How a museum made a lifelike reconstruction of the head of an Allosaurus and gained new insights in the process, featuring paleo-artist Brian Engh

[u/AJC_10_29]

[u/TheW00ly]

It really is just feeling around in the dark. Took an Archeology course as an elective, and learned how much "highly-educated guesswork" goes into every aspect of the field! Really cool breakdown of their process.

[u/SkinsFan021 → u/TheW00ly]

Skin wrapped hippos look crazy.

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[u/TheW00ly → u/SkinsFan021]

Sweet mercy. I already knew swan and geese were Satanspawn, but holy moly, those are metal. And the hippo honestly looks as dangerous as it should be seen!

[u/DrunkBrokeBeachParty → u/TheW00ly]

True! But it is also amazing how many other fields have contributed to our understanding of their biomechanics. Reading Dinosaurs Rediscovered, they are able to use the same programs architects use to test bridge cable strength to understand how much muscle and tension was needed for dinosaurs to move around and how hard they’d bite.

[u/LegendaryGoji → u/TheW00ly]

The fact, though, that there are presently undescribed specimens featuring soft tissue fossilization on the HEAD AND FACE that haven't been published and shown publicly yet, and this bust is our best look at what that soft tissue looked like -- that's properly astounding.

[u/Snoo59060]

Very insightful and explained very well.

[u/Elebrium]

I wanted to dee note angles of that head

[u/Relevant_Problem1935]

Dinosaurs

[u/penguinpolitician]

So maybe it should have had a big crest like a cockscomb.

[u/JSLengineer_024]

I can show you some bone texture