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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 .
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 ...
The paintings of Charles R. Knight were the first influential representations of these finds. 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]
Painting by paleoartist Charles R. Knight of Agathaumas, the first named marginocephalian, from 1897. Marginocephalia is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs that includes some of the most well-known Mesozoic animals, such as Triceratops and Pachycephalosaurus.
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 .
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.
In 1927, Charles R. Knight painted a mural incorporating Tyrannosaurus facing a Triceratops in the Field Museum of Natural History, [14] establishing the two dinosaurs as enemies in popular thought; [15] paleontologist Phil Currie cites this mural as one of his inspirations to study dinosaurs. [11]