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The boxes are not often seen today, and most of the time the dinosaurs are found free of packaging. Also produced for the collection was a specially-designed display "mountain". The display featured multiple tiers upon which the pieces in the collection could be placed in a variety of creative ways.
In addition to his work on films, Krentz has contributed his character design expertise to television shows such as the Discovery Channel's four-part nature documentary Dinosaur Revolution and its feature film version, Dinotasia, which was created from unused sequences of the show. [4]
The use of avatar to mean online virtual bodies was popularised by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 cyberpunk novel Snow Crash. [7] In Snow Crash, the term avatar was used to describe the virtual simulation of the human form in the Metaverse, a fictional virtual-reality application on the Internet.
This list of dinosaur species on display lists which venue (museum or public or private location) exhibits (or has exhibited) which dinosaur species. Exhibits include skeletons (partial and complete, mounted and unmounted, originals and casts) and reconstructions.
Full size model diorama of a group of Albertosaurus, Royal Tyrrell Museum Evidence that Daspletosaurus lived in social groups comes from a bonebed found in the Two Medicine Formation of Montana. The bonebed includes the remains of three Daspletosaurus , including a large adult, a small juvenile, and another individual of intermediate size.
It is the only dinosaur that is commonly known to the general public by its full scientific name (binomial name) and the scientific abbreviation T. rex has also come into wide usage. [51] Robert T. Bakker notes this in The Dinosaur Heresies and explains that, "a name like ' T. rex ' is just irresistible to the tongue."
This has enabled multiple full-body reconstructions of dinosaur colouration, such as for Sinosauropteryx [83] and Psittacosaurus [84] by Jakob Vinther and colleagues, and similar techniques have also been extended to dinosaur fossils from other localities. [80] (However, some researchers have also suggested that fossilized melanosomes represent ...
Bearing a large bony frill, three horns on the skull, and a large, four-legged body, exhibiting convergent evolution with bovines and rhinoceroses, Triceratops is one of the most recognizable of all dinosaurs and the best-known ceratopsian. It was also one of the largest, measuring around 8–9 m (26–30 ft) long and weighing up to 6–10 t (5 ...