up to 7 US tons (6.5 metric tons) It's mall two-fingered hands were actually surprisingly strong.
    T rex Portrait Side 3.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.
    T rex Portrait Side 1.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
  • Venetian entrepreneur and dinosaur expediton leader Giancarlo Ligabue with Ouranosaurus, a herbivorous sail-backed dinosaur excavated from the Sahara Desert of Niger on a joint campaign with Philippe Taquet.
    Ouranosaurus 0003 Ligabua.jpg
  • Mononykus, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia was considered a primitive bird.
    Mononykus 0006.jpg
  • Dinosaurs, like sharks, continually shed their teeth when feeding and new teeth would sprout up to take a broken ones place like on this Megalosaurus jaw from the Museum of Natural History in London<br />
Shed teeth of Jurassic Perpetrator Allosaurus found at Como Bluff by paleontologist Bob Bakker.
    Megalosaur 0001 Jaw Teeth.jpg
  • Group Portrait with O.C. Marsh, third from right, founder of the Yale Peabody Museum with his field crew from the 1870's.
    Marsh Portrait 0005fieldcrw.jpg
  • Founded in 1969 Kokoro Company created the first mechanical dinosaur models which are distributed throughout the world.
    Kokoro Warehouse.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
  • Dromaeosaur at the Field Station in Dinosaur Provincial Park of the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada
    Dromaeosaur Tyrrell 0002.jpg
  • At a dinosaur trackway site near Cameron, Arizona, native American Jason Stevens tries unsuccessfully to match the stride of an ancient predator which was as fast as an Olympian athlete's.
    Dinosaur Tracks Navajo 0004.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
  • This giant dinosaur egg nest was found by a farmer in his field.  Paleontologist Chai Zhongqing of the Institute of Cultural Relics excavates the matrix around the specimen which contains at least 26 eggs.
    Dino Egg Nest China 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
  • Dave Thomas drives his 33-foot-long (10M) Albertasaur to California past the Zia Pueblo Reservation in Arizona.
    Albertasaur on Pickup 0001.jpg
  • Paleontologist Paul Sereno's expedition to Niger found this specimen of Afrovenator "African Hunter."
    Afrovenator 0001 Sereno P.jpg
  • Paleontologist Dong Zhiming with about 175 dinosaur eggs of varying species confiscated and brought to the Institute of Cultural Relics.  Authorities confiscated some 3000 eggs in 1993.
    scf4399-062_Dino Egg Nest China 0003.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
  • The middle Jurassic was pretty much a black hole in dinosaur research until the mid-1970's, when a road crew cutting a swatch for a new hiway outside Zigong discovered a virtual cemetery of them.
    Zigong Dinosaur Museum 0002.jpg
  • The middle Jurassic was pretty much a black hole in dinosaur research until the mid-1970's, when a road crew cutting a swatch for a new hiway outside Zigong discovered a virtual cemetery of them.
    Zigong Dinosaur Museum 0001.jpg
  • Dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous near Shandong, China and where the beer Tsintao is from.
    Tsintaosaurus.jpg
  • Jose Bonaparte with Amargasaurus, a "jibbed" sauropod in the kitchen of the paleontology department of the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Buenos Aires.
    Bonaparte Jose 0005 Amargas.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
  • Dave Thomas excavates Seismosaurus bones which are the same color as the stone surrounding them.  Bones from the Morrison Formation are about 200X more radioactive than the stone so a black light is used in preparation.<br />
Dave Thomas excavates Seismosaurus bones which are the same color as the stone surrounding them.  Bones from the Morrison Formation are about 200X more radioactive than the stone so a black light is used in preparation.
    Seismosaurus Radioactiv0001.jpg
  • A Seismosaurus site in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Part of the upper Morrison Formation dating 154 million years.  The excavation took seven years due to the concrete-like consistency of the surrounding rock.
