{"id":269,"date":"2021-11-11T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T04:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/?p=104501"},"modified":"2021-11-11T05:29:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T04:29:11","slug":"new-visions-dinosaur-book-that-seeks-to-dispel-myths-about-their-appearance","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/rss_feed\/new-visions-dinosaur-book-that-seeks-to-dispel-myths-about-their-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"New visions: Dinosaur book that seeks to dispel myths about their appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By James Cutmore\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 11 November 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Ask anyone to think of a dinosaur and they will likely imagine a T. rex<\/em>. It\u2019ll be large, dull-coloured and scaly.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n

In Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World<\/i>, expert palaeobiologist Michael J Benton at the University of Bristol and world renowned paleoartist Bob Nicholls will change everything you thought you knew about what dinosaurs<\/a> looked like and how they lived.<\/p>\n

The book brings to life the long-extinct creatures with insight into their behaviour, adaptations and appearance by drawing on the latest science and cutting-edge research.<\/p>\n

No longer heavy footed, slow and drab, Dinosaurs<\/em> will show their true colours at last. The following gallery, featuring images from the book, show the increasingly sophisticated\u00a0ways dinosaurs have been represented over time.<\/p>\n

Richard Owen\u2019s early dinosaur drawings<\/h2>\n
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View of the relocated Crystal Palace exhibition with Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen\u2019s\u00a0fantastical dinosaur reconstructions in the foreground, by the London printer George Baxter. Photo by Wellcome Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

An early pterosaurs drawing<\/h2>\n
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The first attempt to understand what Pterosaurs<\/em> might have looked like is demonstrated in a lively drawing by Edward Newman published in 1843. At the time, Newman thought they were some kind of flying marsupial, but at least the idea that they were covered with insulating fur had already been established. Photo by Natural History Museum<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Dryptosaurus<\/h2>\n
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Charles Knight painted this dynamic scene called Leaping Laelaps in 1897. It depicts two fighting Dryptosaurus<\/em> dinosaurs, one of the earliest theropod species known to science. Knight\u2019s careful study of the anatomy and behaviour of living animals enlivened his sketches of extinct species. Photo by\u00a0American Museum of Natural History<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Psittacosaurus<\/h2>\n
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Psittacosaurus<\/em> was a herbivore dinosaur from the\u00a0Ceratopsia group, with a strong hard beak that lived between 126 and 101 million years ago. It is one of the most well-known species of dinosaurs, due to many complete skeletons and fossils being discovered. Painting by Bob Nicholls<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Edmontosaurus<\/h2>\n
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A reconstruction of an Edmontosaurus<\/em>, a duck-billed hadrosaurid that lived over 66 million years ago, alongside Triceratops\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Tyrannosaurus rex<\/em>. It is named after Edmonton in Canada, where the first fossils of this species were discovered. Painting by Bob Nicholls<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Sinosauropteryx<\/h2>\n
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Sinosauropteryx<\/em> snatches\u00a0lizard Dalinghosaurus<\/em> from\u00a0a small pool and shakes it. Dinosaurs did not chew their food, so he grabs the prey animal, twists it round so it\u00a0faces head-first and gulps it down. This image shows the ginger-and-white striped\u00a0tail, the countershading along the side, and the bandit mask. Painting by Bob Nicholls<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Dinosaurs, now in colour:<\/strong><\/p>\n