Re: Dinosaur image gallery

["Spike Ekins" <spikey@privat.dk>]

> Maybe someone can use those images as proof that Theropods never closed 
> their mouths.

> ;~D >

Spike.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Krentz" <ddkrentz@charter.net>
To: <bh480@scn.org>
Cc: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 7:05 AM
Subject: Re: Dinosaur image gallery


> Maybe someone can use those images as proof that Theropods never closed 
> their mouths.
>
> D
>
>
> On Jun 7, 2011, at 3:22 PM, bh480@scn.org wrote:
>
> > From: Ben Creisler
> > bh480@scn.org
> >
> > With a bit of a lull in new scientific articles on dinosaur-related 
> > topics
> > at the moment, I thought this item might be OK to post, given that 
> > dinosaur
> > art is a DML topic from time to time. Below is a link to a new commercial
> > dino-art image gallery:
> >
> > http://www.stocktrekimages.com/index.asp
> >
> > The initial set on the index page is not all the images available. You 
> > can
> > also try "prehistoric," "prehistoric animals," and "dinosaur" in keyword
> > search for some additional images.
> >
> > I'm not quite sure what audience some of these royalty-free images are
> > intended for. Some look fairly accurate and have nice atmospheric
> > qualities, but others are scientifically questionable such as 
> > Camarasaurus
> > confronting Velociraptors together with an exaggerated Moon in the sky, 
> > or
> > Tyrannosaurus terrorizing a pack of Lesothosaurus. Given the obvious time
> > and effort that went into the images, more attention to coexisting 
> > species
> > might have been a good idea.
> >
> > The fantasy scenes of robots, UFOs, reptoids, cars, and Atlantis 
> > alongside
> > dinosaurs are fun but not likely to grace serious articles....
> >
> >
> >
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