"Jane" juvenile tyrannosaur
       
     
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 I contributed a chapter to this book, called "Jane, in the flesh: the state of life-reconstruction in paleoart":  http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=806908
       
     
"Jane" juvenile tyrannosaur
       
     
"Jane" juvenile tyrannosaur

I sculpted this bust for the 2005 opening of the Burpee Museum’s “Jane” exhibit, which features a mounted skeleton of this rare juvenile tyrannosaur (possibly a Tyrannosaurus rex).  For the sculpture, I used a cast of the restored skull model I had previously made as an armature.  Careful inspection of the model will reveal chunks of rotting meat lodged between this predator’s teeth.  I described my reconstruction process in detail in the book "Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology" :

Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology

Edited by J. Michael Parrish, Ralph E. Molnar, Philip J. Currie, and Eva B. KoppelhusISBN: 978-0-253-00930-2

 

Jane final anterior 1.JPG
       
     
Jane left.JPG
       
     
       
     
The Mystery Dinosaur: sculpting "Jane"
 I contributed a chapter to this book, called "Jane, in the flesh: the state of life-reconstruction in paleoart":  http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=806908
       
     

I contributed a chapter to this book, called "Jane, in the flesh: the state of life-reconstruction in paleoart":

http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=806908