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  • Mesozoic bonehead with modern head-banger gear.
    Pachycephalosaurus 0001.jpg
  • Mesozoic bonehead with modern head-banger gear.
    scf4373-330_Pachycephalosaurus 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Edwin Colbert, former chairman of the Department of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History rediscovered Coelophysis at Ghost Ranch in 1947.  Baby Coelophysis are in this specimen's stomach.
    scf4399-055_Coelophysis 0003.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
  • 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
  • Paleontologist Altangerel Perle working at the Flaming Cliffs in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia where some of the first dinosaur eggs were discovered.
    Perle Flaming Cliffs 0002.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This bowling ball-sized Argentinian dinosaur egg could have held nearly a gallon of yolk, enough for several dozen omelettes.
    scf4327-088_Dino Egg Bowling Ball 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Maiasaura 0002.jpg
  • Paleontologist Phil Currie's excavates at Dinosaur Provincial Park, a protected reserve of one of the most abundant resources of Cretaceous dinosaurs in the world.  This site contains Centrosaurs.
    Dinosaur ProvincialPark0004.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
  • Dave Thomas drives his 33-foot-long (10M) Albertasaur to California past the Zia Pueblo Reservation in Arizona.
    Albertasaur on Pickup 0001.jpg
  • Paleontologist Phil Currie investigates xnow-filled dinosaur tracks discovered by miners from the in Smoky River Coal Company mine near Grand Cache, Alberta.
    scf4399-057_Currie Phil 0012 GrandCa...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
  • Despite Sir Richard Owen's handicap of only having fragmentary evidence of dinosaurs he envisioned them scaled up as giant lizards and had a dinosaur park at the Crystal Palace constructed.
    scf4327-070-crystal palace dinos 000...jpg
  • Dead End Sign in the town of Dinosaur, Colorado.
    Pop Culture 0009a Dino CO.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
  • An Ornithomimus speci men from Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta Canada.  When the dinosaur die their neck is pulled back by neck tendons drying in the sun.
    scf4399-094_Ornithomimus 0001.jpg
  • Mark Norell slowly picks at a prehistoric nest of Dromaeosaur eggs in Ukhaa Tolgod, Gobi Desert.
    scf4373-321_Norell Mark Eggs.jpg
  • Paleontologists at Jack Horner's teepee encampment on Egg Mountain near Choteau, Montana.  Jack was much of the inspiration for Michael Crighton's Jurassic Park novel.
    scf4373-252_Horner Jack 0019 Choteau.jpg
  • This brontosaur sculpture at Dinosaur Gardens Prehistoric Zoo outside Alpena, Michigan has a christian shrine within its belly.  The owner of the park, who made the sculptures also made a hero-sized sculpture of Jesus at the entrance.  At first he made the hands too big so he dynamited them off and replaced them.
    scf4373-039_Alpena Michigan 1.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 small two-fingered hands that were actually surprisingly strong.
    scf4327-214-t rex am mus set up.jpg
  • Both twigs mounted are mounted on the heads of pins.  On the right is a juniper from Papua New Guinea the closest living relative to the 74 million-year-old relative on the right rescued from ironstone.  Left in the rain it will rust.
    scf4327-202-plants 0002 which will r...jpg
  • Famous Jurassic Park Ride at Universal Studio's Amusement Park in Southern California.  Jurassic Park was one of the largest grossing movies ever made, directed by Steven Spielberg.<br />
Famous Jurassic Park Ride at Universal Studio's Amusement Park in Southern California.  Jurassic Park was one of the largest grossing movies ever made, directed by Steven Spielberg.<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.
    scf4327-177-jurassic park ride 0001.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.
    scf4327-127_Dinosaur Tracks Navajo 0...jpg
  • Macroelongatoolithus xixiaensis is the largest known dinosaur egg.  Found in the Xixia Basin in China it is thought to be a therizinosaur.  Circa 1995
    scf4327-084-dino egg baby louie 0004.jpg
  • I found professor Cope in a box last used by Herbach and Rademan for electrical parts and his skull wrapped in the want ads of the Philadelphia Enquirer.
    scf4327-066-cope 0005 cope in box.jpg
  • Professor Edward Drinker Cope, from Philadelphia, PA. one of the most successful paleontologists in the world died in 1897.
    scf4327-063_Cope 0001 Edward portrai...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
  • A 129-foot-tall (39 m) T.rex hot-air balloon, owned by Thunder and Colt Balloons, glides over Dinosaur Provincial Park.
