Re: In (premature) defense of the USNM

[Danvarner@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/30/02 3:28:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, palaeopaint@dinosaursinart.com writes:


<< As you say, we don't own dinosaurs, but maybe we still have the
responsibility to separate "fact" from "fiction" when it serves the common
interest.
Gurney's creation is a fictional world and while it is appealing to many of
us with a
common interest in dinosaurs, it still should be separated from the science. >>

       I recall the story of Chas.R.Knight catching flack from Henry Fairfield Osborn and others for depicting his caribou at too large of a scale compared to the Woolly Mammoths in his mural at the AMNH. Now, the better part a century later, we have guys in turbans talking with dinosaurs. That sound you hear is many people spinning in their graves.
       Incidentally, there is a beautiful Gurney painting of a Hell Creek scene in the new Discover magazine. DV