Re: Giganotasarus line drawing...

[Mike Taylor <mike@tecc.co.uk>]

> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:56:26 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "paleo_mont" <paleo_mont@excite.com>
> 
> I was wondering if anyone out there could help provide a line
> drawing of a Giganotasaurus skull.  It is for a display and credit
> to whom drew it will be given, copyright, etc.  If anyone can help
> it will be greatly appreciated.

(Copied to the list since this is a bit of a FAQ)

For all your genus-specific dinosaur art needs, your first stop should
be H.P. Mike Keesey's excellent Dinosauricon web-site at
        http://dinosauricon.com/

For _Giganotosaurus_ in particular, you want
        http://dinosauricon.com/genera/giganotosaurus.html
and for a photo (not a line-drawing) of the skull, there's
        http://dinosauricon.com/images/giganotosaurus-bs.html
(And, BTW., I also recommend Brett Booth's beautiful _G._ scene at
        http://dinosauricon.com/images/giganotosaurus-bb.html
)

When the Dinosauricon doesn't give you what you want, the next step is
the Google search engine at
        http://www.google.com/

Start with its image-search facility: a search for "giganotosaurus
skull" (note the corrected spelling, by the way) quickly comes up with
a page of nice thumbnail images (including one of H.P. Tom Holtz at
        http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/tholtz.htm
).

If that doesn't help, then the next thing is to use Google's whole-web
search.  This will generally give you a lot more hits, but exploring
them is more laborious since there are no thumbnail images.  Still,
the same "giganotosaurus skull" search led me quickly to
        http://www.cmnh.org/dinoarch/1997Jun/msg00597.html
and the following articles in this very mailing list's archives, in
which Giganotosaurus skull restorations were discussed back in 1997
(with out much in the way of of results, unfortunately.)

But it's easy to get from the Google results to pages like
        http://www.paleoclones.com/images/fossils/large/053.jpg
-- a resin cast of a reconstruction.  There's much more.  Go find it.

Hope that helps.

(I'll add this question -- and answer -- to the FAQ.)

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