Illustration by Jay Rasgorshek for Science Fridayīefore you start to build your model, you need to learn as much as you can about your selected dinosaur! That’s right-you need to research. Though not technically dinosaurs, they are neat, and fair game for this assignment.
Two flying prehistoric lizards in the genus Quetzalcoatlus. Then, you will do 10–15 minutes of research on these dinosaurs and make your final selection based on this initial research. With your group or on your own, you will select the top three dinosaurs or prehistoric reptiles that interest you. You will work on this project either individually or in groups of three. Remember that you can also select any prehistoric reptile, even if it is not a dinosaur. To begin, you will need to select a dinosaur (or other prehistoric reptile) for your project. Next, you will feature your model in a short video explaining how they (and their body) might have interacted with, and been adapted to, their environment. You’ll use information that you uncover about your prehistoric creature to create a model of it. In this activity, you are going to select a species of dinosaur or other prehistoric species to study. Paleoartists use fossils, relationships between animals, prehistoric ecology, and their imagination to figure out how dinosaurs and other early reptiles like pterosaurs might have looked. In this video, you’ll see how paleoartists do their work. This would affect how much muscle the dinosaur has in its legs. For example, if a dinosaur was a predator (paleoartists might know this from the dinosaur’s teeth!), paleoartists would guess that the dinosaur may need to move quickly. To do this, they often have to do research on the dinosaur’s environment and the needs of the dinosaur.
Paleoartists work from the bones of a dinosaur and begin to fill in details. A paleoartist’s job is filling in the features of a dinosaur, including its skin, color, and muscles. The question, then, is how do paleontologists fill in the blanks to create the shape of the head, the color of the skin, and the presence of muscles?Įnter the paleoartist. We know that paleontologists find dinosaur bones and that these bones give us a general idea of the shape of the dinosaur’s body. How do we know what dinosaurs really looked like? We see dinosaur skeletons in museums, but have you ever wondered how scientists figure out their shape and build, their skin and feathers, and their behavior?
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