    Seismosaurus Site NM 0001.jpg
  • Insects in amber from the Humboldt Museum in Berlin.
    scf4399-037_Amber Insect 0002.jpg
  • Paleontologist Paul Sereno's expedition to Niger found this specimen of Afrovenator "African Hunter."
    scf4399-033_Afrovenator 0001 Sereno ...jpg
  • "Sue," the largest and most complete tyrannosaur ever found, with Pete (left) and brother, Neal Larson.  Sue was named after her discoverer, Sue Hendrickson as per the policy of their company, the Black Hills Institute.
    scf4399-012.jpg
  • Shed teeth of Jurassic Perpetrators Allosaurus Ceratosaurus and Megalosaurus and the jaws of their lungfish victims.
    scf4373-194_Dinosaur teeth Perps Vic...jpg
  • Shed Crodile Teeth found in Como Bluff, Wyoming ranked by size on graph paper.
    scf4373-192_Dinosaur teeth Crocodile.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) was left by Darwin, never one to argue in public for his own controversial ideas, to champion his friend and colleague's evolutionary theory.  He was called "Darwin's bulldog."
    scf4327-160-huxley thomas 0001.tif_.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
  • A school boy on a class tour stands proud with a sauropod femur on display at the Ulan Bator State Museum in Mongolia.<br />
A school boy in a tradional dell (or deel) on a class tour stands proud with a sauropod femur on display at the Ulan Bator State Museum in Mongolia.
    Sauropod bone UBBOY 0002.jpg
  • Dale Russell curator of the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.  Russell created the Dinosauroid, a model of what he thinks a smarter dinosaur would look like today if it had survived.
    Russell Dale 0001 Curator.jpg
  • Paleontologists have chiseled the remains of several hundred Jurassic dinosaurs since work began in 1909 near Jensen, Utah. A building was put over the site in 1958 to preserve the bones, which attract nearly 500,00 visitors per year.Stegasaurus Model Outside the Main Building
    Pop Culture 0013 Natl Monu.jpg
  • A popular Road-side attraction near Cabazon, California just west of Los Angeles, off Interstate 10.
    Pop Culture 0012 Cabazon C.jpg
  • Dead End Sign in the town of Dinosaur, Colorado.
    Pop Culture 0009a Dino CO.jpg
  • Town Cemetery for Dinosaur, Colorado.
    Pop Culture 0009 Dino CO.jpg
  • A farmer/sculptor near Fort Collins, assembled this sculpture of dinosaurs hauling an oil wagon.
    Pop Culture 0008 JunkSculpt.jpg
  • Sculpture of child riding a pterosaur near Zigong, China, an area where many middle Jurassic dinosaurs were discovered.
    Pop Culture 0006 ZigongChin.jpg
  • A nest of Mussaurus "mouse lizards" prosauropods of the Late Triassic and some of the smallest dinosaur specimens ever found were discovered by preparator Martin Vince of the U. of Tucuman in Argentina.
    Mussaurus Argentina 0002.jpg
  • At the Zigong Dinosaur Mseum in the  Sichuan Province, chinese paleontologist Dong Zhiming studies the neck of a twenty-meter-long (65.67 ft) Omeisaurus from a bosun's chair.
    Omeisaurus China.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.
    Mussaurus Hatchling 0001.jpg
  • A nest of Mussaurus "mouse lizards" prosauropods of the Late Triassic and some of the smallest dinosaur specimens ever found were discovered in a nest by preparator Martin Vince of the U. of Tucuman in Argentina.
    Mussaurus 0004 Skull.jpg
  • Near the rib cage of Seismosaurus, gillette's crew found about 240 stomach stones (gastroliths), enough to fill a 10-quart (10liter) bucket.  As with birds, the stomach stones may have aided a dinosaur's digestion.
    Gastroliths Stomach Stones.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
  • This Diplodocus longus from Wyoming, originally described by O.C. Marsh, is mounted in a state-of-the-art pose in Senckenberg Nature Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.  At 90 ft long but only 12 tons, it is kind of a Brontosaurus lite.
    Diplodocuslongus 2.jpg
  • Dinosaur Tracker, Martin Lockley and brontosaur trackways near the Purgatoire R.  in S.E CO.  The parallel tracks, along an ancient shoreline of the Morrison Formation he sites as evidence sauropods were social animals.
    Dinosaur Tracks Lockley0006.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
  • Paleontologists have chiseled the remains of several hundred Jurassic dinosaurs from their rocky tomb since work began in 1909 at what became the Carnegie Quarry near Jensen, Utah.
    Dinosaur Natl Monument0001a.jpg
  • Paleontologists have chiseled the remains of several hundred Jurassic dinosaurs from their rocky tomb since work began in 1909 at what became the Carnegie Quarry near Jensen, Utah.
    Dinosaur Natl Monument 0001.jpg
  • At the Municipal Museum in Plaza Huincul, Rodolfo Coria, the leading paleontologist in the province of Neuquen, and Raul Vacca prepare the vertebrae of an unnamed sauropod, the largest ever found from the Cretaceous.
    Coria Rodolfo Raul Vacca P.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
    Carcharodontosaurus 0003.jpg
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