“How Paleoartists Recreate and Illustrate Dinosaurs”
By Gabe Rivin
We’ve all seen those colorful, life-like illustrations of dinosaurs—T. rex lunging with open jaws, for example, or a giant Brachiosaurus nibbling at prehistoric foliage. But one has to wonder, how accurate are these paintings, really? What mixture of scientific fact and artistic fantasy goes into dinosaur illustrations?