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Charles Robert Knight (October 21, 1874 – April 15, 1953) was an American wildlife and paleoartist best known for his detailed paintings of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. His works have been reproduced in many books and are currently on display at several major museums in the United States .
When Charles R. Knight produced that painting in 1909, he titled his work with the genus name that was in use at the time: Trachodon. Currently these specimens (AMNH 5730 and AMNH 5886) are classified as large Edmontosaurus annectens .
La Brea Tar Pits fauna as depicted by Charles R. Knight A list of prehistoric and extinct species whose fossils have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits , located in present-day Hancock Park , a city park on the Miracle Mile section of the Mid-Wilshire district in Los Angeles , California .
Officers at Fort Wallace, Kansas, in 1867.Theophilus H. Turner, who the same year discovered Elasmosaurus in the area, is second from left.. In early 1867, the American army surgeon Theophilus Hunt Turner and the army scout William Comstock explored the rocks around Fort Wallace, Kansas, where they were stationed during the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Paleoartist Charles R. Knight, the first to depict dinosaurs as active animals, dominated the paleoart landscape through the early 1900s. The modern era of paleoart was brought first by the " dinosaur renaissance ", a minor scientific revolution beginning in the early 1970s in which dinosaurs came to be understood as active, alert creatures ...
Brontosaurus by Charles R. Knight. Cultural depictions of dinosaurs have been numerous since the word dinosaur was coined in 1842. The dinosaurs featured in books, films, television programs, artwork, and other media have been used for both education and entertainment.
Knight worked extensively with the American Museum of Natural History and its director, Henry Fairfield Osborn, who wanted to use dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals to promote his museum [12] and his ideas on evolution. [13] Knight's work, found in museums around the United States, helped popularize dinosaurs and influenced generations of ...
Dryptosaurus (/ ˌ d r ɪ p t oʊ ˈ s ɔːr ə s / DRIP-toh-SOR-əs) is a genus of eutyrannosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived on the island continent of Appalachia approximately 67-66 million years ago during the end of the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period.