| Title: Carbon dating diagram
Contact: Alison Schroeer
Description: This scientific artwork of the carbon dating process was drawn by biological illustrator Alison Schroeer of Schroeer Scientific Illustration.
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| Title: Tylosaurus
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description: Tylosaurus proriger
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| Title: Tyrannosaurus Rex
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description:
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| Title: Dinosaur Dawn
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: New Mexico, 225 million years BPE. Two
Coelophysis in the foreground keep a
watchful eye on Postosuchus. Cover art
for the book, The Deep Time Diaries,
Fulcrum Publishing, 2000.
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| Title: Detail: "Key Changes In Evolution" Timeline
Contact: Gail Guth
Description: Timeline illustrating key changes in evolution (detail). Created for the textbook "Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind", by Craig Stanford, John S. Allen, and Susan C. Anton; published by Prentice Hall. Textbook art developed and managed by Precision Graphics, Inc.
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| Title: Mosasaur Crushing an Ammonite
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: The platecarpus, a late cretaceous marine lizard, uses its longpointed jaws to crush an ammonite, a relative of the present day, Nautilus. Traditional and digital mediums used. Image created for Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History-Ancient Life Exhibit
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| Title: Jurassic Flood
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: Colorado/Utah, 145 million BPE. An
apatosaur and a stegosaur struggle
against flood waters while an Allosaurus
(top left) gets washed downstream.
Several pterosaurs circle over them
looking for safety in the branches of
evergreens and cycads.
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| Title: Cobbania corrugata and ornithomimus
Contact: Marjorie Leggitt
Description: Photoshop "painting".
Created for paleontology research and proceedings in the American Journal of Botany. Reconstructions "built" from impression fossil material of Late Cretaceous (67-65 mya) water plants and ornithomimus, an ostrich-like dinosaur.
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| Title: Dinosaur Embryo
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: Dinosaur Embryo. Traditional airbrush combined with photoshop. Created for Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History-Ancient Life Exhibit
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| Title: Angry Mamasaur
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: Central Colorado, 68 million years BPE.
An ornithomimid dinosaur
(Ornithomimus) guards her nest from
other hungry predators.
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| Title: Cretaceous seascape
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: Pterosaurs gather near the Cretaceous
seaway of central North America, 100
million years BPE.
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| Title: Triceratops with ghosted skull
Contact: William Hamilton
Description: Lateral view of the head of a triceratops with ghosted skull.
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| Title: snowflakes
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description: T-rex and Triceratops
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| Title: Cretaceous Firestorm
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: Cretaceous Firestorm depicts Pteranodons and various dinosaurs fleeing a fire in forested wetlands in North America caused by debris from the impact of an asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous period.
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| Title: Stegosaurus
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description:
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| Title: Titanosaur Embryo
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description: Titanosaur embryo image created under the direction of Dr. Luis Chiappe.
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| Title: Tylosaurus mosasaur with Water
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description:
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| Title: Hunting Mosasaurs
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description: Hunting Mosasaurs with Ammonoidea
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| Title: Attack!
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: A Chasmosaurus uses its massive frill and horns to defend itself against a Daspletosaurus in the Late Cretaceous. Watercolor/airbrush illustration created for Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History-Ancient Life Exhbit.
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| Title: Parasaurolophus
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: The hadrosaur, Parasaurolophus, shared her Cretaceous environment with some of the first flowers, relatives of modern magnolias, and their insect pollinators.
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| Title: Gizzards of Ostrich and Caudipteryx
Contact: Melisa Beveridge
Description: Gouache painting of gizzard similarities between Struthio camelus and Caudipteryx sp.
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| Title: Curator's Potluck
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description: collage
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| Title: Maiasaura Nesting Grounds
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: Nesting colony of the Maiasaura (Good-mother
Reptile). Watercolor image commissioned for Children's Magazine (Cricket Pub.)
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| Title: The Day the Dinosaurs Died
Contact: Marjorie Leggitt
Description: Mixed media editorial art created for the cover of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science Museum Quarterly magazine to illustrate an article on the sudden extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Although whimsical, the full time-lapse illustration (of which this is only half) represents a 15 million year span from before, during, and after the K-T boundary. Each animal, plant and reptile represents a particular individual or group of fauna and flora.