    T rex Balloon 0003.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 small two-fingered hands that were actually surprisingly strong.
    T rex Am Mus Set up.jpg
  • Famous Paleontologist who was responsible for giving dinasaurs their name. Owen proposed the name "Dinosauria" from the Greek which means, roughly, "fearfully great lizard."
    Owen Sir Richard 0001.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 0013.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.
    Horner Jack 0012 Choteau.jpg
  • A juvenile Velociraptor attacked a Protoceratops, which bit down of the predator's right hand with its beak-like jaws, locking both in a death grip.  The Velociraptor's hind claw is embedded in the Protoceratops' belly.
    Fighting Dinosaurs 0002.jpg
  • High in the Andes on an ancient nearly vertically faulted shoreline turned to stone geologist Ricardo Alonso of Salta, Argentina, measures the stride of a Cretaceous carnivorous dinosaur with a two-meter stick.
    Dinosaur Tracks 0021 Andes.jpg
  • This 4-inch long embryonic hadrodsaur upper leg bone in my hand would have grown to 4 feet in just a couple of years.  It is thought that small dinosaurs had to grow up quickly to avoid predators.
    Dino Growth.jpg
  • Deinonychus sculptures in a diorama by Stephen Czerkas in the California Academy of Sciences.  The 8 -11 foot (2.5-3.5 meter) long dinosaurs were named after their bladelike claws.  Deinonychus means "terrible claws."
    Deinonychus S F Museum.jpg
  • Deinonychus sculptures in a diorama by Stephen Czerkas in the California Academy of Sciences.  The 8 -11 foot (2.5-3.5 meter) long dinosaurs were named after their bladelike claws.  Deinonychus means "terrible claws."
    Deinonychus S F Mus Horiz.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 0015a w T Rex.jpg
  • John Knoebber at Yosemite National Park with Edward Drinker Cope's skull in Cardboard box.
    Cope 0018A with Knoebber.jpg
  • I found professor Cope in a box last used by Herbach and Rademan for electrical parts and his skull wrapped in the want ads of the Philadelphia Enquirer.  John Knoebber, my friend and assistant made him a new home. 1993
    Cope 0015 Travels with.jpg
  • Paleontologist, Author Bob Bakker.
    Bakker Bob 0001-2.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-2.jpg
  • Louie Psihoyos (Left), Edward Drinker Cope on night table and John Knoebber (Right) at the San Ysidro Resort in Santa Barbara.
    Cope 0017 LP and JK.jpg
  • Although Cope had named Coelophysis, a dinosaur discovered near Ghost Ranch by his collector David Baldwin in 1881, he had never been there himself until we made a pilgrimage with him in 1992.
    Cope 0006 Ghost Ranch.jpg
  • Jose Bonaparte with Amargasaurus, a "jibbed" sauropod from the Argentina at the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Buenos Aires.  Discoverer was Guillermo Rougier, left.
    Amargasaurus 0002 Jose Bo.jpg
  • Dave Thomas drives his 33-foot-long (10M) allosaurus to California past the Zia Pueblo Reservation in Arizona.
    Allosaurus on Pickup 0002.jpg
  • Dave Thomas drives his 33-foot-long (10M) allosaurus to California past the Zia Pueblo Reservation in Arizona.
