Matt Wedel comments on Equatorial Minnesota Alamosaurus from Texas and New Mexico blog post, with additional information (the Justin Tweet blog link was posted on the DML last Sunday)
Mary Anning, the first female paleontologist
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Peabody Museum renovation offers unique view of iconic Zallinger "The Age of Reptiles" dinosaur mural
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The Zallinger painting (in this case, a reproduction of the much smaller egg tempera model later reproduced in Life magazine (but in reverse image) and various other publications, not a photo taken from the final wall-size mural itself)
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This 2011 video discusses some of the changes made that distinguish the widely reproduced egg tempera model and the final fresco secco mural (Brontosaurus mouthful of vegetation simplified, more plants added, Cimolestes included, etc.)
Creating the Mural - Rudolph Zallinger's masterpiece,"The Age of Reptiles"
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Also a 2008 article about the outdated details in the mural...
Extreme makeover
We bring T. rex and kin into the Â21st century.
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Before Zallinger, Charles R. Knight created murals for the Field Museum in Chicago...
Discovery Adventures: How do you draw a dinosaur? The Artwork of Charles R. Knight
Jeff Schroder looks at specimens and artwork at the Field Museum in Chicago
Field Museum (video)
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Videos:
When flowering plants took over the world
Dawn of modern forests: Cretaceous radiation of fossil plants
Dori Contreras (Perot Museum)
Botanical Research Institute of Texas
72 min.
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For kids...
Museum of the RockiesÂÂ
Herbivores of the Mesozoic | Grades 3-8
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Paleohistology: Looking Inside Dinosaur Bones | Grades 4-8