Bambiraptor feinbergi. A small dromaeosaur from Late Cretaceous Montana, found in 1993 by a fourteen-year-old who had walked off on his own. It came up about ninety per cent complete, which for a raptor under a metre almost never happens. Skull, furcula, sternum, both hands, the whole tail.

Bambiraptor feinbergi. A small dromaeosaur from Late Cretaceous Montana, found in 1993 by a fourteen-year-old who had walked off on his own. It came up about ninety per cent complete, which for a raptor under a metre almost never happens. Skull, furcula, sternum, both hands, the whole tail.

My Psittacosaurus skeleton is free because I didn't make the bones. Matt Christopher scanned real fossils and put them out for anyone. I cleaned them up and cut them for printing.

It's in three museums. One of them named him Taco.

www.novastudios.be/why-my-psitt...

Berthasaura leopoldinae. A metre-long ceratosaur from Late Cretaceous Brazil that had no teeth at all, just a beak, in a family full of toothy predators. Described in 2021 from a single young animal, still the only one known. Full skeleton, life-size, on the shelf.
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Aquilops americanus. The oldest horned dinosaur known from North America, from Montana, about 106 million years old. Cat-sized, with a hooked beak, hence the name: eagle face. Known from a single skull, so the rest of the skeleton is built from its closest relatives.
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Xiphactinus audax. Late Cretaceous, about 85 million years ago, when Kansas was the bottom of a shallow sea. Up to 5 or 6 metres long, the biggest bony fish of its day, with a jutting lower jaw full of fangs. Skull built in Blender and 3D printed.
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Life-size Spike, a caenagnathid dinosaur. The real skeleton sold at Christie's for £3.46M into a private collection, out of reach of science. I rebuilt it in Blender; Theropodia in France made the mount. Fossils shouldn't vanish before they're studied.
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