    Allosaurus on Pickup 0001.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
  • T. Rex robotic dinosaur designed by the Japanese Company  Kokoro.
    scf4373-380_T rex Model Kokoro 0001.jpg
  • A small child wears a Trex costume outside the Cincinatti Museum Center.
    scf4373-352_Pop Culture 0010a OhioMu...jpg
  • In our never ending pursuit for scale comparisons we decided ducks would be appropriate for a photograph of one of the largest duckbill skulls ever discovered.  It was found in Mongolia by Russian paleontologists.
    scf4356-093_Duckbill Giant 0002.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
  • High in the Andes on an ancient nearly vertically faulted shoreline turned to stone geologist Ricardo Alonso of Salta, Argentina, measures the stride of a Cretaceous carnivorous dinosaur with a two-meter stick.
    scf4327-117-dinosaur tracks 0022 and...jpg
  • Edwin Colbert, former chairman of the Department of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History rediscovered Coelophysis at Ghost Ranch in 1947.  Baby Coelophysis are in this specimen's stomach.
    scf4327-061-coelophysis 0002.jpg
  • The T.rex called "Sue" was seized by the Fed and the whole town turned out to protest which was to be the center piece of the Hill City Museum.  Neal Larson, founder of the Black Hills Institute is consoled by family and friends
    T rex Sue 7 Neal.jpg
  • Professor John Ostrom of Yale University discovered Deinonychus, a pack-hunting dinosaur that terrorized victims during the Cretaceous with sicklelike claws on its feet.  Deinonychus means "terrible claw."
    Ostrom John 0003.jpg
  • Paleontologist Jack Horner looking at dinosaur egg shells on Egg Mountain near Choteau, Montana.  Jack was much of the inspiration for Michael Crighton's Jurassic Park novel.<br />
Montana.
    Horner Jack 0022 Choteau.jpg
  • Paleontologist Jack Horner's 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.
    Horner Jack 0021 Choteau.jpg
  • Paleontologists at Jack Horner's teepee encampment on Egg Mountain near Choteau, Montana.  Jack was much of the inspiration for Michael Crighton's Jurassic Park novel.
    Horner Jack 0019 Choteau.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
  • A curled up therizinosaur embryo in a model crafted by Brian Cooley, the best dinosaur model maker in the world.
    Dino Eggs Model 0001.jpg
  • Dinosaur Eggs Discovered by Family in Lamarque, Argentiana
    Dino Egg 0020 Patagonia.jpg
  • Paleontologist, Author Bob Bakker with Allosaurus Jaw.
    Bakker Bob 0004.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 0017 T rex.psd_.jpg
  • Bob Bakker pouring pasta into Cope's noodle for a volumetric reading of homo sapiens' brain size, to compare with that of our next of kin, Homo erectus, a species which had about a third less cranial capacity.
    Bakker Bob 0019 CopeNoodle-2.jpg
  • Mark Norell, assistant curator (left) of the American Museum of Natural History, removes a Camarasaurus head from an Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus) mount in 1991, correcting a century-old error.
    Brontosaurus 0010 New Head.jpg
  • The Teddy Roosevelt statue in front of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
    AmericanMuseumNatural 0003.jpg
  • Discoverer of Amargasaurus, Guillermo Rougier, a "jibbed" sauropod from the Argentina at the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Buenos Aires.
    Amargasaurus 0004 Rougier.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
  • Town Cemetery for Dinosaur, Colorado.
    Pop Culture 0009 Dino CO.jpg
  • Paleontologist Jack Horner with Dinosaur Egg Nest from Montana.  Jack was much of the inspiration for Michael Crighton's Jurassic Park novel.
    scf4399-080_Horner Jack 0002 Egg Nes...jpg
  • Macroelongatoolithus xixiaensis is the largest known dinosaur egg.  Found in the Xixia Basin in China and dubbed "Baby Louie" by paleontologist Charlie Magovern to honor Louie Psihoyos author of Hunting Dinosaurs
    scf4399-059_Dino Egg Baby Louie 3.jpg
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