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10 incredible pieces of dinosaur art, ranked by a paleontologist

Did Tyrannosaurus rexes really look like that?

by Jennifer Walter
3D rendering of Tyrannosaurus Rex facing off against a Triceratops herd in Hell Creek about 67 milli...
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You’ve never seen a T. rex in real life — but you can visualize one, right?

Thanks to paleontology artists, we have some sense of what the world looked like when dinosaurs ruled.

But illustrating life in the Mesozoic Era can be deceptively difficult.

It is more than just drawing dinosaurs: artists have to depict accurate anatomy, environments, time periods, and behavior between species.

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