{"id":508,"date":"2021-04-16T13:14:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T20:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/?p=508"},"modified":"2021-04-16T13:14:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T20:14:25","slug":"paleontologists-and-reconstruction-imagining-what-dinosaurs-might-have-looked-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/paleontologists-and-reconstruction-imagining-what-dinosaurs-might-have-looked-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Paleontologists and Reconstruction: Imagining what Dinosaurs Might Have Looked Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tyler Keillor - Paleoart\" width=\"863\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h0143RkE0UY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Taking fossil evidence and turning it into a &#8216;reconstruction&#8217; (an estimate of what a living dinosaur might look like) is challenging work! Often, fossils are not fully complete and are missing lots of key pieces. Usually organs, skin, and feathers do not fossilize as easily as bones and teeth. Special artists try their best to use the &#8216;clues&#8217; left by fossils to imagine what living, breathing dinosaur species would look like!<\/p>\n<p>These ideas change over time, with more information and more fossils. Check out what Scientists used to think dinosaurs looked like below!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-509\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/04\/crystal-palace-park.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/04\/crystal-palace-park.jpg 275w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/04\/crystal-palace-park-162x108.jpg 162w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Above: an early sculpture of life-sized iguanodons in Crystal Palace Park.<\/p>\n<p>Below: a more recent artist&#8217;s reconstruction of an iguanodon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-510\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/04\/iguanadaon-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/04\/iguanadaon-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/04\/iguanadaon-207x108.jpg 207w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/04\/iguanadaon.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who knows what we will learn about dinosaurs in the next 10, 50, or even 100 years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking fossil evidence and turning it into a &#8216;reconstruction&#8217; (an estimate of what a living dinosaur might look like) is challenging work! Often, fossils are not fully complete and are missing lots of key pieces. Usually organs, skin, and feathers do not fossilize as easily as bones and teeth. Special artists try their best to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/paleontologists-and-reconstruction-imagining-what-dinosaurs-might-have-looked-like\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paleontologists and Reconstruction: Imagining what Dinosaurs Might Have Looked Like<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}