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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 .
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 ...
[23] [40] Osborn (1899) included a life impression of AMNH FR 221 by paleoartist Charles R. Knight. [39] The restoration carried a number of erroneous features, such as a baggy throat, bloated belly, and inaccurate paddles and dorsal fin. [41] But a seminal feature was the addition of a dorsal crest (known as a fringe) lining the mosasaur's back.
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.
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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 ...
From roughly 230-200 million years ago, during the Late Triassic and into the early Jurassic periods, dinosaurs emerged from just one of many reptilian species to become the dominant species on Earth.
This is the well-known mount poised over a partial Apatosaurus skeleton as if scavenging it, illustrated as such in a painting by Charles R. Knight. Although notable as the first free-standing mount of a theropod dinosaur and often illustrated and photographed, it has never been scientifically described. [13]