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| Title: Swimming Dinosaur Trackways
Contact: Katura Reynolds
Description: Researcher Debra Michelson discovered a fascinating series of fossil footprints created by bipedal dinosaurs wading into a shallow sea and then swimming into deeper water. I enjoyed working with her to create this diagram, showing how the footprints changed as the water deepened. Read more in this Scientific American article: tinyurl.com/9uzrbh
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| Title: Detail: Rhynchosaur
Contact: Frank Ippolito
Description: Restoration of Rhynchosaur is a detail from a landscape used to illustrate a Scientific American article on mesosoic fossils that have been found in Madagascar.
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| Title: T. rex
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: General view of the "lizard-hipped" pelvis of a
Tyrannosaurus dinosaur. Watercolor image created for Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History-Ancient Life Exhibit.
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| Title: Scipionyx (junvenile dinosaur)
Contact: Michael Rothman
Description: This image is a reconstruction prepared under the direction of Dr. John Ruben of the University of Oregon and represents a very young theropod, hence the cockroach is included for scale. It was published in the New York Times Science Section.
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| Title: Pteranodon sternbergi
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description:
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| Title: Giant Cretaceous crocodile (Sarcosuchus imper
Contact: Michael Rothman
Description:
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| Title: Maiasaurus family
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: Watercolor and photoshop illustration of a nurturing mother maiasaurus dinosaur feeding her babies in their nest. Originally commissioned for a children's magazine (Cricket Pub.)
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| Title: Evolution: saur to soar
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: A visual representation of evolutionary transformations as revealed by fossils.
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| Title: Volcanic Blast Preserves Plesiosaur
Contact: Nicolle Rager Fuller
Description: Researchers unearthed a baby plesiosaur fossil--a marine reptile that swam the waters of the Southern Ocean roughly 70 million years ago. The researchers speculate volcanism similar to the massive eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington in 1980, may have caused the animal's death.
Painted in acrylics, and modified digitally in Photoshop
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| Title: Compy
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description: Compsognathus, one the smallest dinosaurs.
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| Title: Terell the T-Rex & Compy
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description: T-Rex and Compy the largest and the smallest carnivorous dinosaurs
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| Title: Iggy the Iguanodon
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description: Iguanodon cartoon
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| Title: Majungantholus Dinosaur
Contact: Nicolle Rager Fuller
Description: The Majungathlus atopusdinosaur was related to T. rex. Teeth marks on some bones indicate that they were likely cannibals.
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| Title: Pachycephalosaur Head-butting Contest
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: Thick headed lizards of the Late Cretaceous use
their domed skulls in competitive head butting. Watercolor/airbrush image created for Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History-Ancient Life Exhibit.
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| Title: Compsognathus and Archaeopteryx
Contact: Marjorie Leggitt
Description: These critters are renderings from recent skeletal
reconstructions and theories on the evolution of
birds and flight. This piece is part of a permanent
exhibit at the Miami Metro Zoo Aviary.
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| Title: Comparative study -Velociraptor vs. Bird
Contact: Marjorie Leggitt
Description: This illustration is part of a permanent exhibit on
the evolution of birds and flight at the Miami Metro
Zoo Aviary.
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| Title: Arkansaurus fridayi dinosaur
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: Reconstruction of Arkansaurus fridayi, the only dinosaur ever discovered in Arkansas. The image was based on several closely related species, including the ornithomimus, since the only remains of this dinosaur ever located were 3 fossil toe bones.
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| Title: Mother and Baby Plesiosaur
Contact: Nicolle Rager Fuller
Description: An American-Argentine research team has recovered the well-preserved fossil skeleton of a juvenile plesiosaur--a marine reptile that swam the waters of the Southern Ocean roughly 70 million years ago.
Researchers believe the site may have been a shallow-water area where marine reptiles had their young, and where the young remained until they were of sufficient size and ability to survive in open waters.
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| Title: Astrodon johnstoni
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: Astrodon johnstoni was an Early Cretaceous dinosaur that lived approximately 95-130 mya in the area that is now Maryland . This large 20 ton herbivore was 50-60 feet in length, 30 feet tall, and closely related to the Brachiosaurus. This image was created for an elementary student life science text for the State of Maryland.
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| Title: Diving Plesiosaur
Contact: Nicolle Rager Fuller
Description: An American-Argentine research team has recovered the well-preserved fossil skeleton of a juvenile plesiosaur--a marine reptile that swam the waters of the Southern Ocean roughly 70 million years ago. It is believed that they dove much like penguins.
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