The Chicago Archaeopteryx, the Field Museum’s Newest Dinosaur, Meets the Public.
The fossil — of the oldest bird dinosaur known to science, often dubbed the “missing link” between the two organisms — is only the 13th #Archaeopteryx specimen ever announced. Just two of these are found in museums outside of Europe and of those two, the Field’s is the only one owned by a public natural history museum.
#paléoart#sculpture#paléontologie
Une remarquable vidéo (en anglais, 50 mn), où l'artiste Bob Nicholls explique comment il a fait une sculpture d'#archaeopteryx. La reconstruction scientifique, les choix artistiques (le poisson dans la bouche…), les techniques utilisées. De quoi intéresser les amis des animaux et les artistes (comme @Tritrichoupi ). Même les questions du public à la fin sont intéressantes.
Today's not-so-random portfolio artwork (sticking with the Urvogel) is my life-size model of Archaeopteryx (50cm long), which I built for the Cole Museum (Reading University), in 2021. [The mould was built by my friend Jade Hughes.]
"A newly described fossil is as old as the “first bird,” #Archaeopteryx, and represents a #Birdlike dinosaur that might have specialized in running or wading instead of flying..."