Re: Gwangi

[Danvarner@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/13/2008 10:37:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
steve.w@c-point.com writes:

<< For 
others that are interested Joe, who's "not only a big  Harryhausen 
buff, but also affiliated with the executor of Charles R.  Knight's 
estate", added this interesting tidbit: "What's ironic is that in  
doing this restoration, Knight actually put the Rex's eye in the 
wrong  skull socket!. This made the face a little shorter up front, 
and added more  thickness to the neck. So all the great renderings of 
T-Rex with these  features, including Gwangi, are based on an 
inaccuracy. Knight corrected it  for later renderings."     

This is absolutely incorrect and has been discussed  on this list before, but 
the myth continues. Knight's 1905 restoration of  Tyrannosaurus was painted 
before a skull had been prepared. The painting is  based on W. D. Matthew's 
original preliminary skeletal drawing.  See:

http://www.lindahall.org/events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/dino/images/osb4h.jpg

That Knight (along with Matthew and Osborn) would place the eye in the "wrong 
 skull socket" is absurd. DV
 



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